James Lewis, Sole Convicted Suspect in Tylenol Murders, Found Dead

James Lewis, the only person ever convicted in connection with the Tylenol murders in the 1980s, has been found dead in his Cambridge home. He was convicted of attempting to extort $1 million from Tylenol maker Johnson and Johnson in 1982. Although he described the scheme used to fill Tylenol capsules with cyanide, he denied being responsible for the killings. Seven people in the Chicago area were killed in the Tylenol murders. Lewis was never charged with those killings, but the poisonings led to a massive recall and the adoption of tamperproof packaging in food and medical products.