«Candyman»: the man who murdered Halloween

Halloween is a holiday we have tried on Mysterious occasions, for example, we have known its origin and some terrifying stories ideal for tonight.As you know, in the United States children have a very important role during this day, but the innocence of this celebration was stained a long day of 1974.

Candyman: the Halloween killer

October 31, 1974.Pasadena, Texas. Ronald Clark O'Bryan and one of his neighbors, decide to go around the neighborhood with their 4 children, to carry out the classic "trick or treat".

Everything is going well, until they call a house where they are not opened.They try several times and nothing happens, so the children, frustrated, run out or for more candies , followed by O'Bryan's neighbor, leaving this one in front of the door.

«Candyman»: the man who murdered Halloween

Soon after, O'Bryan He manages to find the group, with a smile: finally, the house was occupied and they have given 5 Pixy Stix candies .The children, delighted, s and distribute the candies .2 of them are left by the neighbor's children and two others, O'Bryan's: Elizabeth and Timothy.

Back home, loaded with candy, they cross a child they know from the church.O'Bryan gives you the fifth candy of the house that seemed empty.

At the O'Bryan house everything goes Well, they've finished dinner and Timothy is going to go to bed.Then, he asks his father if he can eat any of the candies they've got and he agrees.Timothy chooses the Pixy Stix and his father helps him to open it.It is very bitter and O'Bryan prepares the little one for juice to take away the bad taste .

«Candyman»: the man who murdered Halloween

What happens then? Timothy is not feeling well.Go up to the bathroom and throws up without stopping. Finally, convulses .O'Bryan and his wife, horrified, see how the child faints in the arms of his father.The ambulance arrives, but the boy dies on the way to the hospital. It hasn't been an hour since he tasted the candy.

Poisoned candies?

The news impacts the neighbors, especially the O'Bryan family. The panic spreads. All families deliver the candies their children collected to the police, believing they could be poisoned. The autopsy on Timothy reveals that the candy he consumed was mixed with a lethal dose of potassium cyanide .

The remaining 4 candies that O'Bryan had received from the empty house were examined and it was discovered that also contained poison, luckily they had not yet been opened by their young Lousy owners.

«Candyman»: the man who murdered Halloween

The police interrogated O'Bryan and his neighbor.Where did they get the candies? They checked the road and O'Bryan took them to the empty house .Apparently, their owner had not responded well at first, but after the children left, he had opened the door, without turning on the lights and had handed him the candies. He could only see his arm: he was very hairy.

The owner of the house, and supposedly his arm, was Courtney Melvin, air traffic controller , who claimed not to have returned home from work until 23:00 on Halloween night.His alibi was confirmed. Who the hell wanted to poison the children?

A only suspect

The police continued to investigate and, little by little, his focus was on O'Bryan : he had many debts, he had 21 different jobs in just a decade, he had been accused of robbery in his current job and, in fact, the bank had recently taken his house.

«Candyman»: the man who murdered Halloween

What did that have to do with candies? Much.A few months before the boy's death, O'Bryan had taken out several life insurance of considerable value for his children , behind his wife's back.The worst? After Timothy's death, he had rushed to call all the insurers asking when he was going to charge.

The icing on the macabre cake gave it a final detail: O'Bryan had recently visited a supply store of chemicals, where I ask how much cyanide they could sell him .Knowing that it was very small, O'Bryan left.Can you imagine what the police thought?

«Candyman »In prison

After his arrest, O'Bryan confessed innocently, moreover, never admitted his guilt .

After several trials, there were several testimonies that were decisive for the resolution of the case:

A known chemist from O'Bryan who assured that the defendant had called him to ask how much cyanide would be fatal
His friends affirmed who had noticed a "strange behavior" in O'Bryan a few weeks before Timothy's death.
His crib also declared he had heard how, in the same fu Timothy neral, O'Bryan commented that he would use the money from the child's policy to go on vacation and buy some things he needed.

On June 3 from 1975 he was sentenced to death and baptized by the media as "Candyman".

His death would be postponed several times, until he was executed in March 1984 in the Huntsville Unit, by injection lethal.While that was happening, a crowd outside the place, I kept yelling: "Trick or treat".

We can tell many fictional stories on Halloween that are chilling, but, unfortunately, sometimes the real horror is in real life .

Do you know this case?

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