The Tylenol Murders | Red Thread

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This is Episode #25, where we discuss the Tylenol Murders.
Originally recorded 25/06/24.

Show Notes:

Hosts:

Writer/Producer: Jackson Clarke
Produced under The Official Podcast Network

[anaorjulia]

This dropped right after my husband's and is wedding. He pulled up his phone and said "look ana, red thread!" And so now we're sitting in our room, and our first act as a married couple is watching red thread. I'd not have it any other way ❤

[sarahsullivan]

Jackson! I work in healthcare, and a lot of pharmacies do something called compounding, which is basically taking a medication in one form (ie a pill or a tablet), breaking it down, and making it into another form (ie a liquid). We do this often for children’s prescription medications, and we can also add in flavors or colors to make it more appealing. I don’t know if all pharmacies do this, but many offer this service.

Additionally, you can take children’s formulations! Read the box to find out how many mg of the medication is in each mL, and then calculate how many mL you need to get the appropriate adult mg dose. Isaiah and Charlie are right — by chewing up the pills and tablets, you may not be getting the effects of the medication.

Swallowing pills is tricky, but while you figure out what works best for you, there are ways around that barrier that will allow for you to actually get medication into your system properly! Cheers!

[rosetaah]

“Migs per kig” is actually killing me 😭

[realainsmcf]

Cool that Isaiah knows so much about chemistry, let’s hope he never gets lung cancer

[LboyW]

Jackson can’t swallow? There goes my weekend plans

[captaincronchus]

One time my friend started to get sick and it kept get getting worse day by day. Headaches, vomiting, abdominal pain, and eventually went to the hospital when she went into sepsis. Her house has well water and it turns out her filters had stopped working and she had arsenic poisoning. It actually took a little for her to get sick because she had been drinking micro doses of arsenic all her life so her tolerance was pretty high. She's fine now lol.

[TheFewAndOnly]

I'm glad I don't have the patience and pain tolerance to accidentally chew up 15 peach pits in one sitting.

[NikyCROW]

Hey, I am a biomedical scientist in training and just one thing I would like to add:
There's actually an antidote for Cyanide.
Like Wendigoon said, Cyanide binds to iron in certain enzymes necessary for the cell to produce ATP energy.
Treatments can be: Vitamin B12a ( Hydroxocobalamin ) because it binds to Cyanide reather quickly and creates a compound that can be excreted by the kidneys. This is the more modern method.

OR a kit of amyl nitrite, sodium nitrate and sodium thiosulfate, ingesting these three things should create a rather large pool of ferric iron in your body for the cyanide to bind to instead of the enzymes. This method is older.

Obviously you NEED to take the antidote REALLY quickly.

[goldbaum]

Just finished watching Creepcast and immediately I get new Red Thread. Lord has been good

[the_Googie]

Jackson: "i just cant swallow"
Wendigoon: "why :("

Awesome

[gregdurando]

Watching as Isaiah & Charlie try to sneak Jackson's pills to him wrapped in cheese and peanut butter, like a recalcitrant dog.

[warehouselead]

Okay, I figured it out.
Jackson cannot swallow pills because he died after taking contaminated Tylenol. Charlie went back in time and made the Tylenol contamination event happen earlier so that Jackson wouldn't die later to a similar event. Jackson does not remember that old timeline consciously, but he remembers in spirit and so struggles to swallow pills.
Edit: Spelling

[shades_of_greige]

normal people: cough syrup is disgusting I only take pills
Jackson: I chew all of my pills and cough syrup is yummy

[scornlok]

Just a suggestion, but there was a similar crime to this in Japan. It was with vending machines and poisoned drinks. The person was never caught, and they were using some kind of pesticide. They seemed to be fine targeting men, but soon as the first woman died, the murderers stopped if i remember correctly. The whole thing was based on Japanese kindness, and i guess every once in a while, the vending machine could give you 2 drinks. So sometimes when someone got a second drink, they will leave it in the machine for a person in need. The only problem was that the drink was planted there by the murder, and the person who drank it would become incredibly ill then pass away. It would be cool if you guys tried doing a show on this because its not a story many people know of outside Japan.

[jacobatkins]

“I love cough syrup” “that’s interesting” 😂😂😂

[alexandria]

During my first internship, I worked in a lab that had a sizable cylinder of HCN gas stored in it. They told me that if I smelled almonds, that it was too

[seanmcardle]

I was a child when this happened. They were not tablets at that time. They were gelatin capsules. The perpetrator opened and emptied the legitimate contents of the capsules, and then filled them with the cyanide mix.

This particular crime and the string of deaths is why all food/medicine containers now have “safety seals”. 🌈 ⭐️

[Refog]

Important note to Jackson, some medicines are dangerous or just plain ineffective if chewed/broken, as they are designed to disperse either in your bowels and not before or they only break up over time, dosing the medicine slowly either to make the effect last longer or to prevent too high of a dose in one burst

[OutIaw]

The craziest thing about botulism is that vultures are completely immune to it and even pee it out and pee on their feet to kill any bacteria living on them after consuming roadkill

[thejoker]

"Straight-washing them to Dennis" is a legendary line.