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Officials said Friday they are investigating the death of...

SHERIDAN, Wyo. -- Officials said Friday they are investigating the death of a young man in July from suspected cyanide poisoning, but they refused to confirm preliminary indications the death may have been Tylenol-related.

Sheridan County Attorney Tom Wilson said a Chicago police detective would arrive in the city late Friday to help them investigate whether the man's death could have resulted from the use of contaminated Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules.

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Jay Adam Mitchell, 19, was found dead by his mother on July 26.

Sheridan County Coroner Jim Kane said he received a verbal report from the University of Utah Center for Human Toxicology that Mitchell's body contained lethal levels of cyanide.

But Kane would not confirm that Mitchel's death was possibly Tylenol-related.

Dr. Charlie Walter, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Mitchell, was vacationing in Canada and could not be reached for comment.

But Dr. William Doughty, a Sheridan pathologist who is an associate of Walter, said 'circumstantial evidence is very convincing' that the death was caused by poisoned Tylenol.

Doughty said when he heard of the Tylenol deaths in Chicago he remembered the Mitchell case.

He said the University of Utah center was given the autopsy report and did find lethal levels of cyanide but did not find any evidence of Tylenol in Mitchel's body.

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The victim's mother, Virginia, said her son used Tylenol. She said no one else in the family used the pain relief capsules.

Wilson gave few details of the investigation except to warn the general public against using Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules from old bottles as well as new bottles.

Seven people have died in the Chicago area from taking Extra-Strength Tylenol laced with cyanide.

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