Episode 6: Walking Crime Wave
Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Christy and I just looked at a letter, a little insight into Jim Lewis. |
| 0:05.0 | It was to the federal prosecutor in the fraud case. Oh, May 26th. |
| 0:10.0 | During our investigation, Christy and I got our hands on a letter from James Lewis. |
| 0:15.0 | A confidential law enforcement source let us read it. |
| 0:19.0 | When Lewis wrote this letter, it had been almost |
| 0:23.7 | eight months since the Tylenol murders. Lewis had just been found guilty of mail fraud, |
| 0:30.4 | that scheme in Kansas City where he was putting up fake mailboxes to steal credit cards. At the time, |
| 0:39.7 | he was in a federal detention center because he was also awaiting trial for attempted extortion. The trial was scheduled for fall |
| 0:46.1 | 1983, about five months away. James Lewis was still James Lewis. He couldn't stop and wouldn't stop writing letters. |
| 0:58.5 | He picked up his pen and wrote another letter. |
| 1:02.9 | In May 26 of 1983, Jim Lewis writes a letter to the federal prosecutor in Kansas City. |
| 1:10.5 | And basically, what does he offer him, Christy? |
| 1:12.5 | In the fraud case, he offers to help him solve crimes because he has great knowledge |
| 1:21.0 | in doing so. |
| 1:22.0 | So he sends this letter basically saying, I want to help you solve all kinds of crimes, including credit card fraud, |
| 1:31.3 | which he has been involved with another. |
| 1:34.7 | Perhaps I am wrong, but I do feel my skills and experiences may be of some use to the Department of Justice. |
| 1:42.5 | Let's pick them of our favorites. |
| 1:44.1 | Okay. White collar crime. |
| 1:46.9 | Land fraud schemes. |
| 1:48.7 | Cutting hair, human and animals. |
| 1:51.5 | It says he's been to the, they have expertise in cake decorating from the Wilton School. |
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