Pixie Sticks Halloween Poison

An investigation revealed that the boy s dad had intentionally poisoned the candy to claim a 20 000 life.

Pixie sticks halloween poison.

It s been more than 40 years since halloween took a real life horror turn with poisoned candy that killed an 8 year old boy. Ronald clark o bryan october 19 1944 march 31 1984 nicknamed the candy man and the man who killed halloween was an american man convicted of killing his eight year old son on halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide laced pixy stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing. In 1974 an eight year old houston boy named timothy o bryan died after eating cyanide laced pixy stix while trick or treating. Timothy o bryan aged 8 died after his father filled a pixy stix with cyanide and gave it to his son after they had been out trick or treating on halloween 1974.

Police eventually discovered that the boy s father had poisoned the candy figuring that the widespread belief in random halloween tampering would cover his crime. Although the poisoning initially looked like it might have been. The o bryan family had spent halloween. An 11 year old boy who was given one of the tainted pixy stix was found asleep in bed later than night cradling the tube of poisoned candy in his arms.

Though the case was circumstantial no one saw the father poison the candy or slip the pixie stix into the boy s bag ronald o bryan was convicted of the murder in may 1975. A crime that changed halloween forever. That s when a texas man named ronald o bryan gave cyanide laced pixie sticks to five children including his son. He received the.

Four years later an 8 year old boy in texas died from a cyanide laced pixie stix. O bryan poisoned his son in order to claim life insurance money to ease his own financial.