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Pamela Sue Voorhees is a fictional character, mother of the fictional slasher serial killer Jason Voorhees of the Friday the 13th
films.

In the original Friday the 13th film, the character is simply named Mrs. Voorhees, her first name not being revealed until Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
.

The character was portrayed by Betsy Palmer in the first two films. During the character's brief apearance in Freddy vs. Jason
, she was played by Paula Shaw.

Life history

Although many believe Jason was the killer in all the films, Pamela was the killer in the first film. Before her demise, she had claimed the lives of eight camp counselors using brutal and creative forms of execution. Because of the nature of her killings, she is probably one of the most violent female serial killers in film history.

Pamela Voorhees was born in 1930 (revealed in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
). Some time in her life, Pamela developed schizophrenia. Some believe the death of her son, Jason, caused her to become schizophrenic, but this may not be the case. Schizophrenia is suspected to be a genetic disorder, so it is possible she had schizophrenia well before Jason's death. Jason's death more than likely triggered or worsened the symptoms of her schizophrenia, driving her to madness and murder. Because Pamela's childhood and adolescence remains mysteriously untold, it is uncertain when she developed schizophrenia.

At age 15 Pamela became pregnant with Jason by Elias Voorhees, and on June 13th, 1946, at age 16, she gave birth to a hydrocephalic boy she named Jason shown in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. Because of his deformity and her antisocial mentality, Pamela never sent Jason to school and was the only one who knew him as seen in Friday the 13th Part 2
.

Some time before Jason's death, Pamela got a job as a cook at Camp Crystal Lake. During her working hours, she would bring Jason to camp, presumably because she had no one to watch him while she worked. Jason tried to befriend the other children and engage in camp activities, but the children viewed him as a freak because of his deformity.

On a fateful day in 1957, Pamela was working as usual when the children's teasing got out of hand. They shoved and pushed Jason around repeatedly while calling him "freak show." They continued this abuse until they had pushed him in the lake. Jason tried to swim and stay afloat, but he couldn't swim and began his cries for help as seen in Freddy Vs. Jason. The two counselors who were supposed to be supervising the children, Barry and Claudette (last names unknown) were too preoccupied with having sex to respond to his cry for help. This resulted in Jason's drowning--an event that would change Camp Crystal Lake's history forever.

The traumatic stress and grief brought on by Jason's death triggered and worsened Pamela's schizophrenia. She began hearing voices telling her to kill. In 1958, a year after Jason's death, 28-year-old Pamela brutally murdered Barry and Claudette. Camp Crystal Lake was closed after the murders and was given the nickname "Camp Blood" by local residents. When the owner tried to re-open the camp again in 1962, Pamela returned and poisoned the water and set several fires. The camp was shut down once again and did not reopen until 1979.

On June 13th, 1979, the new owner of Crystal Lake, Steve Christy and seven young counselors returned to the deadly camp grounds to prepare it for reopening, even after several ominous warnings of a "death curse" by the local residents. Enraged, 49-year-old Pamela went on a savage killing spree, killing Steve Christy and six of the camp counselors. Their murders included two throat slashings, a spearing through the windpipe, an axing in the face, an undiscernable assault and possible strangulation, a stabbing through the heart, and a transfixion with arrows.

The survivor, Alice, discovered two of the murdered victims and later met Pamela. Pamela told Alice about Jason's drowning, during which she had transformed from a calm disposition to a frightening manifestation of rage. Pamela made repeated attacks against Alice. During the final attack, Alice decapitated Pamela with a machete Pamela attempted to kill her with, ending the nightmare of sanguinary terror.

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