The Candy Man (Texas)

[StalkingYou]

Trick-or-treating in Deer Park these days is exciting and fun for kids, like anywhere else, but what happened in one neighborhood more than 40 years ago struck pure fear in children and adults alike until recent years.

"The feeling of helplessness was overwhelming," said Jesse Zesiger. "Seeing this boy, young boy with dry heaves."

Retired patrolman Jesse Zesiger was first at the scene to respond to a sick child at a home in the Parktown Townhomes.

Eight-year-old Timothy O'Bryan would die later that night, and within days his 30-year-old father, Ronald Clark O'Bryan, would be charged with his murder. He poisoned his own son with cyanide-laced Pixy Stix candy, all to collect on a $20,000 insurance policy.

O'Bryan became known as "Candy Man" and "the Man Who Killed Halloween" because many people in the Houston area were afraid to trick-or-treat for years later.

Zesiger said he's still troubled today by something Ronald O'Bryan told him that night, something that wasn't fully revealed during O'Bryan's murder trial. O'Bryan not only had poisoned his son's candy, he helped him ingest it.

"Dad said, 'I took the Pixy Stix in my hand and rolled it in my hand, broke up the clumps, and helped pour it down my son's throat,'" recalled Zesiger. "And later on when I found out what was in the Pixy Stix I'm saying to myself, 'How could somebody do that?'"

Zesiger -- a four-month rookie at the time -- served on Deer Park's police force for 27 years. But he said that early case jaded his sense of normal for at least the first decade of his career and still has impact.

"Since that time I've never been involved in any case more horrific than that," he said.

O'Bryan maintained his innocence throughout his trial and until he died. A jury convicted him of murder and he was executed by lethal injection 10 years after his son's death.

[HeyJealousy]

Dean Corll. He was one evil son of a bitch.

[K53]

Burn in hell

[wickedlara]

How did he get so many teenage boys to let him tie them up? He had two boys helping kill other boys, Wow! He must have had some power over those young teens.

[SargeistExisting]

Originally Posted by HeyJealousy

Dean Corll. He was one evil son of a bitch.

This has nothing to do with Corll. Padding your post count and now you look like an idiot. FFS...

[icehole]

damn, money is really the root of all evil

[Saskdevil]

Wow freaky!

Originally Posted by StalkingYou

Trick-or-treating in Deer Park these days is exciting and fun for kids, like anywhere else, but what happened in one neighborhood more than 40 years ago struck pure fear in children and adults alike until recent years.

"The feeling of helplessness was overwhelming," said Jesse Zesiger. "Seeing this boy, young boy with dry heaves."

Retired patrolman Jesse Zesiger was first at the scene to respond to a sick child at a home in the Parktown Townhomes.

Eight-year-old Timothy O'Bryan would die later that night, and within days his 30-year-old father, Ronald Clark O'Bryan, would be charged with his murder. He poisoned his own son with cyanide-laced Pixy Stix candy, all to collect on a $20,000 insurance policy.

O'Bryan became known as "Candy Man" and "the Man Who Killed Halloween" because many people in the Houston area were afraid to trick-or-treat for years later.

Zesiger said he's still troubled today by something Ronald O'Bryan told him that night, something that wasn't fully revealed during O'Bryan's murder trial. O'Bryan not only had poisoned his son's candy, he helped him ingest it.

"Dad said, 'I took the Pixy Stix in my hand and rolled it in my hand, broke up the clumps, and helped pour it down my son's throat,'" recalled Zesiger. "And later on when I found out what was in the Pixy Stix I'm saying to myself, 'How could somebody do that?'"

Zesiger -- a four-month rookie at the time -- served on Deer Park's police force for 27 years. But he said that early case jaded his sense of normal for at least the first decade of his career and still has impact.

"Since that time I've never been involved in any case more horrific than that," he said.

O'Bryan maintained his innocence throughout his trial and until he died. A jury convicted him of murder and he was executed by lethal injection 10 years after his son's death.

[ZombieGreco]

I think OP must have edited her entire post.

[Xploit Machine]

Dean Corll was an American serial killer and sex offender who kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 29 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. He was helped by two accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. The crimes were discovered after Henley shot and killed Corll. After being discovered, the case was considered one of the worst murders in United States history. Dean Corl liked to give out free candy to his potential victims and then kill them.