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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 8, 1975
Candy man sitting on death row
Associated Press
HOUSTON —They call him “the
candy man” on Huntsville’s death
row. To Houston children, he’s “the
man who ruined Halloween.”
He is Ronald C. O’Bryan and his
role in a year-old horror story may
have changed forever the traditional
childhood celebration of Hallo
ween.
O’Bryan was convicted last sum
mer of murdering his 8-year-old
son, Timothy, with poisoned trick-
or-treat candy. The youngster died
on Halloween night only a short
while after taking two gulps of
cyanide-laced confection.
Chilling memories of that Oc
tober night still linger in this city,
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forming the final persuasion tor
many parents and civic groups to
stop or to alter the trick-or-treat cus
tom.
Thousands of children, who last
Halloween went door-to-door col
lecting candy with the mock threat
of “trick or treat, ” this year will go to
carnivals, parties or just stay home.
“There are just too many nuts out
there to risk it any more,’ said one
father.
Officials in the Houston suburbs
of Bellaire, Missouri City, El Lago
and La Porte agree. Each commun
ity has officially discouraged trick-
or-treating.
In Deer Park, where the O’Bryan
family lived, school and city officials
plan a city-wide carnival for some
2,000 children.
Many other officials, who believe
the trick-or-treat tradition is just too
deeply ingrained to stop altogether,
are promoting an idea that will cut
the risks and keep the fun.
Instead of collecting candy on
their outing, thousands of children
will collect “punkin’ money ”, the
brainstorm of Mrs. Pate Nufer, a
Houston mother.
At her suggestion, several Hous
ton chain stores are printing sheets
of five-cent and two-cent coupons
which will be handed out to chil
dren instead of candy. The coupons
can be redeemed at stores for “any
thing but cigarettes and beer,’ said
Mrs. Nufer.
“I dreamed up punkinickels’ for
five-cent denominations and ‘pun-
kinduals for two-cent coupons, ” she
said. “I think it sounds better than
telling kids they’re trick or treating
for paper.”
Homes participating in the
coupon system will post a picture of
“Jolly Jack O’Lantern”, another
creation by Mrs. Nufer.
Her plan is being promoted by
the Houston area Jaycees who hope
up to 200,000 elementary school
children in Harris County will par
ticipate.
Mrs. Nufer said she believes the
program will “keep the fun in Hal
loween, but take the fear out. ”
O’Bryan, the 30-year-old man
convicted in the case that triggered
the trick-or-treat changes, will
spend Halloween this year on
Huntsville’s death row with 26
other men sentenced to death.
A Houston jury last June found
O’Bryan guilty of killing his son to
collect on more than $30,000 in life
insurance.
According to testimony, O’Bryan
distributed five packages of
poisoned candy during a trick-or-
treat outing. He gave one each to his
son and to his dauther.
Timothy was the only child to
sample the candy and an autopsy
showed the youngster ate enough
cyanide to kill several people.
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