The thing that comes in your mind after hearing this name “Robert Kleasen” is “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that’s right. This name Robert Kleasen is attached so firmly with 28th October 1974 murders of two Mormon missionaries that it is somewhat impossible to detach two names with each other.
Story goes something like this, Travis County, Texas, Police Department arrested a man they suspected of committing what seems to be one of the world’s most horrific murders, two Mormon missionaries are gone missing, but no bodies have been found, the detective baffled by their suspect “Robert Albert Kleasen”, a man who had a host of allies and more than one personalities.
Robert Kleasen denied any role in the apparent murders claiming at different times that either the Mormon’s never arrived at his trailer, the case was a Mormon conspiracy against him and that the Judge was a war criminal, who Kleasen had information on and therefore had to be silenced.
Despite their beings no bodies a massive circumstantial evidence linked Robert Kleasen to the Mormon’s murder, by his trailer detectives found an ID badge with a bullet through it, inside the trailer they found the Mormons blood stained watches and apartment keys, using these clues the investigators began to piece together exactly what they thought had happened on the night that the boy’s disappeared.
The prosecutors answered that what then happened to the bodies also lay in Robert Kleasen’s trailer, they ceased a seemingly a nocuous menu script written by a John T. Williamson, he was another allies of Robert Kleasen and in it he described in detail his habits of killing dissecting and disposing of animal carcasses. The final pieces of the jigsaw were following into place for the prosecution, forensic scientist examined taxidermy studio next to Robert Kleasen’s trailer, and in it was ban-saw used for cutting up slaughtered animals on the blade of the saw they found hair that matched that of Gary Darley and Mark Fischer.
Robert Kleasen was found guilty of the two murders and spend over 2-1/2 years on death row, before being acquitted in 1977, reasoning to use an illegal search warrant during the investigation, he then left U.S and moved to Britain, marrying his pen friend Marie Longley in 1990 but in 2001 a new confirmation for Robert Kleasen involvement came into sight when use of DNA in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre case found some new evidence, but Britain never returned Robert Kleasen for the execution, he died in Belmarsh Prison, London, England in 2003, he was 70 years old at the time of his death.
Robert Kleasen
Robert Kleasen
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