Jason Todd was the only child of Willis Todd, a petty crook who ended up serving a prison sentence and never returned following his release, and Sheila Haywood, a doctor who was forced to leave the city after botching an illegal abortion that left a teenage girl dead. This left him with his stepmother Catherine, a drug addict who later died from an overdose, thus having Jason fend for himself as a street orphan screwing off car parts and getting in trouble with the law. Batman was impressed with Jason's skills when he found the boy stealing the tires off the Batmobile. Hoping to prevent the kid from a life of crime, he later took him in and trained him to become the second Robin. Jason was eager to be the second Boy Wonder, and on his first assignment helped Batman bring down the Riddler.