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...reduced to ten agents from 150, has checked out 60,000 tips and compiled 25,000 pages of reports. Though the investigators work relentlessly, one of them concedes that the trail is "stone cold, and has been for six months." James W. Lewis, who is accused of trying to extort $ 1 million from Johnson & Johnson by offering to "stop the killing," goes on trial this week. Police have failed to find evidence connecting Lewis directly with the poisonings...
...agent does not sit around much hoping the phone will ring. The trouble with Hillsborough County is that all too many of its officials may indeed be crooks. The hot line was set up by the FBI after three of the five county commissioners were charged with conspiring to extort money from citizens seeking approval of a zoning application. After the arrests were announced, so many residents called the FBI's regular number to report that they knew of other bribes and corruption that the FBI decided to man a special telephone 24 hours...
...three weeks, the police have been searching for Chicago Con Man James Lewis, also known as Robert Richardson, who is accused of trying to extort $ 1 million from the makers of Tylenol in the wake of the killings. The Chicago Tribune received a letter, postmarked from New York City last Wednesday, that apparently came from the fugitive. "My wife and I have not committed the Chicago area Tylenol murders," the author wrote. "We do not go around killing people...
...wife LeAnn, 35, after it was reported that they had lived in a rundown Manhattan hotel from mid-September until Oct. 16. The two, also known as Robert and Nancy Richardson and by more than a dozen other aliases, are being sought by federal authorities for an attempt to extort $1 million from McNeil Consumer Products Co., the makers of Tylenol, with a blackmail note saying that the payoff could "stop the killing." Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fanner has called Lewis "a prime suspect" in the murders as well. Lewis was already wanted in Kansas City on charges involving credit...
...another development, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Chicago Residents Robert Richardson, 36, and his wife Nancy, 35. Richardson was accused of at tempting to extort $ 1 million from McNeil Consumer Products Co., the manufacturers of Tylenol, with a handwritten note demanding money "if you want to stop the killing." But when his picture flashed on the TV news, detectives in Kansas City recognized him as James W. Lewis, who had been freed on murder charges stemming from the 1978 mutilation in Kansas City of one Raymond West. A nationwide arrest alert was ordered...