Where was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre killer caught?

Answer 1

Leatherface is a fictional character.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre never happened in real life. Despite the disclaimer at the beginning of the original film, which touts the movie as "...an account of a tragedy which befell a group of five youths...For them an idyllic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare...This video cassette is based on a true incident and is definitely not for the squeamish..." in truth The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was not really based on a true story.

The filmmakers just wanted people to think it was a true story, so more people would go see the movie. It was also a bit of a joke on their part, to see if people would believe it was real. This is not an unheard-of tactic: for example, the 1999 movie the Blair Witch Project was also touted as a true story by the filmmakers, when in truth it is completely fictional and all the actors in it are alive and well to this day. The disclaimer at the beginning of the 1996 movie Fargo also asserts that it is a true story, when it is actually pure fiction.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was inspired by a true story, which is a long way away from being based on a true story. The truth is that the director, Tobe Hooper, got the idea for the Leatherface character from the real case of the serial killer Ed Gein. The rest is completely fictional. Ed Gein was only one man; he did not belong to a family of chainsaw murderers, and he lived in Wisconsin, not Texas.

Ed Gein murdered at least two women, one of whom was found hanging disemboweled and decapitated in his house, and also allegedly engaged in necrophilia and cannibalism with his victims' corpses. He did not, however, murder them with a chainsaw.

I have included a link to the snopes.com page about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I have also included a link to a page that compares the Ed Gein murders to the movie.

Answer 2

There is no Texas Chainsaw Massacre murderer. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre never happened in real life. It's a fictional story, and Leatherface is a fictional character. None of the events shown in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies are in any way based on real events.

The man who inspired Tobe Hooper to invent the Leatherface character was caught, however.

Edward "Ed" Gein, AKA: The Mad Butcher (and others), having perpetrated serial murders, necrophilia, cannibalism, and graverobbery near Plainfield, Wisconsin, USA, was committed to the Waupan State Hospital for a life sentence in December of 1957.

The stories of his crimes inspired such characters as Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs and Norman Bates from Psycho, as well as Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies.

It is important to note, however, that the Buffalo Bill, Norman Bates, and Leatherface characters bear only one or two remote similarities to Ed Gein. They are not based on Ed Gein. Rather, the filmmakers just borrowed one or two aspects of the Ed Gein case, twisted and changed them, and then attributed them to fictional characters.

Another contender for the honor is Robert Elmer Kleason, except that he used a band saw in his taxidermy shop to cut up his victims after he apparently shot them. The term was applied to him because his crime occurred in Austin, Texas, in October 1974, the same month that the movie was released, making it impossible for the movie to be based on his crimes but not to be given the title by the public imagination. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of two Mormon missionaries that he had invited to dinner. Their bodies were never found. Kleason's conviction was overturned based on a defective search warrant after he served only two years.

Answer 3

No, because there is no real Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's a fictional story, not a true event in US history. See the Related Question below.

Answer 4

No, he was never found, because he does not exist. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre never actually happened in real life. It's fiction. See the Related Question.

Answer 5

He was never caught, because he does not exist. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre never actually happened in real life. It's fiction. See the Related Question.

Answer 6

No sire bob they are still out and about and plus they kill anybody that tries to....