Word: leann
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Lewis and his wife LeAnn, 35, had eluded a citywide hunt for two months. Using the alias Robert Richardson, Lewis allegedly sent a handwritten note to Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, demanding $1 million "if you want to stop the killing." By the time his name had surfaced as a suspect in the actual Tylenol poisonings, the Lewises had fled Chicago and were hiding in a New York City hotel room. From there, Lewis mailed letters to the Chicago Tribune to deny any connection to the killings. Investigators, hoping that Lewis was regularly scanning the Tribune...
...after her husband's arrest, LeAnn Lewis surrendered to authorities in Chicago. She was held on $5 million bond after U.S. Attorney Dan Webb alleged that she helped her husband send a mid-October death threat to President Reagan. The letter, allegedly in James Lewis' handwriting, criticized Reagan's tax policies and threatened an attack on the White House with radio-controlled model airplanes somehow designed to confuse Secret Service radio communications. Said a federal investigator: "You could tell it was written by someone whose thoughts were muddled." Like the original extortion note, the letter was stamped...
...York City, some 300 police and FBI agents searched unsuccessfully for Fugitives James Lewis, 36, and his 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...