(creepy instrumental music) - Uh, hi. Let me lower myself. Thank you. Okay, so hi, my name is Bailey Sarian. You know, the one really big views. And every Monday I sit
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won't be in my costume. So don't get scared, okay. I don't know how you ghouls
function with these nails. I thought today we could
talk about the Candy Man. Today's story takes place
in Deer Park, Texas. A man by the name of Ronald
O'Bryan lived with his wife Daynene and their two children, a son named Timothy and their
daughter named Elizabeth. Ronald worked as an optician
at Texas State Optical in Sharpstown, Houston. Ronald also was a deacon at
the Second Baptist Church where he also sang in the choir, and he was in charge of
the local bus program. He seems like a great
man in the community, but you know what they say? The great ones are the most suspicious. So then Halloween night comes
around, October 31st, 1974. Ronald decided to take his
two children trick or treating in Pasadena, Texas to this
different neighborhood. I mean it wasn't too
far from where he lived. You know how you go to the
more expensive neighborhoods because they usually
give out the good candy, the full Snickers bars, not the minis. That's what they were doing. So Ronald and his two children, right, they go trick or treating. They also take their neighbor
and his two children. A little hangout time with the neighbor. (compact clacking) I need that. So the kids are all excited and they run up to their next home. How come with nails all
of a sudden I feel sassy like I wanna point at everything? Over there. So they go running up to
the door and they knock, "Trick or treat, oh my god." But the house looked empty. There was no one inside. The lights were all off. It was kinda dark in this home. So the kids are just waiting though because you know sometimes
just because the lights are off doesn't mean that nobody's home. So they're just waiting, wind blowing, a little bit of drizzle's coming down 'cause it's raining a little bit. They realize that nobody's home so of course the kids get
all antsy and they run off and they head to their next home. Now, Ronald decides to stay behind. I don't know how to do this. So then a few minutes
later, Ronald comes back. He eventually caught up with the group and showed off five, oh dear,
five 21-inch pixie sticks which he said he got from that house that every one abandoned. How am I gonna do this and talk? This is gonna be a nightmare. (image beeping)
(cheerful instrumental music) Okay anyways, back to the story. Ronald caught up with the group and showed off five 21-inch pixie stick which he said someone at
the house actually answered. Ronald's like, "You guys
shoulda waited a little longer "'cause this guy's giving
out 21-inch pixie sticks. "He's making it rain pixie sticks." So of course the kids are all
excited because I mean hey, those are some big ass pixie sticks, cool. Sugar. At the end of the night, Ronald gave his neighbor and his children, there was two of them, he
gave them each a pixie stick and he gave one to his son Timothy and one to Elizabeth, his daughter. Let me do this liner. Mm. Probably as good as we're gonna get. So once they were home, someone
came to the door (knocks) and they were, you know, knocking. It's still Halloween night. It was some kids, they
were trick or treating. And it was a 10 year old
boy who went to the church Ronald worked at. So once he recognized
this little boy he's like, "Oh, I have some candy to
give you, some pixie sticks. "I got these from the
neighbor, but they're leftover. "I can give them to these kids." So he gives the kid, I
think it's only one kid. I apologize. He gives the kid a pixie stick and then sends him on his way. So once they got all settled in at home, you know the kids, naturally, they wanna eat their candy right away and they ask their dad, Ronald, "Can we eat the candy, please?" And Ronald being the great
parent that he is was like, "Sure, you can have a piece
of candy but only one. "And then tomorrow you can go ham "and eat three pieces, you know. "But tonight you can only
eat one piece of candy." So Ronald actually picked
out the pixie stick for Timothy to eat. I don't know what his daughter picked 'cause she didn't have a pixie stick. It was just Timothy. So he's like here, "Eat this pixie stick." Which, by the way, I don't
know why you would pick a pixie stick for your child because it's just straight sugar and your kid's gonna be
wired and up all night. That's a terrible idea. So little old Timothy he's excited. He rips open that pixie stick. He tries to pour it into his mouth but you know how pixie sticks are. They kinda stick. They get stuck all the powder. Timothy's trying to pour it
into his mouth but it's stuck. So Ronald comes over
and helps out Timothy. He's kinda like wiggling the packaging so he could get it into his mouth. So finally they wiggle
that candy right out into Timothy's mouth. And then Timothy right away, he complained that the candy
tasted really gross, bitter, and kinda just nasty. He was like, "Meh." But he still ate it
because kids will be kids and they like candy. So Ronald was like, "Here,
have some of my Kool-Aid "to wash that bitter
taste out of your mouth." So this kid is just having a lot of sugar. Now a couple minutes later, poor old Timothy starts complaining that he has a tummy ache. So his stomach's hurting,
he's feeling really sick. He's like "Daddy, I don't feel so hot." And then not long after
Timothy runs to the bathroom and he just starts throwing
up all over the place. Then Timothy falls to the ground and he starts convulsing on the ground. What the hell's going on? So Ronald comes running in because he hears that
Timothy is just throwing up. He hears like a loud noise because Timothy just
like fell on the ground. So Ronald comes there
to try and comfort him. Ronald said that Timothy
just went limp in his arms. It's unclear who called
911 but 911 was called. Paramedics arrive and
they're gonna take Timothy to the hospital, but sadly
Timothy, poor little Timothy, he died before he reached the hospital. "Yeah, let's try and do
this crazy liner," I said. "It will be fun," I said. It's so hard. Poor little Timothy died
before he reached the hospital. So of course, because
like it's a small town, news got out that poor
little Timothy had died from what they believed was
poisoned Halloween candy. And naturally, all the parents panicked. Any of us would. Parents took all of their
kids Halloween candy. (cheerful instrumental music) I can't even open this. How do you function with these nails? Did I really not take into consideration how hard this was gonna be? A nail just popped off. Parents took all of their kids' candy, but all the kids were pissed. "I mean it's Halloween and I
don't even get to eat my candy. "Why did Timothy have to die
and ruin it for all of us?" is what they're thinking. I mean, they're children,
they're very full of themselves. And police were accepting all of the candy because they wanted to see how much candy out there was poisoned and hopefully kinda
put the pieces together and figure out was it just pixie sticks? Was it in all of the candy? Please give us all of your candy. So the parents just took everything and dropped it off at the police station. Now, luckily all of the candy was taken and brought to the police officers and they were able to prevent
anybody else from dying because all of the
candy was taken quickly. And plus, with kids, I mean
when you get a bag of candy, a pixie stick isn't gonna be
your first choice, you know. I mean, thank God. The police officers did notice that whoever was responsible for this was very just kinda sloppy. They opened up the pixie stick, they put whatever it was inside of it, and then they stapled it closed. So they were looking for any candy that had like a staple on it and it was only the pixie sticks. They found six of them that
had the staple on them. So naturally, police go to
Ronald and they're like, "Okay, show us the house. "Take us to the neighborhood. "Take us to the house that gave you "this goddamn pixie stick." But Ronald was stumped. He just couldn't seem
to find the house, like, and point it out to police officers. He couldn't exactly remember where it was. And he also said that
he never saw the face of the person responsible. He said that a hand just
emerged from the doorway, handed him the candy, and
he didn't see who it was. Ronald went onto say that the homeowner did not turn on the lights
but cracked the door and handed them the five pixie sticks. And he claimed that he
only saw a man's arm, which he described as hairy. Really giving police the dirty details, you know, wow. But he was confident that it was a man. So police are kinda
like, "Okay, sure, Ron." They're growing a little suspish. You don't know where the house is at? Come on. So a few days go by and
it was just becoming very frustrating for investigators because they weren't getting any answers. And they knew Ronald had the answers. I mean, he just needed to
remember which house was it so they could make an arrest. I mean, hello, who killed your son? Why don't you remember the house? Hello. So then police officers
meet up with Ronald again and they were like, "Okay Ronald, "you need to show us
where this house is at." And they were being pretty firm with him. "If you don't show us
where this house is at, "we think something is
kinda fishy around here." So this kinda freaks Ronald out. He's like, "Oh, okay. "So I just need to figure this out "'cause I don't want
them to think it's me." And taking Ronald out again
seemed to actually work because Ronald, all of a sudden was like, "Oh my God, wait. "I think I remember. "Let me take you there." So Ronald and the
investigators go to the home which gave them the candy. He pointed towards the house
and was like, "It's that one. "I remember. It was that one." So investigators go up to
the home, they're knocking, and the man who lived there wasn't home. So they go and they look
up, okay, who owns the home? Try and find all the
information that they can get so they can make an arrest for
this guy who killed the kid. So they find this man who owns the home. He works at an airport. Police go to where his work is at and they arrest the man in
front of his colleagues, in front of everyone. The mystery was over. Case closed. Tada. Thank you for coming to my show. Psych. So they bring the man in
for questioning, right, and he had a pretty strong alibi. I mean it was a solid alibi. He said that he was working that night. The only people that were home was his wife and his daughter, and they have turned out the lights early because they ran out of candy and they didn't wanna make kids
believe that they had candy. Leave us alone, turned out the lights. Police fact check this. They see time sheets. They see everything. It wasn't this guy. And he didn't have hairy arms. Now police were thinking, "Okay, it couldn't have
been the wife and daughter "because Ronald said it was a man." Police weren't believing it
was the wife and daughter, and they had no reason to
believe it was the wife and daughter because
Ronald stood by the fact that it was a man. So police did run an autopsy
report on poor little Timothy. It revealed that Timothy
had consumed enough cyanide to kill two people. So police are thinking, "Well
shit, this is real fishy." So word got back to investigators that Ronald was angry at his relatives. He was angry at his relatives
because they didn't stay up the night of Timothy's
funeral, which was odd. You see, Ronald had
written a song about Jesus and Timothy joining the Lord in heaven. And Ronald, he had grown
agitated when his grieving family didn't stay up late to watch a recording of the performance being
broadcasted on television. This made investigators kind of like, "Hmm, why is he acting all mad?" He didn't seem sad. He just wasn't reacting like you should when you're supposed to be grieving over the loss of your son. A little bit of time goes on and Ronald was not giving
any clues or answers to investigators so they're
like, "You know what? "We're gonna just dig around ourselves "and see like what's Ronald's deal. "Who is this Ronald guy? "Let's find out." So they do some research and they find some very
interesting information. So they find out that
little old Ronald over here, over the last 10 years, this
dude he held over 21 jobs. 21 jobs in 10 years. Do you understand that? So okay, it seems like
he has a really hard time holding a job. They also found that Ronald
was $100,000 in debt. Also, he was a suspect of theft at his job at the Texas State Optical place. His car was about to be repossessed. He had also defaulted
on several bank loans, and had the family home foreclosed on. So police were looking at this thinking, "Well, it looks like Ronald
was in some real shit." Hmm. Then they look a little bit
deeper and guess what they find? They realize that Ronald, his dumb ass, Ronald had recently taken
out life insurance policies on both of his children. Now it was only $10,000 per
child in January of that year, but then in September he
upped it to $20,000 per child, just one month before Halloween. Huh, so what are you gonna do, Ronald? Kill your children and get $40,000? Get this, because this is like the cherry on top of the cake, ice cream, mm-hmm. This guy is so stupid. I kid you not, Ronald called his insurers to ask about the payout
at 9 a.m. the morning, like the morning
following Timothy's death. He didn't even wait that long. Like his son just died and then he's like, "Hey yeah, so how am I
gonna get that money?" Ronald, what are you doing? So investigators are like, "Okay, we actually have a pretty good case "against this Ronald guy, right. "Like all signs are pointing to him." So police then get a warrant
and they search Ronald's home where they find a pair of scissors. Oh my God, scissors. On these scissors, there
was plastic residue attached which was similar to
the one that was found on the cyanide-laced sweets. So of course, Ronald was arrested and taken in for questioning. At this time, Ronald was
attending community college. I'm not sure what he was
like getting a degree in or anything like that, but he was attending community college. And one of Ronald's professors
came forward and said, "Yeah, this Ronald would ask
the weirdest questions in class 'like quote, 'What is more lethal, "'cyanide or another type of poison?'" Ronald, Ronald, dear sir, what
in the butt are you doing? It's like he wasn't even
trying to hide the fact that he was doing something. Another witness came forward
and this person worked at a chemical company and they told police that a man had come in
to buy some cyanide. The man from the store said
he couldn't identify Ronald but he remembered that
this customer was wearing a blue smock, like a doctor. Ronald, again, was an optician and that was the exact
uniform he wore to work. This was years before DNA testing and the contactless debit cards. So police couldn't exactly
pin the pixie sticks on Ronald's hands or prove
that he bought any cyanide. But these seem like pretty
strong leads, right? Ronald's maintained his innocence. He's like, "Nope, it wasn't me. "It was a person at that house." And technically there was no proof, so the press ended up
dubbing Ronald the Candy Man. The Candy Man. On June 3rd, 1975, the
jury took 46 minutes to find Ronald O'Bryan
guilty of capital murder and four counts of attempted murder. The jury took 71 minutes
to sentence him to death. Sorry Ronald, but like you tried to kill your kid for $20,000. I mean, come on. Get it together. Shortly after he was convicted,
his wife filed for divorce. There really wasn't much said about her. I think she was pissed
off, as she should be. Ronald O'Bryan was confined
to the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. Now it said that Ronald
was shunned and despised by his fellow death row
inmates for killing a child. The inmates reportedly petitioned to hold an organized demonstration
on Ronald's execution date to express their hatred of him. Then finally on March 31st,
1984, shortly after midnight, Ronald was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit. In his final statement, Ronald
maintained his innocence stating that he felt the
death penalty was wrong. And then he died. During the execution, a crowd
of 300 demonstrators gathered outside the prison and they cheered while some yelled, "Trick
or Treat!" (chuckles) Yeah, they yelled that while
Ronald was being executed. To the day Ronald was executed,
he maintained his innocence. He said, "I did not do this, goddammit." But what do you believe? Do you think Ronald was responsible? I'm gonna put on my hair
and I'll be right back. I'm supposed to be Elvira,
if you haven't caught on, and here's what's happening. I look like Elvira's cheap sister Elvuca. My boobs look nice though. I mean I guess that's all
that really matters here. Anyways, let me know your
thoughts of Ronald down below. Do you believe he should
have got the death penalty? Well, a lot of people say
that it was a little much, like he shouldn't have
gotten the death penalty. Luckily though, his daughter
did not eat the candy and the other kids who
got the pixie sticks did not eat the candy as well. So Timothy, sadly, was the
only one who passed away from this awful, awful, disgusting crime. How do you kill your own kid for $20,000? Like, I mean, no. You don't do that. A big thank you to Hunter a
Killer for partnering with me on today's video. But other than that, I hope
you have a wonderful day today. You make good choices. And make sure to check your candy because daddy might try to kill you. I'm a little disappointed. Alrighty, until next time. Bye. Oh, I can't do that.
I will never get over how great she is!!! She is so genuine and respectful when discussing sensitive subjects, but she presents stories in such a purposeful way. Not to mention her incredible makeup talent!
Bailey Sarian talks about the candy man this week and makes an announcement that for the month of October each murder mystery Monday will also be her transforming herself into something Halloween themed this week she transforms herself into the iconic horror host, Elvira.
Over this past year she has become my absolute favourite youtuber! Vibrant and different makeup consistently, lots of personality without having to shout and scream on camera, I’m so glad she’s finally getting the recognition she deserves!
Literally my favorite watch of the week. Has anyone started rewatching old Murder Mystery & Makeup videos yet? I’ve been holding off but I feel like I can start now.
I love her Monday and Saturday videos, she is gorgeous!
Oh I love Bailey so much!! Shes the only 'beauty guru' I watch consistently anymore..
I really like how she is serious and respectful about the cases, but is still lighthearted enough to make appropriate jokes and just all around fun enough to watch.... and not at the expense of the victims or making light of a case! Such a hard thing to get right but she's really nailed that balance.
I love this series so much, she has so much story telling AND makeup talent. Insane.
Love her and this series!