Angela Baker (Sleepaway Camp)

Angela Baker was an American serial killer who became infamous after a string of killings at New York's Camp Arawak. She later earned the nickname "Angel of Death" after two other strings of killings committed after her release from a mental hospital.
==Biography==
===Youth===
Peter Baker was born in 1968, his father John Baker and his partner. Baker was raised alongside his sister Angela by The two children at one point witnessed their two fathers having sex. (FILM: Sleepaway Camp) In reality, she survived.She is the killer in Return - Felissa Rose @Felissa_Rose - 11 January 2018 - Twitter - Retrieved 13 August 2024 (FILM: Return to Sleepaway Camp)
====Boating Accident====
Peter and his family went on a camping trip. After a pleasant day a boating accident killed his father. His sister was also presumed dead. (FILM: Sleepaway Camp, Return to Sleepaway Camp)
=====Aftermath=====
Baker was sent to live with his aunt, Dr. Martha Thomas. Thomas decided that she would have preferred Angela, and chose to raise Peter as the girl she never had. "Angela" got along fairly well with her cousin, Ricky Thomas. (FILM: Sleepaway Camp)
====Camp Arawak murders ====
Eight years later, Thomas sent them both to the camp for the summer. After repeated bullying from the girls at the camp, Angela began murdering them in revenge, Her identity as the murderer was discovered after she was found naked cradling the head of a boy who had been flirting with her. Her identity as having originally been Peter was uncovered from her visible genitalia. (FILM: Sleepaway Camp)
=====Arrival=====
On her first day at camp, she met Ricky's friend Paul, and encountered Judy. Judy and the other girls in her cabin treated her poorly because of her silence and her awkward stares. (FILM: Sleepaway Camp)
By the third day, Angela had refused to eat any of the camp's food. Counselor Meg alerted Counselor Ronnie, who brought her to the kitchen to find something to eat. He left her with head chef Artie, who brought her into the walk-in closet and attempted to molest her. Ricky walked in interrupting Artie and saving his sister, with Artie forcing him to swear to silence. The two children ran away as Artie hid the truth from the camp's owner, Mel. (FILM: Sleepaway Camp)
Later, Angela returned to the kitchen, finding Artie alone. She waited for him to stand on top of a chair in front of a tall pot of boiling water before pulling on the chair and forcing him into a precarious position above the water. She ignored his pleas to help him down and yanked out the chair from underneath him, causing him to fall and be drenched in the boiling water. She fled before the other chef Ben returned. (FILM: Sleepaway Camp)
At the end of the first week, a party was held. Angela sat alone and in silence, when two older boys came to ask her whether she'd go skinny dipping.
===Incarceration ===
Angela was subsequently locked away for years in a mental health institute. After being subjected to years of shock therapy and being given sexual reassignment surgery, she was set free. (FILM: Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers)
===Continued killings===
====Camp Rolling Hills killings====
TBW (FILM: Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers)
====Camp New Horizons killings====
TBW (FILM: Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland)
==Victims==
=== Camp Arawak ===
*Artie: Pedophilic chef suffered massive burns and potential blindness, but was still alive en route to the hospital. (FILM: Sleepaway Camp)
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==Weapons and Abilities==
===Qualities===
*Resourcefulness: Angela would use whatever was at hand to kill her victims. (FILM: Sleepaway Camp, Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers, Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland)
===Skills===
*Archery: Angela shot a bow into Mel Kostic's neck. (FILM: Sleepaway Camp)
==Notes==
=== Behind the Scenes ===
*Baker was portrayed by Felissa Rose in the original film,Sleepaway Camp - IMDB - Retrieved 8 March 2021Felissa Rose - IMDB - Retrieved 8 March 2021 and Pamela Springsteen in the two subsequent sequels.Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers - IMDB - Retrieved 8 March 2021Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland - IMDB - Retrieved 8 March 2021Pamela Springsteen - IMDB - Retrieved 8 March 2021
=== Trivia ===
* A script for the third film states that Angela has reached 21 years of age; in the script and the final film she masquerades as a victim, Maria Nicastro, who was born in 1972 and stated in dialogue to have been born in 1972.SLEEPAWAY CAMP III "TEENAGE WASTELAND" - Fritz Gordon - 1987 - Double Helix Films - Retrieved 13 August 2024
 This would place Angela's year of birth in roughly 1968. However, dialogue in the second film states that Angela had been given to Aunt Martha at the age of 4, and stayed with her for 10 years before going to Camp Arawak, while the first film specified 8 years had passed, causing a slightly disjointed timeline of events.
==Appearances==
*Sleepaway Camp (first appearance)
*Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
*Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
*Return to Sleepaway Camp (mentioned)
*Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor (fourth appearance chronologically)
==Links==
*Angela Baker on the Sleepaway Camp Wiki
*Angela Baker on the Villains Wiki
== References==
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