On Halloween night, 1974, an 8-year-old boy named Timothy O'Bryan suddenly died after eating a piece of candy from his trick-or-treat pile. Urban legends of sick people drugging kids or slipping razor blades in candy sent the town into a frenzy. What unfolded was much scarier and sadistic than anyone could've imagined. Listen to hear the story of the real life Candyman.

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