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From: dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Newsgroups: soc.net-people,misc.headlines,misc.kids,misc.misc,news.misc,soc.misc
Subject: Re: Poison Holloween candy (was: Re: David's Last Wish IS A HOAX!!!)
Keywords: holloween poison candy hoax fraud debunk
Message-ID: <1257@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 88 10:40:41 GMT
References: <4592@homxc.UUCP> <8544@alice.UUCP> <9651@drutx.ATT.COM> <6493@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <6493@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> chasm@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Charles Marslett) writes:
>years: a father in Houston, Tx, had poisioned several pieces of candy
>and "smuggled" them into the collections of his child (children?) and
>those of several neighbors after getting a large insurance policy on
>the children.  All the other reported cases turned out to be hoaxes.

I believe the father had put cyanide into "Pixie Sticks".

Douglas Krause           "You can't legislate morality" -George Bush
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