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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bill V" data-source="post: 984275" data-attributes="member: 54538">When I did an online search for "Indianapolis halloween pixie stix poison", I found nothing--although i did find mention of a pixie stix poisoning at Halloween, in that same general time frame (1974), but it was in the Houston, TX, area.  Rich, are you sure it was a local story, and not a national one, to which you are referring?  Again, not doubting you, but it does seem odd that there would be nothing on the web regarding the story you're describing in Indy, while there is plenty of info on a story which is nearly identical in every way except for the location.In the Houston story, it turned out that it wasn't a random poisoning after all.  The kid's own father poisoned the pixie stix, and put them in the kid's Halloween haul, trying to make it look like it was a random Halloween candy poisoning.  So while the story helps fuel the boogeyman legend of tainted Halloween treats, as people remember the original story but not the ultimate resolution, it's not an actual case of random tainted halloween treats being distributed.The snopes article below happens to be the first story to pop up when I did my search; for those of you who distrust snopes, I'm confident you can find many more articles to your liking...</blockquote>