With todays new technology, why haven't investigators reopened the Tylenol killings of 1982?

Question

It was an act of terrorisim, shouldn't it be looked into again?
http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/tylenol_murders/index.html

Could Drew Peterson be tied to that one too? He lived in the area at the time. I think he very well could have, hence his smug and cocky self assured ways.

Answer 1

IF it was an act of terrorism.

I doubt that it was.

When I was in college a few years later, it was explained in one of my chemistry classes that since the FDA required all pharmaceutical vats to be scrubbed clean using both Ammonia and Bleach, among other compounds, it was only WAY TOO LIKELY that all the cyanide-laced Tylenol was due to the improper rinsing of one or both of them, before the other was added, which is well known to be a way to produce cyanide.

It was a rather big deal the day that EVERYBODY involved with cleaning the vats were all reassigned to other duties.

So, unless Drew Peterson was working for the makers of Tylenol, he had no way of being involved.

Answer 2

just because the technology exists does not mean that the money to fund the case exists. Forensics and labs are paid seperately and are not a part of the tax paying system.