Halloween Poisoning: Why Your Candy Got Checked
On Halloween night in 1974, an eight-year-old boy in Pasadena, Texas, ate a giant Pixy Stix from his trick-or-treat haul and died less than an hour later. The straw had been filled with cyanide and stapled shut, and four other children were carrying ones just like it. The case of the man the press called the Candyman became the most famous poisoned Halloween candy story in America.
In this episode of Killer Marketing, Emily Rask follows the case from a dark porch on a rainy trick-or-treat route to a Houston courtroom, then digs into the villain the killer was counting on: the stranger who…
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