![]() During my time here, I have been treated well by all T.D.C. God bless you all and may God’s best blessings be always yours. To those close to me, know in your hearts I love you one and all. To my loved ones, I extend my undying love. And I pray and ask God’s forgiveness for all of us respectively as human beings. Also, to anyone I have offended in any way during my 39 years, I pray and ask your forgiveness, just as I forgive anyone who offended me in any way. Therefore, I would forgive all who have taken part in any way in my death. This execution is one of those wrongs yet doesn’t mean our whole system of justice is wrong. ![]() “What is about to transpire in a few moments is wrong! However, we as human beings do make mistakes and errors. His last words were quite strange and really give insight as to the type of man Ronald was: It went accordingly just after midnight via lethal injection gatherers huddled outside the prison chanting “trick or treat” to the dead man. Ronald was sentenced to death for his crimes.Īfter multiple stays of his execution and appeal attempts, Ronald was set be executed on March 31st, 1984. With that in mind it took the jury not much time at all to find Ronald Clark O’Bryan guilty on 5 charges: one count of murder and four counts of attempted murder. Authorities never found out where he actually obtained the poison. Asking how to obtain it? How much to administer? This alone does not make a murderer but physical evidence was scarce in this case. The prosecution alluded to the prospect that over the past few months leading up to Timothy’s death, Ronald was almost obsessed with talking about cyanide. The defense relied heavily on conversations Ronald had with family, friends and co-workers. O’Bryan remained adamant about his innocence and plead not guilty to the charges. On November 5th, 1974, mere days after Timothy’s death, authorities felt they had enough evidence to arrest Ronald on suspicion of the murder of his son. It was soon found that Ronald had visited a chemicals store in Houston to ask about purchasing cyanide and in a brazen move, called the insurance company the day right after Timothy’s death to inquire about collecting. Ronald seem to make every mistake in the book and make next to no effort in covering his tracks. If one were to make two lists, one for innocence and one for guilt, the guilty column would be stacked overwhelmingly so. In total, the policies estimated value was $60,000. Due to this debt, O’Bryan decided the best course of action was to take out life insurance policies on his kids. Ronald also lost the house, was soon to lose his car, was behind on loan payments and had resorted to stealing from work to make some extra money. Ronald couldn’t seem to hold a job, landing over 20 of them in a 10 year time frame. It was found that Ronald was severely in debt. Ronald became the prime suspect.Īs the investigation grew, authorities were able to establish a motive for the murder. When authorities looked into the claim, they confirmed that the man who lived there was at work until 11:00 PM and could not have been involved. Once the group was out of site, Ronald claimed a hairy arm handed over 5 Pixy Stix from behind the door. The group remembered that no one answered the door when asking for candy but Ronald claimed he waited a little longer. Police went through the neighborhood where they trick or treated and Ronald finally pointed at a house. His initial claim was that he had gotten the candy from a house but couldn’t remember which one it was. In an even darker turn, the candy was said to have been given to the kids by none other then Timothy’s father, Ronald Clark O’Bryan. Each had a Pixy Stix with cyanide as well, each being a lethal dose. The obvious question police had where did this Pixy Stix come from? After speaking to the group of kids Timothy was out with, it was soon discovered that they too had received tainted candy, including Timothy’s sister. Potassium cyanide was found to be added to the top of the Pixy Stix in which Timothy consumed. It became clear to police early within the case that the pixy stix was the cause of the boy’s demise. Candy was handed over to the police for inspection. The town soon found themselves in a state of panic, fearing any one of their children may have been poisoned.
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