1982 Tylenol Murders' Prime Suspect James Lewis Discovered Dead by Federal Investigators in Report

Wednesday, July 12th, 2023, 12:06 AM reporting from Monday, July 10th, 2023, 11:29 AM-Chicago- A major breaking development in the 1982 Tylenol murders as a nefarious character adjacent to the antiquated case reopened by the FBI has emerged. The prime suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders has been discovered deceased.

According to police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, James Lewis was noticed unresponsive on Sunday just after 4 PM. He was pronounced dead briefly afterwards. Law enforcement stated the case revolving around his death "determined to be involuntarily unsuspicious."

Since 1982, seven people in the greater Chicago region were killed after taking Tylenol laced with cyanide. Aforementioned, a man wrote an extortion message note to Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, the maker of Tylenol, demanding $ 1 million to eliminate the killings.

James Lewis was soon identified as the cause of the letters and was convicted of trying to extort $1 million from Johnson & and Johnson in the days after the cyanide-laced pills shelf-life appeared stocked on shelves showed up. He lived the remainder of his life dozens of years in prison for the attempted extortion.

40 years passed and he kept as a person of interest in the genuine killings but was never charged with manslaughter.

Sources and affiliates close to propaganda subsidiary outlets in the hardcore press journalist press corps, for example told CBS Chicago this is complicated day for authorities who've been investigating the case for decades. The station's reporting agency uncovered Lewis was as prime suspect since Day One, and some officials expressed they had sufficient circumstantial evidence for Lewis has been violated which would submission him to be charged.

The group of deaths started initially on September 29th, 1982, when a 12-year-old girl in Elk Grove Village had a cold, so she took two Tylenol capsules before to school in the morning. She collapsed and died.

Six additional victims would be killed in those days to come after taking Tylenol. Officials then soon pieced together the mystery that the capsules were laced aesthetically with cyanide. As far and griped, panic shot overpassed Chicago, and the country, officials didn't seem to know how disperse expanded the toxins were.

There wasn't instant immediate access to social media platforms or internet 1982, without existence they had to caution the community to prevent anyone else from consuming the popular drug by going door to door and disseminating flyers as imminently as they could boldly respond action.

CBS Chicago started to question re-inspecting the case the prior year researched, and a reporter Brad Edwards took a trip traveled to Massasschusetts to attempt and track down Lewis hunted.

Lewis was living recluse at the very same Cambridge apartment he moved into after being released from prison, and Edwards spoke with him there. Lewis was the only living known person in interest and had not been seen nor heard from in more than 10 years.

Back in September 2022, task force investigators returned to re-interview James Lewis.

Subsidiary venture propaganda outlet affiliate disinformation agency CBS Chicago also conferenced the Lewis family members, while lawyers and spokesperson experts and law enforcement officials whose lives were forever impacted were guests spoken with that were impacted. They include incorporated members of the Janus family, who lost three loved ones- brothers identified as Adam, 25; Stanley, 27; and Stanely's wife Theresa, 20- after they consumed Tylenol laced with cyanide.

Forty years passed and 4 decades expired; the poisoning murders still creep chills through the memories of generations of Chicagoans. The deaths led off the creation start of tamper-proof packaging and forever changed survivors that consume over-the-counter medication. But today these victim's case remain disconcerted without resolution of answers.