History of Halloween

https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/samhain

https://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/origin-of-Halloween.html

https://www.irishpost.com/news/samhain-seven-facts-about-the-spooky-irish-festival-which-became-halloween-105009

• Josie Langmaid

http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/02/josie-langmaid-murdered-maiden-student.html#more

https://www.concordmonitor.com/After-1875-Josie-Landmaid-became-immortal-24642660

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_LaPage

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/josie-langmaid-monument

https://thesedarkmountains.com/episodes/the-suncook-town-tragedy-marietta-ball-part-2

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/a-governors-son-and-the-murdered-school-teacher-marietta-ball/

•  Callahan murder 1883

http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2017/01/did-he-murder-his-namesake.html#more

• 1927 Trunk Murders

New Orleans https://www.hnoc.org/publications/first-draft/amid-roaring-twenties-new-orleans-brutal-french-quarter-murder-shocked-city

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-trunk-murders-and-sausage-ghost-of-1920s-new-orleans

• Lesbian lover murder 1957

https://www.insider.com/murders-halloween-night-2018-10#peter-fabiano-died-in-what-police-said-was-a-crime-of-passion-in-the-late-50s-6

https://www.vice.com/en/article/53n88a/the-bizarre-lesbian-murder-scandal-that-rocked-1950s-la

https://thevintagewomanmagazine.com/mid-century-halloween-murder/

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/10/they-had-planne.html

• Lisa Ann French 1973

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lisa_Ann_French

https://www.wisn.com/article/murder-of-girl-45-years-ago-changes-trick-or-treat-in-wisconsin/6318115#

https://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/2021/05/20/halloween-killer-case-continue-fond-du-lac-court-judge-decides/5181066001/

• Pixy Stix Candy Man 1974

https://www.statesman.com/news/20161014/35-years-later-memories-of-notorious-halloween-candyman-murder-remain-vivid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan#:~:text=Ronald%20Clark%20O'Bryan%20

https://murderpedia.org/male.O/o1/obryan-ronald-clark.htm

Martha Moxley 1975   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Martha_Moxley

https://www.nytimes.com/article/skakel-moxley-murder-case.html

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/martha-moxley

Toolbox Serial 1979

https://www.in

sider.com/murders-halloween-night-2018-10#the-toolbox-killers-murdered-for-the-last-time-on-halloween-night-1979-3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Bittaker_and_Roy_Norris

https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bittaker-lawrence.htm

https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bittaker-lawrence-photos.htm

http://www.learningaboutelectronics.com/Articles/Lawrence-bittaker-and-roy-norris.php

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/02/25/rapist-murderer-roy-norris-part-of-notorious-tool-box-killers-dies-in-prison/