The Nation - News from April 27, 1988
Stella Nickell, 44, accused of killing her husband and a second person by putting cyanide in Excedrin capsules, had discussed copying the Tylenol poisoning case in which seven Chicago-area people died, her daughter testified in Seattle. Cindy Hamilton said her mother suggested the 1982 Tylenol episode “would be very easy to re-enact.” The testimony in U.S. District Court occurred in the seventh day of the nation’s first trial of anyone charged with causing death by tampering with over-the-counter medicine. The Chicago case has not been solved.
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