40 years after Tylenol poisoning murders, investigators interview person of interest in Cambridge

CBS Boston ^ | 9/23/22 | Brad Edwards

[DallasBiff]

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Major developments surfaced Thursday into the 40-year-old investigation into the Tylenol murders in the greater Chicago area.

CBS 2 Chicago learned that investigators travelled to the Boston area this week to re-interview the man considered a suspect in the seven deaths.

James Lewis was never charged with the murders, but he was convicted of trying to extort $1 million from Johnson & Johnson in the days after the cyanide-laced pills showed up on store shelves.

The CBS 2 Investigators began re-examining the case back in April; reporter Brad Edwards travelled to Massachusetts last month to try to track down Lewis. He was living at the very same Cambridge apartment he moved into after being released from prison.

[kiryandil]

There is no statute of limitations on murder, nor should there be. If they have new evidence and can get the guy that did this, go for it, years be damned.

This is a small government forum.

Our government is big because children are running it, and making decisions like this [I don't CARE if it's been 40 years, or 60 years or 80 years!! Costs be damned!!!].

Every time they wheel out the backhoes to look for Jimmy Hoffa is another ding in the money they're taxing out of us.

"The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be trusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government..."

[wildbill]

It may not have been the same case, but a similar poisoning of several people who used an OTC headache capsule was mentioned lately on the internet. It seems that the poisoner was a woman who wanted to kill her husband and used the other deaths as a misdirection. She was convicted and recently came up for parole at age 78. I don’t know if she was released.