Lewis served 12 years in prison for sending a letter to Johnson & Johnson, the manufacturer of Tylenol, demanding the company fork over $1 million “to stop the killing.”
Following his release from prison in 1995, Lewis and his wife moved to Massachusetts, where they have remained since.
Years later, he told the Associated Press that the account he provided was his way of rationalizing how the mass murderer could have managed the complex scheme.“I was doing like I would have done for a corporate client, making a list of possible scenarios,” Lewis told the outlet in 1992. Years earlier, in 1978, he was charged with the dismemberment murder of 72-year-old Raymond West, who had hired him as an accountant, in Kansas City, Missouri. However, the charges were dismissed because some evidence had been illegally obtained and West’s cause of death was unknown.
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