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- Where should I put this thing?
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Should I hide it?
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Should I feed it up?
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What do you think?
- I think... yeah, I think...
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- Oh, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa.
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What have we got here?
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Leave the tripod.
Leave the tripod.
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Ready? This could be our guy.
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This could be our guy.
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Let's go over there.
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I wonder if this is him.
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Mr. Lewis?
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You're not James Lewis?
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- Oh, no.
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- Do you know who that is?
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- I don't.
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- Oh, I thought you were him.
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You ever seen this guy?
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Looking for someone
in your building.
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They live in...
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So we went looking
for James Lewis.
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- Mm-hmm.
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- We found him.
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- Interesting.
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- Here we go.
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- Hi, Mr. Lewis?
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- Ah, was that him?
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- There's my boy.
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- You look like James Lewis.
- That's him.
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- I'm Brad.
- Ooh, there he is.
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- I just am trying to get
your side of the story.
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- Did he talk to you
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or tell you to go
screw yourself?
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- I'm Sergeant Joe Murphy
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with the Arlington
Heights Police Department.
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I'm one of the investigators
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assigned to the Tylenol murders.
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- We recently went out,
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and we found James Lewis.
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Would you like to see that?
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- Sure.
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- You look like James Lewis.
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I'm... I'm Brad.
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I just am trying to get
your side of the story.
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- Yeah.
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- Did you ever hear from him?
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- We're waiting.
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- It almost caused
a national panic.
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- These deaths
have been associated
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with the presence of
cyanide in two containers
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of Extra Strength Tylenol.
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- Do not take Tylenol
until further notice.
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- Cyanide is so deadly,
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an amount the size
of a pea can kill you.
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- This was a stone cold mystery,
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and people had died.
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And many of them
were in the same family.
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- I just knew
something was wrong.
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- Paula was murdered.
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She was just murdered.
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- We know that there's
somebody out there
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trying to poison people.
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- How could he pull off
the crime of the century
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perfectly and not get caught?
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- We're actively
pursuing this investigation.
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This is not collecting
dust on a shelf.
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- This could be our guy.
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Do you think you
know who did it?
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- Yes.
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- You're going to let
a murderer just go?
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- Hi.
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- Mr. Lewis, I'm Brad.
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I'm reporting on
the Tylenol murders.
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I named our pursuit Painkiller.
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Are you the Painkiller?
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Did you lace little
pills with poison,
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propagating murder and
nationwide panic in 1982?
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And was it all because
your heart was broken
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over your little girls?
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- Stand by for the open
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in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
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- Major developments
in the now 40-year-long
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investigation into
the Tylenol murders.
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- Seven people were murdered
when someone put cyanide
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in that painkiller and
then put those pills
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back on store shelves.
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- Today we learned
investigators went to Boston
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this week to
re-interview the man
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considered the prime suspect.
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CBS2 investigator Brad Edwards
live at O'Hare Airport for us
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tonight to talk more
about what we've learned.
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Brad?
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- Yeah, Joe, good
evening to you.
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We went to Boston
as well in June.
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We were looking for James Lewis,
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and we found him.
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Two plus weeks ago, we showed
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our entire exchange to
Arlington Heights Police.
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At the end, they asked
for a copy of that interview.
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We're now going to
hop a flight to Boston
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to see what we can shake loose
in these latest developments.
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Boston to the boondocks,
thousands of miles,
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many months to discover
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the Chicago Tylenol
murders in 1982
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some say should
have never happened.
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The prime suspect
should have been stopped
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four years earlier in 1978
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with a torso in an
attic in Kansas City.
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- I am James Bell,
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former Jackson County
Assistant Prosecutor.
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Accept no imitations.
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- I was going to be
a journalism major.
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They required a
foreign language,
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and I unfortunately
chose French.
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Never got the hang
of it, so ended up
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having to do two tours in
Vietnam because of that.
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Had I not gone to Vietnam,
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I wouldn't have
gotten the GI Bill.
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Had I not gotten the GI Bill,
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I wouldn't have
gone to law school.
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Had I not gone to law school,
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I wouldn't be here talking
to you about Jim Lewis.
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- Seven people were
dead because someone
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had laced capsules of Extra
Strength Tylenol with cyanide.
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- A 15-agency task
force was formed.
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- Do not take Tylenol
until further notice.
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- There was no
more sophisticated
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law enforcement
apparatus at the time
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than the task force in Chicago.
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And they didn't know
if they were looking for
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a guy named Lewis,
a guy named Wilson,
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a guy named Richardson.
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- We have a nationwide
search for a picture
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of a person who
identifies himself
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at one time as James E. Lewis.
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- Or Theodore Elmer
Wilson, as he is also known.
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David E. Woods,
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John Ryan, Robert Myers,
Raymond Thompson,
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and Robert R. Johnson.
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- Do you feel that a
legitimate identification
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has been made in this case?
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Lewis Richardson,
whatever his name is?
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- Oh, let me make
sure my phone is off.
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- I'm going to show
you the old video.
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- Oh, you've got it?
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- It's 1982, CBS Chicago.
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This is how I discovered you.
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- It was here in
Kansas City that police
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made the connection that
has resulted in the hottest lead
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so far in the Tylenol
cyanide case.
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- I've never seen this.
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The tax man, Mr. Lewis...
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Had that mustache
for quite a while
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and wore contacts
for quite a while.
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- Because of the evidence,
a Kansas City police sergeant
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saw the picture on
TV and recognized
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the man as James Lewis.
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- I was laying on the
couch tired as hell.
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I remember that.
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And my little kids were
in the room with me.
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We were watching the
news, CBS, Dan Rather.
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- Good evening.
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This is the CBS Evening
News, Dan Rather reporting.
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- And they were doing
a news story on the...
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- Seven deaths
linked to poisoned
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Extra Strength Tylenol capsules.
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- And they flashed a
picture of a suspect.
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- Investigators also said
they are seeking these people,
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Robert and Nancy Richardson.
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- My daughter relates it to me
that she remembers it vividly.
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I jumped off the couch, said
that's damn James Lewis,
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and then I went upstairs,
picked up the phone,
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and made some phone calls.
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And my daughter says, you left
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and didn't come
back for two weeks.
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I wanted to immediately let
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Chicago people
know who they had.
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- This is the only remnants
of a criminal case file
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that I've kept since I was
in the prosecutor's office
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1978 through '81.
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James Lewis,
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Raymond West,
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Homicide.
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- In 1978, I was a detective
assigned to the homicide unit,
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Kansas City, Missouri,
Police Department.
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My involvement in the
Raymond West case
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started when a body was
found in the attic of a house.
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- This was the scene in
Kansas City when police
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found the dismembered body
of 72-year-old Raymond West,
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a friend of James Lewis.
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- I was asked to organize
this case after all the evidence
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had been collected and
trying to put it in some sort
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of chronological order.
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- On July 25, 1978,
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a Charles P. Banker reported
to the Missing Persons Unit
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that a close friend of
his, Raymond West,
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was missing from his
residence at 4812 Campbell
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and had not been seen
since two days prior.
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Mr. Banker then found a
taped note on the front door,
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which read, "Mr. West
has gone to the Ozarks,"
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signed James Lewis.
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When the police arrived,
Mr. Banker told them
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about James Lewis,
Mr. West's tax man.
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- The house was locked
up, which was very unusual.
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There was a padlock
on the front door
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as opposed to just a door lock.
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- Mr. Banker then stated
James Lewis arrived,
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ran up to the
front porch, asking,
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what the hell are you doing?
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Mr. Banker said that
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James Lewis picked up a hammer.
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Mr. Banker said James
Lewis eventually calmed down,
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got into his brown
station wagon and left.
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Mr. Banker then
drove to the bank
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to see if Mr. West had withdrawn
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any money from his account.
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The bank vice
president said the bank
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just received a check made
out to James Lewis for $5,000.
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The check was
returned because they felt
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the check was a forgery.
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Mr. Banker returned
to the residence
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at 4812 Campbell
and smelled a foul odor.
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He then called the police.
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In the attic was found
a highly decomposed
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body of a white
male, later identified
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as being Raymond West.
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Both legs had been severed
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from the torso
at the hip joints.
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- It was mummified
and decomposed.
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We're talking about
middle of August
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in Kansas City.
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It gets very, very hot.
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- How somebody's
body can be up there
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in 130, 140 degree
heat, if not hotter,
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in July and August
and not see the stains,
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not smell the
decomposition for a month,
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why did they never,
ever go to the basement...
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Where the lawn chair that
Raymond had in his stereo room
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now has blood all over it?
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If you're searching the
house for Raymond West,
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why don't you go to
the goddamn basement
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and see if he's down there?
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- Take me there.
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- And he got away with it.
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- So we are looking for
the home of Raymond West,
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murder victim,
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4812 Campbell.
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Here's Campbell right here.
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Here's Campbell,
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4812 Campbell.
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If we find the home...
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We'll go up to it, knock, knock.
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Hi, I'm Brad.
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Can me and my crew...
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get a shot of your crawl space?
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There was once
a human torso in it.
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- Beside the access door
was a triple pulley game hoist.
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- A game hoist was used to
haul the body up into the attic.
259
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We lifted fingerprints
from that game hoist.
260
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They were faint.
261
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Our examiner said
no identifiable prints,
262
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but we retained the
lift as part of evidence.
263
00:14:28,481 --> 00:14:30,481
- Do you remember
anything about the hoist?
264
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- No.
265
00:14:31,758 --> 00:14:34,447
What I remember are the ropes.
266
00:14:37,654 --> 00:14:40,344
The signature was
that the same slipknot
267
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that was used to tie the body up
268
00:14:42,379 --> 00:14:44,654
was found on the trunk
of James Lewis's car.
269
00:14:44,724 --> 00:14:46,379
I know my way around knots.
270
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I was in the Navy,
and I was a sailor.
271
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And this was not a
run-of-the-mill knot.
272
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This is a knot that required
a little bit of know-how
273
00:14:56,517 --> 00:15:00,481
on how to tie knots
and that here we had
274
00:15:00,551 --> 00:15:04,172
a sophisticated knot used
275
00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,309
to tie up Raymond West's body.
276
00:15:07,379 --> 00:15:09,620
And that same knot
is found in the trunk
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of James Lewis's car.
278
00:15:14,206 --> 00:15:17,586
As I was preparing for
279
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the trial of the case,
280
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I went to the crime lab,
281
00:15:23,274 --> 00:15:28,861
and I opened up
those bags of rope
282
00:15:28,931 --> 00:15:31,240
that included the slipknots
283
00:15:31,309 --> 00:15:35,826
that tied Raymond
West's legs and torso up.
284
00:15:35,895 --> 00:15:42,517
And the stench that I got
285
00:15:42,586 --> 00:15:48,517
on my fingers stayed for days.
286
00:15:48,586 --> 00:15:50,102
You couldn't wash it off.
287
00:15:50,172 --> 00:15:53,344
It was just so god-awful.
288
00:15:54,931 --> 00:15:58,517
Curl your hair.
289
00:16:21,586 --> 00:16:25,067
- Why was the case
eventually kicked?
290
00:16:25,136 --> 00:16:28,240
- Stuff in the car...
291
00:16:28,309 --> 00:16:31,724
no Miranda warning,
it doesn't come in.
292
00:16:31,793 --> 00:16:33,240
- That case had been thrown out
293
00:16:33,309 --> 00:16:34,826
for insufficient
medical evidence
294
00:16:34,895 --> 00:16:36,861
and improper police procedures.
295
00:16:41,551 --> 00:16:44,724
- He had a couple
remarkable attorneys, didn't he?
296
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- He did.
297
00:16:45,895 --> 00:16:48,102
Albert Riederer and Russ Millin.
298
00:16:48,172 --> 00:16:49,517
Albert later became
299
00:16:49,586 --> 00:16:52,309
the Jackson County
Prosecuting Attorney.
300
00:16:52,379 --> 00:16:55,793
Russ Millin was a
former U.S. Attorney.
301
00:16:55,861 --> 00:16:58,895
- How in the hell did James
Lewis get such attorneys?
302
00:17:00,724 --> 00:17:04,722
- Uh, that's an
interesting question.
303
00:17:04,791 --> 00:17:07,791
James Lewis, from
information I've gathered,
304
00:17:07,862 --> 00:17:10,586
was active in
Democratic politics.
305
00:17:11,586 --> 00:17:15,103
James Lewis had
done some fundraisers.
306
00:17:15,172 --> 00:17:17,413
That's the best connection
307
00:17:17,481 --> 00:17:20,791
I've been able to
make is politics.
308
00:17:20,862 --> 00:17:25,309
I'll have this criminal
case in my file drawer
309
00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:27,722
till the day I die.
310
00:17:37,309 --> 00:17:40,586
- 4812 Campbell.
311
00:17:42,964 --> 00:17:44,136
Where are you at?
312
00:17:47,481 --> 00:17:51,378
Where I think the 4800
block would be, it's a park.
313
00:17:52,895 --> 00:17:54,862
Where the hell are you?
314
00:18:02,067 --> 00:18:03,481
What's going on?
315
00:18:03,550 --> 00:18:05,067
- Hey, so I just
got off the phone
316
00:18:05,136 --> 00:18:06,413
with the zoning department,
317
00:18:06,481 --> 00:18:08,481
and the place no longer exists.
318
00:18:08,550 --> 00:18:10,792
Now it's Kauffman Legacy Park.
319
00:18:10,862 --> 00:18:12,586
- Oh, shit.
320
00:18:17,103 --> 00:18:19,344
This is where it is.
321
00:18:19,413 --> 00:18:22,758
So the deeds office says
322
00:18:22,826 --> 00:18:27,723
Raymond West's
house was demolished.
323
00:18:27,792 --> 00:18:30,723
I think it's about
right here, right?
324
00:18:30,792 --> 00:18:36,344
Where he ended up a
torso in his own crawl space,
325
00:18:36,413 --> 00:18:38,517
now a pretty park.
326
00:18:44,309 --> 00:18:46,619
- He is 37-year-old James Lewis,
327
00:18:46,689 --> 00:18:48,758
the man convicted
of writing the notorious
328
00:18:48,826 --> 00:18:50,550
Tylenol extortion letter.
329
00:18:50,619 --> 00:18:52,309
- Did you feel then
that you were on trial
330
00:18:52,378 --> 00:18:53,309
for the Tylenol murders?
331
00:18:53,378 --> 00:18:54,758
- I did.
332
00:18:54,826 --> 00:18:56,517
- Did you commit
the Tylenol murders?
333
00:18:56,586 --> 00:18:57,862
- I did not.
334
00:18:57,931 --> 00:18:59,895
- What do you want to say
to the people of Chicago
335
00:18:59,964 --> 00:19:02,275
and to the country,
for that matter?
336
00:19:03,481 --> 00:19:05,619
How should they look
upon James Lewis?
337
00:19:05,689 --> 00:19:08,103
How should they view you today?
338
00:19:09,344 --> 00:19:11,344
- I think that is something
that you're going to
339
00:19:11,413 --> 00:19:13,654
have to take a while to look at.
340
00:19:18,481 --> 00:19:19,586
- These are the case files.
341
00:19:19,654 --> 00:19:20,862
- Yep.
342
00:19:24,758 --> 00:19:29,586
United States of America
versus James W. Lewis.
343
00:19:29,654 --> 00:19:31,826
Mr. Lewis argued
that he intended
344
00:19:31,895 --> 00:19:35,723
to spur the investigation
into a former employer
345
00:19:35,792 --> 00:19:38,586
of Mr. Lewis's wife.
346
00:19:39,895 --> 00:19:42,172
All right, here it is.
347
00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,689
It's addressed to
Johnson & Johnson,
348
00:19:44,758 --> 00:19:47,689
parent of McNeil Laboratories.
349
00:19:47,758 --> 00:19:52,619
"Gentlemen," it
says, "As you can see,
350
00:19:52,689 --> 00:19:57,723
"it is easy to place cyanide,
both potassium and sodium,
351
00:19:57,792 --> 00:20:00,689
"into capsules sitting
on store shelves...
352
00:20:00,758 --> 00:20:02,964
"To get buyers to
swallow the bitter pill...
353
00:20:03,034 --> 00:20:04,619
"Take countermeasures...
354
00:20:04,689 --> 00:20:07,000
"Don't mind the publicity
of these little capsules...
355
00:20:07,067 --> 00:20:09,619
"If you want to
stop the killing,
356
00:20:09,689 --> 00:20:12,136
then wire $1 million."
357
00:20:16,619 --> 00:20:19,067
- Can you imagine
trying to tell your wife that,
358
00:20:19,136 --> 00:20:23,240
"Honey, I... I wrote a letter"?
359
00:20:23,309 --> 00:20:24,550
Uh...
360
00:20:24,619 --> 00:20:26,586
"Oh, yeah?"
361
00:20:26,654 --> 00:20:29,826
Well, there's something
else I need to tell you.
362
00:20:29,895 --> 00:20:32,344
They're talking about it
in the radio and on TV.
363
00:20:35,619 --> 00:20:40,862
- One more, James Lewis,
364
00:20:40,931 --> 00:20:44,792
orphaned, adopted.
365
00:20:44,862 --> 00:20:50,309
Wow, he tried to kill
his parents in June of '66
366
00:20:50,378 --> 00:20:56,378
in Carl Junction, Missouri.
367
00:21:05,413 --> 00:21:08,448
I'm just going to walk up.
368
00:21:08,517 --> 00:21:11,309
Ever heard of a last
name Lewis around here?
369
00:21:11,378 --> 00:21:12,309
- Nope.
370
00:21:12,378 --> 00:21:14,240
- No?
371
00:21:14,309 --> 00:21:15,240
We're from out of town.
372
00:21:15,309 --> 00:21:16,654
We're shooting a documentary.
373
00:21:16,723 --> 00:21:18,172
- Oh.
374
00:21:19,378 --> 00:21:20,931
Do you know the last name Lewis?
375
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,309
- Lewis?
- Yeah.
376
00:21:22,378 --> 00:21:24,481
- You remember the name Lewis?
377
00:21:24,550 --> 00:21:26,931
- I just told you that
three goddamn times.
378
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,344
They used to live down there.
379
00:21:31,862 --> 00:21:35,205
- Well, this is the
address we had.
380
00:21:35,275 --> 00:21:37,758
Nice lady just told
me the Lewises
381
00:21:37,826 --> 00:21:41,758
did indeed used to live here.
382
00:21:46,275 --> 00:21:49,413
- Carl Junction, Missouri,
is about 150 miles
383
00:21:49,481 --> 00:21:50,964
south of Kansas City.
384
00:21:51,034 --> 00:21:53,481
It is the place where
James Lewis grew up
385
00:21:53,550 --> 00:21:56,034
and a place where
he is remembered.
386
00:21:56,103 --> 00:21:57,689
- The student is a bit unusual,
387
00:21:57,758 --> 00:22:00,931
one that has problems
with other students,
388
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,931
has personal problems,
family problems at home.
389
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,205
And I think James
probably had all of these.
390
00:22:11,689 --> 00:22:17,000
- Here we are, Carl
Junction High School.
391
00:22:18,758 --> 00:22:23,172
All right, 1964.
392
00:22:27,103 --> 00:22:32,136
Fourth row... one,
two, three, four.
393
00:22:35,136 --> 00:22:39,448
That is James Lewis, FTA,
394
00:22:39,517 --> 00:22:42,275
Future Teachers of America.
395
00:22:43,689 --> 00:22:46,000
- Mm-hmm, we tracked him down.
396
00:22:50,758 --> 00:22:52,136
- No.
397
00:22:52,964 --> 00:22:55,448
- He is remembered
in family photographs,
398
00:22:55,517 --> 00:22:58,034
the adopted child of a
churchgoing farm couple
399
00:22:58,103 --> 00:22:59,862
who gave him the name Jim Lewis.
400
00:22:59,931 --> 00:23:02,067
Relatives who would
not appear on camera
401
00:23:02,136 --> 00:23:03,723
described him as a troubled boy
402
00:23:03,792 --> 00:23:05,517
with a history of
family violence.
403
00:23:05,586 --> 00:23:08,550
This picture shows Lewis
at the state mental hospital
404
00:23:08,619 --> 00:23:11,654
where he was voluntarily
committed in 1966
405
00:23:11,723 --> 00:23:14,586
after attacking his
adopted mother with an ax.
406
00:23:19,550 --> 00:23:22,309
- Nevada, Missouri.
407
00:23:26,964 --> 00:23:29,862
This is where James
Lewis spent time,
408
00:23:29,931 --> 00:23:32,517
the now shuttered
state hospital.
409
00:23:32,586 --> 00:23:34,792
A sign once hung here,
410
00:23:34,862 --> 00:23:38,586
"Lunatic Asylum Number 3."
411
00:23:53,619 --> 00:23:55,964
Have you ever seen these people?
412
00:23:56,034 --> 00:23:58,136
We're just
fiddle-faddling around,
413
00:23:58,205 --> 00:23:59,826
out of town doing a story.
414
00:23:59,895 --> 00:24:01,481
- Sure.
- Okay.
415
00:24:01,550 --> 00:24:04,826
I'm sitting in a car outside
the Lewis's apartment
416
00:24:04,895 --> 00:24:07,172
right now in Cambridge.
417
00:24:12,205 --> 00:24:14,517
- The number you've
dialed is not in service.
418
00:24:18,448 --> 00:24:19,792
- Damn it.
419
00:24:25,689 --> 00:24:29,619
What was the name of that,
Cambridge Community Television?
420
00:24:29,689 --> 00:24:32,586
- Welcome to the Cambridge
Rag, and I have today Jim Lewis.
421
00:24:32,654 --> 00:24:34,758
Hi, Jim. How are you?
422
00:24:34,826 --> 00:24:38,309
Jim, uh... Jim, I've been your
nemesis for a couple of years,
423
00:24:38,378 --> 00:24:39,964
and you're finally on my show.
424
00:24:40,034 --> 00:24:42,205
- Shame on you.
- I know, shame on me.
425
00:24:42,275 --> 00:24:45,344
- I just heard back
from Roger Nicholson.
426
00:24:45,413 --> 00:24:47,550
"No shit."
427
00:24:48,654 --> 00:24:50,517
"Can you call me?"
428
00:25:02,034 --> 00:25:03,172
This is Brad.
429
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,931
- Hello, this is Roger.
430
00:25:07,205 --> 00:25:08,492
- I need to ask
you on the record,
431
00:25:08,517 --> 00:25:10,413
can we record this interview?
432
00:25:10,481 --> 00:25:13,172
- Yes, but here's the deal.
You have to know this.
433
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,758
If I look like a rat
bastard just ratting him out
434
00:25:15,826 --> 00:25:18,964
to people, he'll
stop talking to me.
435
00:25:19,034 --> 00:25:24,000
- Were you the last person
he ever talked to officially?
436
00:25:24,067 --> 00:25:25,964
- I think so.
437
00:25:26,034 --> 00:25:28,413
You were eyed as
the prime suspect
438
00:25:28,481 --> 00:25:33,413
in the Tylenol
poisonings in 1982.
439
00:25:33,481 --> 00:25:34,619
'82, right?
440
00:25:34,689 --> 00:25:35,964
- That's what I've heard.
441
00:25:36,034 --> 00:25:37,723
- I think he, on some level,
442
00:25:37,792 --> 00:25:39,792
likes it that I challenge him.
443
00:25:39,862 --> 00:25:42,136
He's also super smart,
444
00:25:42,205 --> 00:25:45,792
and I find his
intelligence fascinating.
445
00:25:45,862 --> 00:25:49,309
If Jeopardy ever
held a mass murder
446
00:25:49,378 --> 00:25:52,723
serial killer championship
game, he would win.
447
00:25:52,792 --> 00:25:55,931
He would beat all the other
serial killer mass murderers.
448
00:25:58,413 --> 00:26:00,723
- Hi, I'm wanting
to talk to the man
449
00:26:00,792 --> 00:26:03,378
that's there tonight
about his book.
450
00:26:03,448 --> 00:26:04,723
- Oh, excellent.
451
00:26:04,792 --> 00:26:07,136
Uh, this is Jim Lewis,
and he wrote a book
452
00:26:07,205 --> 00:26:09,619
called "Poison! A
Doctor's Dilemma."
453
00:26:12,792 --> 00:26:17,103
- The last time Lewis
did an interview,
454
00:26:17,172 --> 00:26:19,448
he was promoting his own book.
455
00:26:19,517 --> 00:26:23,205
Lewis self-describes
it as a chilling thriller
456
00:26:23,275 --> 00:26:25,723
about a modern Midwestern city.
457
00:26:25,792 --> 00:26:28,550
Poisoned, pure hell on Earth.
458
00:26:30,413 --> 00:26:32,654
And on page 184,
459
00:26:32,723 --> 00:26:36,205
he randomly writes
about the Tylenol murders.
460
00:26:38,172 --> 00:26:41,931
- Decades before Lewis
was a published author,
461
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,586
he fancied himself a writer.
462
00:26:46,136 --> 00:26:47,862
- Lewis was convicted
only of writing
463
00:26:47,931 --> 00:26:49,895
an extortion letter to
Johnson & Johnson,
464
00:26:49,964 --> 00:26:51,205
the makers of the painkiller.
465
00:26:51,275 --> 00:26:52,826
Lewis, acting as
his own attorney,
466
00:26:52,895 --> 00:26:54,689
launched into an
hourlong rambling...
467
00:26:54,758 --> 00:26:57,413
- Rambling statement,
468
00:26:57,481 --> 00:27:01,205
compared his
manuals, his interests,
469
00:27:01,275 --> 00:27:03,723
then himself to Agatha Christie,
470
00:27:03,792 --> 00:27:05,481
the famed novelist,
471
00:27:05,550 --> 00:27:07,240
the queen of crime.
472
00:27:10,517 --> 00:27:13,758
Poison played a role in
nearly 30 of her works.
473
00:27:13,826 --> 00:27:17,103
Christie, in maybe
her finest book,
474
00:27:17,172 --> 00:27:20,448
writes it as the
character Dr. Sheppard.
475
00:27:20,517 --> 00:27:21,758
He's the killer.
476
00:27:21,826 --> 00:27:23,758
He used Veronal.
477
00:27:23,826 --> 00:27:25,275
That's a bitter pill.
478
00:27:25,344 --> 00:27:27,895
Money.
479
00:27:27,964 --> 00:27:32,964
Lewis also writes under
another name, Robert Richardson,
480
00:27:33,034 --> 00:27:35,067
the killer, per the letter.
481
00:27:35,136 --> 00:27:39,205
Cyanide, also a bitter pill.
482
00:27:39,275 --> 00:27:42,619
Also money.
483
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:58,205
Do you think he
killed these people?
484
00:27:58,275 --> 00:27:59,931
- I think he killed
these people.
485
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,481
- What potentially
inspired him to do this?
486
00:28:04,378 --> 00:28:07,136
- I think he wanted to
make a million dollars,
487
00:28:07,205 --> 00:28:09,550
and I think he has
some bug up his ass
488
00:28:09,619 --> 00:28:12,136
about Johnson & Johnson.
489
00:28:12,205 --> 00:28:16,034
And I think he wanted to
get back at LeAnn's boss,
490
00:28:16,103 --> 00:28:18,067
who stiffed her out
of her paycheck.
491
00:28:18,136 --> 00:28:19,931
In some way, he
was trying to kill
492
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,517
three birds with one stone.
493
00:28:39,862 --> 00:28:42,862
- I was one of the
agents assigned
494
00:28:42,931 --> 00:28:46,517
to the Tylenol murders in 1982.
495
00:28:46,586 --> 00:28:50,275
- When you start delving
into Lewis's history...
496
00:28:50,344 --> 00:28:52,758
- Revenge.
497
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,067
He's into revenge.
498
00:28:58,964 --> 00:29:01,067
- It's thematic
throughout his life.
499
00:29:01,136 --> 00:29:03,413
- That's correct.
500
00:29:05,654 --> 00:29:08,378
- New information has
surfaced in New York City
501
00:29:08,448 --> 00:29:10,448
that raises still
more questions about
502
00:29:10,517 --> 00:29:12,689
James and LeAnn
Lewis's connection
503
00:29:12,758 --> 00:29:14,964
with the Tylenol
murders in Chicago.
504
00:29:15,034 --> 00:29:17,275
While the Lewises
lived in Kansas City,
505
00:29:17,344 --> 00:29:19,862
they had wanted to
sue a hospital there
506
00:29:19,931 --> 00:29:22,378
after the death of their
five-year-old daughter,
507
00:29:22,448 --> 00:29:23,931
Toni Ann.
508
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,481
The girl had Down syndrome
and a heart condition,
509
00:29:26,550 --> 00:29:27,964
but there were reports
510
00:29:28,034 --> 00:29:30,000
that the Lewis's
connected the death
511
00:29:30,067 --> 00:29:31,619
with hospital medication
512
00:29:31,689 --> 00:29:33,895
manufactured by
Johnson & Johnson,
513
00:29:33,964 --> 00:29:35,344
the makers of Tylenol.
514
00:29:35,413 --> 00:29:38,000
Until now, there was
no reason to believe
515
00:29:38,067 --> 00:29:40,550
that the Lewis's might
still be carrying a grudge
516
00:29:40,619 --> 00:29:43,067
about their child's death.
517
00:29:53,034 --> 00:29:55,826
- Who is to blame for
Toni Ann Lewis's death?
518
00:29:55,895 --> 00:29:58,103
- No one.
519
00:29:58,172 --> 00:30:01,172
- How many autopsies
have you performed?
520
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,172
- Thousands in my career.
521
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,931
- How many autopsies
have you reviewed?
522
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,309
- Thousands as well.
523
00:30:06,378 --> 00:30:09,654
- How many cases
have you testified in?
524
00:30:09,723 --> 00:30:13,309
- Hundreds, if
not low thousands.
525
00:30:13,378 --> 00:30:17,172
- Toni Ann Lewis died
almost 50 years ago.
526
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,517
Her father, James Lewis,
has been on a warpath...
527
00:30:22,931 --> 00:30:26,034
Against Johnson & Johnson.
528
00:30:26,103 --> 00:30:28,413
In your expert medical opinion,
529
00:30:28,481 --> 00:30:31,550
no Johnson & Johnson connection
530
00:30:31,619 --> 00:30:35,586
to the passing of
Toni Ann Lewis.
531
00:30:35,654 --> 00:30:38,172
- None.
532
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,000
Toni Lewis's death
was a complication
533
00:30:41,067 --> 00:30:44,067
of her underlying
congenital heart disease
534
00:30:44,136 --> 00:30:45,895
from her Down syndrome.
535
00:30:45,964 --> 00:30:48,654
After the surgery,
she had a weakness
536
00:30:48,723 --> 00:30:51,240
in the wall of her aorta,
the big blood vessel
537
00:30:51,309 --> 00:30:54,067
that comes out of the
heart, that ultimately burst.
538
00:30:54,136 --> 00:30:59,275
This was an uncommon
but known complication
539
00:30:59,344 --> 00:31:00,826
of this type of surgery.
540
00:31:00,895 --> 00:31:03,550
- Our own reporting
from years ago
541
00:31:03,619 --> 00:31:06,067
said maybe it was a
hospital medication.
542
00:31:06,136 --> 00:31:09,034
Recent printed reports said
543
00:31:09,103 --> 00:31:12,723
it was a suture failure
made by Johnson & Johnson.
544
00:31:12,792 --> 00:31:16,792
If the FBI was actually
operating under the premise
545
00:31:16,862 --> 00:31:18,895
that there was a suture failure
546
00:31:18,964 --> 00:31:21,240
and that may have been
the motive behind all this,
547
00:31:21,309 --> 00:31:22,895
what would you say to the FBI?
548
00:31:22,964 --> 00:31:25,448
- If the FBI thinks that,
with all due respect,
549
00:31:25,517 --> 00:31:27,448
they are in error.
550
00:31:27,517 --> 00:31:30,309
- I'm going to want
you to compare
551
00:31:30,378 --> 00:31:35,792
Toni Ann Lewis's autopsy
to that of Raymond West.
552
00:31:35,862 --> 00:31:37,931
- The victim, 72-year-old
Raymond West,
553
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,758
his body stuffed
in a plastic bag
554
00:31:39,826 --> 00:31:41,586
and so badly decomposed
555
00:31:41,654 --> 00:31:44,275
that the coroner could not
determine the cause of death.
556
00:31:53,136 --> 00:31:54,378
- Well, shit.
557
00:31:54,448 --> 00:31:56,826
Okay.
558
00:31:56,895 --> 00:31:58,448
The body was examined,
559
00:31:58,517 --> 00:32:02,000
and no specific body
wounds could be determined.
560
00:32:02,067 --> 00:32:04,654
- But the detectives noted...
561
00:32:04,723 --> 00:32:07,136
- Several large lacerations
to the top and back...
562
00:32:07,205 --> 00:32:10,067
- Of the victim's head.
- Yeah.
563
00:32:10,136 --> 00:32:11,964
- Quote, "A specific
cause of death
564
00:32:12,034 --> 00:32:14,240
was not found in this autopsy."
565
00:32:14,309 --> 00:32:16,550
- Who was the medical examiner?
- Bonita Peterson.
566
00:32:18,136 --> 00:32:20,550
- What do you think
of her work in the case?
567
00:32:20,619 --> 00:32:22,689
- Pathetic.
568
00:32:22,758 --> 00:32:24,619
- And she didn't
find it a homicide.
569
00:32:24,689 --> 00:32:25,792
- No.
570
00:32:29,862 --> 00:32:31,826
- I certainly would have
called this a homicide.
571
00:32:31,895 --> 00:32:34,034
- Raymond West.
- Oh, yes.
572
00:32:35,550 --> 00:32:39,103
- So Jim Lewis goes over there,
573
00:32:39,172 --> 00:32:41,067
needs $5,000,
574
00:32:41,136 --> 00:32:45,689
sees that Raymond West
has died from aspiration,
575
00:32:45,758 --> 00:32:50,758
and decides to
cut up his body...
576
00:32:52,654 --> 00:32:56,758
And put a bullet hole
in the bedroom wall
577
00:32:56,826 --> 00:33:01,586
and go out and buy a hoist...
578
00:33:01,654 --> 00:33:03,378
and put it all up in the attic.
579
00:33:05,481 --> 00:33:08,619
After Raymond had
died from natural causes.
580
00:33:12,136 --> 00:33:16,067
- Like the old man
aspirated and cut up himself?
581
00:33:16,136 --> 00:33:19,413
- That was going to be the
defense's strongest argument,
582
00:33:19,481 --> 00:33:24,758
that we could not prove
how Raymond West died.
583
00:33:26,931 --> 00:33:29,517
We were stuck with
Bonita Peterson's
584
00:33:29,586 --> 00:33:31,550
medical examiner report.
585
00:33:34,792 --> 00:33:38,826
Just another one of the...
586
00:33:38,895 --> 00:33:40,103
- Sad.
587
00:33:40,172 --> 00:33:44,309
- Fuck-ups that
plagued this case.
588
00:33:50,517 --> 00:33:53,205
- I left Homicide,
went to this task force.
589
00:33:53,275 --> 00:33:56,689
And we met with the fraud
unit, Kansas City Fraud Unit,
590
00:33:56,758 --> 00:34:00,826
who had this very interesting
591
00:34:00,895 --> 00:34:03,862
multiple victim fraud,
592
00:34:03,931 --> 00:34:06,895
which was identity theft
and credit card fraud.
593
00:34:06,964 --> 00:34:09,585
The uniqueness of this case was,
594
00:34:09,655 --> 00:34:11,827
in certain parts of Kansas City,
595
00:34:11,896 --> 00:34:15,481
the mail was delivered
by a mail carrier
596
00:34:15,550 --> 00:34:19,447
to rows of rural mailboxes.
597
00:34:19,516 --> 00:34:22,516
Every once in a while, he'd
come to a row of mailboxes,
598
00:34:22,585 --> 00:34:24,619
and there'd be an
extra mailbox at the end.
599
00:34:24,688 --> 00:34:28,378
And it'd be standing
alone on a pole
600
00:34:28,447 --> 00:34:31,309
with a big pot of
concrete below it.
601
00:34:31,378 --> 00:34:35,172
And there'd be mail,
all kinds of real mail.
602
00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:37,619
But this mailbox just popped up.
603
00:34:37,688 --> 00:34:40,206
What are things in
common with these people?
604
00:34:40,275 --> 00:34:42,757
And we'd go, where do
they get their hair cut?
605
00:34:42,827 --> 00:34:44,251
Where do they go
to the grocery store?
606
00:34:44,275 --> 00:34:47,172
Where do they wash
their car... just everything.
607
00:34:47,240 --> 00:34:50,137
Who does their taxes? And
bang, who does their taxes?
608
00:34:50,206 --> 00:34:52,655
James Lewis.
609
00:34:52,724 --> 00:34:56,550
And we put up a stationary
surveillance on that box.
610
00:34:56,619 --> 00:34:58,068
And over the radio...
611
00:34:58,137 --> 00:35:00,068
I'm sitting doing other
things in the office.
612
00:35:00,137 --> 00:35:01,757
Over the radio,
I hear, he's here.
613
00:35:01,827 --> 00:35:02,896
He's picking up mail.
614
00:35:02,965 --> 00:35:04,378
And they started
taking pictures.
615
00:35:04,447 --> 00:35:06,862
I said, God damn it.
It's Jim Lewis again.
616
00:35:08,724 --> 00:35:12,309
So we blitzed over
to Troost, his house.
617
00:35:12,378 --> 00:35:14,896
And there in the driveway
was his station wagon
618
00:35:14,965 --> 00:35:17,034
with a mailbox sticking
out of the back of it.
619
00:35:17,103 --> 00:35:19,516
We decided, let's go
ahead and, you know,
620
00:35:19,585 --> 00:35:21,655
get a search warrant, see
what we find in the house.
621
00:35:21,724 --> 00:35:24,275
We took pictures
of a lot of the stuff
622
00:35:24,344 --> 00:35:27,344
we could not seize.
623
00:35:27,413 --> 00:35:30,896
- Was there any indication that
he was researching poisoning?
624
00:35:30,965 --> 00:35:34,550
- I've heard that.
625
00:35:34,619 --> 00:35:35,980
- But you can't
say whether or not.
626
00:35:36,034 --> 00:35:37,827
- I can't, no.
627
00:35:39,724 --> 00:35:41,378
- Richard Shollenberger,
628
00:35:41,447 --> 00:35:44,447
the U.S. Postal
Inspector at the time,
629
00:35:44,516 --> 00:35:46,413
kept these pictures
630
00:35:46,481 --> 00:35:51,206
from the mail fraud raid on
Lewis's Kansas City home.
631
00:35:51,275 --> 00:35:54,862
Mr. Shollenberger says a book
on poisons was found that day,
632
00:35:54,931 --> 00:35:58,619
and Lewis's
fingerprints were found
633
00:35:58,688 --> 00:36:02,000
on a page detailing cyanide.
634
00:36:04,309 --> 00:36:07,447
- But once the search
warrant was executed
635
00:36:07,516 --> 00:36:10,344
and the arrest warrants
were obtained for mail fraud
636
00:36:10,413 --> 00:36:14,550
and for the land fraud,
Lewis disappeared.
637
00:36:14,619 --> 00:36:17,068
- Vanished.
- Vanished, he and LeAnn both.
638
00:36:17,137 --> 00:36:20,206
- Gone.
- Gone, with their car.
639
00:36:20,275 --> 00:36:24,137
- In '78, you think you got
him for murder and fraud.
640
00:36:24,206 --> 00:36:26,137
A couple of years later,
you think you got him
641
00:36:26,206 --> 00:36:27,827
for a massive amount of fraud.
642
00:36:27,896 --> 00:36:29,309
And then boom, he's gone.
643
00:36:29,378 --> 00:36:31,344
- Sure enough, he
popped up again.
644
00:36:31,413 --> 00:36:33,172
- Another strange twist tonight
645
00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:35,068
in the investigation
of those seven deaths
646
00:36:35,137 --> 00:36:37,481
from poisoned Extra
Strength Tylenol capsules.
647
00:36:37,550 --> 00:36:38,965
- It was him.
648
00:36:39,034 --> 00:36:40,931
I mean, you know,
it's a full face picture.
649
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,585
We were on an
airplane three hours later
650
00:36:44,655 --> 00:36:46,896
with everything up to Chicago.
651
00:36:46,965 --> 00:36:48,688
- The Kansas City
murder connection
652
00:36:48,757 --> 00:36:51,862
is what caused authorities in
Chicago to take a second look
653
00:36:51,931 --> 00:36:54,378
at the extortion letter
and begin forming
654
00:36:54,447 --> 00:36:56,724
a psychological
profile of the man
655
00:36:56,793 --> 00:36:58,585
who may have written it.
656
00:36:58,655 --> 00:37:00,516
- They took another
look at our evidence.
657
00:37:00,585 --> 00:37:04,172
- They took another look at a
fingerprint you guys weren't...
658
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:06,965
- Able to identify.
659
00:37:07,034 --> 00:37:09,034
- And what did the FBI find?
660
00:37:09,103 --> 00:37:13,481
- That that fingerprint was a
thumbprint of James Lewis.
661
00:37:15,481 --> 00:37:19,619
- And that thumbprint
was on the hoist
662
00:37:19,688 --> 00:37:23,137
that hoisted the dead man's body
663
00:37:23,206 --> 00:37:25,550
into the attic and crawl space.
664
00:37:25,619 --> 00:37:28,896
- My detective was with
the evidence in Washington
665
00:37:28,965 --> 00:37:32,275
when they discovered the
fingerprint matched Lewis.
666
00:37:32,344 --> 00:37:34,757
- Couldn't you recharge
him for murder then?
667
00:37:34,827 --> 00:37:38,068
- I think the case
was resubmitted.
668
00:37:42,275 --> 00:37:44,516
- Why didn't that go anywhere?
669
00:37:44,585 --> 00:37:48,309
- Can't find the hoist.
670
00:37:48,378 --> 00:37:51,413
- You can't find the hoist.
671
00:37:51,481 --> 00:37:54,447
- That's what I was told.
672
00:37:54,516 --> 00:37:57,137
All I know is, when we
came back from Chicago,
673
00:37:57,206 --> 00:37:59,275
we were in the chief's office.
674
00:37:59,344 --> 00:38:01,827
And the property room
commander came up
675
00:38:01,896 --> 00:38:04,103
and had to tell the
chief, I can't find it.
676
00:38:04,172 --> 00:38:07,172
Oh, yeah, it was a lot of
yelling and screaming, yeah.
677
00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:08,655
There's no doubt about that.
678
00:38:08,724 --> 00:38:13,000
It has bothered
me for a long time.
679
00:38:13,068 --> 00:38:14,619
So...
680
00:38:23,965 --> 00:38:25,862
- Convicted extortionist
James William Lewis,
681
00:38:25,931 --> 00:38:28,137
who tried to cash in
on the Tylenol murders
682
00:38:28,206 --> 00:38:30,068
goes free today on parole.
683
00:38:30,137 --> 00:38:33,655
- After his release, Lewis
settled in greater Boston
684
00:38:33,724 --> 00:38:36,965
and was connected
to yet more crime.
685
00:38:37,034 --> 00:38:40,344
- In 2004, Lewis was charged
with rape and kidnapping.
686
00:38:40,413 --> 00:38:41,862
That case was dropped.
687
00:39:02,724 --> 00:39:04,619
- What are the odds
they'd talk to me?
688
00:39:04,688 --> 00:39:06,103
- I think it's zero.
689
00:39:06,172 --> 00:39:07,733
He doesn't... he's not
going to talk to you.
690
00:39:07,757 --> 00:39:10,344
I mean, good luck, but
he's not going to talk to you.
691
00:39:10,413 --> 00:39:12,447
You can try.
692
00:39:14,309 --> 00:39:16,655
- Oh, shit.
693
00:39:16,724 --> 00:39:18,550
Here we go.
694
00:39:25,688 --> 00:39:27,655
Lewis.
695
00:39:30,550 --> 00:39:31,896
- Here we go.
696
00:39:33,550 --> 00:39:36,344
- Hi, Mr. Lewis?
697
00:39:36,413 --> 00:39:37,413
- No.
698
00:39:37,447 --> 00:39:38,728
- James Lewis, yeah, I'm Brad...
699
00:39:38,793 --> 00:39:39,724
- No.
700
00:39:39,793 --> 00:39:42,137
- Who are you?
701
00:39:42,206 --> 00:39:43,793
- Not James Lewis.
702
00:39:43,862 --> 00:39:45,389
- You look like James Lewis.
- That's him.
703
00:39:45,413 --> 00:39:46,757
- I'm Brad.
704
00:39:46,827 --> 00:39:49,688
I just am trying to get
your side of the story.
705
00:39:49,757 --> 00:39:51,655
Can I give you my number?
706
00:39:51,724 --> 00:39:53,137
- No.
707
00:39:53,206 --> 00:39:55,010
- I mean, I'd like to at
least give you my number.
708
00:39:55,034 --> 00:40:00,447
We are doing a large-scale
documentary on this story,
709
00:40:00,516 --> 00:40:04,413
and we would really like
to get your side of the story.
710
00:40:04,481 --> 00:40:06,309
And I honestly mean that...
711
00:40:06,378 --> 00:40:10,240
your side of the
story, your truth.
712
00:40:10,309 --> 00:40:15,378
We need your truth
for this story to happen.
713
00:40:15,447 --> 00:40:18,309
Again, my name is Brad Edwards.
714
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:24,034
I'm a reporter with CBS.
715
00:40:24,103 --> 00:40:27,172
I'm going to give
you my cell number.
716
00:40:30,757 --> 00:40:34,724
I know it's been a long
time since you've talked.
717
00:40:37,275 --> 00:40:39,688
We're here for a day.
718
00:40:39,757 --> 00:40:42,931
That's it.
719
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,447
One day.
720
00:40:44,516 --> 00:40:45,688
- What's the T-shirt?
721
00:40:45,757 --> 00:40:47,688
- And we need...
722
00:40:47,757 --> 00:40:51,896
Jim, we need your
side of the story.
723
00:40:51,965 --> 00:40:55,137
- Well, I'm not Jim.
724
00:40:55,206 --> 00:40:57,655
Can you give that to LeAnn?
725
00:40:57,724 --> 00:40:59,275
- Who?
726
00:40:59,344 --> 00:41:01,447
- LeAnn Lewis?
727
00:41:03,413 --> 00:41:04,527
- Please get out
of the building.
728
00:41:04,550 --> 00:41:06,137
- You have my number.
729
00:41:06,206 --> 00:41:08,034
- Close the door.
730
00:41:13,585 --> 00:41:15,793
- He's a sly one.
731
00:41:15,862 --> 00:41:18,793
- Sly.
- Sly.
732
00:41:18,862 --> 00:41:20,619
- He opened the door.
733
00:41:20,688 --> 00:41:22,481
He opened the door.
734
00:41:24,481 --> 00:41:26,585
So hopefully he'll talk.
735
00:41:26,655 --> 00:41:29,862
- You know, it's possible
you might get a phone call.
736
00:41:29,931 --> 00:41:32,309
- He's torn...
737
00:41:32,378 --> 00:41:36,344
between not wanting to
get in trouble and talk to you.
738
00:41:36,413 --> 00:41:37,619
But the other thing is,
739
00:41:37,688 --> 00:41:40,309
is you're paying
attention to him.
740
00:41:40,378 --> 00:41:43,413
- He wouldn't admit
that he's James Lewis.
741
00:41:43,481 --> 00:41:44,585
- No kidding.
742
00:41:44,655 --> 00:41:45,757
You were obviously there.
743
00:41:45,827 --> 00:41:47,516
You knew who he
was, for God's sakes.
744
00:41:47,585 --> 00:41:49,034
But I'm very surprised, though,
745
00:41:49,103 --> 00:41:50,699
that you came all the way
out there from Chicago,
746
00:41:50,724 --> 00:41:52,000
and he knew right away
747
00:41:52,068 --> 00:41:54,931
that you knew that he
was Lewis, for Christ's sake.
748
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,275
- To deny who you are,
that's kind of strange.
749
00:41:57,344 --> 00:41:58,965
- And he stood there.
750
00:41:59,034 --> 00:42:01,206
- Yeah, that is odd.
751
00:42:01,275 --> 00:42:05,481
- Jim, we need your
side of the story.
752
00:42:05,550 --> 00:42:08,068
If you could ask
one question to him...
753
00:42:08,137 --> 00:42:10,724
- It'd be why.
- Why what?
754
00:42:10,793 --> 00:42:13,000
- Why'd you kill Raymond West?
755
00:42:14,619 --> 00:42:17,034
- How did you kill Raymond West?
756
00:42:18,068 --> 00:42:21,309
- What do you really think...
757
00:42:21,378 --> 00:42:23,688
when you see him?
758
00:42:25,619 --> 00:42:28,619
- Cold-blooded killer...
759
00:42:36,757 --> 00:42:42,275
Who has managed
to get away with it.
760
00:43:16,619 --> 00:43:21,172
- Mr. Lewis, this
story is written...
761
00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:24,757
first though, do you have
any comment on the crimes
762
00:43:24,827 --> 00:43:27,275
you've been connected
to and/or charged with
763
00:43:27,344 --> 00:43:29,447
and/or convicted of?
764
00:43:29,516 --> 00:43:32,275
The land fraud, the mail fraud,
765
00:43:32,344 --> 00:43:35,068
extortion, the rape claim,
766
00:43:35,137 --> 00:43:39,172
attempted murder,
and the eight murders...
767
00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:40,827
12-year-old Mary Kellerman
768
00:43:40,896 --> 00:43:43,240
of Elk Grove Village, Illinois,
769
00:43:43,309 --> 00:43:45,068
27-year-old Adam Janus
770
00:43:45,137 --> 00:43:47,896
of Arlington Heights, Illinois,
771
00:43:47,965 --> 00:43:52,240
27-year-old Mary
Reiner of Winfield, Illinois,
772
00:43:52,309 --> 00:43:56,619
25-year-old Stanley
Janus of Lisle, Illinois,
773
00:43:56,688 --> 00:44:01,000
20-year-old Theresa
Janus of Lisle, Illinois,
774
00:44:01,068 --> 00:44:05,757
31-year-old Mary McFarland
of Elmhurst, Illinois,
775
00:44:05,827 --> 00:44:10,000
35-year-old Paula
Prince of Chicago, Illinois,
776
00:44:10,068 --> 00:44:12,896
and 72-year-old Raymond West
777
00:44:12,965 --> 00:44:16,000
of Kansas City, Missouri.
778
00:44:16,068 --> 00:44:19,516
I know you loved your
little daughter Toni Ann.
779
00:44:19,585 --> 00:44:21,516
So did Raymond West.
780
00:44:21,585 --> 00:44:25,585
He waved at her when
she was in your tax office.
781
00:44:25,655 --> 00:44:30,275
He was your client,
just an old man, alone,
782
00:44:30,344 --> 00:44:33,931
perpetually pruning
his rose bushes.
783
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,068
So why?
784
00:44:38,137 --> 00:44:42,378
She was just a little
girl with a broken heart.
785
00:44:42,447 --> 00:44:45,585
I know yours broke too.
786
00:44:45,655 --> 00:44:47,724
No one's to blame though.
787
00:44:47,793 --> 00:44:52,931
It wasn't the sutures made
by Johnson & Johnson.
788
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,378
So again, why?
789
00:44:57,447 --> 00:45:01,103
We've written your story,
790
00:45:01,172 --> 00:45:03,862
but it's unfinished.
791
00:45:03,931 --> 00:45:08,447
The ending is yours...
792
00:45:08,516 --> 00:45:10,896
if you desire.
793
00:45:25,516 --> 00:45:28,344
Anything else?
794
00:45:33,103 --> 00:45:35,619
- Uh...
795
00:45:40,655 --> 00:45:43,481
- I hope he tries it again.
796
00:45:45,655 --> 00:45:47,103
- James Lewis?
- Yes.
797
00:45:47,172 --> 00:45:49,206
- Tries?
798
00:45:49,275 --> 00:45:54,206
- Tries to get away
with murder again.
799
00:45:54,275 --> 00:45:58,172
Maybe this time
we can catch him.
800
00:46:17,585 --> 00:46:19,413
- New technology
led investigators
801
00:46:19,481 --> 00:46:22,000
to search the Cambridge,
Massachusetts, home of a man
802
00:46:22,068 --> 00:46:23,931
who was connected to the case.
803
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,034
Police removed five
boxes and a computer
804
00:46:26,103 --> 00:46:28,965
from the home of 62-year-old
James Lewis yesterday.
805
00:46:29,034 --> 00:46:30,757
- We're going
to link, finally link
806
00:46:30,827 --> 00:46:32,931
James Lewis to these murders.
807
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,516
- You were the lucky ones.
808
00:46:35,585 --> 00:46:38,034
- Yeah, we were.
809
00:46:38,103 --> 00:46:40,862
I don't know why we were spared,
810
00:46:40,931 --> 00:46:43,862
but we were.
811
00:46:43,931 --> 00:46:45,585
- The only thing that I can do
812
00:46:45,655 --> 00:46:49,309
is follow the forensics
and follow the evidence.
813
00:46:49,378 --> 00:46:51,309
- DNA, you think,
would catch something.
814
00:46:51,378 --> 00:46:52,413
But I don't know.
815
00:46:52,481 --> 00:46:54,034
I haven't heard
anything about it.
816
00:46:54,103 --> 00:46:56,481
- Every time you
run a piece of DNA,
817
00:46:56,550 --> 00:46:58,000
you're consuming,
818
00:46:58,068 --> 00:47:01,103
often, someone's last
hope of getting justice.
819
00:47:02,481 --> 00:47:04,585
- I come into the
office one afternoon
820
00:47:04,655 --> 00:47:06,516
after being out all day,
821
00:47:06,585 --> 00:47:10,172
and there's a note saying
that James Lewis called me.
60105
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