Spooky Snob: The Candy Man: The Halloween Murder of Timothy O'Bryan

Halloween night, 1974. Eight-year-old Timothy O'Bryan comes home from trick-or-treating in Pasadena, Texas, and asks for one piece of candy before bed. He picks a giant Pixy Stix. Within an hour, he's gone. The candy was laced with cyanide. Four more poisoned Pixy Stix had been handed out to four other children that night, and police raced through the night to find them before anyone else got hurt. Timothy's death became the case behind every "check your candy" warning we grew up with. But the real story isn't about a stranger poisoning trick-or-treaters. It's about the man who walked Timothy to every door that night: his father, a church deacon who said he knew exactly which house the candy came from.