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...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-card and land swindles last year. In 1978 he was freed...
Meanwhile in Chicago, police chemists discovered another cyanide-laced bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol among those returned by stores on the Near North Side after the deaths. This development came a few days after police released a blurred photograph taken in a pharmacy in that neighborhood...
Sept. 29 by an automatic store camera. In it, a woman tentatively identified as Flight Attendant Paula Prince, who died later that evening after taking contaminated Tylenol, stands at the check-out counter while a burly, bearded man looks on. Suggestions that the man might be James Lewis raised the chilling possibility that the Tylenol killer put the poisoned capsules on the shelf, then watched an innocent shopper buy them. But despite efforts by FBI specialists and NASA space scientists employing sophisticated computer-enhancement techniques to clarify the image, the man could not be identified as Lewis...
Tamper-resistant containers were hardly a burning issue for American industry before cyanide-spiked Tylenol capsules exposed the horrifying vulnerability of countless consumer products. Since then, however, packaging specialists have been swamped by a tidal wave of demand, and nearly 200 firms stand to reap heady gains from the crisis...
...million), a Philadelphia maker of tamper-resistant packaging and one of the few firms in the industry whose stock is publicly traded. The price of West shares jumped more than $3 in a single day, following reports of the Tylenol deaths, and the volume of trading exploded by more than 6,000%. West stock, which had been selling for around 16 be fore the poisonings, closed last week at 20⅛. Says Robert Campbell, a spokesman for the company: "We've got queries about our products from across the board, not only from over-the-counter-drug packagers...