In 1988, Charles Lee Ray (born March 9, 1950), known as the "Lakeshore Strangler", is a voodoo-obsessed serial killer on the run from the police in Chicago. After his driver and partner abandon him in his van to escape the police, Ray takes refuge in a toy shop, where he is shot by a homicide detective. Aware that he is mortally wounded, Ray swears revenge on Mike and Eddie before transferring his soul into a Good Guy doll via a voodoo ritual. Thunder and lightning destroy the store due to the ritual. Mike finds Ray's body in the aftermath, believing him to be dead. Little did anyone know that his soul was now transferred into the doll. Chucky now kills and reigns terror on his victims all while trying to find a human body to transfer into.