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Carla Valentine Instagram – Let’s end the ‘Carlaween’ halloween countdown with a genuine monster:
I thought I’d post about a real life monster because I get to talk about a murder case and address the issue of Halloween urban legends in one. Many people will have heard the terrifying myth that their children may not be safe while trick or treating because of blades and needles being hidden in pieces of fruit or sweets, or poisoned chocolate being handed out. In fact there was a case of a child being poisoned with cyanide-laced Pixi Stix…(an American sweet) but it was given to him by his own father. On Halloween 1974 in Pasadena, Texas, Ronald Clark O’Bryan (nicknamed ‘The Candyman’ and ‘The Man Who Killed Halloween’) murdered his 8 year old son for what appears to have been financial reasons: he had increased his son’s life insurance policy from $10,000 to $30,000 just one month before Halloween. He committed the crime by hanging back during a trick or treat outing with his children and their friends, and pretending to have successfully received some candy from an ostensibly abandoned house; candy which he had poisoned. 
Sickeningly he was willing to kill more than one child to achieve his goal and make it look like a ‘random attack’, by handing out these poisoned sweets to his daughter and three friends too. The reason he never succeeded in killing any other kids is that after lacing the Pixi Stix with an inch or two of potassium cyanide he stapled them closed and the other children were unable to open them. The reason his son ate the stuff is because Ronald actually helped him open it. He was executed by lethal injection on March 31st 1984, to a crowd which shouted ‘Trick or Treat!’ and showered anti-death penalty campaigners with candy. You can research more details about this case which is a brilliant example of one of the basic tenets of crime investigation: when someone comes to some harm it’s highly unlikely a stranger was involved. Most attacks and murders, sadly, are committed by someone the victim knows.
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