Adam Tadeusz Janus, 27, was one of the victims of the 1982 Chicago Tylenol poisonings. Born March 7, 1955, in Tarnów, Poland, he immigrated to the United States in 1963 and lived with his wife Teresa Madej and their two children in Arlington Heights, Illinois, where he worked as a postal supervisor.

On the morning of September 29, 1982, after picking up his four-year-old daughter from school, Adam bought a bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol at a Jewel on Vail Avenue. He took capsules from that bottle, complained of a headache, collapsed at home and was rushed to Northwest Community Hospital, where he died within an hour. Later that day his brother Stanley Janus and Stanley’s wife Theresa Janus also took capsules from the same bottle, collapsed and were pronounced dead; authorities discovered the Tylenol capsules had been laced with potassium cyanide.

No one was ever convicted in the Tylenol poisonings; the person who contaminated the capsules has not been identified. If anyone knew Adam or has information about the events around September 29, 1982, please share what you can.