The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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- 1974
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It is believed that
the indictment is only one of a series
to be handed down as the result of
a special grand jury investigation.
Graverobbing in Texas
is this hour's top news story.
An informant led officers of the Muerto
County Sheriff's Department to a cemetery
just outside the small rural Texas
community of Newt early this morning.
Officers there discovered
what appeared to be a grisly work of art,
the remains of a badly decomposed body
wired to a large monument.
A second body was found in a ditch
near the perimeter of the cemetery.
Subsequent investigation has revealed
at least a dozen empty crypts,
and it's feared more will turn up
as the probe continues.
Deputies report that in some instances,
only parts of a corpse had been removed,
the head or in some cases
the extremities removed,
the remainder of the corpse left intact.
Evidence indicates the robberies
have occurred over a period of time.
Sheriff Jesus Maldonado refused
to give details of the ghoulish case
and said only that
he did have strong evidence
linking the crime to elements
outside the state.
Area residents have reportedly converged
on the cemetery,
fearing the remains of relatives
have been removed.
No suspects are in custody, as
the investigation at the scene continues.
Oil storage units
continue to burn out of control
at the huge Texaco refinery
near the Texas-Louisiana border.
Three storage units exploded
into flames during the night,
killing at least three workers
Fire-fighting units in three Texas cities
continue to battle the holocaust,
in an effort to confine 40-foot flames.
Smoke from the fire is visible to Houston
residents some 60 miles to the south.
Health officials in San Francisco
reluctantly admit
they may have a cholera epidemic
on their hands.
Some 40 cases of the highly infectious
disease have been confirmed.
...is responsible for spread of the disease.
Houston police are puzzled over
an outbreak of violence
apparently touched off by a suicide.
A young man, reportedly angered by a
local television blackout of a sports event,
jumped from the tenth-story window
of his apartment.
A second man allegedly threatened to
leap to his death from the same window,
but was restrained by police.
Witnesses to the incident
reportedly heard the man jump...
She offered no explanation for the attack.
The lieutenant was treated for minor
wounds at the hospital and released.
A 16-story building under construction
in downtown Atlanta collapsed today,
killing at least 29 persons.
The engineering firm responsible for
the structural design of the building
could offer no explanation for the collapse.
The construction firm says
there's no logical reason for the collapse
and suspects sabotage.
Police in Gary, Indiana,
have been unable to identify
the bodies of a young man and woman...
...stab wounds
and their features carved away.
The man's genitals had been removed,
and police first identified the victims
as two women.
OK?
Franklin!
Ah!
- Are you OK?
- I was... Sh*t.
OK.
This heat is just driving me crazy.
I don't know if I can take much more.
Listen, the condition of retrogradation
is contrary or inharmonious to
the regular direction
of actual movement in the zodiac
and is, in that respect, evil.
Hence, when malefic planets
are in retrograde -
and Saturn's malefic, OK? -
their maleficence is increased.
Have you been doing
those word power columns?
It just means that Saturn's a bad influence.
It's just particularly a bad influence now
because it's in retrograde.
- You believe that stuff she's hawking me?
- I don't know.
My granddaddy's buried here.
- What's your granddaddy's name?
- That big feller
at the stand with that flashlight in his hand,
that's the sheriff.
You tell him your granddaddy's
buried in there.
- He'll let you in.
- Thank you.
I'm gonna run off with your girl a minute.
Honey, I'll get you the sheriff.
Let us through.
This girl's granddaddy's buried here.
unbeknownst to Clyde.
Clyde didn't know, either.
They didn't know why...
Things happen hereabout
they don't tell about.
I see things.
You see, they say
it's just an old man talking.
You laugh at an old man.
There's them that laughs and knows better.
They're sure. The man said they
could tell if the grave had been dug up.
Franklin, don't worry. I saw it myself.
It didn't look dug up to me.
- Oh, what's that?
- What smells?
What is that stench?
Roll up the window.
Hey, that's the old slaughterhouse.
That's where Grandpa used to
sell his cattle.
We got an uncle that works at one of
those places outside of Ft. Worth.
That's where they kill them. They bash
them in the head with a sledgehammer.
- That's awful.
- It usually wouldn't kill 'em on the first lick.
They'd start squealing and freaking out,
and they'd have to bash 'em three times.
They'd skin them sometimes
before they were even dead.
That's horrible.
People shouldn't kill animals for food.
They don't do it like that anymore.
Now they got this big gun that shoots
a bolt into their skull, then retracts it.
It's just boom! It goes boom!
And boom!
Franklin, I like meat.
Please change the subject.
- Boom!
- That's terrible. It's still going on.
Oh, man, it's hot in here.
- Hitchhiker.
- Should we pick him up?
- Yeah. He'll asphyxiate out there.
- What does he look like?
Son of a b*tch is gonna
smell like a slaughterhouse.
Oh, give the guy a break.
He can sit by Franklin.
- What do you want to do?
- He's weird-looking.
- Pick him up, man.
- No!
Well, I think we just picked up Dracula.
- Where you headed, man?
- South.
You work at that place?
Oh, no.
- How did you get stuck way out here?
- I was at the slaughterhouse.
- My uncle works for the slaughterhouse.
My-my grandfather too.
My family's always been in meat.
A whole family of Draculas.
Hey, man, did you go
in that slaughter room?
Where they shoot the cattle
with that big air gun?
- Oh, that-that-that gun's no good.
- I was in there once with my uncle.
The old way with a sledge.
See, that was better.
They died better that way.
How come? I thought the gun was better.
Oh, no, no.
With the new way,
the people are put out of jobs.
You do that?
Look.
- I was the killer.
- Damn.
- Let me see them.
- They don't send the heads away.
- You took these, huh?
- Yeah.
Franklin.
See, they make head cheese.
They...
they take the head,
and they boil it,
except for the tongue,
and they scrape all the flesh
away from the bone.
They use everything.
They use the jowls
and the muscles and the eyes
and ligaments and everything.
- Oh.
- Look at this.
The nose and the gums and all the flesh,
and they boil it down into a big jelly of fat.
Wow. I didn't know
that's what was in that stuff.
It's really good. You like it?
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