New Moon Massacre

"Janet always believed that the New Moon's energy instigates darkness and emptiness in heart. That might be the reason why the killer entered into a frenzy and got what he wanted: Leave a bloody mark in Willow's Bell".- Randy Cavanaugh

The New Moon Massacre is a massacre that marked a day in a little town's life, and spilled blood that will never be cleansed. It is a pivotal event that starts the story of Don't Let the Darkness Consume You. The murders resulted in the deaths of nine people, and were perpetrated by Randy Cavanaugh during the new moon night of October 25th, 1973 at the Firefly Summer Camp, located in Willow's Bell, California.

Prelude
Ever since the Fitzgeralds

Event
On October 25th, 1973, the Firefly Summer Camp is dully enlightened by the New Moon, three young camp counselors, Julie, Giselle, and Dwight, make out in the Fox cabin. They hear the door opening, leading Dwight to hide in a locker. Suddenly, Janet Fitzgerald, a member of the staff, asks the girls on not doing noise again. She sees her daughter Mary Jane Fitzgerald, who goes back to her bed.

Meanwhile, the counselors continue to make out, they hear the door opening, and Randy Cavanaugh proceeded to attack and kill Julie, Giselle, Dwight, and the other counselors, alerting Alan Fitzgerald, Janet and Mary Jane, who is told by her parents on not leaving the cabin.

The hooded Randy attacked a forest ranger of the camp, before Janet sights Randy and beckoned to chase her. Janet starts running away from her, but she got cornered and Randy sliced Janet's chest, before leaving her to die. Mary Jane sights the horrific murder, traumatizing her. Also, a hiker sighted Randy taking off the hood in the woods, but he mysteriously left.

The dying couple desperately walks to a foggy and enigmatic graveyard. After passing through the gates, both Alan and Janet sit in a tombstone and are found by her daughter. After telling their last words, the Fitzgerald couple passes away in front of Mary Jane's eyes, leaving the latter crying and heartbroken. Abigail Kraenen arrived to the graveyard to see what happened. Abigail advises Mary Jane to leave the summer camp and never return, or the killer will hunt her down. Mary Jane runs away and finds the police and paramedics. Then, Abigail saw the bodies of the Fitzgeralds being touched by a mysterious woman-like entity and converting it into fog, much to Abigail's shock.

It was then revealed that Edward Sexton Church, who was waking up from being poisoned by Randy in the afternoon, was captured by the police after Randy put the blame on Church, and used his deer hunt veteran past against him to get away with murder.

Aftermath
Randy Cavanaugh and Abigail Kraenen acted as key witnesses during the trial of Edward Sexton Church, who was sentenced to being imprisoned in The White Willow Asylum, a facility for the criminally insane. His supposed murders are still told as a horror tale, and earned him the moniker of the Deer Hunter. Meanwhile, the case of the Fitzgerald couple drew such controversy that with their bodies nowhere to be found, made them classified as "missing". In 1974, Mary Jane would be forced to live a depressing independent life in San Francisco, being helped in a psychiatric hospital and soon helped

Eleven years later, in 1984, Hawthorne reopened the Firefly Summer Camp, in order to create a safe, pure, and decent place for the american children to escape to during the summer. Alongside Randy, Abigail, Henry Smith and Howard Maivia, and included newcomer Barbara Fish, who works as a nurse, they opened the gates for aspiring counselors. Soon after The Night Stalker began terrorizing the American West Coast with his first assaults and murders, Abigail and Randy answered the call from the Liars Club, who were searching jobs to start their mission to redeem their reputation and honor in society.

Following his trial in 1974, during the time imprisoned in the White Willow Asylum, Church became a violent, vengeful and bloodthirsty killer after being tortured by the head of the asylum, Leonard Jones, ironically embodying the characteristics he was falsely framed for by Randy, and ten years later, with the unwilling help of Rachel, he would escape and seek revenge on the ones that wronged him. The group of new counselors will soon realize that there is something sinister and very enigmatic about the camp grounds, especially for one familiar person who returned to the newly reopened place.

People involved
Perpertrator: Casualties:
 * Randy Cavanaugh


 * 1) Alan Fitzgerald (body was never found; billed as "missing")
 * 2) Janet Fitzgerald (body was never found; billed as "missing")
 * 3) Quentin Rodgers
 * 4) Julie
 * 5) Giselle
 * 6) Dwight
 * 7) Unnamed forest ranger
 * 8) Two unnamed camp counselors

Attempted Victims:
 * Mary Jane Fitzgerald
 * Edward Sexton Church (falsely accused perpetrator)

Unseen Witnesses:


 * Benjamin Franken