One time on Usenet, "Gregory Morrow" > said:
> zxcvbob wrote:
> > Mpoconnor7 wrote:

> > > It was 1982 when the practice of kids going to strangers houses for Halloween
> > > effectively ended. About a month before Halloween that year, the Tylenol
> > > poisoning occured, and there were other copycat incidents across the country
> > > and people died from tainted products. Halloween as we knew it was cancelled
> > > that year. At that point, the malls picked up the slack and started handing
> > > out candy to kids because parents were terrified to let their kids go to every
> > > house in the neighborhood to get candy. I'm sure parents will take their kids
> > > to houses where they know the people living there, but never to people they
> > > don't know.

> > 1982? Are you sure that wasn't when that guy in Texas was executed for
> > killing his own son with a Giant Pixie Stick full of cyanide --
> > allegedly got when the kid was trick r treating?

> That may have played into it, but the Tylenol thing happened here in Chicago
> in the fall of 1982 (at the Walgreen's drugstore in Old Town, intersection
> of North and Wells). Things got kinda hinky after that for trick or
> treating and also people were basically scared to buy stuff in drugstores...

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/tylenol/

http://www.crimelibrary.
com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/tylenol_murders/index.html?sect=22

One of the copycat murders happened here in WA, in '86...


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