Pixie Sticks Halloween Poison

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.

Pixie sticks halloween poison. He received the. 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. Four years later eight year old timothy o bryan of houston died after eating cyanide laced pixie sticks supposedly gathered during trick or treating. 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.

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. 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. 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. The o bryan family had spent halloween.

Four years later an 8 year old boy in texas died from a cyanide laced pixie stix. The most infamous halloween poisoning took place on october 31 1974. An investigation revealed that the boy s dad had intentionally poisoned the candy to claim a 20 000 life. O bryan poisoned his son in order to claim life insurance money to ease his own financial.

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