~Photo by Joseph DiOrio Joseph DiOrio (Exclusively by The Somerville News and Cambridge News Weekly) According to sources, the man linked to the Tylenol killings in 1982, James W. Lewis, was subpoenaed to appear at the Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn this morning. The subpoena allegedly called for Lewis and his wife to attend a hearing that would order the couple to provide a fingerprint and DNA samples.

The couple arrived in the front
corridor of the courthouse at 8:45am and were briefly interviewed by
one of our Somerville News/Cambridge News Weekly correspondents and
later by FBI agents as well as by local authorities, who escorted the
couple to the hearing room. Lewis has been previously linked to the
Tylenol poisonings that occurred in Illinois in 1982 killing seven
people as a result of cyanide-laced drugs. After his arrest at a New
York City library in 1982, he was able to give police detailed
information about how the killer might have went about filling the
Tylenol with cyanide. Lewis also served time in prison after sending a
letter to Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million to put an end to
the killings. In 2004, Lewis was also charged with rape and kidnapping
for an alleged attack on a woman in Cambridge but the charges were
dropped three years later. This case is still part of an ongoing
investigation.