Reminds me of the Tylenol poisoning that happened in the Chicagoland suburbs in 1982. Some fuckass poisoned a ton of Tylenol with cyanide and a bunch of random people all over the burbs ended up dying as a result, and nobody's totally sure who did it or why. Was there just an underground poisoning ring going on in the 80s or what??
I doubt I'm talking about the same exact situation but, wasn't there someone who did something very very similar to kill an ex wife? or Someone known to them? Then then attempted to cover it up by poisoning random people. The killer figured if the police thought it was some random maniac killing indiscriminately they would overlook them targeting and poisoning someone known to them. The "beltway sniper" did the same thing IIRC, shooting random people to disguise the targeted killing the ex wife.
I think the problem was that it was a lot of Tylenol poisoned for one person to be doing it to cover up a crime. It was poisoned at a source then shipped out to a large area.
It's never been clear as to why. Theories range from it just being some guy fucking around to the government deliberately doing it to see how a potential attack like this would pan out to a rogue employee trying to prove a point, or get back at the company to a genuine accidental contamination, etc.
I legitimately hadn't even considered the government did it, and now I can't think of anything else.
There also was the dude that handed out cyanide pixie sticks becuase he wanted to kill his son and figured it wouldnt get him caught if he poisoned and killed a bunch of other kids too.
Reminds me of all the human feet being routinely found in the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest. Since 2007, at least 23 feet have been found on the shore, all still encased in a shoe and some with a bit of leg still attached. The most common belief is that over the years, various people have died by suicide or in accidents around there since it's a pretty large area. When their body begins to decay, their ankle weakens and the buoyancy of their shoes, usually sneakers, causes the foot to rise to the surface and get swept away. A large percentage of the feet found have been positively identified to various missing people and known suicides, though some are still unidentified.
I've heard of this one, and the most compelling theory I've seen is that the unidentified feet are from tsunami victims-specifically ones from either the 2004 Indian Ocean one, or the 2011 Japanese one. The brand styles would match up from the time periods as would the amount of time it would take for them to drift all the way over there.
The problem I have with the government doing it, either in this case or all the various indiscriminate poisonings out there that have yet to be solved, is why would they use a lethal chemical when they could use something non-lethal but severe enough that the victims will be hospitalized, ensuring accurate statistics gathering? Potassium cyanide is extremely lethal so there's no ambiguity in the poisoner's mind about what will happen. I won't even appeal to morality here and say "surely the government wouldn't kill its own citizens for data" I'll just say "why kill them when you can just make them very sick?" You get the same information and there will be a hell of a lot less scrutiny on the poisoning.
Weird one. I like commentor @RuthlessMojo's analysis the best: the two young men were mixed up with drug trafficking, fucked up and angered their superiors, and were taken out to that remote trailhead and killed, with the evidence burned and scattered and their bodies disposed of elsewhere. Several other men went missing in that part of British Columbia during the same period, which just makes the mystery that much more sinister.
This is weird, I randomly watched a different documentary on the Pemberton incident two days ago. Initially I thought some form of illegal pornography trade or hacking when it was mentioned that Isawaa was a programmer working on his own game, but as it went on it was clear that the motive was nothing so exotic. Especially the whole business with Iswaa's storage unit, as it turns out that a lot of drugs move in and out of those facilities in North America. The documentary also covered the disappearance of another man the same age around the same time, and how they could be linked. I'll see if can dig it up.
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lol The YT algorithm got you too. I just recently found that channel in my recommands and watched that video too. I'd not heard about that one either. I thought it was going to be about the Dyatlov Pass incident when it started.
Thug life.
