Creepiest Things to Happen On / Near Halloween

Father Poisons his own Son with Halloween Candy

Ronald Clark O’Bryan had fallen deeply into debt, so he decided to murder his son for the insurance money. He purchased potassium cyanide, sprinkled it inside five Pixy Stix straws, crudely stapled them all shut, and handed them out to his son, daughter, and three other neighborhood kids. To avoid suspicion, his plot was to kill them all and blame a neighbor. O’Bryan’s 11-year-old son Timothy, apparently at his father’s urging, swallowed the Pixy Stix powder and complained that it tasted bitter. He soon began vomiting uncontrollably and was dead before reaching the hospital.