Trick or treat In 1974, Ronald Clark O'Brien killed his own son Timothy Mark O'Brien in Texas. The boy died after eating a candy with potassium cyanide. As it turned out later, Timothy was insured for a tidy sum, which his father wanted to get from the insurance company after his son's death. To divert suspicion from himself, the father planted poisoned sweets in the bags of all his children. However, the investigation found out that in no house where there were children, they were not given such a brand of sweets. Ronald was sentenced to death in 1975, he was executed 9 years later 🤡 abracadabra