Jonathan Crane (Earth-1233)

"My children. From the very beginning, it was the children who gave me my power. The Raccoon Slasher, that's what they called me. My reign of terror was legendary. Dozens of children would fall bat my hands. Then the parents of Raccoon City came for me. Taking justice into their own hands. When I was alive, I might have been a little naughty, but after they killed me, I became something much, much worse. The stuff nightmares are made of. The children still feared me and their fear gave me the power to invade their dreams. And that's when the fun really began."

- - Scarecrow

Early Life
Jonathan Crane was born on June 6th, 1966, to Marion Kane, a nurse who worked at the Mount Massive Asylum, in Raccoon City, after she was raped by hundreds of miners which were patients at the asylum. She couldn't bear to abort him, and so, after he was born, Marion placed the baby in an orphanage, where he remained for the next years. There, he was never accepted by the other children, and adults rarely ever went to see him. One day, however, Jonathan was adopted by the single father Gerald Crane, who raised the boy with his last name, and physically and mentally abused his adopted son. One night, Jonathan sneaked into Gerald's room and slashed his throat in his sleep with a glove, to cover his trails.

The Scarecrow
Living alone as a young adult, Crane searched for numerous jobs, but was always fired within few days or weeks. He eventually became an ice cream vendor, and discovered his tendencies as a pedophile, fantasizing about the children who went buy his ice creams. Unable to control his maniacal urges, he kidnapped many of them, and after abusing and molesting, Crane killed them inside a boiler room in his secret hideout. For his killings, he wore a bag mask to conceal his identity. After sightings took place, he became known as the "Scarecrow" because of the mask, and the "Raccoon Slasher". He was eventually discovered, and was put on trial for death penalty, but it was deemed he was criminally insane, and therefore should be treated in a sanatorium, the Mount Massive Asylum. There, however, Crane was experimented by the Murkoff Corporation, in order to continue the test of their Morphogenic Engine, releasing the spirit of the Walrider, who killed the scientist in a fire and possessed him.