As an 80s kid I remember the urban legends and my parents combing through my candy every year. Strangely, my mom always found the Milk Duds suspicious, but never the raisins.
As a 90s kid. They still checked it to make sure nothing was tampered with. Mom took the reeses stepdad took the snickers. I called them out one yr and then it was called tribute. So they got half (of their preferred candy) from mine and my siblings haul.
My parents were suspicious of almond joys and twix. I could never have either because they'd snap them up and "hide them in their bedroom". I want my Twix back, mother!!!
It's weird how the paranoia around stranger danger and Halloween came from an even more unsettling fact; that you can't even trust the people closest to you.
I remember being 6, 1986, and hanging out in the shop my mom worked at in suburban Wisconsin. An adult was going door to door warning parents of temporary tattoos laced with LSD being given to kids. At the time, totally freaked all of us out. In retrospect, why would someone waste their drugs like this?? Ah, the 80s...
This one triggered me. As a father I can't even comprehend the thought of ever hurting a child, especially my own, and especially for something as stupid as money.
As a parent I have a difficult time watching documentaries dealing with parents harming/killing their kids. I'm glad Simon dealt with that part factually and quickly.
Human are complex creature my friend people have done worst things. Because u can't imagine doin something to others children doesn't mean everyone can. As they say humans are capable of doing extreme good to extreme evil acts.
Finding home baked goods on Halloween is rare but an absolute treasure when you find the one house that still gives out fresh/ warm treats. There is one house in particular that goes all out on decorating their yard and at the end of the walkway you get a cup of hot chocolate from a cauldron! it’s damn near winter by the time Halloween arrives in my town, that hot chocolate is pure gold 💕😍
I remember when I was a kid, my dad asked us to show our candy to him, so he could open it for us, to ensure it was safe. He was less scared about drugs in the candy, he was more scared of us getting razor blades, or even things like rat poison or cyanide (while he wasn’t super familiar with cyanide, he was very familiar with the garlicy or rotten fish smell of certain rat poisons). He was no nonsense about the drugs thing, because “why would anyone waste his drugs on kids they may never see again”. When we were older, he told us a news story he read about; a kid killed by his Halloween candy, but by his own father, for insurance money, this story. That was what made him scared; not of us getting killed by random poisoners, but by other children getting killed by their own parents, for their own greed. He wanted other children to be safe, including us, hence why he always opened the candy for us, sniffed it, and oftentimes asked us to let him have some before we ate it, especially ones like Reeses or candy with a softer middle. At the time, we called it “dad tax”, thought he just wanted candy, or us to not eat as much candy. It took me years to realize that he was testing it for poison, eating some of it before we did. He was literally risking his own skin for us, and… that made me love my dad more. Plus, Reeses was his favorite, and we didn’t like them, so we didn’t mind giving them to him or splitting it. I love my dad, and the fact that he risked his own life for us, in a way so subtle that it didn’t spike our childhood anxieties, it made me respect him and love all the more. He’s kinda my hero.
My elderly neighbor gave me a bag of candy when I was 6, it had pills in it. I gave it to my parents, they freaked out and it turns out the old feller next door just made a mistake with his heart medicine, dodged a bullet there
@@madisonbrown8851 I don't think political lines have much do with it, but I could be wrong. I'm more open to trusting strangers than the adults in my life, and most are conservative, but I think it's correlation instead of causation.
The parents in my village always confiscated any homemade candies on Hallowe'en; not out of safety, but because they wanted the fudge, candied apples, popcorn balls, etc.
Yup, Miss Betsy was an older lady who lived on our street and she would hand out homemade taffy. We would always hit her house first to make sure we got some before she ran out.
To this day, as a 38 year old man, I know if I tell my mother that no child was ever poisoned by a stranger on halloween, she will hit me with a chancla, and say "you don't know! You don't know nothing!"
I've always found it slightly amusing how even other violent criminals seem to condemn those who target children. Just the Idea of a guy who killed 3 other people saying that going after kids is just too far sparks some dark humor in me. It just makes me think that if Keith Richards told you that you need to ease off the drugs, you would basically say "Man, I must really be wasted if he's telling me to cool it."
I recall hearing somewhere that Carrie Fisher had been hitting the drugs so hard during filming Blues Brothers that John Belushi of all people told her she needed to slow down. Sort of a similar thing to your example.
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited. Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people. Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death. Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik. And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets. Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men? I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking. They own youtube too after all.
@@someguy6076 Good point, speaking as an accused former drug trafficker turned drug counselor. Returning to the OP's question, my speculation would be that most murderers are made, not born. Therefore, they live with some memory of being an "innocent" child who was "turned bad" by some abusive adult. Therefore, they establish a world view that any adult who "gets it" may very well be another of the "baddies," just like the murderer or their abuser, whereas any abused child is like them when they were still "innocent," but has now been "ruined"
@@MarcillaSmith No, adults can defend themselves, while children can not. That's the whole reason. Criminals who abused children are not hated by the other criminals, they're despised, there's a huge difference. I wouldn't particularly like a guy who killed a deer with a bow and some arrows. Like, why do you need that in your life? What's wrong with you? But I would still acknowledge that it takes skill and a certain amount of guts. If he killed it with artillery though, I'd be tempted to at least smack him around a bit.
@@beastlypear2594 I lived in Houston and had just turned six years old. It was probably my earliest actual memory of trick or treating. It was all over the news here, so much so that even I had heard of it.
@@HeilRay They caught the Tylenol poisoner. If I remember correctly, it was a woman who bought several bottles and tainted some of the capsules with fish tank cleaner. She put all but one bottle back on the shelf and gave a tainted capsule from the last bottle to her husband. That's why OTC drugs have those paper/foil seals inside.
That would have to be rich just to afford it. Even people in rich neighborhoods wouldn't be able to afford to give away $10+ each edibles they barely give away candy anymore.
@@keybladerasta4142 when you grow it, it’s not expensive, but it’s still laborious, it’s time spent. Why would you give away your goodies you spent time making to a kid that you’ll never see in your life again? Let’s say, you have all the ingredients to make ramen, so no cost, but you have to make it from scratch. Would you give away bowls of ramen, that you spent 5 hours making, to random kids you see on the street and you’ll never see again? But let’s say you don’t grow it and buy it. Then it gets expensive. So now take the ramen example but you have to buy the ingredients. See? It’s not likely that someone would do it, it would be a waste of money and more importantly, time.
I was 12 years old in Houston when that happened. The next year they gave out paper money that you could buy candy at the stores with, 2 and 3 cent. It sucked.
@@hannibalburgers477 I am paranoid about my own family. I honestly think my sister would poison me if she could profit and get away from it. So I do not tend to trust certain family members.
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited. Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people. Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death. Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik. And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets. I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking. They own youtube too after all.
@@lukeg.8311 it’s called gallows humor. I doubt most think that the murder of the little boy is humorous. However poking fun at or making light of the death of the child’s murderer isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Ronald O’Bryan used to work on my dad’s eyeglass prescriptions. My dad got to know him well enough that he sold him one of his old cars. He said he always seemed normal. Just goes to show you you never know what people are capable of.
My sister worked with his ex-wife, years after this, and knew their daughter fairly well. It was always hard on them, but they were a happy family again at that time.
As a kid in the 80s, I remembered when we got back home from trick Or treating, my parents would turn out my bag of candy and throw away anything unwrapped or looked tampered with. Now I know why.
As a kid my parents always made sure my candy was safe. It doesn't even seem real that a father would go as far as to poison his own son just for money.
Yeah that's why I always check the candy I get , ion trick or treat anymore but when I was younger I always checked my candy for anything that looked suspicious like an open plastic or plastic that looked glued togheter,
I was 7 years old and living in Houston when this happened. Yup, completely changed how Halloween happened from then on. Everyone was scared and we didn't know what to trust.
I’m from Houston and we are the same age. You’re absolutely right. Halloween was never the same after this horrible murder. I don’t think I ever “trick or treated” again.
As I mentioned in a later comment. All our teachers asked us if we had Pixy Stix and asked us to turn them in for analysis. It was wild. I also remember that when the truth came out my parents didn't tell me what was going on and were content to leave me with fear of random poisoners. Luckily, my precocious reading skills helped me read about the facts in the Chronicle.
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited. Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people. Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death. Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik. And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets. I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking. They own youtube too after all.
This thing really had impact here in Canada. I remember when I was a kid. Always was scared the candy I ate might be filled with razor blade or some kind of poison.
For me my parents always told me to check each candy before eating, they wanted to let me eat it without having to wait for them to check all the candy themselves I think.
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited. Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people. Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death. Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik. And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets. Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men? I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking. They own youtube too after all.
@@truth5705 those are different from these videos. Common sense from the videos he has at moment is that he has picked topics that are known. Maybe provide him the info and see what happens but my question would be do you have a youtube channel talking about it if not why expect others to do so?
@@truth5705 maybe he hasn't heard of em. I didn't hear about few you mentioned so chances are he might not as well. Maybe everyones flooding him with stories. I'm sure if hes aware of these then maybe he might but thats in him. It would be nice if they were covered but we can't judge on that assumption at the moment. Send him some of the info maybe he will be interested.
@@WASTHATABULLET Neith Yagoda or Kaganovich are household names, Himmler is, yet Yagoda has killed more than 3 times as many people. The very least you can do is admit it's strange.
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited. Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people. Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death. Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik. And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets. Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men? I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking. They own youtube too after all.
@@truth5705 he doesnt have a video about j edgar hoover, hes protecting the FBI! All them brain cells up in your skull and thats what you use them for. Pathetic.
Here in America, we love our mad hysteria. I remember my city was debating night time trick or treat. Local news tried using my aunt's murder as reason against it. She wasn't killed on Halloween, and she was killed during the day by Michael Lee Harrington.
When growing up in the early to late 1980's I remember it was just something normal that my parents checked each piece of my candy on Halloween and anything where the seal wasn't perfect they threw out. I never even thought about it. It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned that the ONLY times that poisoning had happened had been at the hands of their own parents. And that no strangers had poisoned kids. Interesting and sick world we live in. Good to see the actual physical case that influenced my childhood Halloween told. And Trick or Treating is the way to go. Trunk or Treat you can't decorate like you can your house.
Well, he protested his innocence until the very end. But there's thousands or perhaps millions of stories throughout history of parents killing children or children killing parents. In the Ottoman Empire, which a new sultan was picked, all of his brothers were killed to prevent succession wars. This could mean dozens of boys, even infants, being killed considering sultans also had large harems with lots and lots of concubines. Not to mention abortions. Kids don't even have a chance to breathe before being tossed in the name of inconvenience.
There was one case in 1970 in Detroit where a 4 year old supposedly ingested candy tainted with heroin and died, it later emerged that he'd gotten into his uncles stash and his relatives sprinkled some onto his Halloween candy to cover for the uncle
So a bunch of people from a church parking their cars in a church parking lot and setting up "candy stations" is a "really bad idea"? Let me guess, youve never been part of one.
@@dezznutz3743 I tried. I bought a 2nd hand ice cream van, hitched my wood chipper to it and parked it outside the nearest school. I tried telling the police officers that they were too old to be eating sweets, but they still forced me out of the van at gunpoint and took it all. (Kidding! The UK never really got into the Halloweeen candy thing, but we did have lots of public safety stuff about not accepting sweets from strangers)
\A Trick or Treat trail doesn't sound bad actually. I run a trick or treat house with my friends every year (The one year we didn't have it the kids were looking for us so we have a responsibility to the neighborhood) You can't decorate a car like you can a house, so Trunk or Treat never caught on. But a trail you can have a little section that is yours on the trail and it also gives a nature feel too.
Deacon of church and choir member kills kid with tainted candy. Parents: neighborhood trick or treating is bad! Let's take our kids to a place full of deacons and choir members and get candy from their cars!!
@@garok2412 not really, it shows the bigotry Christians have in thinking that being Christian means you are garunteed to be a good person and everyone else is evil.
@@t.c.thompson2359 That's not bigotry. People tend to trust their congregation and feel safer in a group of like minded people that they most likely already have a relationship with.
I remember someone writing a letter into the metro (a free British newspaper) saying that all kids who go trick or treating grow up to live on handouts and benefits because as kids they were taught it was ok to beg for food. She sounds the type that would hand out poison sweets to teach kids not to beg
90’s kid here: I also remember my parents going through my candy for anything that looked suspicious. I always wondered if that was just a story that adults invented to take their favorite candies out of their kid’s bags (I suppose that last part is somewhat true haha)
Hearing Simon quip "... Because isn't death hiLARious..." Was the most perfect thing for me right now to help me prep for work.... Thank you, good sir, for all your hard work and time. You are a blessing.
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited. Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people. Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death. Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik. And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets. I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking. They own youtube too after all.
Ah, this takes me back. Memories of watching safety videos at school before trick or treating in Canada. "Beware of candy apples, they've got razor blades in them!" That's fine, I don't like candy apples anyway. But this case is proof that media only cares about the beginning of a case, "Child Killed By Halloween Candy" will terrify parents more than "Halloween Candy Poisoned by Father". There's a thought, how's about a video about the Satanic Panic of the '80's?
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited. Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people. Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death. Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik. And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets. Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men? I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking. They own youtube too after all.
@@kristianfagerstrom7011 "They" are people who unfortunately do bad things sometimes just like the rest of us. But most other people bad things get exposed were these people's bad things don't, they get buried and hidden. Have you ever heard any of the men I mentioned? Why haven't we when they were so bad?
I remember we went trick or treating when i was like 4 in Potomac, Maryland. This dude had a whole table of ghouls and monsters kind of like a haunted house and told us to take a seat like it was some nightmare dinner. I was 4 and my aunt was 12. That was the first memory of me thinking i was going to die.
There was one year I was pretty glad my parents made us check candy. The individual mini reese's cups we got from a friend's neighbor must have been pretty old, because the centers of them had gotten mealworms or something in them. It was a rather unpleasant experience, but at least I didn't just pop one into my mouth without looking carefully
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited. Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people. Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death. Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik. And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets. I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking. They own youtube too after all.
In the US the day after Halloween the landscape is littered with lovely apples. Kids chuck them for fear of razor blades. Everyone's Mum has a story of a friend biting into an apple then seeing a common pin or a razor blade. I grew up in a small town so, I was fortunate enough to know the older people who handed out homemade treats. One of my fondest childhood memories was helping the neighbour lady make popcorn balls every year.
I remember this case, it was a huge story. If I remember correctly, the insurance company offered pay the mother the policy to the mother. She refused to cash out the life insurance policy.
I grew up in Deer Park Texas... I was born a bit after this happened but I assure you it was still forefront on people's minds well into the 80's when I was trick or treating.
I don't understand why no parent questioned why the pixie styx were stapled closed. We have them in the uk, though they're called sherbet straws here, and I've never seen them stapled closed.
This reminds me of the Forensic Files episode when the father strangled his little son one morning for an insurance payout. In both cases, the fathers were facing financial ruin due to their overspending and had stolen from their employers. This insect got off way too easy, way easier than what he did to his poor son.
I grew up in deer park & went trick or treating as a kid. Good times. Even costumes @ school but this was a very big story & Halloween was kind of a touchy subject there. There was alot of people against halloween & even refused to give out candy in celebration. I hated this guy for making something so much fun so hard to do for us kids
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Timothy would have graduated high school with me. Deer Park class of '84. I didn't know him, but it kills me inside knowing this happened to an innocent child. RIP
I went trick or treating as a child, but after finding straight pins in a homemade popcorn ball, I literally lost my appetite for it. After that I stayed home and handed out candy to other kids (store bought only) and took my share from that.
I don’t exactly think trick or treating is dangerous, but why do we think someone is crazy if they do? We grow up knowing it’s not smart to take food from strangers, that’s just a general fact of life, and we also grow up celebrating a holiday that is literally just taking food from strangers.
This is my hometown. Halloween wasn't popular there at all. But in the late 80's and early 90's it all changed. Now the whole town is full of gangs. It's a shame.
When i was in elementary i remember my PE coach talking about in his neighborhood there was some guy that got arrested because on halloween he gave out apples with thin razor blades in them
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited. Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people. Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death. Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik. And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets. I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking. They own youtube too after all.
People have laced candies with poison, LSD, constipation medication, razor blades and needles in apples and candy bars. No one has been seriously injured though. Probably should thank the urban legend as it is probably the reason parents check their children's candy before they eat it
Growing up in the 80s/90s, we definitely weren't allowed to eat any of our Halloween candy until our parents inspected it. I don't feel deprived of my childhood by having to wait a few minutes. 😂
I grew up in the mid-late 80’s. I remember going with my friends and cousins with our parents to the local high school gym to have our candy x-rayed. I hated it! Lol! We would stand in line forever. But now as an adult I can see why. When I was 9 we had a guy attack and do some pretty nasty things to a 7 year old girl in our town. After that we only went trick-or-treating at our family’s homes. The cruelty of people never ceases to amaze me.
I remember hearing about this when I was a kid, but the general rule was sealed packaging and I was encouraged to check if anything seems off about it. Funny enough that I still check all of my stuff to see if it seems off to me, I tend to be a tad bit paranoid...
Personally I've always found trick or treating kind of strange when the rest of the year children are told not to speak to strangers, and not to take sweets or chocolate from strangers, yet once a year we actively encourage them to do just that. I don't mind the tradition, and appreciate that it's the one Pagan holiday the Church was unable to co-opt (though they did try), though it's now co-opted by capitalism anyway.
Thanks to this guy, I was barely allowed to trick or treat as a kid because my mother was sure we'd be killed (we lived in a town of maybe 5,000 people)
When I was a kid my mom would go through my Halloween candy checking for any sewing needles or suspicious signs of it being messed with... Makes a lot of sense though since there are some people that like to do things like stick needles on railings and stuff or the UK I believe recently had an issue with needles being put in strawberries...
Dennis Radar The BTK Was a Deacon too he was on the church computer bragging to police about his murders and the hilarious thing is he asked the police if they could track him on computer they lied to him and followed his IP address to the churches computer he tried getting off his charge by saying the police lied to him about not tracking a computer the DNA he left at his crime scenes tho proved Dennis was BTK psychopaths like to blend with society into leader roles and church gives a false idea of protection
My thoughts exactly I was sexually abused by someone who was a well respected member of church its the perfect place for those who want to hurt children to go so no one suspects them cause of "oh well he's a well respected church member who helps his church" philosophy
This happened in deer park. A place I lived up until a couple years ago. I just graduated DPHS and I’m attending San Jacinto community college. This is mentioned literally every spooky season and is precisely why my parents used to “comb my candies” to see if there was a switchblade in my lollipop... (they wanted to steal my Reece’s cups.) Funny enough I was born in 2002, making me 18 today. Anyways here you go serial killers. I’ve doxxed myself.
As an 80s kid I remember the urban legends and my parents combing through my candy every year. Strangely, my mom always found the Milk Duds suspicious, but never the raisins.
Weirdest thing
@@gavin3915 I strongly suspect that's OP's intended humorous implication lol. Took me a second to get it myself though so I feel you
To be fair, injecting poison into a milk dud would be far easier than into a raisin. Plus you could inject far more
@@gavin3915 top level deduction there, Ace
As a 90s kid. They still checked it to make sure nothing was tampered with. Mom took the reeses stepdad took the snickers. I called them out one yr and then it was called tribute. So they got half (of their preferred candy) from mine and my siblings haul.
My grandpa was always suspicious of Hershey bars and Twix. He personally tested at least four or five of each to ensure I was safe.
My parents were suspicious of almond joys and twix. I could never have either because they'd snap them up and "hide them in their bedroom". I want my Twix back, mother!!!
@@pumpkinlightsfanservice9484 these are the important memories haha
Sounds like his favorite candies were Hershey’s and twix
Well, he was clearly doing his due diligence!
Mine just steal the good candy like reeese cups and give me the shitty candy...
"Hey how much poison would kill a person and where can i buy some?"
" why do you ask?"
"No reason"
Truly a criminal mastermind
"dO yOu dO pOiSon?"
@@self-transforming_machine-elf i was about to say the same thing haha
What's it made of? What's it do? Why do they die?
@@self-transforming_machine-elf !0p0aqqa
At son’s funeral: “Can’t wait to buy a boat with all this sweet life insurance money!”
It's weird how the paranoia around stranger danger and Halloween came from an even more unsettling fact; that you can't even trust the people closest to you.
Statistics show that sexual assualt and murders are often done by those closest to you.
You’re more likely to be raped or murdered by someone you know, rather than a stranger.
RIP Timothy. I can't even imagine the pain and fear he must've felt. So cruel and tragic
I remember being 6, 1986, and hanging out in the shop my mom worked at in suburban Wisconsin. An adult was going door to door warning parents of temporary tattoos laced with LSD being given to kids. At the time, totally freaked all of us out. In retrospect, why would someone waste their drugs like this?? Ah, the 80s...
Check out M K ultra experiments. An entire town was dosed with LSD as an """"experiment"""".
I was afraid you were going to say. I bought all the temporary tats I could find
From what I heard... future addict costumers
@@andrewyoung2796 Since I was 6 that would be a no. 😁
@@devin7342 Yes. But you were always a precocious child❤️
This one triggered me. As a father I can't even comprehend the thought of ever hurting a child, especially my own, and especially for something as stupid as money.
Me too
As a parent I have a difficult time watching documentaries dealing with parents harming/killing their kids. I'm glad Simon dealt with that part factually and quickly.
Totally agree. I hurt when my kids bump a toe.
Human are complex creature my friend people have done worst things.
Because u can't imagine doin something to others children doesn't mean everyone can.
As they say humans are capable of doing extreme good to extreme evil acts.
I think what makes it worse is that it was for money. He killed his own child for money. It’s just horrific.
RIP to 35 years' worth of homemade treats, lovingly baked by well-meaning neighborhood grannies and instantly thrown away by paranoid parents.
If you give kids 35 year old treats, you can't blame the parents if they throw it away right in front of you lol.
I always wanted baked goods and candied apples for Halloween like I had seen on old TV.
I once had a homemade doughnut thrown away. I could have had a fast break that was wrapped instead but it looked so good.
At this point, if you're giving out homemade stuff on Halloween, you know it's getting thrown away.
Finding home baked goods on Halloween is rare but an absolute treasure when you find the one house that still gives out fresh/ warm treats. There is one house in particular that goes all out on decorating their yard and at the end of the walkway you get a cup of hot chocolate from a cauldron! it’s damn near winter by the time Halloween arrives in my town, that hot chocolate is pure gold 💕😍
I remember when I was a kid, my dad asked us to show our candy to him, so he could open it for us, to ensure it was safe. He was less scared about drugs in the candy, he was more scared of us getting razor blades, or even things like rat poison or cyanide (while he wasn’t super familiar with cyanide, he was very familiar with the garlicy or rotten fish smell of certain rat poisons). He was no nonsense about the drugs thing, because “why would anyone waste his drugs on kids they may never see again”. When we were older, he told us a news story he read about; a kid killed by his Halloween candy, but by his own father, for insurance money, this story. That was what made him scared; not of us getting killed by random poisoners, but by other children getting killed by their own parents, for their own greed. He wanted other children to be safe, including us, hence why he always opened the candy for us, sniffed it, and oftentimes asked us to let him have some before we ate it, especially ones like Reeses or candy with a softer middle. At the time, we called it “dad tax”, thought he just wanted candy, or us to not eat as much candy. It took me years to realize that he was testing it for poison, eating some of it before we did. He was literally risking his own skin for us, and… that made me love my dad more. Plus, Reeses was his favorite, and we didn’t like them, so we didn’t mind giving them to him or splitting it. I love my dad, and the fact that he risked his own life for us, in a way so subtle that it didn’t spike our childhood anxieties, it made me respect him and love all the more. He’s kinda my hero.
Long ass comment
Oh please. He just wanted some candy! 😂
That was legit so wholesome omg, happy ur dad was so great 😭❤️
what kind of person doesn't like Reese's ?
@@YoungDeathWish people allergic to peanut butter
My elderly neighbor gave me a bag of candy when I was 6, it had pills in it.
I gave it to my parents, they freaked out and it turns out the old feller next door just made a mistake with his heart medicine, dodged a bullet there
aww, poor guy. glad you dodged that!
How did the old guy react when informed of the mistake?
So did he. Because his medication wouldn't have worked very well in the coming days
"Parents were trying to protect their children from a threat that simply didn't exist" Thanks for summing up the 90's, Simon
Parents (especially conservative ones) still participate in the fear-mongering to this day
And 2021/21 as well now.
Never gonna stop
@@jordangould4763 What are you talking about?
@@madisonbrown8851 I don't think political lines have much do with it, but I could be wrong. I'm more open to trusting strangers than the adults in my life, and most are conservative, but I think it's correlation instead of causation.
The parents in my village always confiscated any homemade candies on Hallowe'en; not out of safety, but because they wanted the fudge, candied apples, popcorn balls, etc.
we used to make popcorn balls when i was a kid. the burns on my hands were usually healed up by thanksgiving
I would have given it to them anyway. >_
Yup, Miss Betsy was an older lady who lived on our street and she would hand out homemade taffy. We would always hit her house first to make sure we got some before she ran out.
Lol. Sounds like they, are the ones who killed Halloween!
You live in a village? That’s pretty awesome
“Then, in his father’s arms he went limp and unresponsive.”
My empathy at that line was misplaced.
I feel like this is a spoiler...yet it's vague
Ur gross
@@wokejesus6501 wuh?
@@wokejesus6501
Name checks out, shuddup.
Oh I just worked out, people are reading the comments before watching the whole thing.
"It wasn't me, it must've been some sicko who's out there poisoning Halloween candy"
"Sir, you're that sicko"
To this day, as a 38 year old man, I know if I tell my mother that no child was ever poisoned by a stranger on halloween, she will hit me with a chancla, and say "you don't know! You don't know nothing!"
D do
Mine would say there always has to be a first.
Who needs poison when you beat your own kids with shoes?
You know nothing John snow 🤷🏾♂️
I mean tbf, we don’t 😂 Technically until we know someone did we never know whether anyone ever has or not
I've always found it slightly amusing how even other violent criminals seem to condemn those who target children. Just the Idea of a guy who killed 3 other people saying that going after kids is just too far sparks some dark humor in me.
It just makes me think that if Keith Richards told you that you need to ease off the drugs, you would basically say "Man, I must really be wasted if he's telling me to cool it."
I recall hearing somewhere that Carrie Fisher had been hitting the drugs so hard during filming Blues Brothers that John Belushi of all people told her she needed to slow down.
Sort of a similar thing to your example.
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
They own youtube too after all.
Regarding your Keith Richard analogy, on the other hand ... could you possibly ask for a better informed expert though ??
@@someguy6076 Good point, speaking as an accused former drug trafficker turned drug counselor.
Returning to the OP's question, my speculation would be that most murderers are made, not born. Therefore, they live with some memory of being an "innocent" child who was "turned bad" by some abusive adult. Therefore, they establish a world view that any adult who "gets it" may very well be another of the "baddies," just like the murderer or their abuser, whereas any abused child is like them when they were still "innocent," but has now been "ruined"
@@MarcillaSmith No, adults can defend themselves, while children can not. That's the whole reason. Criminals who abused children are not hated by the other criminals, they're despised, there's a huge difference.
I wouldn't particularly like a guy who killed a deer with a bow and some arrows. Like, why do you need that in your life? What's wrong with you? But I would still acknowledge that it takes skill and a certain amount of guts. If he killed it with artillery though, I'd be tempted to at least smack him around a bit.
The Tylenol tamperings in 1982 added to the hysteria. I remember that Halloween. All you could hear about was poison candy.
my dad would tell me about it, he lived in a small town though so they never really worried about it
Its scary that person was still never caught...
Like to hope they suffered a stroke or got in a deadly car accident because it hasnt happened again..
Simon, you should do a Causual Killer or something on the Tylenol Tamperings.
@@beastlypear2594 I lived in Houston and had just turned six years old. It was probably my earliest actual memory of trick or treating. It was all over the news here, so much so that even I had heard of it.
@@HeilRay They caught the Tylenol poisoner. If I remember correctly, it was a woman who bought several bottles and tainted some of the capsules with fish tank cleaner. She put all but one bottle back on the shelf and gave a tainted capsule from the last bottle to her husband. That's why OTC drugs have those paper/foil seals inside.
Ironic that he washed down the cyanide with kool-aid...
Yeah that's what I thought! He Jim Joned his son!
@@golfgrabu I mean, it wasn't Kool-aid that Jim Jones used, but still funny.
@@blueashke so you find a father murdering his own child funny?
@@DragonGateDesign of course not. I meant that the Jim Jones joke was morbid-funny.
Call it the Jonestown Chug.
I still laugh at the idea of someone giving out edibles.
That would have to be rich just to afford it. Even people in rich neighborhoods wouldn't be able to afford to give away $10+ each edibles they barely give away candy anymore.
Like the most absent-minded stoner in the world. Can’t figure out why his edibles keep ‘going missing’ and all he can find is fruit snacks.
Pot edibles are so expensive that no one would want to give one away, especially since they'd not see the kid high af.
pfp checks out!
How is cooking up a bunch of leaf expensive
@@keybladerasta4142 when you grow it, it’s not expensive, but it’s still laborious, it’s time spent. Why would you give away your goodies you spent time making to a kid that you’ll never see in your life again?
Let’s say, you have all the ingredients to make ramen, so no cost, but you have to make it from scratch. Would you give away bowls of ramen, that you spent 5 hours making, to random kids you see on the street and you’ll never see again?
But let’s say you don’t grow it and buy it. Then it gets expensive. So now take the ramen example but you have to buy the ingredients.
See? It’s not likely that someone would do it, it would be a waste of money and more importantly, time.
@@alorockss you're wasting you're breath on me mate obviously pot heads don't give hoon to kids do u understand what rasta is
@@keybladerasta4142 It'll still get you a stay in the greybar motel here so yeah, it's expensive.
I was 12 years old in Houston when that happened. The next year they gave out paper money that you could buy candy at the stores with, 2 and 3 cent. It sucked.
Interesting quick fix tho to keep the tradition and kids happy tho in a way….. I mean coulda been like no mo Halloween xD
So the moral of the story is to ONLY take candy from strangers, not people you know. 😉
The white van has candy and puppies,.
Did you seriously joked about something this terrible
@@hannibalburgers477 I am paranoid about my own family. I honestly think my sister would poison me if she could profit and get away from it. So I do not tend to trust certain family members.
@@hannibalburgers477 yes. Yes I did.
Strangers are frens you haven't met yet. Nobody is trustworthy, not even myself.
This makes me think you should do an episode about the Tylenol poisonings.
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik.
And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
They own youtube too after all.
I believe he already did.
He did a LEGENDARY piece on it on Business Blaze.
Well, I think I'm off to business blaze, then
@@truth5705 How much is the CIA paying you to spread this propaganda?
“O’Brian was excecuted by lethal injection”
*Ironic*
you're sick. this vid ain't funny.
@@lukeg.8311 irony doesn’t always have to associate with humor
@@lukeg.8311 it’s called gallows humor. I doubt most think that the murder of the little boy is humorous.
However poking fun at or making light of the death of the child’s murderer isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
@@ericaschaidt8588 True. After my grandmother was murdered, my brother and I came up with a band name: "The Strangled Grandmas."
He should've been force fed his own pixy sticks.
So that's the dude who put a frag grenade in my snickers
@@jfkdidntlos791 he put a handgun in my skittles
For me it was the opposite. I threw a frag grenade then it exploded in chocolate
He put a knife in my snickers
@@Skye-sam-and-devon Happens to the best of us
he put a schweur gustav in my damn nerds
Simon in 2020: "Death isn't funny Danny, we've talked about this!"
Simon in 2021: "Death is hilarious and i made a podcast about it"
Touche!!!👌😷
Every time we mention Danny he has another wild thing happen to him
Death isn't funny... it's hilarious.
A year changes a man
He gets almost as funny on Casual Criminalist as Business Blaze sometimes.
Ronald O’Bryan used to work on my dad’s eyeglass prescriptions. My dad got to know him well enough that he sold him one of his old cars. He said he always seemed normal. Just goes to show you you never know what people are capable of.
😲😳 wow.
My mom rode the bus with him. They were seat buddies
@@mbell985 :O
@@gohom3882 emoji stroke go brrr
My sister worked with his ex-wife, years after this, and knew their daughter fairly well. It was always hard on them, but they were a happy family again at that time.
As a kid in the 80s, I remembered when we got back home from trick
Or treating, my parents would turn out my bag of candy and throw away anything unwrapped or looked tampered with. Now I know why.
Yep we had good parents😊
As a kid my parents always made sure my candy was safe. It doesn't even seem real that a father would go as far as to poison his own son just for money.
My brother found a sewing needle in a twissler once, he bit into it and his teeth caught the needle!! He was okay but some people are weirdos!!!
Yeah that's why I always check the candy I get , ion trick or treat anymore but when I was younger I always checked my candy for anything that looked suspicious like an open plastic or plastic that looked glued togheter,
Maybe they just lost their needle in the candy? . . .
@@jugz9130 “ion”
@@jordanhooton2650 ion= I dont
@@jugz9130 just say I don’t :/
I was 7 years old and living in Houston when this happened. Yup, completely changed how Halloween happened from then on. Everyone was scared and we didn't know what to trust.
Wow that's really scary
I was born in 1975 in Houston and never got to TrT. What an asshole.
I’m from Houston and we are the same age. You’re absolutely right. Halloween was never the same after this horrible murder. I don’t think I ever “trick or treated” again.
As I mentioned in a later comment. All our teachers asked us if we had Pixy Stix and asked us to turn them in for analysis. It was wild. I also remember that when the truth came out my parents didn't tell me what was going on and were content to leave me with fear of random poisoners. Luckily, my precocious reading skills helped me read about the facts in the Chronicle.
I find it out, if someone especially kids are to be harmed it'll be by someone they know.
I want Biographics to go deep into this dark world of serial killers. I don't know why but I am addicted to this videos
Can't say I'm surprised you are my lord.
Still waiting for the toybox killer story to be made by him :(
Well that new podcast of his is similar
Simple answer : Humans have a craving for Violence
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik.
And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
They own youtube too after all.
I'll give away my weed to children. Said no person ever
@@tei4724 prove it or gtfo
Maybe... when cannabis edibles come in 1 lb bags for $10.
That weed costs alot I'm not giving that up to kids who can't use it
@@tei4724 fuckin... why? That just sounds like a massive waste of money, all so you could freak a couple of random kids out?
both a waste and an easy way to get arrested
This thing really had impact here in Canada. I remember when I was a kid. Always was scared the candy I ate might be filled with razor blade or some kind of poison.
@@TheOnlyRealAlf Alright fixed it for you big guy
For me my parents always told me to check each candy before eating, they wanted to let me eat it without having to wait for them to check all the candy themselves I think.
When the first photo of the Dad is literally his mugshot 😂
So glad someone noticed that
“The man that killed halloween”
Me: that bastard
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
They own youtube too after all.
@@truth5705 those are different from these videos. Common sense from the videos he has at moment is that he has picked topics that are known. Maybe provide him the info and see what happens but my question would be do you have a youtube channel talking about it if not why expect others to do so?
@@WASTHATABULLET Well he's covered Beria, why not these men when they were just as awful?
@@truth5705 maybe he hasn't heard of em. I didn't hear about few you mentioned so chances are he might not as well. Maybe everyones flooding him with stories. I'm sure if hes aware of these then maybe he might but thats in him. It would be nice if they were covered but we can't judge on that assumption at the moment. Send him some of the info maybe he will be interested.
@@WASTHATABULLET Neith Yagoda or Kaganovich are household names, Himmler is, yet Yagoda has killed more than 3 times as many people.
The very least you can do is admit it's strange.
I've always been gutted that I was never given ecstasy for Halloween when I was a kid 😭
After watching it I'm thinking maybe I should delete this comment but na
😂
O man that’s just so wrong but funny as hell
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
They own youtube too after all.
@@truth5705 he doesnt have a video about j edgar hoover, hes protecting the FBI!
All them brain cells up in your skull and thats what you use them for. Pathetic.
Houston had two candy men, there’s one on Dean Corll, aka The Pied Piper.
Sweet...
A podcast called Timesuck did a great episode on him
@@kurtjoseph6232 Yo that timesuck episode is awesome
Yup, I thought the same thing.
Well that just reminds me of the Candyman film.
I was expecting to hear "HEY! Vsauce, Michael here." after seeing you
Pot edibles are waaaaaaaaaay too precious to waste on kids. 😂😂
and food laced with lsd
Here in America, we love our mad hysteria. I remember my city was debating night time trick or treat. Local news tried using my aunt's murder as reason against it. She wasn't killed on Halloween, and she was killed during the day by Michael Lee Harrington.
When growing up in the early to late 1980's I remember it was just something normal that my parents checked each piece of my candy on Halloween and anything where the seal wasn't perfect they threw out. I never even thought about it. It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned that the ONLY times that poisoning had happened had been at the hands of their own parents. And that no strangers had poisoned kids. Interesting and sick world we live in.
Good to see the actual physical case that influenced my childhood Halloween told.
And Trick or Treating is the way to go. Trunk or Treat you can't decorate like you can your house.
So horrific how any father could do this to his own son.
The ultimate betrayal of trust.
Well, he protested his innocence until the very end.
But there's thousands or perhaps millions of stories throughout history of parents killing children or children killing parents. In the Ottoman Empire, which a new sultan was picked, all of his brothers were killed to prevent succession wars. This could mean dozens of boys, even infants, being killed considering sultans also had large harems with lots and lots of concubines.
Not to mention abortions. Kids don't even have a chance to breathe before being tossed in the name of inconvenience.
"Yeah I think I'm just gonna hand away these $50+ edibles to random kids for Halloween. Aint that just a swell idea!"
There's no escape from Simon Whistler videos!! Seems like every other video I watch has Simon Whistler in it. Simon Whistler haunts my dreams now.
There was one case in 1970 in Detroit where a 4 year old supposedly ingested candy tainted with heroin and died, it later emerged that he'd gotten into his uncles stash and his relatives sprinkled some onto his Halloween candy to cover for the uncle
I've always felt that "Trunk or Treat" was a really bad idea. I was always told NOT to accept candy from strangers in a car!!!
So a bunch of people from a church parking their cars in a church parking lot and setting up "candy stations" is a "really bad idea"? Let me guess, youve never been part of one.
@@dezznutz3743 because you can’t be a bad person and go to church :)
@@dezznutz3743 I tried. I bought a 2nd hand ice cream van, hitched my wood chipper to it and parked it outside the nearest school. I tried telling the police officers that they were too old to be eating sweets, but they still forced me out of the van at gunpoint and took it all.
(Kidding! The UK never really got into the Halloweeen candy thing, but we did have lots of public safety stuff about not accepting sweets from strangers)
\A Trick or Treat trail doesn't sound bad actually. I run a trick or treat house with my friends every year (The one year we didn't have it the kids were looking for us so we have a responsibility to the neighborhood) You can't decorate a car like you can a house, so Trunk or Treat never caught on. But a trail you can have a little section that is yours on the trail and it also gives a nature feel too.
No it’s okay to take the candy if you don’t get inside
Deacon of church and choir member kills kid with tainted candy.
Parents: neighborhood trick or treating is bad! Let's take our kids to a place full of deacons and choir members and get candy from their cars!!
except this comparison is inappropriate
Those kids should be good to go as long as they avoid their own parents when getting candy.
@@garok2412 not really, it shows the bigotry Christians have in thinking that being Christian means you are garunteed to be a good person and everyone else is evil.
@@t.c.thompson2359 That's not bigotry. People tend to trust their congregation and feel safer in a group of like minded people that they most likely already have a relationship with.
I remember someone writing a letter into the metro (a free British newspaper) saying that all kids who go trick or treating grow up to live on handouts and benefits because as kids they were taught it was ok to beg for food. She sounds the type that would hand out poison sweets to teach kids not to beg
90’s kid here: I also remember my parents going through my candy for anything that looked suspicious. I always wondered if that was just a story that adults invented to take their favorite candies out of their kid’s bags (I suppose that last part is somewhat true haha)
Same here, thankfully my parents never found anything in my candy. Or found any they wanted.
My mother always checked my candy. Found out as an adult it was all a ruse to steal my best candy.
2:10 - Chapter 1 - The O' bryans
3:45 - Chapter 2 - A shocking crime
5:00 - Chapter 3 - The investigation
6:15 - Chapter 4 - A matter of money
8:15 - Chapter 5 - The candy man
10:20 - Chapter 6 - The trial
11:45 - Chapter 7 - Aftermath
Hearing Simon quip "... Because isn't death hiLARious..." Was the most perfect thing for me right now to help me prep for work.... Thank you, good sir, for all your hard work and time. You are a blessing.
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
They own youtube too after all.
Truth, quit the crack.
@@nicholaslewis8594 you're the one who can't deal with the reality of the situation,
it's all facts, if you don't like them, that's your problem
@@truth5705 should I look into this?
@@goone9722 he is afraid to admit his anti-Semitic beliefs so hides behind loose phrases.
Ah, this takes me back. Memories of watching safety videos at school before trick or treating in Canada. "Beware of candy apples, they've got razor blades in them!" That's fine, I don't like candy apples anyway. But this case is proof that media only cares about the beginning of a case, "Child Killed By Halloween Candy" will terrify parents more than "Halloween Candy Poisoned by Father". There's a thought, how's about a video about the Satanic Panic of the '80's?
We were also instructed to only eat candy from people we knew.....🤣🤔😶
True, but the guy did try to poison other kids to cover his tracks.
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
They own youtube too after all.
@@truth5705 Who are "they"?
@@kristianfagerstrom7011 "They" are people who unfortunately do bad things sometimes just like the rest of us. But most other people bad things get exposed were these people's bad things don't, they get buried and hidden.
Have you ever heard any of the men I mentioned? Why haven't we when they were so bad?
I remember we went trick or treating when i was like 4 in Potomac, Maryland. This dude had a whole table of ghouls and monsters kind of like a haunted house and told us to take a seat like it was some nightmare dinner. I was 4 and my aunt was 12. That was the first memory of me thinking i was going to die.
@@you12150 ey man, i got uncles younger than me😂😂
@@you12150 southern african fathers dont stop lmao
I remember hearing about this from my parents as a little boy.
Halloween was never the same.
There was one year I was pretty glad my parents made us check candy. The individual mini reese's cups we got from a friend's neighbor must have been pretty old, because the centers of them had gotten mealworms or something in them. It was a rather unpleasant experience, but at least I didn't just pop one into my mouth without looking carefully
Simon 'I've got a specific youtube account geared to that topic' Whistler.
new true crime biographics, I wait for these every day
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik.
And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
They own youtube too after all.
Truth, quit the crack.
@@nicholaslewis8594 you're the one who can't deal with the reality of the situation,
it's all facts, if you don't like them, that's your problem
I blame the podcast My Favourite Murder. I’ve become an addict of the dark and twisty.
@@truth5705 agenda, much? Lol he'll get round to doing people in their time.
In the US the day after Halloween the landscape is littered with lovely apples. Kids chuck them for fear of razor blades. Everyone's Mum has a story of a friend biting into an apple then seeing a common pin or a razor blade.
I grew up in a small town so, I was fortunate enough to know the older people who handed out homemade treats. One of my fondest childhood memories was helping the neighbour lady make popcorn balls every year.
I remember this case, it was a huge story. If I remember correctly, the insurance company offered pay the mother the policy to the mother. She refused to cash out the life insurance policy.
Sad sad sad story.
The 8 Yr old boy in 1974, my age.
He missed out on so much life.
"Luck of the draw" some kids get dealt bad parents.
I grew up in Deer Park Texas... I was born a bit after this happened but I assure you it was still forefront on people's minds well into the 80's when I was trick or treating.
Pixy Styx were my favourite candy growing up. Still not scared.
Damn what a savage
I have some drugs if you have the Pixie Styx.. Lets "Make Halloween Great Again!"
My best friend at church would snort them like cocaine at parties.
I don't understand why no parent questioned why the pixie styx were stapled closed. We have them in the uk, though they're called sherbet straws here, and I've never seen them stapled closed.
This reminds me of the Forensic Files episode when the father strangled his little son one morning for an insurance payout. In both cases, the fathers were facing financial ruin due to their overspending and had stolen from their employers. This insect got off way too easy, way easier than what he did to his poor son.
Man I wish somebody was giving out THC candies when I was a kid that shits expensive.
Does Alice Cooper know that he’s a “Halloween poisoner”?
I remember the razor blades in candy apples scare in the 1970's.
Idk about that but he makes good music!
@@johnbockelie3899 Me too
ISTR his Poison video having some nice candy in it.
Sticky sweet suckers in the Halloween air!
Those Alice cooper cuts are hilarious 😂😂😂
I'm from Pasadena and grow up hearing about this story every year. Been to the guys house too. Kind of creepy.
did he give you his pixy stick
I grew up in deer park & went trick or treating as a kid. Good times. Even costumes @ school but this was a very big story & Halloween was kind of a touchy subject there. There was alot of people against halloween & even refused to give out candy in celebration. I hated this guy for making something so much fun so hard to do for us kids
This has to be the hardest working person on the internet
"Isn't death hilarious!" says the same man who says, "Death isn't funny, Danny!"
Death isn't hilarious.. Murder is \o/ lol
Are you sure danny is alive in the basement?
The part where they yelled “trick-or-treat” and threw candy at the protesters during the execution proves death is sometimes funny.
This is the kinda story I really have a hard time watching. How could anyone do that to any child let alone there own. It's truly sickening
As expensive as weed edibles are, any that end up in Halloween candy are definitely accidental.
Things that no stoner would ever do: give their pot away to little crotch goblins.
Crotch goblins sounds like a phrase really uncool people say and think its awesome. Just like “douche wagon”
@@HendersonHinchfinch ...you must be fun at parties 😐
@@hailey9909 haven’t heard that one since 2009
@@HendersonHinchfinch Why, you take a twelve-year hiatus from interacting with other people?
Crotch goblins sounds like a phrase really uncool people say and think it’s awesome. Just like “douche wagon”
He's the reason why my Mom never let us go trick or treat Never brought us any candy consisting of powder.
the amount of things simon is a part of is really commendable, love watching all the content :)
Business Blaze
Mega Projects
Side Projects
Top Tenz
Today I Found Out
Biographics
Geographics
Highlight History
Xplrd
Visual Politik EN
The Simon Whistler Show
I may have missed one.
Visual Politk EN is now hosted by someone else. The Simon Whistler Show hasn't had updated content for a while. His new podcast not included.
Timothy would have graduated high school with me. Deer Park class of '84. I didn't know him, but it kills me inside knowing this happened to an innocent child. RIP
Thank you for being among the minority here that seem to remember a young child was murdered by his father.
I went trick or treating as a child, but after finding straight pins in a homemade popcorn ball, I literally lost my appetite for it. After that I stayed home and handed out candy to other kids (store bought only) and took my share from that.
I certainly would have remembered which house handed out popcorn balls
I don’t exactly think trick or treating is dangerous, but why do we think someone is crazy if they do? We grow up knowing it’s not smart to take food from strangers, that’s just a general fact of life, and we also grow up celebrating a holiday that is literally just taking food from strangers.
This is my hometown. Halloween wasn't popular there at all. But in the late 80's and early 90's it all changed. Now the whole town is full of gangs. It's a shame.
I was living in Houston when this occurred. It was a HUGE deal. He changed a holiday's habits.
When i was in elementary i remember my PE coach talking about in his neighborhood there was some guy that got arrested because on halloween he gave out apples with thin razor blades in them
Simon is true subject of the Crown. He will colonize the whole of TH-cam.
The sun never sets on the Simonian Empire
I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
They own youtube too after all.
Truth, quit the crack.
@@nicholaslewis8594 you're the one who can't deal with the reality of the situation,
it's all facts, if you don't like them, that's your problem
Like a true Brit, he will Colonise everything in sight.
People have laced candies with poison, LSD, constipation medication, razor blades and needles in apples and candy bars. No one has been seriously injured though. Probably should thank the urban legend as it is probably the reason parents check their children's candy before they eat it
Nobody's going to hand out marijuana edibles at Halloween...that stuff's too expensive to give away...
Shouted "Trick or Treat" and showered the (death penalty) protesters with candy. God Bless Texas. 🤠
You what mate
YEE-HAW!!!!!
"HEY BESTIESSS THE GUY JUST DIED, HERE HAVE SOME CANDY"
Growing up in the 80s/90s, we definitely weren't allowed to eat any of our Halloween candy until our parents inspected it. I don't feel deprived of my childhood by having to wait a few minutes. 😂
I grew up in the mid-late 80’s. I remember going with my friends and cousins with our parents to the local high school gym to have our candy x-rayed. I hated it! Lol! We would stand in line forever. But now as an adult I can see why. When I was 9 we had a guy attack and do some pretty nasty things to a 7 year old girl in our town. After that we only went trick-or-treating at our family’s homes. The cruelty of people never ceases to amaze me.
I remember hearing about this when I was a kid, but the general rule was sealed packaging and I was encouraged to check if anything seems off about it. Funny enough that I still check all of my stuff to see if it seems off to me, I tend to be a tad bit paranoid...
I've been listening to casual criminalist while I fall asleep 😅 but I love how well audio balanced it is, I appreciate the production of it!
Personally I've always found trick or treating kind of strange when the rest of the year children are told not to speak to strangers, and not to take sweets or chocolate from strangers, yet once a year we actively encourage them to do just that. I don't mind the tradition, and appreciate that it's the one Pagan holiday the Church was unable to co-opt (though they did try), though it's now co-opted by capitalism anyway.
Nobody:
Simon: trickle treating
I really love your podcasts! I literally listen to them all day since im not a fan of silence😄
Silence is an awesome band. Why don't you like them?
Same. I find it too loud. It might be an Autism thing. IDK.
Lol my family “checked” almost every one of my candies before I could eat them on Halloween.
Thanks to this guy, I was barely allowed to trick or treat as a kid because my mother was sure we'd be killed (we lived in a town of maybe 5,000 people)
When I was a kid my mom would go through my Halloween candy checking for any sewing needles or suspicious signs of it being messed with... Makes a lot of sense though since there are some people that like to do things like stick needles on railings and stuff or the UK I believe recently had an issue with needles being put in strawberries...
The guy was a deacon in his church and sang in the choir. Sooo, trunk or treat at the church is safe? 🤔😁
Terrible job of putting those two together in that way.
Dennis Radar The BTK Was a Deacon too he was on the church computer bragging to police about his murders and the hilarious thing is he asked the police if they could track him on computer they lied to him and followed his IP address to the churches computer he tried getting off his charge by saying the police lied to him about not tracking a computer the DNA he left at his crime scenes tho proved Dennis was BTK psychopaths like to blend with society into leader roles and church gives a false idea of protection
My thoughts exactly I was sexually abused by someone who was a well respected member of church its the perfect place for those who want to hurt children to go so no one suspects them cause of "oh well he's a well respected church member who helps his church" philosophy
Monsters are everywhere
This man did this 5 miles from my old house. Dean Coral was murdered a brisk 5 minute walk from there also. God bless Texas
Wow! It’s amazing you grew to see adulthood. I can’t believe you were in such close proximity to such evil.
The irony of both murderers dubbed the “Candy Man,” not living that far away from each other, serial killer Dean Corll lived just across town.
be funny if they knew eachother.
@@dying101666 both funny and terrifying
This happened in deer park. A place I lived up until a couple years ago. I just graduated DPHS and I’m attending San Jacinto community college. This is mentioned literally every spooky season and is precisely why my parents used to “comb my candies” to see if there was a switchblade in my lollipop... (they wanted to steal my Reece’s cups.) Funny enough I was born in 2002, making me 18 today. Anyways here you go serial killers. I’ve doxxed myself.