On August 20th 1973, police were dispatched to the remote
farmhouse of Thomas Hewitt, a former head-skinner at a local slaughterhouse in
Travis County, Texas. What they found within the confines of his cryptic
residence was the butchered remains of 33 victims, a chilling discovery that
shocked and horrified a nation in what many still call the most gruesome mass
murder case of all time. Brandishing a chainsaw and wearing the grotesque flesh
masks of his victims, the killer became forever known as "Leatherface" when
sensational headlines were splashed across newspapers throughout the state of
Texas: "House of Horrors Stuns Nation - Massacre in Texas." Police and FBI
eventually gunned down a man wearing a leathery mask and declared they had their
killer and abruptly closed the case. However, in the years that followed, many
close to the grisly murder case would come forward to level accusations that
police had botched the investigation and knowingly killed the wrong man. Now,
for the first time, the only known survivor of the killing spree has broken the
silence and come forward to tell the real story of what happened on that
deserted rural Texas highway when a group of five young kids inadvertently found
themselves besieged by a chainsaw wielding madman who would leave a trail of
blood and terror that would forever be known as The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre.