Timeline of Events

## **Twelfth Century**

### **1940**

* While working as a nun at the Hathaway House in Springwood, Ohio, Amanda Krueger is locked in the house during the holiday season and raped hundreds of times by many of the inmates.

### **1947**

* 10 November - Judith Myers is born in Haddonfield, Illinois to parents Donald and Edith.

### **1950**

* Norman Bates murders his mother, and her lover, Chet Rudolph. This drives him to develop a murderous alternate personality where his mother lives on within him.

### **1957**

* 19 October - Michael Myers is born in Haddonfield, Illinois to parents Donald and Edith.

### **1959**

* 11 December - Marion Crane steals 40,000 dollars from wealthy man Tom Cassidy and leaves to meet with her lover, Sam Loomis, in Fairvale, California. That night, she rents a room at Bates Motel, owned and run by Norman Bates. After hearing an argument between Norman and his 'mother', Norman stabs her to death while dressed as Norma as she showers. Norman would hide her body and car in a swamp on property.

### **1960**

* Concerned for Marion's safety, her sister Lila, and Loomis hire private investigator Milton Arbogast to find Marion.
* Arbogast track down Marion to Bates Motel, where he interviews Norman. While trying to investigate the motel further, Norman kills him dressed as his mother. Norman hides his body in the same swamp.
* Sam and Lila eventually head to Bates Motel posing as a married couple to investigate Norman further. Sam would fight and incapacitate Norman as Lila discovers Norma's mummified corpse.
* Norman is taken into authorities and diagnosed with multiple personalities by Dr. Fred Richman and he is incarcerated.
* Sometime after this incident, Sam and Lila wed and have one daughter, Mary.
* Troubled by his experience with Norman, Loomis begins to enter the career of psychology to help stop other killers like him.

### **1961**

* Laurie Strode is born to Morgan and Pamela Strode.

### **1963**

* 31 October - Michael Myers murders Judith, and her boyfriend, Daniel Hodges after he catches them having sex.
* After this, he is taken to a psychiatric institute where he is personally overseen by Dr. Sam Loomis.

### **1978**

* 30 October - Michael Myers escapes from Smith's Grove Sanitarium and steals a car. He arrives in Haddonfield where he steals a halloween mask and boiler suit and begins stalking Laurie Strode and her friends.
* 31 October - In the evening, Michael kills several of Laurie's friends before hunting Laurie throughout a house. Loomis eventually arrives and shoots Michael several time. Michael escapes, however , but he is later confronted by police. Loomis tries to kill him, but Frank Hawkins stops him and takes Michael into custody.
* Michael is taken into custody in Smith's Grove once more under the care of Loomis. Loomis recommends he be executed, but Michael is kept alive.
* Several years later Loomis would die of natural causes,  and is placed under the care of Ranbir Sartain, Loomis' protege.
* After this, Laurie becomes obsessed with killing Michael, covering her house with traps and surveillance equipment.

### **1981**

* Karen Nelson is born to Laurie Strode.
* In the ensuing years, Laurie's obsessions with survival and Michael leads the two to become distant and Karen is eventually placed into foster care.

### **1982**

* Norman Bates is released from confinement, to the protests of Lila.
* Norman returns to Bates Motel, now managed by Warren Toomey.
* Norman begins working as a busboy in a diner run by kindly lady Emma Spool. Here he meets coworker Mary. Norman offers to let Mary stay in his home, which she accepts.
* Norman begins to once more hallucinate visions of his mother, which turn out to be Mary (secretly Lila's daughter) trying to drive him insane.
* Norman suffers a total mental breakdown, causing Mary to attack Norman, before she is shot.
* Ms. Spool, in reality Norman's aunt, trying to convince Norman that she is his mother, is poisoned by Norman.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors
2. ↑ A Nightmare on Elm Street V: The Dream Child
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Halloween (1978)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Psycho
5. ↑ Psycho IV: The Beginning
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 Psycho II
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Halloween (2018)