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The Candy Man: Ronald O’Bryan and the Halloween Candy Panic
Did your parents check your Halloween candy before you could eat it? Behind that familiar tradition is a mix of urban legends, frightening headlines—and a real murder whose most important detail often gets left out.
On Halloween night in 1974, eight-year-old Timothy O’Bryan died after eating a cyanide-laced Pixy Stix. The investigation led police to someone far closer than an unknown neighbor: his father, Ronald Clark O’Bryan.
In this episode of Kat Has Questions, we follow the Halloween outing, the unraveling account of where the candy came from, and the insurance policies and witness…
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