Marion Crane (Earth-2212)

"Oh, I don't know. I guess I'm looking for a private island someplace where I can be alone and no one can find me."

- - Marion Crane to Dr. Hannibal Lecter

Marion Crane was a secretary of Lowery Real Estate, on Phoenix, Arizona. She was the fifteenth victim of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, although arguably one of the most well known.

Biography
The younger sister of Lila Crane, Marion Crane had dreams and aspirations of being an actress. She was the girlfriend of Sam Loomis, and together both planned on stealing a large sum of money from her workplace, Lowery Real Estate, and settle out of Phoenix, Arizona. However, she instead decided to betray Sam and get the money to herself after finding out he had been cheating on her.

At the night of her plan, Crane used the opportunity of the distraction of her boss, George Lowery, to steal the money he had kept on a nearby, secure safe, to which she knew the combination after studying it for weeks in preparation of her plan. She took her car and rushed to whenever she could find, hoping that no one would be able to find her. Marion's hurry led her to the Lecter Clinic, where she checked with the proprietor, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Because the clinic also had free rooms, Hannibal gently asked if she wanted to sleep there until the next day where she could recompose herself and return to her travel, to which Marion agreed.

When she took a bath during the same night, she was repeatedly stabbed by a masked killer with a kitchen knife, her body falling down the closet. Her body was later found by Lecter, who placed it inside a car which he threw out in a pile of mud to cover the murder.