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Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders

Episode 7: Friendship

Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders

Audiochuck

News, True Crime

4.4846 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The top two suspects spent their lives after prison very differently. But it wouldn’t be long before both were caught up in the Tylenol murders investigation again. This time, one was dead. And one was still alive. During an undercover operation, the FBI hoped one suspect would incriminate himself.

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0:00.0

Before we get started, this episode mentions sexual violence.

0:05.8

Please take care.

0:08.9

First award honors the NBA rookie to year, Michael Jordan.

0:13.4

Tear down this war.

0:16.1

The Hubble Telescope will give us the most dramatic new view of the heavens since Galileo.

0:20.6

Hi there. My name is Oprah Winfrey, spelled OPRAA. telescope will give us the most dramatic new view of the heavens since Galileo.

0:25.1

Hi there. My name is Oprah Winfrey, spelled OPR-A-8.

0:34.6

A lot changed in Chicago between 1982 and the 1990s.

0:40.6

James Lewis and Roger Arnold had to watch all of it, from behind bars.

0:46.5

Both were serving time in prison between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s.

0:51.3

Roger Arnold for fatally shooting an innocent man he thought was someone else,

0:54.9

and of course, James Lewis for writing the extortion letter.

1:02.7

For years, both men were suspects in the Tylenol murders, but neither served any prison time for that,

1:08.9

because the case was still unsolved. Law enforcement continued to work on it.

1:16.6

So far, we've looked closely at both Arnold and Lewis through the lens of law enforcement and shared what we learned from our interviews and our documents.

1:20.6

During our reporting, we also interviewed close friends of both men.

1:25.6

We learned about their lives as each re-entered society after prison,

1:31.1

and we got our hands on sealed court documents.

1:34.9

You're going to hear exclusive information that hasn't been made public until now.

1:41.2

This is an inside look at how each suspect felt, thought, and behaved after prison.

1:49.5

It's two very different stories about two very different men.

1:54.4

Yet even after all those years, Lewis and Arnold still had at least one thing in common.

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