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Barbara Mackle had just been kidnapped. An armed man and woman had stormed into her hotel room, bound and chloroformed her mother, and taken her at gunpoint to their car. They drove for roughly 20 miles, then stopped in a remote, wooded area outside of Atlanta. They injected her with tranquilizers, then brought her to a grave. At the bottom of the grave lay a fiberglass box. It contained a lamp, food and water, and ventilation tubes. The kidnappers ordered her to get inside. Then they buried her alive.\\xa0
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\\nThen Brandi tells us a story that nearly ruined Halloween. It was Halloween of 1974 when Ronald O\\u2019Bryan and a friend took their children trick-or-treating in a Pasadena, Texas neighborhood. The children ran excitedly from house to house, getting candy along the way. But at one house, no one answered. The kids ran impatiently to the next house, but Ronald stayed behind. When he caught up with the rest of the group, he held five 21-inch Pixy Stix. The kids couldn\\u2019t resist.
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\\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

\\nFor this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\\n\\u201cThe Man Who Killed Halloween\\u201d by Lisa Marie Fuqua, medium.com
\\n\\u201cThe True Story of the Notorious Trick-or-Treat Murderer\\u201d by Michael Segalov, Vice
\\n\\u201c\'Man Who Ruined Halloween\': Recounting the horror story of Houston\'s notorious \\u2018Candyman\\u2019" by Alison Medley, The Houston Chronicle
\\n\\u201cCandy Man\'s legacy still haunting today\\u201d The Houston Chronicle
\\n\\u201cRonald Clark O\\u2019Bryan\\u201d wikipedia.org\\n

\\nFor this episode, Kristin pulled from:\\xa0
\\n\\u201cA terrified Barbara read her instructions,\\u201d by Gene Miller for the Miami Herald
\\n\\u201cKidnap case goes to jury; Krist silent,\\u201d by Gene Miller for the Miami Herald
\\n\\u201cWitnesses pin Mackle kidnap on man with \\u2018heavy beard,\\u2019\\u201d Fort Myers News-Press
\\n\\u201c\\u2018Bury me in a box,\\u201d Krist says,\\u201d by Gene Miller for the Miami Herald
\\n\\u201cGary Stephen Krist,\\u201d wikipedia
\\n\\u201cGary Stephen Krist,\\u201d murderpedia
\\n\\u201cHe buried Barbara Mackle alive -- then became a doctor and a drug trafficker,\\u201d by Kara Goldfarb for allthatsinteresting.com
\\n\\u201cKrist v. State\\u201d
\\n\\u201cBarbara Mackle, the heiress who was kidnapped and buried alive for three days,\\u201d by Mike McPadden for investigationdiscovery.com
\\n\\u201cBarbara Mackle\\u2019s 83 hours in a tomb,\\u201d by Gene Miller for the Miami Herald