215: The Man Who Killed Halloween

The Prosecutors

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True Crime, Talk Radio

4.3 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Always check your candy. Sponsors: PlutoTV Noom Progressive Insurance Angi.com EarthBreeze: earthbreeze.com/prosecutors for 40 percent off Bad Bad Thing Podcast Resources: The Haunting Legacy of Ronald Clark O'Bryan, the Man Who Killed Halloween - A&E True Crime (aetv.com) The True Story of the Notorious Trick-or-Treat Murderer (vice.com) Texas Execution Information - History (txexecutions.org) Death Row Information (texas.gov) Killer Legends Death Makes a Holiday : a cultural history of Halloween by David J. Skal, Introduction: The Candyman’s Tale The Victoria Advocate - Google News Archive Search Texas Deaths, 1890-1976; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9Y1W-STYS?cc=1983324&wc=9T4V-4WP%3A263835801%2C285249601%2C285278501 'Candy Man's legacy still haunting today (chron.com) The neighbor who accompanied condemned killer Ronald Clark O'Bryan... - UPI Archives

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0:00.0	Two sisters, one a respected TV producer, Jill Blackstone, and the other, Wendy.
0:07.1	She was disabled, nearly blind in death, and Jill had devoted herself to taking care
0:11.6	of Wendy.
0:12.6	Jill was her best friend, her sister, her everything.
0:15.9	But the sister bond was shattered when Wendy and some of the sisters' rescue dogs were
0:20.9	found dead in a garage next to a topple over barbecue grill.
0:25.3	When Jill says accidental carbon monoxide poisoning killed everyone, police do not believe
0:30.0	her.
0:31.0	Police arrested Jill Blackstone for the murder of her sister.
0:34.2	Investigators think it was staged to look like an accident.
0:37.1	Who will you believe, especially now, that a secret source has come forward with evidence
0:41.6	never made public before?
0:43.2	Jill was a good producer.
0:44.4	There's no doubt about that, but would she produce murder is the question.
0:49.6	Season two of Bad Bad Thing, the Blackstone Sisters, available now, wherever you get your
0:54.2	podcasts.
0:55.2	I always say show me a perfect family, I'll show you a family with secrets.
1:09.4	I'm Brett, and I'm Alice, and we are The Prosecutors.
1:24.2	Today on The Prosecutors, always check your candy.
1:54.2	Hello, everybody, and welcome to this episode of The Prosecutors, I'm Brett, and I'm joined
2:08.4	as always by my ravenous co-host, Alice.
2:13.0	Hey, Brett, I see what you did there, ravenous for candy, which everybody knows.
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