Five things we don’t want to see in a Halloween bag

The worst father in the entire world? Ronald Clark O’Bryan — the notorious “Candyman” of suburban Houston who, in 1974, planted a cyanide-tainted Pixie Stick in his own 8-year-old son’s bag of Halloween treats in order to collect on a life insurance policy.

Ronald was executed by lethal injection a decade later, but the story of this murder has lingered as a warning. Halloween had forever lost its innocence.