Circa 1961 to 1965:
Police begin to find the slashed and burned remains of missing neighborhood children.  They are unable to solve the murders and local newspapers dub the mysterious killer The Springwood Slasher. 
Loretta Krueger finds a hidden room in the basement of the house containing items of the macabre; included are versions of a workman's glove with long metal talons on the four main fingers.  Promising she won't tell, Freddy strangles her in front of young Kathryn for "snooping in his special work." 


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Freddy works as a janitor at the local power plant, and in its abandoned boiler room he killed the missing children.
THE SPRINGWOOD SLASHER
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