So, due to the graphic nature of this story, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes depictions of kidnapping, murder, and gruesome child death.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

Don't trust strangers with candy.

We all heard the advice as kids, and then promptly went door-to-door taking candy from strangers.

On Halloween night, that rule hits the garbage bin, piled under candy wrappers and

tie-it plans.

But it's wisdom worth listening to.

Candy can conceal danger, not just under the wrapper, but in the hands giving it away.

That's the moral of the urban legend of the Texas candy lady, a mythical serial killer

who targets children, but she's not the only danger out there.

Some candy-bearing killers are all too real.

So this Halloween week, our episode's a little different.

I'll present our spin on the candy lady, a killer who's probably fictional.

After that, we cover three eerily similar crimes that actually happened.

Each real crime serves the same warning.

Don't trust strangers with candy.

I'm Vanessa Richardson, and this is Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast.

You can find us here every Monday.

Be sure to check us out on Instagram at SerialKillers Podcast.

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