Her body is found in the trunk of her Cadillac, submerged in the Sanitary and Ship Canal in Willow Springs. The case goes unsolved for seven years. Legislators refuse to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment despite protests in Springfield. But they approve lethal injection for executions. Seven people die after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide.
Authorities never solve the killings.
The deaths lead to federal guidelines for tamperproof medicine containers. University of Chicago Professor George G. Stigler wins the Nobel Prize in economics. A federal jury in Chicago convicts Teamster President Roy L. Williams and four others of conspiring to bribe a senator and defraud a union pension fund.