sharon jones, a student at the community college where he worked. initially, he misled sharon by telling her he was separated. it became serious very quickly. within three to four weeks. lewis proposed marriage to sharon while still living with his wife, diane. sharon s ex-boyfriend, roy fitzpatrick, learned about a relationship with lewis harry, grew angry, then mailed the threatening letters to lewis and his wife. these letters gave lewis what he believed to be the perfect alibi. he would kill his wife with cyanide, fin murder on roy fitzpatrick, then he would be free to marry sharon. he typed three more letters, even more incriminating than the originals. and mailed them to himself. but lewis used an envelope with
difficult for all four people in that office to have been killed because cyanide is really a strong poison, i mean, they could have died before anyone figured out what happened. police questioned the three remaining employees in the transamerica office. one of them, diane harry, made a startling admission. she said that she may have been the intended target. diane said that a few nights earlier she was drinking some scotch whiskey at home with her husband and it made her ill. she also told him that there was something wrong with the tea kettle. she tried to make coffee and when she put cream in it, it curdled. investigators tested the bottle of scotch from the harry s home and confirmed their suspicion. the bottle contained lethal amounts of cyanide. diane s husband, lewis harry, said he thought he knew who was
poisoning of her co-worker, diane harry. the prime suspect in the case, roy fitzpatrick, admitted sending diane harry and her husband, lewis, four threatening letters. but fitzpatrick denied sending the three most incriminating ones. he had given me something but now was taking away the last three letters. but if fitzpatrick didn t send the three typewritten letters, who did? on a hunch, investigators got a warrant to search lewis harry s office. he worked in the physical education department of a local community college. it was interesting that they went to mr. harry s workplace and they took this big shelf that was in his office. it is like five or six feet long. that ended up going out to their expert out at asu arizona state university. also in lewis harry s waste paper basket they found a receipt from chemonics, a local
involved with his exgirlfriend, sharon jones. i met lewis harry in a club. i was in love with mr. harry. he had asked me to marry him. as soon as the divorce was through, he had said that we would get married. roy fitzpatrick discovered this was all a lie. mr. fitzpatrick followed lewis harry home one night from my condo. and he called me within minutes of mr. harry leaving stating that he was still married. the wife was still in the home. and that he wasn t going through any divorce. when police confronted lewis harry about the affair, he denied it. and roy fitzpatrick gave police one last piece of information. he admitted sending lewis and diane harry four threatening letters, but claimed that the three typewritten letters, the most incriminating, were forgeries.
clockwise rotation circular movement on the h which we saw is the characteristics replicated in harry s own name. investigators went to the chemonics company and showed the sales clerk a photo lineup. the clerk identified lewis harry as the man who purchased the cyanide. in lewis harry s office investigators found an open box of envelopes. when they look athe ones left in the box, they found that three of them had the same defect as the one with the threatening letter. in fact, it was a progressive and linear defect, meaning that you could see the progression, how the defect had enlarged as the envelopes moved down the manufacturing line. normally the people in post production and quality control would have culled those out rather than put them into the box. i was actually amazed something like that would occur.