On October 31, 1974, eight-year-old Timothy O’Bryan died after eating a cyanide-laced Pixy Stix in Texas. The poisoner was his father. Joel Best’s decades of case counts have never confirmed a stranger poisoning a trick-or-treater.
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Halloween
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Myths & Legends
The Headless Horseman: the Halloween Truth behind Irving’s Tale
by Kurt Readmanby Kurt ReadmanThe legend of Sleepy Hollow, and the stories of the headless horseman, are infamous in…
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Major Crimes in History
Who Did It? The Murder of Martha Moxley and the Kennedy Connection
by Bipin Dimriby Bipin DimriOn the night before Halloween 1975, a teenager died in Greenwich, Connecticut. Martha Moxley’s murder…