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Halloween True Crime The Candy Man When Halloween Became Fear

Halloween True Crime The Candy Man When Halloween Became Fear

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 Raven Thorne investigates the crime that transformed Halloween forever. On October thirty-first, nineteen seventy-four, eight-year-old Timothy O'Bryan died after eating cyanide-laced candy given to him by his own father. Ronald Clark O'Bryan poisoned five children's Pixy Stix to disguise his son's murder as random Halloween tampering, planning to collect twenty-one thousand dollars in insurance money. Through analysis of forensic evidence, insurance records, and trial testimony, Raven reveals how one father's greed weaponized a beloved holiday and created nationwide candy panic that persists fifty years later. This is the story of how Halloween innocence died and America's relationship with trick-or-treating changed forever.
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