On the morning of September 29th, 1982 in Elk Grove Village, a Chicago suburb next to the OâHare Airport, 12-year old Mary Kellerman awoke complaining of a sore throat and a runny nose.
Like so many parents before them, her mother and father gave her some Extra-Strength Tylenol and told her she could stay home from school. Shortly thereafter, they found Mary unconscious on the bathroom floor. She was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead just hours later.
In the days that followed, six more people throughout Illinois would lose their life after taking Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. It would become known as the Tylenol Murders, and it would change the face of packaging forever.
