{"id":1969782,"date":"2023-07-11T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/primary-suspect-in-1982-tylenol-murders-dead-at-76\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T14:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T18:56:38","slug":"primary-suspect-in-1982-tylenol-murders-dead-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/primary-suspect-in-1982-tylenol-murders-dead-at-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Main suspect in 1982 Tylenol killings dies at 76."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprimary-suspect-in-1982-tylenol-murders-dead-at-76%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1969782&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo Illustration by Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/roy-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Francis<\/a><br \/>11:31 AM \u2013 Tuesday, July 11, 2023<\/p>\n<p>James Lewis, the prime suspect in the cyanide-laced Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in 1982 died has on Sunday, at 76-years-old.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">James W. Lewis, the prime suspect in the deaths of seven people in 1982 from cyanide-laced Tylenol, died on Sunday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 76.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lewis spent more than four decades under scrutiny in connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/primary-suspect-in-1982-tylenol-murders-dead-at-76\/\" title=\"Main suspect in 1982 Tylenol killings dies at 76.\">notorious unsolved poisonings<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He was never charged in\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cFCzwDxXE9\">pic.twitter.com\/cFCzwDxXE9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Morbid Knowledge (@Morbidful) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morbidful\/status\/1678721349118730242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Lewis was pronounced dead in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Sunday after medics responded to a 911 call of an unresponsive person around 4:00 p.m., police said that his death was not suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis was the prime, and only, suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders that changed the way pharmaceutical companies package their products.<\/p>\n<p>In September 1982, within three days, seven people, including a 12-year-old girl, died in the Chicago area after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol. The murders caused a nationwide recall of the product, and the adoption of tamperproof packaging for all over-the-counter medication.<\/p>\n<p>No one was ever charged in the murder of the seven people. Lewis was arrested in 1982 and served over 12 years after he had sent an extortion letter to Johnson &#038; Johnson demanding that they pay him $1 million in order to \u201cstop the killings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After his arrest, Lewis denied any role in the murders, and claimed that he had never intended to collect the money, but instead wanted to embarrass his wife\u2019s former employer by having the money deposited into his account.<\/p>\n<p>Although Lewis had given investigators a full detailed account of how the killer might have operated, he was never formally charged with the murders. In a 1992 interview with The Associated Press, he explained that the account he gave authorities was his way of explaining the killer\u2019s actions, and still denied his involvement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI was doing like I would have done for a corporate client, making a list of possible scenarios,\u201d Lewis told the outlet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lewis had had previous trouble with the law as well. In 1978, he was charged with the dismemberment murder of 72-year-old Raymond West, who had hired him as an accountant. The charges were dismissed, however, because some of the evidence had been illegally obtained and the cause of death of West was unknown.<\/p>\n<p>He had also been convicted of six counts of mail fraud, and a 1981 credit card scheme in which he used false information to open 13 credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, Lewis was charged with rape, kidnapping and related charges after allegedly assaulting a woman in Cambridge. He spent three years in jail awaiting trial, however, the case never went to court after the victim refused to testify, and Lewis was released.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Jensen, a nurse who had helped treat the victims in Chicago in 1982 said that she hoped his death would be a final coda to a tragedy that has haunted her and the victims\u2019 families for four decades, and that it would bring them all closure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cHis death is a conclusion. Not necessarily the conclusion everyone wanted,\u201d said Jensen, who is retired. \u201cBut it is an end. I\u2019m 86 now. And I am glad I got to see the end before I die.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jensen said Lewis, who she holds responsible for the murders, \u201cchanged the world because of what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWe lost our innocence,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have become less trusting of everyone else. We can blame it all on him. 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