On Halloween night, 1974, an 8-year-old boy named Timothy O’Bryan opened a “giant pixy stick” he received during a trick-or-treat run in Pasadena, Texas (just outside of Houston), took a mouthful of the flavored sugar inside, and complained to his father “that it tasted bitter.” His father told him to wash the taste…
On Halloween night, 1974, an 8-year-old boy named Timothy O’Bryan opened a “giant pixy stick” he received during a trick-or-treat run in Pasadena, Texas , took a mouthful of the flavored sugar inside, and complained to his father “that it tasted bitter.” His father told him to wash the taste out of his mouth with Kool-Aid, so he did. But then he started vomiting, so he called an ambulance. By the time they arrived at the hospital, Timothy was dead.
O’Bryan was ultimately found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by the State of Texas. It was also revealed that he handed the cyanide pixy stix out to other kids who never consumed them, “presumably hoping that if several children died, it wouldn’t look nearly as fishy”). The court’s opinion, reported the AP in September, 1979, read:
“A more calculated and cold-blooded crime than the one for which appellant was convicted can hardly be imagined. Appellant murdered his child in order to collect life insurance money. The record reflects months of premeditation and planning.”
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