Creighton Duke

Biography
Creighton Duke was a bounty hunter with a keen knowledge of the lore surrounding the notorious Voorhees family. An unpredictable and sadistic man, Duke operated out of a private training compound and was credited with personally capturing a total of six known serial killers. At some point in his career, Duke had a personal encounter with Jason Voorhees and luckily managed to survive. The details surrounding this encounter remain unknown. Duke was present during an FBI sting operation to take down psychotic mass murderer Jason Voorhees. He watched as Jason was taken down in a hail of gunfire and then blown up. Duke remained skeptical about Jason's seeming destruction, knowing that so long as the heart of the creature lived, then Jason would eventually be reborn.

Jason's body was flown to Youngstown, Ohio for autopsy, but as Duke suspected, the killer did not remain dead for long. The essence of Jason Voorhees took possession of a coroner named Phil who killed his co-worker and two security guards before walking out of the facility. Reports of the murders led many to believe that Jason had somehow returned from the dead.

Robert Campbell, host of a television series called American Casefile interviewed Duke at his compound and asked him about Jason Voorhees. Duke revealed that nobody knew the "true" Jason Voorhees, and the being that they believed was Jason was just a flesh suit; a surrogate body that Jason's essence took possession of to fulfill his goal. American Casefile offered Duke $500,000 for irrefutable proof of the existence and destruction of Jason Voorhees.

Duke accepted the offer and traveled to Cunningham County to begin his investigation. He stopped at an eatery called Joey B's where he met a woman named Diana Kimble. Duke knew that Kimble was actually Jason's half-sister and knew that only a blood relative possessed the power to end Jason once and for all. Duke was quoted as saying, "Through a Voorhees was he born... through a Voorhees may he be reborn... and only by the hands of a Voorhees will he die."