Das "Texas Chainsaw Massacre (USA 1974)" beruhte auf wahren Gegebenheiten.
In December 1954, Ed Gein shot and killed fifty four year old Mary Hogan in her tavern, Hogans Tavern. Incidentally, Mary was said to have born more than a passing resemblance to the later Mrs. Gein. On November 16, 1957, Ed took his last victim, Bernie Worden, who was also in her fifties, as she worked in the store owned by her son. Ed's truck had been seen outside the store, so Plainfield police headed out to his homestead. This is what they found.
• Bernice's headless body, hanging from a block and tackle in an outdoor lean-to, gutted like a deer.
• Human bodies hanging from hooks set in the basement walls.
• Four noses in a cup in the kitchen.
• A pair of lips hanging from a string.
• A human heart (Wordens) in a pan on the stove.
• A literal "armchair" - A chair covered in human skin.
• A lampshade covered in human skin.
• A skull topping each of the four posts of his bed.
• A belt made of nipples.
• The crown of a skull used as a bowl.
• A refrigerator full of human organs and body parts.
• Some decorative masks hanging on the wall, women's skinned faces.
• A hanging human head.
• Bracelets made of human skin.
• A table with shinbone legs.
• A shoebox containing nine salted vulvas.
• Ed also made himself a "woman suit," complete with a mask and breasts.
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