CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The suspect within the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven individuals within the Chicago space and triggered a nationwide scare has died, police confirmed on Monday.

Officers, firefighters and EMTs responding to a report of an unresponsive individual at about 4 p.m. Sunday discovered James Lewis lifeless in his Cambridge, Massachusetts, dwelling, Cambridge Police Superintendent Frederick Cabral mentioned in an announcement. He was 76, police mentioned.

“Following an investigation, Lewis’ death was determined to be not suspicious,” the assertion mentioned.

No one was ever charged within the deaths of seven individuals who took medicine laced with cyanide. Lewis served greater than 12 years in jail for sending an extortion be aware to Johnson & Johnson, demanding $1 million to “stop the killing.”

When he was arrested in 1982 after a nationwide manhunt, he gave investigators an in depth account of how the killer might need operated. Lewis later admitted sending the letter and demanding the cash, however he mentioned he by no means supposed to gather it.

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