there is no evidence !!!!! i researched this using travis co, the hewitt name and there is nothing it's all bullshit.

Ive seen this too, and its on the DVD if you guys really want the truth just buy the original in the collectors dvd and watch the commentary. They talk about how everyone insist that its real, how people have told Tobe Hooper that they're uncle or whoever shared a cell with the real leather face. They think its funny. [Not tryin to shit on you hear austin, this is mainly for the newbs who INSIST its real and make up lies about it like knowing the members.Ur cool tho austin so no hard fealins bringin up an old thread]AND HONESTLY GUYS IF YOU PAY CLOSE ENOUGHT ATTENTION TO THE INTRO THAT SAYS ITS REAL! IT SAYS THE MURDERS TOOK PLACE IN 1973, THE EXACT YEAR THE MOVIE DEBUTED MEANING THEY MADE MOST OF IT IN 71 ,72, THEY MAKE THAT POINT IN THE COMENTARY TOO. just watch it guys itll answer your questions and its funny as shit too. Gunnar Henson owns!

like they would show actual footage of someone killing another person with a chainsaw on a major motion picture. think of all the lawsuits involved.

For real, it just doesnt make since. Its amazing how devoted people are to believing this lol.

You can convince people of damn near anything. Some people still believe the Blair Witch Project was real.

well anyone who believes shit like that well...
lets jus say they aint the brightest crayon in the box

What the hell do you mean? Just kidding...

Someone once tried to convince me that the Blair Witch Project was real because the police found the film buried underneath the house... I suggested to him that maybe that bit made up too but he wasn't buying it.

Haha, good one. I do that sometimes when people tell me wrestling's fake. LOL.

Doctor Robert Kleasen
 

I'm hoping this will help clear things up a little bit. After doing some research on the subject I have found that Austin is NOT completely wrong. It appears that yes there was a chainsaw killer in Travis County, TX. His name was Doctor Robert Kleasen. You can find out a little bit more on him here . I haven't researched him a whole lot but I thought that it was interesting. If anyone else finds out any more information on him I'd love to hear about it.

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PS... I just finished watching TCM (the remake) and their were "two officers fatally wonded" at the end. I don't know if that means anything but someone said that none of the cops died at the end of the remake of TCM.

That is pretty interesting.

However, the link says that he committed the murders on 10/28/74; I think that TCM was released before that. So it's unlikely that the filmmakers were influenced by him.

I just did a Lexis/Nexis search on him but am unable to come up with any criminal documents. However I did find his rejected appeal, which I saved on my web site here. It gives some details of the case, including the location, which is pretty close to the new Austin, Texas airport.