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'Texas chainsaw' murder suspect to be extradited (Times of London, August 16, 2002)

District Judge Timothy Workman, sitting at Bow Street Magistrates Court in Central London, agreed to a request by the US Government that Dr Robert Kleasen, 69, should be sent back to Texas for a retrial for the murders of Gary Darley and Mark Fischer. [...]

Kleasen was found guilty of murdering Mr Fisher and spent two and a half years on death row in Texas before his conviction was quashed. He was originally acquitted on appeal in 1977 because of an illegal search warrant. [...]

Kleasen is thought to be the inspiration behind the horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The day after the two victims went missing, a band saw in a taxidermist¹s shop, to which Kleasen had access, was found to contain human tissue and hair on its blade.

Even the basic story may not be as bizarre as this sidebar : Profile: Robert Kleasen (Times of London, August 16 2002)

In the early 1970s he was expelled from the Mormons for battering a young Mormon woman in Denmark and from Lebanon after attempting to enlist in the Palestine Liberation Army.

Imagine that; there was a time when it may have been possible to be too nutty to be a Palestinian terrorist. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 17, 2002 11:59 AM