Fears for US couple given poisoned pills

“Scottish police are searching for an American couple thought to be touring in a hired car,” read The Post. “This follows the Chicago drug terror in which seven people have now died.

“They’d taken capsules of the popular American painkiller Extra Strength Tylenol, which a madman had contaminated with cyanide.

“Bruno and Shirley Raffin, from Illinois, arrived in Europe on September 24. Before they left America, Bruno was prescribed Tylenol. The latest victim of the madman was Paula Prince (35), an airline stewardess. Her body was found by her sister outside the door to the bathroom of her apartment, an open bottle of the painkiller in her hand.”

Despite the seven deaths and hundreds of copycat incidents of tampering with medications, no one was ever found guilty of the killings.