The key figure in the investigation into the unsolved deaths of seven people whose over-the-counter painkillers were laced with cyanide has died.
The prime suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people, leading to an overhaul of medication packaging, has died.James Lewis was a prime suspect, but was never convicted of the poisoningsJames Lewis, 76, was never charged in the deaths of seven people who took over-the-counter painkillers laced with cyanide but remained a key figure in the unsolved case.
When Lewis was arrested in New York City in 1982 after a nationwide manhunt, he gave investigators a detailed account of how the killer might have operated. Chicago City Health Department employees test Tylenol medicines for cyanide content at a city laboratory in 1982. Lewis explained the account he gave authorities was simply his way of explaining the killer's actions, in a 1992 interview with The Associated Press.
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