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Marion Crane was a victim of Norman Bates.
Biography[]
Unhappy in her relationship with her boyfriend, a divorcee named Sam Loomis, Marion rejected his idea to take the afternoon off and rushes back to her workplace, a real estate office. Her boss, George Lowery, arrived shortly afterwards with Tom Cassidy, a wealthy customer whose daughter was about to be married. Cassidy was a successful rancher who was buying a house from Mr. Lowery as a wedding present for his daughter. Mr. Lowery was nervous having such a hunk of cash in his office and was browbeaten by Cassidy into a night of drinking. He asked Marion to safeguard the cash by depositing it at the bank. However, instead of going to the bank, Marion impulsively went on the run with the money. She turned off the main road without realizing it and arrived at the Bates Motel and checked in with the proprietor, Norman Bates, who shyly invited her to have dinner with him. After wrapping the remaining money inside a newspaper, Marion overheard a heated argument between Norman and his mother about letting Marion into the house.
During dinner, Marion listened to Norman's tale of being trapped by his obligation to his mentally ill mother and realized that she, too, was stuck in a "private trap", and could only escape it by taking responsibility for stealing the money. She gently suggested to Norman that he put his mother in a mental hospital, which he heatedly refused to do. She bid him goodnight and returned to her room. There, she undressed while Norman watched through a peephole hidden in the wall of his office. Resolving to make amends to her employer, Marion made a few calculations based on how much the escapade had cost her. She then took a shower. Suddenly, a mysterious figure entered the bathroom — shadowy through the shower curtain — and stabbed Marion to death (in the novel, her head is cut off). Believing his mother had committed the murder, Norman hid the body in a pond.
Following Bates' arrest, Marion's car was pulled out of the pond.
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