the maker of Tylenol -- demanding $1 million to stop the killings. The man who wrote that letter was James Lewis. He would later spend a dozen years in prison for attempted extortion. He was never charged with murder.
"The investigation into the 1982 Tylenol killings is still ongoing" said FBI Special Agent Ross Rice told ABC News' Chicago affiliate WLS-TV today. "No arrests have been made and no criminal charges filed," said Rice. Lewis spent13 years in prisonfor sending a $1 million extortion let...
s Hospital and a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. “Forty years later, we take it for granted that bottles of over-the-counter medicine are shrink-wrapped in plastic and there’s a piece of foil that you need to peel back. Those tragic killings changed the pharmaceutical ...
the murders. The tylenol killings took place between September 29 and 30 in 1982. All the victims had taken tylenol capsules that were contaminated with a substance known as potassium cyanid. Later on, several more deaths occurred in copycat crimes, which were influenced by the Chicago murders...
Chicago Tylenol murders: A look back at the rash of 1982 drug store poisonings Subscribe to101.9 KING-FMon The Wyoming death occurred a little over two months before the Illinois Tylenol killings and was not officially labeled as cyanide poisoning. The victim was Jay Adam Mitchell in Sheridan,...
The article reports that Illinois state prosecutors may commission a grand jury to compel witness statements in an investigation involving the 1982 poisoning of Tylenol brand pills that led to seven deaths and a branding crisis for the Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Products pharmaceutical company....
During the height of the scare, as people were collapsing in cyanide comas, Lewis threatened Tylenol-maker Johnson & Johnson to pay $1 million or the killings would continue. Following a nationwide manhunt for Lewis, he was arrested and convicted of extortion. Lewis was sentenced to 10 years...
Suspect in Chicago Tylenol killings maintains innocence
Closure Needed in Tylenol Killings
since September 29, 1982, the day authorities documented the first victims’ deaths. No one has been charged in the killings. Police say they’re hoping advances in DNA technology may help them uncover new evidence, but there’s been no public sign of any leads in the investigation for ...