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November 3, 1982
Cyanide suspect sought
United Press International
CHICAGO — Police sear-
:hed nationwide Tuesday for
in Illinois man who is wanted
[for questioning in the cyanide
ylenol poisoning deaths of
feven people. They said “sub-
Istances” taken from his apart
ment were being analyzed.
‘ Mort Friedman, a spokes
man for Illinois Attorney
General Tyrone Fahner, said
i bulletin was issued Monday
[for Kevin Masterson, 35, of
Lombard, Ill., believed to be
Jisitinga friend near Murray,
£y. — about 400 miles south
|<jf Chicago.
The Chicago Sun- Times
j;quoted Dale Span, a Murray
police captain, as saying state
taskforce investigators flew to
[that area Monday night.
[ However, a Paducah, Ky.,
television station reported
[Masterson left the area during
Henslffthe weekend for an undis-
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The police bulletin said
Masterson has a history of
mental illness and may be
dangerous. He was described
as a white male with red hair
and blue eyes, about 5-feet-10
and weighing 165 pounds.
Friedman stressed Master-
son is wanted only for ques
tioning at this point, in the
deaths of seven people who
took capsules of Extra-
Strength Tylenol in the Chica
go area between Sept. 29 and
Oct. 1.
Hundreds of tips and
rumors have led investigators
to numerous dead ends and
the killings set off a rash of
copycat poisonings and tam
perings nationwide.
Masterson’s landlord, 85, w
was not identified, said the
man told him he once admit
ted himself into a mental hos
pital to avoid military service
in the Vietnam War.
“He always helped me with
things, all kinds of things
around the apartment,” thef-
erly man said. “I don’t believe
he had any connection with
anything like that.”
Investigators armed with
search warrants went through
Masterson’s room Friday and
recovered “various items.”
Friedman refused to identify
any of the items taken from
the apartment, saying only
they included certain “subst
ances.”
The substances were being
analyzed, he said. Investiga
tors also conducted interviews
of several friends and ac
quaintances Saturday and
Sunday.
The man’s father, reached
in suburban Wheeling by the
Chicago Tribune, said his son
had no chemistry background
and was on a trip he had plan
ned to take alone.
“I think it is dastardly that
his name was used,” the father
said. “There is no question in
my mind he is not the one who
did this.
Another suspect in the
case, James W. Lewis, a fugi
tive wanted on federal extor
tion charges, is still being
sought by investigators. Lewis
is accused of demanding $1
million from Johnson & John
son, owners of the company
which makes Tylenol, to “stop
the killings.”
In New Jersey, a federal
magistrate set a $50,000 bond
for a man charged in a copycat
extortion plot. Vernon A. Wil
liams, 34, of Newark, alleged
ly threatened to distribute
cyanide-tainted Tylenol
nationwide unless he was paid
$100,000.
Thunderbird widows
denied AF evidence
Manson escape plot
uspected by guards
United Press International
VACAVILLE, Calif. — Pris-
)n officials suspect mass-
hree other convicts of plotting
lit escape by using a hot-air bal-
[odn to fly over the walls at the
California Medical Facility.
Prison spokesman Don Cus-
i usedi ardsaid Monday that Manson
a speoij ind the other inmates were
rtojpj iked in special custody pend-
an investigation. He said
prison-fashioned weapon,” Cus
tard said.
Custard said guards searched
Manson’s cell on Saturday and
found the hacksaw blade and
what they believe to be mari
juana and LSD. He said tests are
ts niigli scape charges may be filed.
Custard said guards disco
id a hacksaw blade, a piece of
ydid«( metal that appeared to be
materitl fashioned into a knife, 100 feet
bTnylon rope and a catalog for
Drdering a hot-air balloon. The
hacksaw blade was found in
Manson’s cell along with what
officials suspect were marijuana
1 LSD.
Manson, 48, was the noto
rious head of the “family” of
young dropouts who killed ac-
(ress Sharon Tate and six others
pT in Southern California in 1969.
* ‘ i Custard said the discovery of
iheitems was made after a guard
got suspicious Friday night
when he found the door to the
/ prison’s Protestant chapel tied
I Shut with an electrical cord.
When the guard ordered the
door opened, he found Manson
bd the other inmates.
|'A search of the chapel’s attic
fesulted in discovery of a piece
of metal that could have been “a
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The
widows of three Air Force
Thunderbird stunt pilots will
not be permitted to use a 700-
page military accident report as
evidence in their mulli-million-
dollar suit against the company
which manufactured the jets.
U.S. Magistrate Philip Pro on
Monday denied use of the Air
Force accident report prepared
by the Air Force. The report
blamed the “follow-the-leader”
crash of the Thunderbirds on a
jammed tail stabilizer.
Attorney Gary Logan is rep
resenting three of the four
widows of the pilots killed dur
ing a Jan. 18 practice exercise til
Indian Springs, Nev. He asked
Pro to admit the entire 700-page
accident as evidence. „
Logan sought to use the acci
dent report evidence in the
pending trial against Northrup
Inc., manufacturers of the T-
38s.
Logan told Pro in oral argu
ments Oct. 26 that his experts,
based upon the report, would
testify that the lead aircraft pi
loted by Maj. Norman Lowry
was defective and it was a design
defect that caused the crash.
Lowry, 37, from Radford,
Va., died in the crash along with
Gapt. Willie Mays, 32, from Ri
pley, Tenn.; Capt. Joseph Peter
son, 32, from Tuskegee, Ala.;
and Gapt. Mark E. Melancon,
31, from Dallas.
Logan represents the widows
and children of Lowry, Peterson
and Melancon. They are seeking
a total of $6 million in damages
from Northrup. A separate suit
against the aircraft builder on
behalf of Sara Ann Mays is
pending in a California state,
court.
Attorney Rex Jemison, repre
senting Northrup, said the
Thunderbird accident report
should not be admitted.
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the contents of the substances.
Custard said guards conduct
ing a later search of the chapel
found the nylon cord and the
balloon catalog.
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