morbidology:On Halloween night in 1974, eight-year-old Timothy O’Bryan returned home from trick-or-treating in Pasadena, Texas, eager to enjoy his candy. Moments later, he collapsed and died after eating a Pixy Stix laced with cyanide. It had been given to him by his own father, Ronald Clark O’Bryan.Facing mounting debts and desperate for money, O’Bryan had taken out life insurance policies on his children and planned to kill Timothy for the payout. To disguise his actions, he handed out other poisoned candies to nearby children, though none of them were consumed. His shocking betrayal shattered the sense of safety surrounding Halloween, fueling decades of urban legends about tampered candy.O’Bryan was convicted of capital murder and executed by lethal injection in 1984. Outside the prison, college students gathered wearing Halloween masks, cheering as the man nicknamed “The Candy Man” met his fate.