One of my memories from my childhood trick-or treating days is my mom making my brothers and I put all of our Halloween candy on the kitchen counter so she could go through it. She would always throw away the suckers, tootsie rolls, and other candies that were in like unwrappable and rewrap-able containers. I feel like this is a thing a TON of parents do because the news is always like “there is razor blades in candy” or “there is drugs in the candy” but it never REALLY seems to actually happen to anybody in recent years. However, today’s story is the REASON this stuff happens every year. On Halloween night in 1974, O’Bryan along with his neighbor, Jim Bates, took all 4 of their kids trick or treating in Pasadena, Texas. Later that night, young Timothy O'Bryan unfortunately died from poison in his Pixy Stix. Who could have done such a thing?

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Wikipedia 

Murderpedia 

Insider.org

Statesman.com

Ctpost.com

Vice.com

Findagrave.com

Medium.com

cdc.gov

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