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Tylenol-cyanide killing suspect
indicted in ’78 for brutal murder
CHICAGO (AP) — A man be
ing sought for questioning in
connection with seven cyanide
Tylenol deaths was indicted, but
never tried, in 1978 for the brutal
murder of a Kansas City man.
authorities said Thursday
James Lewis, who also uses
the name Robert Richardson,
was charged with the murder of
Raymond West, whose dis
membered body was found in
his Kansas City attic in a "semi
mummified condition," said II
linois Attorney General Tyrone
Fahner, who is heading a task
force investigating the seven
deaths
However, the charges were
later dropped and Lewis was
never tried, Fahner said at a
news conference
An extortion warrant for
Lewis, using the name Richard
son, was issued in Chicago ear
lier alleging that he wrote a let
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ter to McNeil Consumer
Products Co., maker of Tylenol,
demanding $1 million "if you
want to stop the killings ”
A Chicago detective had been
sent to Oklahoma and Texas to
try to locate him
Fahner had said earlier that
while Richardson was wanted
on the extortion charge, he has
"never been a suspect” in the
killings
Earlier Thursday, police said
a Jewel Food employee arrest
ed on a tip earlier this week
remains a "possible potential
suspect" in the deaths of the
seven people who had taken
cyanide-contaminated Extra
Strength Tylenol capsules
Nonetheless, police Lt
August Locallo said, there is no
evidence that Roger Arnold, 48,
the Jewel employee, put cyan
ide in the capsules, and he has
denied any involvement.
Fahner had described Ar
nold’s arrest Monday as "an
other one of those (incidents)
that are unrelated" to the
killings.
Several coincidences too
strong to ignore make Arnold a
"possible potential suspect,"
and he was uncooperative with
detectives, Locallo said Auth
orities are continuing to inves
tigate him, he said
After being released on bond
Wednesday Arnold said, "I had
nothing to do with this Tylenol
thing at all.” He is charged with
five counts of failure to register
firearms and one count of ag
gravated assault stemming from
an earlier incident in a tavern.
Reagan vows
to end crime,
drug menace
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres
Ronald Reagan vowed Thurs
day to "end the drug menace
and cripple organized crime"
with a $200 million program that
will blanket the nation with
federal narcotics task forces
Reagan, criticized in Con
gress last year for scaling back
the fight against drug traf
fickers, said the government will
hire up to 1,200 more agents
and investigators for a dozen
task forces The illicit drug bu
siness in the United States is
worth an estimated $80 billion
"The time has come to cripple
the power of the mob in Amer
ica," Reagan told more than 300
people at the Justice Depart
ment
Administration officials said
the task forces will try to infil
trate the drug mobs, concen
trating on long range investiga
tions aimed at breaking up
networks rather than street
pushers They will be modeled
after the task force, headed by
Vice President George Bush,
that was formed to combat the
drug trade in South Florida
Although Congress must ap
prove permanent financing for
the plan, the administration in
tends to begin the operation by
shifting available funds from
other programs
The $200 million cost of the
program also includes up to $34
million to expand prisons to
make room for some 1,260 ad
ditional inmates
The administration also is
backing legislation to deny bail
to accused people who are
considered dangerous
Friday, October 15, 1982