The answer, as always, is to blame the media. For nearly 30 years, University of Delaware sociologist Joel Best has been investigating allegations of strangers poisoning kids’ Halloween candy. As of this writing, he hasn’t identified a single confirmed example of a stranger murdering a child in this fashion. - By Dan Lewis, NowIKnow.com, smithsonian.com , October 6, 2013

The answer, as always, is to blame the media. For nearly 30 years, University of Delaware sociologist Joel Best has been investigating allegations of strangers poisoning kids’ Halloween candy. As of this writing, he hasn’t identified a single confirmed example of a stranger murdering a child in this fashion. - By Dan Lewis, NowIKnow.com, smithsonian.com , October 6, 2013