The story of Robert Kleasen - the inspiration behind the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films who lived in Barton for a decade
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marie longley ended the day in a safe house 50 miles from barton. the police eventually found her there five days later. again, they raided the cottage and found two more illegally held pistols. one, an assassin s pistol complete with silencer. here we ve got one of the two pistols which were recovered when we searched his premises. this is what he claimed in interview had been his own personal issue weapon when he d worked for the cia. and that the reason why he kept it was for sentimental reasons. kleasen was a very accurate shooter. he would be able to kill someone within 100 yards without any problem whatsoever. i can t think of a reason why he would have that. other than it was part of his fantasy. if he genuinely believed that was his weapon in the cia, and that he used it to assassinate people. hello and welcome.
on tonight s program. robert kleasen, the american who survived death row and then built an arsenal of weapons in his lancashire home. tonight s top story, the american gunman who spent time on death row. mr. kleasen, is there anything you want to say at this stage given the cold case? no comment. ten years after leaving buffalo, robert kleasen s cover was finally blown as he once again became the center of media attention. in america he was described as an extremely dangerous man who would constitute a threat to society if ever released. but a fascination with violent weapons proved his downfall again. in march 2000, kleasen was charged with illegally possessing guns. marie was granted a divorce from him. and this should have been the last chapter of his bizarre life in britain. but remarkably, robert kleasen was released pending sentencing, and allowed to return home to barton. he threatened to kill me and his wife. i was concerned, quite annoyed
women. he joined these pen-pal clubs that would give him a list of people that wanted to pen pal him. he d write his cia stories and war hero stories and, gee, i ve got all these degrees. in the northeast of england a policeman s widow was beginning a correspondence she would come to regret. marie had been married before, and her husband had died, and she joined something called the international pen friend s club in dublin, and they sent her a long list of people. and she simply wrote to a few at a time as she felt that she wanted to. one of these names was robert elmer kleasen. he wrote saying that he was not an inmate. he was, in fact, a college professor, come to bring wisdom and enlightenment to these prison inmates by teaching them classes and teaching them languages and so on.
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