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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Tom McNamee

Tylenol suspect James Lewis told me anyone could have poisoned those capsules — and calmly explained how

Tylenol extortionist James Lewis in prison in 1987. (Gene Pesek/Chicago Sun-Times)

It was the breadboard story that led me to believe James Lewis was most likely the Tylenol Killer. 

In the summer of 1987, as Chicago was coming up on the fifth anniversary of the Tylenol murders, I interviewed Lewis at the federal penitentiary in Danbury, Connecticut, curious as to what he might want to say, which turned out to be a lot and nothing.

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