Marie Campbell

**Marie Campbell**, also known as the **Whistling Man**, is the girlfriend of George Barrow and mother of Henry Barrow. She serves as the main antagonist of *Killer Frequency*.

## History

Marie Campbell was born in Gallows Creek around 1950 as the firstborn daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Campbell. She was close to her younger sister Margaret, whom she affectionally called Peg, and gave her a hand-made gift card on her 8th birthday.

In her teens, Marie attended Gallows Creek High School, where she was part of the drama and theater club. In 1967, sometime in eleventh grade, Marie met George Barrow during an informal football match in the school gymnasium, where she was a spectator while George scored the winning throw and became the MVP. The two started dating and quickly became a couple and she starred with him alongside Maisy Cartwright in a school play called "Humpty Dumpty: A Story of Love, Tragedy and Betrayal" as "Anne". Both also bonded over their love for The Barn Finds, with their single "Long Ride Home" becoming their couple song, with them once attending a live concert, where they got an autograph and personal note from the band, wishing them all the best for their relationship. Not long after, they consumated their love, leading to Marie becoming pregnant, a fact they either kept hidden from the town or might have even been unaware of.

Shortly after George got accepted onto the Gallows Creek High's football team, Marie accompanied him to the first team party on the night to September 3, 1968. Marie was with George and one of his teammates Ricky when George spotted the seemingly dead body of his best friend Jason Parker hanging in the branches of the forest, shortly after which a figure dressed as The Whistling Man, a presumed dead serial killer who disappeared in the same area exactly ten years prior, appeared, throwing the party into a massive scare as everyone fled in fear for their lives. She and George were the last people to get away from the site and in their haste, they ran the wrong way, heading straight into the woods rather than back into town. They lost each other in the sprint, something Marie only noticed by the time she was at the river right by the foot of Whistling Point. She immediately began to panic and was almost immediately snatched from behind by The Whistling Man, causing her to scream. Instead of killing her, The Whistling Man started laughing and unmasked himself, revealing that it was the football team's captain Chuck Brody, who explains in between laughter that it was all just a big prank. Just then, Chuck looks up to Whistling Point to see the prank's ringleader, Teddy Gallows Jr., corner George by the edge of the cliff and both watch in horror as George falls down, straight into the river. Chuck and Teddy run away while Marie spends the next hours searching along the river for any trace of George, finding out only in the morning that George was found dead by drowning upstream.

His death left Marie absolutely devastated, which was only made worse when the town records and local newspaper began to report on George's death as a drunken accident, along with the false narrative that George, who was described as a violent hoodlum, had been alone that night and died on the other side of town, something that Marie later discovered was part of a huge coverup by Teddy's wealthy father. Marie tried to get the real story to the press, but the chief editor Maurice Russell refused to let the account be printed. Even after telling her own parents, they tried to convince their daughter to give up on her attempts, having been either bribed or coerced by the Gallows estate, which owned nearly all of the properties in Gallows Creek. Despite this, Marie stayed with her parents until she finished high school a few months later in 1969, though she was later remembered as becoming extremely withdrawn and scarcely seen by her fellow students. She ran away from home after her graduation, leaving not only the state, but the Midwest as a whole.

Ultimately never recovering from the loss of her first love and the father to her child, Marie dedicated the next 18 years to planning her vengeance upon the ones she deemed responsible for George's death or complicit in its coverup. For this purpose, she raises their son Henry to help his mother in her murderous pursuits and by the time he's 19, Henry is seen to be completely devoid of self-thought and takes commands from his mother without question. It is heavily implied that Marie, quite possibly aided by Henry, murdered an indeterminate amount of people she connected to the Gallows coverup throughout the country, all of them geographically forming a trail that gets ever closer to Gallows Creek as the years continue.

On the night leading up to the 19-year anniversary of George's death, which had since become known as an informal holiday called "Whistling Night", Marie and Henry, both donning matching outfits and the signature mask of the Whistling Man in reference to the deadly prank, descended upon Gallows Creek to exact Marie's revenge upon the town. Sending Henry to the Infinity Arcade to kill an unidentified person, Marie attacks the Sheriff's Office near the town's entrance. She did this for two reasons: one being that she needed to cut the town off from the outside world, requiring her to cut the phone lines that go under the office, as well as the CB radio that connects Gallows Creek's police with other departments, which would allow them to terrorize the isolated town without worry for backup arriving until at least morning. The other was that she wanted to get to Sheriff Matthews, who had agreed to falsify the initial death report when George was found for the Gallows family. Marie succeeded in both, despite Matthews attempts at resistance with his sidearm, even managing to get rid of another unaccounted for variable in the form of Deputy Sara Martinez, knocking her out, cuffing her and locking her inside a jail cell. Marie then stuck around to wait for dispatcher Leslie Harper, who ended up contacting Forrest Nash on KFAM 189.16 - The Scream, where Marie's sister now worked as a producer, to take over the 911 duties for her, given their equipment. After Leslie frees Martinez, she torches Leslie's car and prepares to ambush the pair as they try to get a police car from the garage. If Forrest, advised Leslie to take a taser with her, this attempt is thwarted, as when she tries to pull the unconscious Martinez out from her grasp, she is stunned long enough for both to drive off unharmed. Forrest, as well as the rest of Gallows Creek, are left assuming that they were dealing with the original Whistling Man, somehow still alive after his 30 year absence.

By this point, Marie presumably begins to listen to 189.16 on occasion to stay informed, though apparently not often enough to hear her plans being foiled, likely because keeping a radio on would be too noisy and Marie can't wear headphones with the Whistling Man mask on. She directs Henry to kill Sandra Sharpe, who found and reported George's body, but ended up changing her story to the one the Gallows family pushed, and then Maurice Russell. If Forrest help Maurice survive the attempt on his life, his would-be victim ends up locking Henry inside a room. When Maurice leaves to get some friends to watch over Henry, Marie gets to the building and frees her son before Maurice and the others get back. Such action leads to public assumption that the Whistling Man is able to move between locations at incredible speeds and escape from locked rooms with no apparent exit, adding to the fear and confusion surrounding their identity, with theories venturing out into supernatural territory.

After the attacks on Virginia Sullivan, who was forced by Gallows's fixer Clive Elforth into manipulating the autopsy report, and on Eugene Stine, who was the son of two of the team partygoers, Marie and Henry overhear a resident named Murphy call into the radio station and challenge the Whistling Man to a fistfight at the Gallows Creek Waste Disposal, which is heeded by Henry out of sheer principle as taught by his mother, even trying to kill him after beating Murphy by locking him in a dumpster and setting the building on fire. As Henry did this, Marie cut the tires of the town's only fire engine at the fire station. At 1:49 A.M., Marie decides to give the radio station a call, under the taken name Dawn, to put in a request for "Long Ride Home", both for nostalgia's sake and possibly as a signal to Peggy for her return. After Forrest hears from Peggy that she tossed the record out the window the other day off-air, Forrest simply plays a different song and hopes that Dawn won't mind.

Marie ends up deviating from her plan and heads over to Loramie Estate, where a schoolgirl named Carrie was being pranked as part of Whistling Night by her classmates, in an eerily similar fashion as George was all those years ago. Marie blends into the crowd of laughing teens when the prank is revealed and once they notice, she kills the leading prankster Jimmy while Carrie and the others run to safety in another room. Depending on Forrest's advice to the teens, the remaining teens end up get away in their van after Carrie elects to stay behind to aid them or crash the van in their bungled escape. Either way, upon seeing that Carrie is the only one left, Marie leaves her unharmed, even helping her out of the wreckage if she crashed, before wandering off. This causes Forrest to speculate on the motivation of the Whistling Man.

Marie calls KFAM again as Dawn only minutes later, mentioning that she's glad that Carrie got out okay, and asks for "Long Ride Home" once more. Peggy tries to talk with Dawn, which elicits a noticeable reaction out of her, even calling her by name, but presses the matter, saying that she knows they have the record and how Peggy said that she threw it out the window, something she shouldn't be aware of as a listener, though Forrest nor Peggy catch on. Dawn further the song needs to be played and claims that she has vital information she'll tell once Forrest plays her song, hanging up immediately after. Forrest is frustrated by her vagueness, but Peggy insists they, as in Forrest, do as she ask and get the vinyl from outside. Forrest catches a glimpse of The Whistling Man from behind a wire fence, just by where the record is. Because accidentally locked himself outside when the emergency exit closed shut, Forrest needs to go back through the basement entrance, discovering a secret room inside the janitor's office. Said room contains a corkboard with various photos and clippings, which Forrest brings back upstairs. Once it becomes clear that it was made by Clive, who had taken up work with KFAM after the death of Theodore Gallows Sr., Forrest and Peggy try to make sense of it as they mistakenly assume that Clive is the killer and had left a clue pointing to his next victim on the board, when in reality, Clive was trying to figure out who would be targeted by whoever was killing those related to George Barrow's death. If Forrest correctly concludes that Chuck Brody is in danger at his gas station, the call will give Chuck enough time to evacuate the place before an explosion destroys it, either the result of a planted explosive or sabotaged gas line.

Marie attempts to go after Ricky next, falsely believing him to have been in on the prank, but finds out that his location, the roller rink he owns, is locked with an electronic lock. Improvising, Marie calls KFAM as Dawn from a payphone, inventing a story that she got locked out by her apartment block's new security system and is being followed by The Whistling Man. Forrest and Peggy note that they have a bad feeling about her given her previous calls, but agree to help out anyway. While looking for a factory code, Forrest may discover that many details about her story don't line up, while the player can realize that the background of her call matches details mentioned by Ricky in one of his calls. If Forrest gives Dawn the test alarm code instead of the unlock code, Marie will realize that she's been found out, dropping all pretenses to break a window and get to Ricky before he can do anything, but is forced to retreat when Ricky fires a shot from his rifle at her.

Marie then targets Jason at his home, stabbing him twice and leaving him to bleed out, speaking for the first and only time to a victim by saying "It's not so funny now, is it?", in reference to how Jason played the stabbing victim all those years ago. She didn't notice that Jason was with a friend, Casey Moore, who hid before Marie confronted Jason. If Forrest gives Casey correct instructions on how to mend Jason's wounds and then sends former combat medic John Hedges over to their location, his life will be saved, something Marie doesn't find out until later.

While Forrest is on the line with a recovering Jason, or in the case of his death Casey, Peggy will mention that a call came in that she'll handle. Said call is later revealed to have been from Marie, who tells Peggy that she wants to meet up in the school gym. Peggy, having not seen Marie in almost 20 years, agrees despite the weirdness of it all. During the call, the caller is about to give Forrest Dawn's real name, but a power outage occurs, caused by Henry, during which Peggy abandons her post to go see Marie while Forrest goes to the basement to fix it. At the end of the Whistling Man interview, Peggy arrives at the location to find Marie in The Whistling Man get-up, only then realizing that her own sister was the killer all along. Marie then reveals that although she genuinely missed Peggy, she intends to kill her in place of their parents, who had since died, reasoning that Peggy forgot about her. Forrest can save her life by finding the birthday card Peggy had kept in her sound studio. As Marie struggles to regain hold of her conflicting emotions, arriving police from Henderson raid both the radio station and the school gymnasium. Marie hears over the radio as officers fire upon Henry, causing her to scream for him to run, right before she does the same, after non-fatally slashing Peggy.

In the credits, it's revealed that one of the suspects has been caught, while the other is being chased up Whistling Point, where they refuse to surrender and instead jump off the cliff. It is never specified who it was, but given that Henry's location was surrounded with only one exit while Marie was last heard having escaped the cops, it can be assumed that it was Marie who was successfully evaded authorities. The officers in question, Trout and Luguo, say that they'll search the area for Marie, but it's ultimately not confirmed whether she actually died or not, though seeing as how Mooney likely died and George didn't live, Marie's survival is highly unlikely.

## Trivia

* Although Marie is only identified as Dawn until the interview, her high school year book photo can be see on Clive's board at the top right.
* Forrest can find a brochure for a high school play which reveals that Marie took her alias from the play she and George starred in before his death, although it wasn't her role, but that of the other female character, who was presumably the love interest of George's character.
* All of the scenes in which The Whistling Man appears (the prologue, the alley, the interview) can be assumed to be Henry, since Marie was in locations quite far away from KFAM preceding The Whistling Man's appearance (at the sheriff's office, walking through the forest near the Loramie Estate, at the school gym).
* It is purposely left somewhat ambiguous whether Marie or Henry is the Whistling Man threatening a caller. Some segments can however be definitely linked to Henry and vice versa:
	+ Marie is the one who attacks the sheriff's office before midnight, given her reaction to hearing about Sheriff Matthews in the Whistling Man's interview and the more intricate things done there, like knocking a victim out rather than killing her and cutting the phone lines to ensure no one calls help from out of town.
	+ Since the teens at Loramie Estate were evidently not intended targets at first and given how Henry only ever follows his mother's orders, Marie was the one to go after them. The way Jimmy is killed in identical manner as Sheriff Matthews and how Carrie is spared and even helped, which Henry, given his propensity for violence, he is unlikely to have done, further support this.
	+ Like with the sheriff's office attack, Marie was likely the one who orchestrated the explosion of the gas station, as it seems outside of Henry's skillset.
	+ Though Marie wasn't the one to fight Murphy, it can be presumed that she was the one to cut the tires of the fire truck, since the fire station was several blocks away from the waste disposal.
	+ It is revealed through either conclusion to Dawn's call that Marie was the one to target Ricky.
	+ Though Casey says she doesn't know whether it was a man or a woman who attacked Jason, the personal comment makes it clear that it was Marie.