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\nTW: Police Brutality
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\nWe don\u2019t normally do trigger warnings, but we\u2019re making an exception this week. In this episode, Brandi\u2019s case very briefly mentions police brutality. The case is old timey and the alleged brutality wasn\u2019t racially motivated, but in light of police officer Derek Chauvin\u2019s recent murder of George Floyd and the protests that have followed, we figured some folks might like a heads up. Note: If it seems weird that we discuss police brutality without mentioning the current climate, that\u2019s because we recorded this episode before the protests.
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\nIt was happening all around Chicago. People felt a little ill. So they took a Tylenol. A short time later, they dropped dead. Doctors were initially puzzled. Why were young, seemingly healthy people dying so suddenly? They soon found the unsettling answer. Someone -- or maybe multiple someones -- had gone to multiple Chicago-area grocery stores and drugstores, took the Tylenol off the shelves, and filled the capsules with poison. They then returned the poisoned Tylenol to the store shelves, where unsuspecting buyers picked it up.\xa0
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\nThen Brandi tells us about Kansas City socialite Florence Barton. On an October night in 1920, Florence and her fiance Howard Winter went for a drive. They drove Howard\u2019s Dodge Coupe through Swope Park, and eventually headed down a country road. When they stopped for Howard to smoke his cigar, a car pulled up alongside them. A man jumped out. He asked Howard for directions. As Howard answered, he realized that the man had a gun, and it was aimed right at him.
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\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cThe Tylenol Terrorist,\u201d by Rachael Bell on Crime Library
\n\u201cMurder by Tylenol,\u201d by Brian Anderson for Vice
\n\u201cHome of man linked to Tylenol deaths searched,\u201d the Associated Press
\n\u201cJames Lewis rape case reveals horrifying allegations,\u201d by Laurel J. Sweet for the Boston Herald\xa0
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\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cThe 1920 murder of a socialite exposes a corrupt Kansas City\u201d by Diane Euston, Martin City Telegraph
\n\u201cRoberts Aids Defense Pleas of an Alibi\u201d The Kansas City Kansan, newspapers.com
\n\u201cDenzel Chester Freed of Murder\u201d Sacramento Union, California Digital Newspaper Collection
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