The Man Who Killed Halloween - The Pixy Stix Killer

Middle-Aged and Mediocre

Urban Legends... The man with the hook hand who preys on young couples parked at a makeout spot. A babysitter that keeps receiving threatening phone calls only to discover that the call is coming from inside the home! The woman driving home at night that’s followed by someone flashing their lights at her and terrifying her as she drives only to discover that they were trying to warn her of the killer in her backseat! There are of course the classics like looking in a mirror with the lights out while you repeat “Bloody Mary” over and over and the girl who gets bitten on the cheek by a spider only for the bite to swell and bulge until it bursts open hatching hundreds of baby spiders. Urban legends are still being created to this day; with The Slender Man being one of the more famous examples in recent memory.

While some of these or none of these may have their roots in any kind of truth, one urban legend has persisted for almost 50 years due to the actions of a killer on Halloween night. There's a reason why parents are reminded every year to check their children's candy hauls for a razor blade or poison. That reason took place in 1974 on Trick-or-Treat night in Pasadena, Texas. This is the true story of that yearly reminder that comes around every Halloween. This is the story of an 8-year-old boy being poisoned and murdered by a Pixy Stik laced with cyanide that he got while trick-or-treating.

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