where did the 1974 texas chainsaw massacer happen?

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what town

Answer 1

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is loosely based on a true story. In fact, it's based on the same true story that Psycho and Silence of the Lambs were based on.

It's the story of one man, Ed Gein. And to my knowledge, he never chased teenagers around with a chainsaw.

I should correct myself. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is loosely based on a true story. In fact, it's based on the same true story that Psycho and Silence of the Lambs were based on.

It's the story of one man, Ed Gein. And to my knowledge, he never chased teenagers around with a chainsaw.

Court TV's Crime Library sets up the true story of Gein like this:

On November 17, 1957 police in Plainfield, Wisconsin arrived at the dilapidated farmhouse of Eddie Gein who was a suspect in the robbery of a local hardware store and disappearance of the owner, Bernice Worden. Gein had been the last customer at the hardware store and had been seen loitering around the premises.
Gein's desolate farmhouse was a study in chaos. Inside, junk and rotting garbage covered the floor and counters. It was almost impossible to walk through the rooms. The smell of filth and decomposition was overwhelming. While the local sheriff, Arthur Schley, inspected the kitchen with his flashlight, he felt something brush against his jacket.

When he looked up to see what it was he ran into, he faced a large, dangling carcass hanging upside down from the beams. The carcass had been decapitated, slit open and gutted. An ugly sight to be sure, but a familiar one in that deer-hunting part of the country, especially during deer season.

It took a few moments to sink in, but soon Schley realized that it wasn't a deer at all, it was the headless butchered body of a woman. Bernice Worden, the fifty-year-old mother of his deputy Frank Worden, had been found.


Detectives quickly discovered more horrors like an armchair covered in human skin, a human head, a heart, and a suit made entirely of human skin.

Beginning in the late 1940's, people began disappearing in Wisconsin, and there was no explanation and no suspect.

Once arrested, Gein admitted to killing Bernice Worden, but insisted the rest of the body parts came from graves. That story wouldn't hold up, however, and soon Gein confessed to a second murder. That was all police ever got out of him.

Gein spent 10 years in a mental institution before going to trial. After a week-long trial, he was found guilty of first degree murder for the killing of Worden, but he was later found not guilty by reason of insanity. He spent the rest of his life in that institution until he died in 1984.

The rest of the missing persons cases remained unsolved, but police and the community were convinced Gein was responsible. In this era of DNA testing perhaps investigators could have learned more.

Either way, it's clear Gein was insane, and life in an institution would have been the outcome no matter how many victims were pinned on him.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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where did the 1974 texas chainsaw massacer happen?
what town

Answer 4

Sorry there is/was no such person as "leatherface" nor was there ever a real Texas chainsaw massacre in Texas, or anywhere else in the world.

The story is VERY loosley based on serial killer Ed Gein from Plainfield Wisconsin in the 1950's. He murdered a few women and used parts of their bodies for clothing and furniture. There was never even a chainsaw involved in those murders. He was eventually caught and put into a mental institution where he dies in 1984.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an original idea created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkle in 1973. They knew of Ed Gein's story and added in a chainsaw to their story, and created Leatherface.

Answer 5

The movie and story itself is fictional, but Leatherface, as well as Norman Bates and Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb, is partially based on Ed Gein, a serial killer from Wisconsin who, while did not chase people with a chainsaw, did make masks from human faces, and also had human body parts hanging around his house like Christmas ornaments. He also had bowls made from the sawed-off tops of human skulls and lamp shades made of human skin. But, to answer your actual question on where the movie happened, if you mean the events of the movie, I've heard it was in Newt, Texas, but filming apparently took place in Round Rock, Texas. (And just so you know, the town of Newt is fake, but there is a real town called Newton). I hope that answers your question.

Answer 6

I have to inquire into ages of people answering this question, because I am older then most of you combined I guarantee. I still remember drinking my morning coffee and reading about it in the newspaper, get on somewhere else if you're looking to deny a psychopath / cannibal. It did happen and they never found him after he killed the two officers doing a walk threw of the Hewitt home. They demolished the home after evidence was collected and everything was properly photographed. Detective Adams and Wallace were the two officers fatally wounded because scene had not been secured properly. 30 years later they find that the cops covered for what happened that day by taking one of the burned bodies and saying it was leather face, rather then admit to a lack of doing their job and letting him get away.

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Answer 8

Frank D. is 100% Correct .. Look up Ed Gein , he never chased Teenages with Chainsaws!!

Answer 9

Frank D is right, it didn't happen but the character was based on a real person in wisconsin, not texas

Answer 10

gein is interesting to learn about, you should read up on him. when a local woman mary hogan went missing, gein said to a few men who were discussing it, "she ain't missing. she's up at the farm right now" which shows that he was clearly nuts. the men just thoguht it was him being wierd and ignored it. he was a very sweet crazy guy and the general consensus at his asylum was "if all patients were like ed then we would only need two staff members"