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Crime Halloween true crime suspicious circumstances These True Stories Of Murder On Halloween Are Scarier Than A Horror Movie Forget about Michael Myers — here are five terrifying true stories of murder on Halloween. By Drusilla Moorhouse Oct 31, 2023, 08:00 AM EDT VIEW COMMENTS 00:00 00:00 This is an excerpt from our true crime newsletter, Suspicious Circumstances, which sends the biggest unsolved mysteries, white-collar scandals and captivating cases straight to your inbox every week. Sign up here. For those who celebrate, Halloween is all about creative costumes, trick-or-treating, and debating whether candy corn is good or evil. Braver souls seek out scares by visiting haunted attractions or watching horror movies. But in some cases, spooky fun became overshadowed by tragedy. Advertisement Here are five terrifying true stories of murder on Halloween: The IRL ‘Candy Man’ Eight-year-old Timothy O’Bryan’s father murdered him in Houston on Oct. 31, 1974, by poisoning his candy. While they were trick-or-treating, Ronald O’Bryan gave Timothy, his sister, and a neighbor’s son Pixy Stix — paper straws containing tangy flavored sugar — that he’d doctored, filling the top 2 inches with cyanide. Before going to bed that night, Timothy was allowed to eat one of the candies in his goody bag, and he selected the Pixy Stix. His father watched while he poured the poison in his mouth, even giving him Kool-Aid to wash out its bitter taste. The motive? Life insurance policies he’d purchased for each of his children. Timothy was the only one who ate the poisoned candy — and in fact, the only child known to have been harmed by poisoned candy in spite of annual rumors and panic.