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01:17إنهم يتبعون الضوء الضوء
01:20ويجب أن يتبعون أنهم لم يتعاون المساعدة
01:25المساعدة التاليونية
01:26هناك شخص هناك
01:28وكذلك يجب أن تساعد الواقع
01:30أين يتبع الواقع الواقع
16:31مرة أخرى في 15 سنوات.
16:35يجب أن يكون مرحباً على مرحباً.
16:39أقول أنني لا أعرف مرحباً.
16:41ولكن كل المنزل في المرحب سيكون لديك تلينول.
16:45فهذا أولاً مرحباً كان لديك تلينول أخرى.
16:54كانت تلينولاً على مرحباً على مرحباً.
16:55ولكن تشهر على الرئيسي
16:57ومن ثم تشاهد مشاولاً
17:00غميانات تساغنان
17:03حفظوا تدرونه quanها
17:04مثل مراجعة
17:06وليست تساغنان
17:07تتمملكي وتشهر
17:07تساغنان
17:08تساغنان
17:08هذا تساغنان
17:09نتحدثت عن ميانات تساغنان
17:11تلك ليس لحد اشعر
17:13هل النتي لديديك في تلانان
17:16اصول
17:18كان يستطعت
17:20حكاً
17:21حسيني
17:22المترجم
17:24تشاهد
17:25س having to come to Mayor Jane Byrne's midnight live television plea to all Chicagoans.
17:30لا تضakin عليها السيدة
17:41Wilson & Johnson is the largest healthcare conglomerate in the world.
17:47ترجمة نانسي قنقر
18:19ترجمة نانسي قنقر
18:48ترجمة نانسي قنقر
18:53ترجمة نانسي قنقر
19:31ترجمة نانسي قنقر
19:53As soon as the news emerges, Johnson & Johnson went immediately into emergency mode.
20:00There was an understanding that they needed to get control of this and get control of the narrative immediately,
20:09or the company would be no more.
20:16I was attorney general, the chief law enforcement officer for the state of Illinois.
20:23I became the face of the investigation.
20:27I was having this conference in the attorney general's office with all of these local police officers.
20:33During that meeting, I got a call from the head of Johnson & Johnson who said,
20:37we're not sure what's going on on this, but anything we can do.
20:41And I said, well, what we can do is don't sell any Tylenol.
20:44There's a nationwide alert tonight that has triggered a recall of nearly 5 million capsules.
20:49They were doing what they could do as a matter of common sense and self-preservation, right?
20:56To that point in time, it was the largest recall in history.
21:02But now, we had to figure out what was going on and how to deal with it.
21:09Chicago Police Superintendent Richard Brzezak talked about the investigation.
21:13I really can't play God and tell you, you know, how long it's going to take.
21:17One of the first things I did was I went right over to the medical examiner's laboratory
21:23to look at the poison Tylenol.
21:27When I walked in there, the bottle of Tylenol was sitting on the laboratory table.
21:34Some of the capsules were out on the table.
21:41But what was unusual was that some of the capsules had brown rings
21:48from the cyanide forming around the ends of the gelatinous capsule.
21:56Capsule came in two parts, red and white.
22:01And you could pull those capsules apart with your fingers.
22:04And I could tell from looking at it that it had been pulled apart,
22:11the medicine was emptied,
22:14and cyanide was scooped up and the capsule put back together.
22:19What kind of person did this?
22:25Officials from the FBI, Illinois, and local police met in Arlington Heights, Illinois,
22:30to coordinate their investigation into the deaths of at least six people
22:33who took the poison Tylenol.
22:38I was told that the president of the United States at that time, Ronald Reagan,
22:42wanted the FBI to be involved in the investigation.
22:47The special agent in charge of the Chicago Division
22:50had a list of agents that he would call upon
22:53if there was a major investigation.
22:56And I happened to be on that list.
22:59At that time, I was 34.
23:01I was working bank fraud and embezzlement.
23:04White-collar crime.
23:06So it was quite a big deal to me,
23:09being assigned to the investigation.
23:13It was a new way for a mass murder.
23:17Nothing to this magnitude had ever happened before.
23:22I was out in the bureau car,
23:25and they started desperately trying to reach me over the radio,
23:28said, come back to the office, come back to the office.
23:30There's a big case going on,
23:31and we want you to report out there and be part of it.
23:35So Roy and I, we were briefed very quickly
23:37on what had happened,
23:39and they were setting up the task force.
23:43I personally never saw another case
23:46that had this kind of national concern or panic.
23:50It was frightening.
23:55The first thing that had to be determined
23:58was where the poison got in the Tylenol
24:03in the manufacturing process over in the stores.
24:10When it comes to pharmaceuticals,
24:12there are sometimes little markings with numbers
24:15that say where it was made.
24:19At first, all of the tainted capsules that they found
24:23came from one lot number,
24:25which was all manufactured at the same factory.
24:28They thought someone perhaps in the factory
24:31could have taken cyanide
24:32and sprinkled it into the system somewhere.
24:36But then it emerged that
24:39there were tainted capsules
24:40that came from two other lot numbers.
24:44And it turns out they were manufactured
24:45in two different plants
24:46in different parts of the United States.
24:50Suburban Philadelphia
24:53and Texas.
24:55When a whole nother factory was implicated,
24:58that got harder to believe
24:59that maybe there was a rogue employee somewhere
25:01who was able to randomly scatter cyanide into a capsule.
25:08Meanwhile, in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania,
25:10where Johnson & Johnson subsidiary,
25:12McNeil Consumer Products makes Tylenol,
25:15Michael Schaefer,
25:16the chief toxicologist
25:17of the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office,
25:20toured the plant.
25:20Outside the facility,
25:22Schaefer told R. I.J. Hudson
25:24that he was satisfied
25:25that no cyanide contamination
25:27occurred in the plant.
25:29Unequivocally, yes, I would say that.
25:32I don't think you could probably
25:33have any other more secure system
25:36than following the guidelines
25:38of McNeil or any other pharmaceutical company.
25:41So that ruled out Johnson & Johnson.
25:43And that was pretty quick.
25:45The tampering with
25:46and the poisoning of the product
25:47did not, I repeat, did not,
25:50take place in our plan.
25:52The tampering most likely took place in Chicago.
25:56The determination was that the perpetrator
25:59purchased or took, by shoplifting,
26:02Tylenol off the shelves of drugstores.
26:04Took them someplace,
26:06contaminated just a few up the top,
26:08put the top back on,
26:09and then walked back in the store
26:11and put it on the shelf.
26:15One of the things that we obviously wanted to know
26:18was where the victims had purchased the pills.
26:22And we saw fairly quickly
26:23that they had been purchased
26:25in numerous different stores
26:26in a fairly broad area of Chicago.
26:33We made a map.
26:37We retraced how long it would take
26:39to go into a store,
26:41place the Tylenol in there,
26:44come back out,
26:45and then drive to the next store.
26:48You could do that route
26:50in an hour,
26:51a little over an hour.
26:52How long would it take someone
26:54to grab a bottle of Tylenol,
26:55undetect it,
26:56open up the capsule,
26:58take a little bit out
26:58and put some cyanide powder in?
27:01I shouldn't think over 30 seconds.
27:06You have to remember,
27:07we had no product tampering
27:08safety devices on anything at that point,
27:11not just Tylenol.
27:17In fact,
27:18this could be done so easily
27:19and so cheaply.
27:21You could buy cyanide at that time
27:23from hardware stores.
27:26We were very wide open then
27:29for someone to do this type of crime.
27:32We had some of the best detectives
27:34at that time in Chicago
27:36working on these cases.
27:39But problem was,
27:41we had no major investigative leads.
27:45There's no crime scene.
27:48Most of them died at home.
27:52We had no connection
27:53between the victims.
27:56No witness.
27:57And no motive.
28:01Why would the killer murder
28:03these random victims?
28:16We have just received word
28:18in our newsroom
28:19that a seventh person
28:20has died
28:20after swallowing
28:21extra-strength Tylenol capsules
28:23laced with cyanide.
28:24The latest victim
28:25was found dead
28:26in her Chicago apartment tonight.
28:27She was a 35-year-old
28:29flight attendant.
28:32Paula and I
28:34were flight attendants
28:35for United Airlines.
28:36And it was just
28:37one of those friendships.
28:41She's gorgeous.
28:44Blonde, vivacious.
28:46She had an infectious laugh.
28:50We vacationed together.
28:52We had parties together.
28:55And just became
28:56really best of friends.
29:00And I'm sure
29:01we'd still be friends today
29:03had she not been murdered.
29:09On Wednesday evening,
29:12the 29th,
29:13I called her phone number
29:14to have a chat
29:16and there was no answer.
29:18And of course,
29:19this was before cell phones,
29:20so you left a message
29:22and that was it.
29:23You couldn't text.
29:24Dying nice to candidate
29:26Tylenol.
29:27And then the next day,
29:28they were sending out
29:29police cars
29:30telling people
29:31to get rid of your Tylenol.
29:34I still never thought
29:36anything of not
29:38talking to her.
29:41But then on Friday morning
29:43when I went to the airport,
29:45when I said something
29:47to the crew desk,
29:49he said,
29:50she missed her trip yesterday.
29:52I said,
29:52what do you mean
29:53she missed her trip?
29:54He said she was a no-show.
29:56The fact that she missed her trip,
29:59I knew something was wrong.
30:00So I called her sister,
30:03Carol,
30:03and we went up
30:04to Paula's apartment.
30:11When we first walked in,
30:13you could see her body.
30:15She was on the floor.
30:19Carol and I both screamed.
30:22We thought maybe someone
30:24had broken into her apartment
30:26and then murdered her.
30:28Maybe they were still there.
30:31Our minds were racing.
30:33We were just so rattled.
30:36And we called 911.
30:38And then that's when they said
30:40it looked like
30:40another Tylenol murder.
30:43and a policeman asked us
30:45had we tried
30:46to resuscitate her.
30:49And we said no.
30:51And he said,
30:52well, there's so much cyanide
30:54on her lips
30:55that if you had tried,
30:57you might have ended up dead.
31:01Cook County Medical Examiner
31:03Dr. Robert Stein
31:04confirmed
31:05that 35-year-old
31:06airline stewardess
31:07Paula Prince
31:08was the seventh victim
31:09in the cyanide-tylenol deaths.
31:11She had apparently
31:12been dead about two days,
31:14having taken her Tylenol
31:15before the warnings came out.
31:18I don't know
31:20who
31:22is responsible,
31:23but
31:27I know that I
31:30feel murder within me
31:32because I'm so hurt
31:33is what happened.
31:34Well, I was a basket case.
31:37I cried and cried
31:38for days.
31:45This Walgreens drugstore
31:46is now one of the main
31:47points of focus
31:48in the search
31:48for the Tylenol killer.
31:50Police say
31:51Paula Prince
31:51bought the cyanide-contaminated
31:53Tylenol
31:53that killed her
31:54at this Walgreens store
31:55the night of September 29th.
31:57The automatic camera
31:58over the door
31:59took this picture
31:59of Miss Prince
32:00at the checkout counter
32:01that night.
32:04It is so
32:05eerily dramatic.
32:08There's an innocent woman
32:10making a purchase
32:11of a pain reliever
32:13and what she is paying
32:15money for
32:16is going to kill her.
32:18She's paying
32:19for her death warrant.
32:22Now the mystery.
32:24Did a security
32:25camera inside
32:26which snapped
32:26this picture
32:27of Paula Prince
32:28also catch
32:29her killer
32:29looking on?
32:31There was a person
32:32two or three
32:34behind her
32:34and his eyes
32:36were directed
32:36at her.
32:39You can see
32:40very clearly
32:41he's in like
32:41a white shirt
32:42looking at her.
32:44His focus
32:45on her
32:46was so intense
32:47that I just said
32:48that's who did it.
32:51Hopefully
32:51we'll be able
32:52to piece things
32:53together
32:53if there is
32:54in fact
32:55a connection
32:55between
32:56Paula Prince's
32:57purchase of the Tylenol
32:58and someone else
32:58being in a store
32:59at that time.
33:00We have to find out
33:01who this guy is.
33:10It was about
33:10a weekend
33:11that we heard
33:12a big announcement
33:13from the task force.
33:15There surfaces
33:15a letter.
33:20The makers of Tylenol
33:21got an extortion
33:22letter today
33:23that threatened
33:23more people
33:24would be poisoned
33:25if certain demands
33:26were not met.
33:27Sources close
33:28to the manhunt
33:28confirmed
33:29that a letter
33:30to the manufacturer
33:31of Tylenol
33:31demanded
33:32that a million dollars
33:33be sent
33:33to Chicago's
33:34Continental Bank
33:35or reportedly
33:36a second wave
33:37of killings
33:37would follow.
33:38Maybe this
33:39would be
33:39the crucial break
33:40in an investigation
33:41that really needed one.
33:43The letter reads
33:44as follows.
33:46Gentlemen,
33:47as you can see,
33:48it is easy
33:48to place cyanide,
33:50both potassium
33:51and sodium cyanide,
33:53into capsules
33:54sitting on store shelves.
33:56It is easy
33:57to get buyers
33:58to swallow
33:58the bitter pill.
34:01The cyanide
34:02operates quickly.
34:03It takes so very little
34:05and there will be
34:06no time
34:06to take countermeasures.
34:08If you don't mind
34:09the publicity
34:09of these little capsules,
34:10then do nothing.
34:11so far,
34:13I spent less than $50
34:14and it takes me
34:15less than 10 minutes
34:16per bottle.
34:18If you want
34:19to stop the killing,
34:20then wire $1 million
34:20to the Continental
34:22Illinois Bank,
34:23Chicago, Illinois.
34:25Don't attempt
34:26to involve
34:27the FBI
34:27or local Chicago
34:29authorities
34:29with this letter.
34:33We felt like
34:34it was the real deal
34:35simply because
34:36whoever wrote
34:37the letter
34:38had some knowledge
34:39of not only
34:41what cyanide
34:42would do,
34:44he knew
34:45the types of cyanide,
34:47how quickly
34:48it reacted,
34:50the ability
34:52to kill people
34:53with such
34:53a nominal cost.
34:56What happened next
34:57is we went
34:58to identify
34:59the bank account
35:00that they wanted
35:01the million dollars
35:02wired through
35:02and it turns out
35:04the bank account
35:05was a travel agency
35:06called Lakeside Travel
35:08which was located
35:09in Chicago.
35:11Agents were dispatched
35:12to talk to the person
35:13who was the account
35:14holder
35:14and the individual
35:16was Fred McKahie.
35:19Now, McKahie
35:20had come from
35:21a wealthy family
35:22and it made no sense
35:23for him to ask
35:25for the money
35:25to be wired
35:26into a bank account
35:27that was clearly
35:27his bank account.
35:29But Mr. McKahie
35:30indicated
35:31it had a recent
35:33dispute
35:33with a volatile
35:35guy named
35:36Robert Richardson.
35:40Robert Richardson
35:41was a husband
35:42of one of the
35:44former employees
35:45there,
35:46Nancy Richardson.
35:49And the grievance
35:50Robert Richardson
35:51had with
35:52Lakeside Travel
35:53and McKahie,
35:54the owner,
35:55was that
35:56he paid
35:57Nancy Richardson
35:58her final paycheck
35:59and the check bounced.
36:02Robert blamed
36:03Lakeside for that.
36:06We talked
36:07to the employees
36:08and of course
36:10no one knew
36:10anything about
36:11the extortion letter.
36:12But the extortion letter
36:13was handwritten
36:15and one of the employees
36:18said that Robert Richardson
36:19would hang out
36:20at the travel agency.
36:22And they said
36:23that the handwriting
36:24looked like
36:25Robert Richardson's handwriting.
36:29So we got samples
36:31of his handwriting
36:31and sent everything
36:33to our document
36:34examiners
36:35in Washington, D.C.
36:38They identified
36:39his handwriting
36:40as identical
36:41to the person
36:42who wrote
36:43the extortion letter.
36:46So the investigation
36:47then shifted
36:48to trying to find him
36:49and he became
36:51the main focus
36:52of the time-off case.
36:54We were
36:54turning the heat up.
36:56We were trying
36:56to find him.
36:59We found
37:00that Robert Richardson
37:01was living
37:01in an apartment
37:03on the north side
37:04on Belden Avenue.
37:06When the agents
37:07went to the apartment
37:08complex,
37:10the Richstons
37:11had left
37:11and the apartment
37:13was vacant
37:13at that point.
37:15The neighbors
37:16told us
37:17that they were quiet,
37:18kept to themselves
37:19and that they
37:20had left town.
37:22but at one point
37:24Robert Richardson
37:25wrote an essay
37:26that was printed
37:27in the Chicago Tribune
37:30and next to the essay
37:31he had his picture taken.
37:40and when we saw
37:42the photograph
37:42of all the prints
37:44buying the Tylenol
37:45it appeared
37:46that it possibly
37:48could have been
37:49Robert Richardson.
37:55And at that point
37:57we had a prime suspect
37:59so we got a warrant
38:01for Robert Richardson
38:03and printed out
38:04wanted flyers
38:05and we sent them
38:06around the United States.
38:14October of 82
38:16I was a sergeant
38:18in the Kansas City
38:19Missouri Police Department.
38:21The only thing
38:21I knew about
38:22the Tylenol killings
38:23was what I saw
38:23on the news.
38:24Good evening
38:25this is the CBS
38:26Evening News
38:27Dan Rather reporting.
38:28And Dan Rather
38:29puts up the picture
38:30of a subject
38:32wanted for questioning
38:33in a Tylenol
38:34extortion attempt.
38:36He was identified
38:37as a guy
38:38named Richardson.
38:41And I looked
38:42at the picture
38:43and I immediately
38:44recognized him
38:45jumped up
38:46off the couch
38:47and said
38:47God damn it
38:49that's not
38:50Robert Richardson
38:53that's James Lewis.
38:55I immediately
38:56went and called
38:57an FBI associate
38:59and his immediate
39:00question was
39:01are you sure?
39:02And I said
39:03absolutely
39:04I'm positive.
39:07A nationwide
39:08search is underway
39:09for a man
39:09wanted in connection
39:10with the seven
39:11Tylenol cyanide
39:12deaths in Chicago.
39:13He has been
39:14identified as both
39:15Robert Richardson
39:16or James Lewis.
39:20Once we identified
39:21his true name
39:22and started looking
39:23into his background
39:25the pieces
39:26seemed to fit
39:26that this could
39:27be someone
39:27that would
39:28commit a crime
39:29of this nature.
39:29The manhunt
39:30was on there.
39:31The nationwide
39:32hunt for the
39:33Tylenol killer
39:33intensified today
39:34as did the search
39:35for the writer
39:35of a one million
39:36dollar extortion
39:37letter.
39:38Authorities are
39:38hunting for two
39:39important suspects
39:40right now
39:4036 year old
39:41James W. Lewis
39:42and his 35 year old
39:43wife Leanne.
39:45Investigators
39:45have labeled him
39:46a prime suspect
39:47in the seven
39:48Tylenol cyanide murders.
39:52I believe
39:53that he
39:54is the one
39:55responsible
39:56for the
39:57Tylenol murders.
40:00James Lewis
40:02is a
40:02dangerous
40:03killer.
40:09A man
40:10with little
40:11or no remorse.
40:12A conniving
40:14devious
40:14manipulative
40:15man.
40:17James Lewis
40:18is the scariest
40:19person I've ever
40:20met.
40:21No emotion.
40:22No compassion.
40:23He's a real
40:24life boogeyman.
40:27Who else
40:28could have done
40:28this?
40:28It has to be him.
40:29It has to be him.
40:38They make it
40:39look like I'm
40:39the world's
40:41most horrible
40:42dangerous person
40:43ever
40:44and I wouldn't
40:45hurt anybody.
40:51don't
40:52do it.
40:52It has to be him.
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