In 1974, Ronald Clark O'Bryan of Deer Park, Texas, took his two children and a neighbor with his two children or treating.  They came to a darkened house that did not answer the door, as they walked away O'Bryan returned to the house and told the group someone finally answered and gave out treats, giant Pixy Stix.  He later gave the fifth stick to a boy he recognized from church, where O'Bryan was a decon.  After they returned home O'Bryan helped his son open the candy, upon tasting it he started throwing up and died in convulsions.  O'Bryan had laced the powdered confection with potassium cyanide.  His motive was the 100,000 dollars of insurance he had recently taken out for his children, That was the amount he was in debt for.  By an act of God none of the other children ate the candy.  The authorities recovered the other four poisoned candy, one boy had fallen asleep as he tried to open the Pixy Stick, and his terrified parents took it out of ...