Pamela Voorhees

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At age 15, Pamela became pregnant by a man named Elias Voorhees. On June 13, 1946, at age 16, she gave birth to a hydrocephalic boy and she named him Jason. Because of his condition, Pamela never sent Jason to school, and was extremely overprotective of him.

Pamela got a job as a cook at Camp Crystal Lake by David and Louise Christy. On a fateful day in 1957, Jason, infuriated by the constant teasing and harassment from other children, snuck out of his cabin late at night to prove that he could swim. The counselors were not watching him at all, as they were at a party and making love in one of the adult cabins. Jason was never recovered from the lake and was presumably drowned. Pamela blamed the counselors for his death because she was working the day that it happened.

After Jason's death, Pamela began hearing auditory hallucinations and heard her son's voice telling her to kill the people who were responsible for his demise. In 1958, a year after Jason's death, Pamela brutally murdered two counselors (Barry and Claudette) in cold blood without showing any remorse because she believed they were responsible for her son's death. Camp Crystal Lake was closed after the murders and was nicknamed "Camp Blood" by local residents. When the owners tried to re-open the camp in 1962, Pamela returned, poisoned the water, and set several fires - the first film establishes that nobody knew who was responsible for these incidents. The camp was shut down once again, and did not re-open until 17 years later. Pamela lived in a house which bordered the Camp Crystal Lake property.