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Sep 2022
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Introducing “Unsealed: The Tylenol Murde...

AT WILL MEDIA, The Chicago Tribune
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In January 2022, investigative journalists Christy Gutowski and Stacy St. Clair got a phone call they weren't expecting. Their source had an intriguing tip about an unsolved mass murder. 
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