You know how parents get worked up about strangers poisoning Halloween candy? How there have been waves of panics about that? Razor blades in apples, all that? Not a real thing. You know what actually created those fears? An incident — a single incident — of a guy killing his kid in an insurance fraud case in the 1970s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O'Bryan
Ronald Clark O’Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man, The Man Who Killed Halloween and The Pixy Stix Killer, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 – October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing. O’Bryan poisoned his son in order to claim life insurance money to ease his own financial troubles, as he was $100,000 in debt. O’Bryan also distributed poisoned candy to his daughter and three other children in an attempt to cover up his crime; however, neither his daughter nor the other children ate the poisoned candy. He was convicted of capital murder in June 1975 and sentenced to death. He was executed by lethal injection in March 1984.
Really not enthusiastic about the idea of a “fast food workers must be drugging my kids” panic.
It’s weird how mass rumors spread in the '70s even in the absence of an Internet. I remember one that involved Rod Stewart supposedly swallowing so much sperm that he had to go to the hospital to have his stomach pumped. Stewart even talked about this one on a recent podcast; he was well aware of the rumor and even knew who started it.
I remeber that one. Also, Richard Gere and the hamster, Marilyn Manson and the rib. The satanic panic about D&D and metal played backwards.
I thought the rib was earlier, with Alice Cooper.
You’re probably right, I think the rib one got recycled a few times.
Pedo Party
Reminder that the conservatives in your life are 100% onboard.
Oh wow, ANOTHER pedophile rapist Republican. Does he also use too much spray tan? Release the trumpstein files.
Tfw no grandpa to give me drugs. 😔
This is normal NC GOP stuff. They are criminals, most of them are pedophiles, and they do everything they can to make elections as screwed up as possible.
He posted a $100,000 secured bond after his arrest and transport to the New Hanover County Detention Center, per the report.
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Great read! Haven’t had a laugh like this in a while. Fucking idiot!
You read this and the first question is why? Its also the least likely to ever get answered. Settle for the what he did and make sure he can’t do it ever again. Of course in todays world trump will give him a medal.
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Why are you not asking OP that? The title of this post starts with the words republican election chief.
Edit: look at this troll farm three day old account.
The mdma kind of makes me think he was planning on molesting them. He is also a republican, so it tracks.
Its been decades since I did any X/mdma but I don’t recall it being something that would cause you to not be pissed about something bad happening to you the next day.
When it comes to children, I’m guessing its easier to manipulate them into thinking it’s their fault because they “liked” it and wanted to keep going, even though it’s the drug. It’s easier to keep kids silent if they think they are part of the guilty party and not the victim.
The article says children but doesn’t give much more info. I’m imagining an 8 year old and I’m struggling to think of any other reason.
I agree but in todays world kids get some instruction on abuse. While its possible that his granddaughters have been kept as ignorant as possible. Most kids get some, if very limited instruction on abuse in most schools in the country these day. Its one of the reason why scumbags like trump and his brothers and sisters in abuse hate ‘woke’. They don’t want their victims to be educated about scumbags like them. My daughter received some education on abuse when she was in school. Some very basic things early on with a little more detail as she got older. I of course gave her quite a bit more than the school did. So much so I was called to her school one time to ask why I was giving he so much information on it. I made the reason why very clear to them.
I was sexually abused as a child. By two people. One was a family member. I was punished by my parents for trying talking about it. It was easier for them to let me be abused than it was for them to do something about it. After all what would everyone think about them if it had came to light. I quizzed my daughter on what she was taught and while very basic and watered down they did instill in her the idea that it was wrong and she should speak up if it occurred. I expanded on it and showed her how these scumbags work. So much so she counseled her dormmates in college when she became a RA.
Boy, this guy must really have a grudge against DQ. I suppose that must have black/latino/gay/trans employees or something. That’s enough to send most MAGAts over the ledge these days.
I assume he tried to drug his grandaughters, the girls discovered the pills, and then he had to play dumb and come up with a story “Dairy Queen must have put those in there!!”
No, he definitely wanted to use this to stoke the fire in the minds of the “drug problem” locally. The DQ is probably staffed by some minority or other group that he hates, so if the optics show those “evil people putting drugs into innocent little white girls food” to create more hatred. Just pure evil.
According to Raleigh, North Carolina NBC affiliate WRAL News, on August 8, Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.
However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls’ ice cream.
I don’t think that’s “definite”.
It also doesn’t really make a ton of sense, as you can easily propagandize and villainize without personally exposing your granddaughters to drugs and risking severe legal troubles, by twisting facts or straight up making shit up “they’re eating the dogs” style.
The paragraphs you quoted don’t really support one theory over another about his motives
I don’t know. If the kids had eaten those pills, they would have been fucked up or dead. Either way, authorities would have gotten involved. I suspect that this was his plan from the beginning.
Edit: Wait, is MDMA a date rape drug? I assumed he was staging this to go after DQ. Was he instead trying to drug them to assault them?
in the same way that alcohol is a date rape drug, any drug that inhibits you can be used to control you
No. Neither is cocaine.
According to the report, neither child consumed the drugs; the pills were promptly sent to a state laboratory for further confirmation.
thank fuck he was way too stupid to crush it up
They don’t mention the ages, but those kids could have died.
Even still, I cannot imagine the horror of MDMA+Coke comedown through the eyes of a child.
Fucking psycho.
He has scary eyes
They need to do a rape kit too
But both sides!
Buttery males!
That sucks that they didn’t even get to enjoy such good drugs.
Damn. So desperate to be a victim, he made victims of his own grandkids. Piece of trash. The ironic part is he was caught by the surveillance state he no doubt supported till now.
According to Raleigh, North Carolina NBC affiliate WRAL News, on August 8, Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.
However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls’ ice cream.
Even assuming he wasn’t a fuck faced idiot, what would framing some poor service worker even achieve?
Other than a sadist boner of course
He probably wanted to generate a story about a minority endangering his pure white grandkids, or just a simple scam against the company for a settlement.
Share this EVERYWHERE. Especially truth social. Over and over again
I’ll be curious if in 6 months time the whole affair will be ~covered up~/dropped
Trumped, if you would. I think the dictionary explaination of the term will change in the decades to come.
Director position at the CDC just opened up
This is MAGA/the Republican party in a nutshell. Getting people worked up and freaking out chasing imaginary LGBTQ+/Dem/woke bogeymen while their own members are literally harming children.
The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine
Coke comes in pills now?
