The Man Who Killed Halloween: The Case Of Ronald Clark O’Bryan

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🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got a little surprise for you this spooky season…

Tom, Ben & Dan are back with a Halloween special that will send shivers down your spine.

It’s Halloween night, 1974, in Pasadena, Texas. Eight-year-old Timothy O’Bryan is out trick-or-treating with his little sister, Elizabeth, and a friend from down the street... all under the watchful eye of Timothy’s father, Ronald Clark O’Bryan. A well-respected church deacon, a loving parent, and a man trusted by his community…

The evening goes perfectly. The children race from door to door, their bags filling with sweets and smiles. But when they return home and tuck into their hard-earned candy, one treat will change everything. What should have been a night of innocent fun becomes a chilling tragedy that would haunt Halloween forever.

Join the boys as they unwrap the horrifying true story of The Candy Man. 🍬💀

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Presented by Tom Norris & Ben Carter

Written by Ben Carter

Produced by Dan J Lambert

Edited by Ben Bonsey

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0:00.0	I Kid Murderer Podcast is proudly part of the ACAST creator network for hundreds of extra episodes and exclusive content, along with our private Discord server and monthly live streams, exclusive one-of-a-kind merch and much more.
0:12.7	Please consider subscribing to icmap.cote UK.
0:18.1	Every Halloween, parents are warned to check their kids candy.
0:21.7	But did you know that warning began due to a tragedy in the Houston area 50 years ago today?
0:28.9	Yeah, it was a rainy Halloween just like this one when an eight-year-old boy was poisoned after he went trick-or-treating.
0:35.9	His killer turned out to be the man you would least expect.
0:43.3	We got a call from an insurance agent that O'Brien bought these two policies for his kids on October 3rd.
0:51.3	And he was trying to cash him in.
0:53.3	... and he was trying to cash him in. Most of the day's testimony came from Jimmy Bates, a close friend of the O'Brien family.
1:04.0	Bates said that before Halloween, O'Brien asked if he could bring his children over to trick-or-treat with the Bates' children on Halloween night. Both families ate dinner together and then the fathers took the children trick-or-treating. Bates said O'Brien went to one house where no one appeared to be home, and after the children had scampered ahead to the next house, O'Brien came off the front porch carrying the pixie sticks. He gave the pixie sticks to the children and then later took them back and said
1:28.5	he wanted to stop at his car for a moment. Bates said when O'Brien came back into the Bates' house,
1:33.5	he returned the pixie sticks to the children. Later that night, Timothy O'Brien died from eating
1:38.4	a poisoned pixie stick. Hello and welcome to a special Halloween special I Could Murder a podcast. We are back. It's
2:08.3	spooky season once again. You thought you were rid of us? You thought you were rid of us? Well,
2:13.5	not quite. And I'm joined by the Jacko Lantern himself Mr Ben Carter
2:17.7	oh thank you so much thank you for having me boys
2:20.6	yeah we've we decided we'll just bolt on an extra episode to the series
2:24.8	run it through to Halloween for the folks and run it through we shall
2:28.3	producer Dan is looking eerie over at Boston Sound how are you dearie
2:32.6	fine thanks my friend very, very spooky here.
2:36.9	Sorry we're not dressed up. That's a missed opportunity, but you know, maybe next year.
2:42.3	It feels a bit naughty doing a 13th episode, didn't it? Like we were done, and then now we're back.
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