10 – Skunk Attack,
- Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what someone’s halloween costume is, but have you ever been so jumpy that you unloaded a shotgun into someone’s face because you thought they were a skunk?
- This 9-year-old girl had a relative that thought so – he actually thought she was a skunk and so pulled out his shotgun and fired directly into her shoulder, arm, back and neck
- Her costume was black, with a black hat and a white tassel – and at no point did the relative take a step back to say, actually, I’ve never seen a skunk standing on its hind legs – maybe I better NOT blow it off the face of the Earth
9 – Party Murder,
- A 15-year-old girl called Martha Moxley was at a Halloween party near her neighbours house when the night didn’t end the way she expected – she was stripped partly naked and beaten to death in the backyard
- It took almost 30 years for the killer, Michael Skakel, to get a 20 year jail conviction until he was released on bail in 2013 to await a new trial
- It turns out he was the nephew of Robert F. Kennedy’s late wife, with some suggesting that was the reason it took near 30 years for justice to be served
8 – Taylor Van Diest,
- Halloween night 2011 – a girl waking through the small neighbourhood of Armstrong, home to only 5000 people when she was attacked
- She would later be found brutally beaten and unconscious, dying from her injuries before she could inform on her attackers identity
- She’d sent a text to her boyfriend mere moments before getting attacked telling him she was being creeped on – and DNA evidence helped identify the murderer as Matthew Foerster along with his father who helped cover up the attack
7 – Accidental Hanging,
- More of a suicide than a murder – this 15 year old kid wanted to surprise friends and family with a fake hanging for halloween, but while preparing the trick he made a mistake
- The noose tightened around his neck and the kid panicked, tightening it further – a group of children later found his body hanging in the closet with his neck to the side
- His grandfather tried to revive him but he was well dead by the time a medical team arrived
6 – Tony Bagley,
- A 7 year old kid trick or treating with his family in Las Vegas dressed as a skeleton – he was rounding a corner when a masked man shot him, to which the kid later died of his injuries
- No conviction was ever handed out, the killer couldn’t be found and the murder was chalked up to random gang violence
- Sadly, the kids father was later incarcerated for an unrelated incident of murder – he is currently service two consecutive life sentences