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Episode 47: The Candy Man
Tina leads this episode as we head back to Halloween night, 1974, and the case that helped create one of America’s most enduring Halloween fears.
Eight-year-old Timothy O’Bryan went trick-or-treating with his sister, father, and friends in Pasadena, Texas. By the end of the night, Timothy had eaten a Pixy Stix laced with cyanide and tragically died shortly afterward.
At first, investigators feared that a stranger had poisoned Halloween candy and handed it out to unsuspecting children. But as police retraced the family’s route, examined the remaining Pixy Stix, and looked more closely at…
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