Sylum: Member
Ichabod knows little of his parents. He has memories of his mother’s smile as she told him tales of the great pirate king, and nightmares of his mother’s blood flowing at the hands of his father. He grew up in an orphanage, hiding away from people, reading and learning everything he could get his hands on.
He wanted explanations, facts, not the platitudes of religion.
When he was old enough Ichabod joined the police force, making his way to detective when he solved the murder of a prominent politician.
His skills got him dispatched by his superiors to the Westchester County hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, to investigate a series of brutal slayings in which the victims have been found decapitated: Peter Van Garrett, wealthy farmer and landowner; his son Dirk; and the widow Emily Winship, who secretly wed Van Garrett and was pregnant before being murdered.
A pioneer of new, unproven forensic techniques such as finger-printing and autopsies, Crane arrived in Sleepy Hollow armed with his bag of scientific tools only to be informed by the town’s elders that the murderer is not of flesh and blood, rather a headless undead Hessian mercenary from the American Revolutionary War who rode at night on a massive black steed in search of his missing head.
He found that the murders weren’t being committed by a headless horseman but instead of a Hessian Vampire. He found the Rogue’s location making him a target. The Hessian almost killed him, but he was saved by Timothy Quinn who dusted the Rogue, and offered Ichabod a future. When he returned to the hamlet he discovered that his beloved Katrina had perished at the hands of the Hessian.