After walking the neighborhood with police three times, O'Bryan led them to the home where no one had answered the door. Their suspicions increased after learning that none of the homes they visited had given out Pixy Stix. Police became suspicious because O'Bryan and his neighbor had only taken their children to homes on two streets because it had been raining. O'Bryan initially told police that he could not remember which house he got the Pixy Stix from. According to a pathologist who tested the Pixy Stix, the candy consumed by Timothy contained enough cyanide to kill two adults, while the other four candies contained enough to kill three to four adults. All five of the Pixy Stix had been opened, with the top two inches (51 mm) refilled with cyanide powder and resealed with a staple. The boy had been unable to open the staples that sealed the wrapper shut. The parents rushed upstairs to find their son asleep, holding the unconsumed candy. The parents of the fifth child became hysterical when they could not locate the candy after being notified by the police.
Four of the five Pixy Stix O'Bryan claimed to have received were recovered by authorities from the other children, none of whom had consumed the candy. The police did not initially suspect O'Bryan of any wrongdoing until Timothy's autopsy revealed that the Pixy Stix he had consumed was laced with a fatal dose of potassium cyanide. Numerous parents in Deer Park and the surrounding area turned in candy their children got from trick or treating to the police, fearing it was laced with poison. Timothy's death from poisoned Halloween candy raised fear in the community. Timothy O'Bryan died en route to the hospital less than an hour after consuming the candy. O'Bryan later claimed he held Timothy while he was vomiting and the child went limp in his arms. Timothy immediately began to complain that his stomach hurt and ran to the bathroom where he began vomiting and convulsing. O'Bryan then gave his son Kool-Aid to wash away the taste. After tasting the candy, Timothy complained that it tasted bitter. Timothy had trouble getting the powdered candy out of the straw so O'Bryan helped him loosen the powder. īefore bed, Timothy asked to eat some of the candy he collected, and according to Ronald, he chose the Pixy Stix. Upon returning home, O'Bryan gave the fifth Pixy Stix to a 10-year-old boy whom he recognized from his church. At the end of the evening, O'Bryan gave each of his neighbor's two children a Pixy Stix and one each to Timothy and Elizabeth. He eventually caught up with the group and produced five 21-inch (530 mm) Pixy Stix, which he would later claim he was given from the occupant of the house that had not answered the door. After visiting a home where the occupant failed to answer the door, the children grew impatient and ran ahead to the next home while O'Bryan stayed behind. O'Bryan's neighbor and his two children accompanied them. On October 31, 1974, O'Bryan took his two children trick-or-treating in a Pasadena, Texas, neighborhood. He was a deacon at the Second Baptist Church, where he sang in the choir and ran a local bus program. O'Bryan worked as an optician at Texas State Optical in Sharpstown, Houston. O'Bryan lived with his wife, Daynene, in Deer Park, Texas, with their son Timothy and daughter Elizabeth (born 1969). He was executed by lethal injection in March 1984. He was convicted of capital murder in June 1975 and sentenced to death. 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. O'Bryan poisoned his son in order to claim life insurance money to ease his own financial troubles, as he was $100,000 in debt. Ronald Clark O'Bryan (Octo– March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man and The Man Who Killed Halloween, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (Ap– October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing.
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