Similar Cases

Though no one was ever proven guilty in this case there were a number of people who were accused as they had committed similar crimes. The most prominent of which was Ted Kaczynski who is better known as the UNABOMBER. Kaczynski had already been caught after mailing packages with bombs in them to various universities. He also once attempted to blow up a plane with a bomb. These attacks were designed as an attack on technology and gave him the name UNABOMBER which was a name given to him by the feds meaning University and Airline Bomber. Because of the similar nature of these two cases Kaczynski became a prime suspect in the Tylenol Case but was later proven innocent of the Tylenol Murders.

                After The Case there was a string of copycat killers who attempted to perform similar attacks to that of the Tylenol Killer. Some of these killers were originally suspected as being the Tylenol Killer. One of these copycat killers was Stella Nickell who killed her husband and one other person with Cyanide laced Excedrin Extra Strength in 1986. Nickell laced a bottle at her house and one in a local drug store. Her husband died from cyanide poisoning and shortly after another person died from the bottle in the drug store. After this occurred she tried to sue Bristol-Myers; the producer of Excedrin for the death of her husband. Nickell also tried to poison snacks which she mailed or personally delivered to people she had worked for and other people she had known though none of these killed anyone. Finally she went to a high school and shot and killed and injured several students and finally shot herself in a local residency where she had tried to hide.

                There were several other Copy Cat Killers many of whom were never caught. A man named Louis Denber died after eating a cup of cyanide laced Campbell’s Cup o’ Soup. Whoever the Tylenol Murderer was he became the inspiration for several other killers who attempted to mimic his methods. Today’s methods of over the counter medicine production, packaging and distributing have put an end to this chain of copycat killings.