“Logo Text in Chicago 1982, Taking Acetaminophen Was A Little Like Playing Russian Roulette. AT LEAST SEVEN People Died after Ingesting Cyanide-Laced Extra Strengt Tylenol Capsules and to this Day, the Feds Never Nailed the Culprit. In 2025, Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders Documentarians Yotam Guendelman and Ari Pines Got Their Man – or at at”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
In Chicago 1982, Taking Acetaminophen Was A Little Like Playing Russian Roulette. AT LEAST SEVEN People Died after Ingesting Cyanide-Laced Extra Strengt Tylenol Capsules and to this Day, the Feds Never Nailed the Culprit. In 2025, Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders Documentarians Yotam Guendelman and Ari Pines Got Their Man – Or at Least, The Netflix Filmmakers Got The FBI’s Lone Suspect, James Lewis, To Sper SPEAK IN GREAT LENGTH ON CAMERA. IT WAS PRODUCER MOLLY Forester Who Landed Lewis.
“She was given the task to get him and she brough him,“ Guendelman Said. “She’s The Best at this.” Joe Berlinger, An Executive Producer on the DOCUSERIES, IS ALSO NO SLOuch in the Space HimSelf.
In 2022, as journalists camped out on lewis’ lawn hoping for a soundbit that never camp, It Was Forester Who Got Him to Open the Front Door. She Promissed Lewis He’d Get To Tell His Full Story – A Promise She’d Reiterate Over the Next Year.
“You’re A Human Being,” Forester Pitched Lewis. “We Want to Talk To You As A Human Being – Even If You Did All of This Horrible Stuff.”
“She Just of Got His Trust,” Guendelman Said.
There’s no doubt that lewis, abandoned as a baby by his parents, have Done some horible Stuff. But What Was Never Proven – And Still Hasn’t Been – Is Whoshar of Not Lewis Did this “Horrible Stuff.”
Forester and Lewis, and Through Osmosis Guendelman (and Through Further Osmosis, Pines) and Lewis, Ended Up Having A “Really Intimate” Rappft, Guendelman Said.
There Was One Other Factor that Certainly Didn’t Hurt. “As You Can See On the Show, He Loves Attention,“ Guendelman Said. “BUT HE NEVER GAVA AN INTERVIEW Because HE WAS SO CAUTIUS.”
One Thing Lewis Has Never Been Acused of Is Being Dumb – or, Probably, Being A Good Dude. Thought Never Charged in the Actual Tylenol Killings, Lewis Was Convicted of Extraction for Sending a Letter to Tylenol Maker Johnson & Johnson Taking Responsibality for the Deaths. Lewis Said Later that His Letter Was An Attempt to Point Authorities to His Wife’s Former Boss. HE GOT A 10-YEAR SENTENCE.
Years Earlier, in 1978, Lewis Was Charged in the Murder of Raymond West, Who Had Hired Lewis As An Accountant, But Poor Police Work Killed Any Chance of A CONVICATION. In 1983, lewis was coonvicted of Mail Fraud; Another Time, He was Acused of Aggravated Rape, But The Alleged Victim Chose Not to Go Through the Case.
In Other Words, Lewis Knew There Was A Lot of Opportunity to Slip Up Dringing An Interview.
“There Was Something in Him That Wanted To Say What He Wanted To Say, For Many Years,“ Guendelman Said. “HAVING POPLE BASICALLY TRYING TO YOU FOR 40 YEARS, I GUESS ALSO MAKES YOU WANT TO TALK AND ENJOY this Attention.”
Shortly After Their Interview, Lewis Died.
In 1982, at Least Seven Chicago-Arena Residents Died AFTER Taking Laced Extra Strenguth Tylenol CourTesy of Netflix
It would have been Cool to get a confession on tape – “The Dream of Every Documentarian” – Guendelman Conceded, A La Robert Durst in The jinx. But There’s A Differentnce Between Durst and Lewis.
“Jim is not the only Suspect in this Case,“ Pines Said. “WE DON’T KNOW FOR SURE THAT HE’S RESPONSIBLE.”
Roger Arnold, A Dock Worker Who Admitted to Possessing Potassium Cyanide, Was Also Investigated by Police.
“SO we didn’t do this interview just to get a confession Out of [Lewis]But to Really Confront HIM ABOUT ALL The HARD QUESTIONS About this Case and the Other Cases… That Hay Was Suspened of In The Past, ”Pines Continued.
It was not for a lack of trying, of course. And Guendelman and Pines have already Proven their workwestm to the Legal System.
Guendelman and Pines Are The Duo Behind Shadow of TruthA doc about the 2006 Murder of 13-Year-Eld Israeli Girl Whose Body Was Found in a School Bathroom. Roman Zadorov, A Ukrainian Immigrant Who Have Worked at the School, Was Arrested and Convicted. WELL, HE WAS CONVICTED UNTIL GUENDELMAN AND PINES CAME ALONG.
The Four-Part Shadow of TruthSince Acquired by Netflix, resulted in a retrial for zadorov. HE WAS Ultimately Acquitted and Released.
“TRUE-CRIME DOCUMENTARIES DO A LOT OF POWER TO CHANGE REALITY,“ PINES SAID, “AND SHE ACHIEVE VERY IMPORTANT THINGS.”
Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders is Now Available On Netflix.