Police Might Have Finally Caught the Tylenol Killer 40 Years Later
After decades of mystery, a cold case in an Idaho church points to a terrifying breakthrough in the infamous Chicago poisoning saga.
So, a guy dies in an Idaho church back in 1982. He’s got 1,900 bucks in an envelope, weird keys, and a fake name. For forty years, he was just some mystery ghost. Then a detective gets curious, follows a key to a random hardware store in Florida, and boom—it’s Mathew Betkouski.
Here is the kicker: Betkouski wasn't just some random traveler. He had a history of talking about using cyanide to poison pills. He even worked at a pharmacy and got fired for acting sketchy with capsules. Detectives think he is the guy who poisoned the Tylenol bottles in Chicago, killing seven people.
They still can't technically place him in Chicago during the exact week of the murders, but a top forensic psychiatrist says this is basically case closed. It’s wild that it took a chance conversation in a parking lot to finally link this guy to one of the most famous unsolved crimes in history.
Sometimes the truth is hidden in a random church basement for decades while everyone just waits for the tech to catch up.
Source: UPI
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