About Me
Amanda Krueger is born in Westin Hills hospital in Springwood, Ohio. During the holiday season, just a few days shy of Christmas, Amanda Krueger was accidentally locked in "The Tower" when the guards were in a hurry to go home to their families. The inmates kept her hidden for several days, brutally raping and beating her. When she was finally found, she was barely alive, and pregnant. After a breech birth on September 1938, Fred Charles Krueger is born. Amanda decides to raise the boy, and the convent allows her to stay on as a nun.
Freddy (as his mother called him) began to display eccentric and even sociopath tendencies, such as playing alone and hurting small animals. On January 1949 At the tender age of 11, Freddy becomes a ward of the state after slicing his mother's leg with a kitchen knife. During this time Freddy bounces from Foster home to Foster home as he goes through grade school. He quickly becomes the other children's scapegoat. Two particularly horrible bullies where Walter Lantz and Douglas Parker. At the age of 17, Freddy is sent back to live with his mother to try and help the boy. Freddy is already showing homicidal tendencies, including killing dogs and cats. He also finds his first ever beat up fedora outside of a grocery store. He was released from his mothers care after he brutally beat her in 1957.
In 1957 Freddy is sent to live with a drunk old farmer on the outskirts of Springwood after dropping out from Springwood High School. After developing a taste for self-mutilation with his straight razor, Freddy murders the farmer, who as it turned out was abusive. Due to the fact he was under the age of 18 by roughly one month, he wasn't tried for murder.
Freddy goes to work as a janitor at Springwood High. He also meets and begins to court Loretta Johnson, a waitress at a nearby diner and soon marries her. Then from January, 1958 to June, 1962 Freddy lives a double life at the time, playing family man with Loretta and maltreating prostitutes. He continues to have problems with his work record, as he is fired and rehired to his janitorial services. In between the stints as janitor, he begins to work in the Springwood Power Plant on the outskirts of town.
In 1962 Katherine Krueger is born and he tries to reform and actually succeeds to a small degree, committing no really heinous acts during this time. From July 1963 to September 1967 Freddy begins to systematically slaughter all the children of Springwood. Among those that lose their children are several of Freddy's classmates from school that teased him horribly. He manages to hide his secret from his wife and daughter by keeping his instruments of destruction hidden and locked up in the basement. It is at this time that he also buys an old ice cream truck and uses it to lure children to their deaths. He also receives a successful transfer from the high school and becomes the new janitor of Springwood Elementary School.
In 1967 Loretta accidentally uncovers what is going on in the basement. Freddy strangles her to death. Katherine witnesses the murder and tells someone. Katherine is taken to an adoption home and Freddy flees the law. Then from 1967 to 1970 Freddy kills at least 10 more children, hiding in his ice cream truck and at the local power plant where he used to work. It is estimated that "The Springwood Slasher", as the papers dubbed Freddy, has killed at least 20 to 30 children. Lt. Donald Thompson collars Freddy Krueger just as Krueger was about to murder 5 year old Kevin Marks. Thompson had an arrest warrant for Krueger.
After sitting in a holding cell for a month, Freddy goes to trial. During the trial, it is revealed that the arrest warrant for Freddy was not signed in the proper place. Due to this technicality, Freddy is released. The parents swore revenge. That night, a mob of angry parents including Lt. Thompson and his wife Marge, Richard Lane and his wife, Walter Lantz, and Doug Parker, among others, collar Freddy in his boiler room and burn him to death. But the parents were too late to save the life of 6 year old Melissa Roberts, Freddy's last victim. Also dying around this time was Amanda Krueger. After hearing about what happened in the trial, she lost her mind and hung herself allegedly, but no body was ever found.
Freddy was offered a chance in the fire while dying and swearing revenge a chance to go in the children's dreams and kills them if he brings them their souls. He agreed. In return, he was offered the agreement that he cannot die. He would be eternal.
