Did that Texas Chainsaw guy ever get caught?

Question

I just got done watching the most twisted and disgusting movie of all time with my friends "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

For the first time for a horror movie I did not look when he cut people up. I never seen a movie with cannibolism.

Anyway since it is a true story did they ever catch that mental retarded sick chainsaw guy?

Answer 1

Often movies put the disclaimer "based on a true story" to scare people. It is based on the true story though a lot of liberties can be taken with the word "based".
It is based on the story of Ed Gein, the Plainfield ghoul, who skinned corpses, made clothes out of their bodies as well as lampshades and cereal bowls out of skulls. He had sex with the bodies though when he killed live humans he stuck to just skinning them.
His last victim, Bertrice Worden, was a mother and shopkeeper who was found strung up naked and gutted in his barn when police arrested him. Gein stole the cash register before he captured and killed her. His house was filthy and police found body parts strewn about the house though his mother's room was kept immaculate.
Gein was found insane (no surprise there) and put in a mental institution for the rest of his life. He died at the age of 78 of old age, a very long life for a mass murderer and was buried beside his mother, the same woman who traumatized him and likely set him on the path to murder as a child. His grave is unmarked.
Norman Bates from Psycho and Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs are also based on the character of Gein.

Answer 2

Ed Gein, the man in Plainfield, Wisconsin, who was arrested in the late 1950s for killing his neighbor and on whom the movie Psycho was based. So when they set out to write this movie, they decided to have a family of killers who had some of the characteristics of Gein: the skin masks, the furniture made from bones, the possibility of cannibalism. But that's all. The story itself is entirely made up. So, sorry folks. There never was a massacre in Texas on which this was based. No chainsaw either. And, in spite of those of you who have told me you remember when it happened, it really didn't happen. Really. Believe me. This is an interesting phenomenon. I've also had people tell me that they knew the original Leatherface, that they had been guards at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas, where he was a prisoner. Maybe they knew somebody who dreamed of being Leatherface. It is, I suppose, something to aspire to.

Answer 3

It really wasn't based on a true story, it was loosely based on Ed Gein who did wear human skin but committed his crimes alone and without a chainsaw. The Texas Chainsaw massacres film's opening try's to make the audience believe the events are based on a true story. It is called the false document technique, to try and scare the audience. But Ed Gein is dead, he died on July 26, 1984 of respiratory and heart failure.

Answer 4

Texas Chainsaw Massacre guy was base on guy from Wisconsin. Ed Gein Other character the movies base on him are: guy from Psyco, Hannible Lecter & Buffalo Bill from "Slience of the Lamb", and more. Remember that next time when you start insulting a "Cheesehead" they may invite you over as dinner.

Answer 5

The story is not true.

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/chainsaw.asp

Answer 6

Yes.