No one was ever charged in the deaths of seven people who took drugs laced with cyanide. [James] Lewis served more than 12 years in prison for sending an extortion note to Johnson & Johnson, demanding $1 million to “stop the killing.”

When he was arrested in 1982 after a nationwide manhunt, he gave investigators a detailed account of how the killer might have operated. Lewis later admitted sending the letter and demanding the money, but he said he never intended to collect it.

[It’s frustrating that the suspect never got tried and convicted for the murders. If Lewis was indeed the murderer, his real trial started yesterday at 4 pm ET. We can leave it in the hands of that Judge. — Ed]