Loretta Krueger

Loretta Krueger was played by Lindsay Fields in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.

Biography
She was the first and last wife of Freddy Krueger. Not much is really known about Loretta's past life in Springwood or her relationship with Freddy before he became a killer. It was assumed that Loretta was in high school when she first met the would-be-killer Freddy, who was a high school dropout and worked as a janitor.

Loretta, unlike the rest of the town, apparently saw something good in Freddy, which made her fall in love with him and it got Freddy to love her back. It appeared back then that Freddy was trying so hard to be normal for Loretta and their child, Katherine while Loretta did appear to love her husband and adore her child.

However, Freddy couldn't stop his murderous nature forever. He soon had a "special room" made and Loretta later discovered that room in the basement full of bladed gloves, other weapons, and a scrapbook of newspaper articles about children murdered in the area. She came then to the correct conclusion that Freddy, her darling husband, had to be the "Springwood Slasher", a sadistic murderer who abducted and killed children in the area, and had used one of the bladed gloves that she found in the basement.

Freddy found out and, even after Loretta promised that she wouldn't tell about his murders, he strangled her to death anyway, and did not realize that his 6-year-old daughter, Katherine, was watching. Later, after Loretta's death, Freddy was caught and Katherine was adopted and moved away from Springwood, and had her name changed to Maggie Burroughs. Her mother's death, as well as the deaths of the teens, drove Maggie to defeat her father.

Trivia

 * Loretta Krueger was the first film character to be presented as the spouse of the serial slasher.
 * The exact year of Loretta's death is unclear. Freddy Krueger was arrested for being the Springwood Slasher in 1966, so Loretta may have died in that same year, or shortly before.


 * The character of Loretta Krueger was created by director Rachel Talalay and screenplay writer Michael De Luca based on concepts developed by Wes Craven.


 * Lindsey Fields received seventeenth billing in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.