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Candies such as candy corn were regularly sold in bulk during the 19th century. Later, parents thought that pre-packaged foods were more sanitary. Claims that candy was poisoned or adulterated gained general credence during the Industrial Revolution, when food production moved out of the home or local area, where it was made in familiar ways by known and trusted people, to strangers using ...
Cordelia Botkin (1854 – March 7, 1910) was an American murderer who sent a box of poisoned candy to her ex-lover's wife. This was the first American prosecution for a crime which took place in two different jurisdictions, as Botkin had sent the poison from California, but it was received in Delaware.
Articles relating to poisoned candy (sweets, lollies) and their depictions, confections that feature sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, also called sugar confectionery , encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate , chewing gum , and sugar candy .
California's perception of the grizzly bear is wrong, according to new research. The grizzly bear was, for the most part, a vegetarian. California's grizzlies: gargantuan, dangerous meat-lovers.
Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man, The Man Who Killed Halloween and The Pixy Stix Killer, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 – October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing.
Instead, the poisoned Halloween candy narrative was what Best calls an example of a "contemporary legend." In his continued research into Halloween sadism, he has yet to find any actual incidents ...
Best has only found five cases of death by contaminated Halloween candy in the United States. One was an isolated act of filicide: a father intentionally poisoned his son to get life insurance ...
Zeman and Mills travel to Houston, Texas, to investigate the urban legend of poisoned candy. Though they dismiss the widespread belief that strangers have handed out poisoned candy to neighborhood children, Zeman and Mills describe Ronald Clark O'Bryan , a man who poisoned his own son for insurance money and used the urban legend to deflect ...