On This Day March 31, 1984 (Patreon)

Ronald Clark O'Bryan  nicknamed The Candy Man and The Man Who Killed Halloween, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son on Halloween 1974 with pixy six laced with cyanide that was put in his bag by O'Brian as he took his two kids tricker treating . O'Bryan poisoned his son in order to get life insurance money to ease his own financial troubles, as he was $100,000 in debt. O'Bryan also distributed poisoned candy to his daughter and three other children in an attempt to cover up his crime; however, neither his daughter nor the other children ate the poisoned candy. He was convicted of  in June 1975 and sentenced to death. He was executed by lethal injection in March 1984.