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Paula Prince, a 35-year-old flight attendant based in Chicago, was found dead in her Near North Side high-rise apartment on October 1, 1982. Investigators recovered an open bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol on her bathroom sink that was later determined to have been laced with potassium cyanide. Prince had last been seen on September 29, when she purchased the Tylenol at a drugstore.

Her death was the seventh confirmed fatality in the Chicago Tylenol poisonings, a series in which Tylenol-branded capsules were deliberately tampered with and replaced with lethal doses of cyanide. The attacks prompted a massive recall of Tylenol bottles and led manufacturers to adopt tamper-resistant packaging and helped spur federal anti-tampering laws. James William Lewis was later convicted of extortion for sending a letter to Johnson & Johnson claiming responsibility and demanding payment, but authorities were unable to link him directly to the capsule tampering and no one has been charged in the poisonings.

If anyone knew Paula Prince, her routines, or saw unusual activity around drugstores or packaging in late September 1982, please share what was remembered.