The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Series) Deaths

The list consists the deaths occurred in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)[]

Name	Cause of death	Killer	Notes
Kirk	Head bludgeoned twice with sledgehammer, hacked apart with chainsaw	Bubba "Leatherface" Sawyer
Pamela "Pam" Jones	Back impaled on meat hook, frozen in freezer
Jerry	Head bludgeoned with sledgehammer
Franklin Hardesty Enright	Hacked 5 times with chainsaw
Nubbins "The Hitchhiker" Sawyer	Run over by 18-wheeler	"Black Maria" Truck Driver	Accident

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)[]

Name	Cause of death	Killer	Notes
Buzz	Top of head hacked off with chainsaw while driving car	Bubba "Leatherface" Sawyer
Rick "The Prick" Gunner	Mangled in car crash	Bubba "Leatherface" Sawyer	Off-screen
L.G. McPeters	Head bludgeoned 20 times with hammer, skinned/bled out	"Chop-Top" Sawyer and Bubba "Leatherface" Sawyer
Drayton "The Cook" Sawyer	Rear slashed with chainsaw, back slashed by chainsaw through table, blown up by grenade	Lieutenant Boude "Lefty" Hardesty Enright, Bubba "Leatherface" Sawyer, and Himself	Accident
Bubba "Leatherface" Sawyer	Impaled through stomach with chainsaw, hammer thrown at head, blown up by grenade	Lieutenant Boude "Lefty" Hardesty Enright, "Grandpa" Sawyer, and Drayton "The Cook" Sawyer	Accident
"Grandpa" Sawyer	Blown up by grenade	Drayton "The Cook" Sawyer	Off-screen, accident
Lieutenant Boude "Lefty" Hardesty Enright	Blown up by grenade	Drayton "The Cook" Sawyer	Off-screen, accident
"Chop-Top" Sawyer	Stomach sliced 3 times with chainsaw, fell off mountain into pipe	Vanita "Stretch" Brock

Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1990)[]

Name	Cause of death	Killer	Notes
Sally Hardesty Enright	Died in private health care facility	Natural Death	Told in prologue narration
W.E. Sawyer	Executed in gas chamber	State of Texas	Told in prologue narration
Gina	Head bludgeoned with sledgehammer	"Leatherface" Jr. Sawyer
Sara	Eviscerated with chainsaw	"Leatherface" Jr. Sawyer
Ryan McArthur	Feet impaled with hooks/hung upside down, head bludgeoned by sledgehammer contraption	Edward "Eddie/Tex" Sawyer, Tinker "Tink/Tech" Sawyer, and Babi "Little Girl" Sawyer
Anne "Mama" Sawyer	Shot 3 times in chest through window with machine gun	Benny
Tinker "Tink/Tech" Sawyer	Ear/2 fingers blown off through window with machine gun/bled out	Benny
Edward "Eddie/Tex" Sawyer	Back impaled with hunting knife, covered in gasoline/set on fire	Michelle and Benny
Benny	Back sliced by chainsaw, drowned in lake	"Leatherface" Jr. Sawyer	Alternate scene, survived in film
"Leatherface" Jr. Sawyer	Head bludgeoned 11 times with rock, drowned in lake	Michelle	Alternate scene, survived in film
Alfredo Sawyer	Shot in chest through rear windshield of pickup truck with shotgun	Michelle

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)[]

Name	Cause of death	Killer	Notes
"I'm Not Hurt" Boy	Incapacitated in car accident, neck snapped	Vilmer Slaughter
Sean	Run over 11 times with tow-truck	Vilmer Slaughter
Barry	Head bludgeoned with sledgehammer	"Leatherface" Slaughter
Walter Edward "W.E." Slaughter	Head bludgeoned with sledgehammer	Vilmer Slaughter	Debatable death, possibly survived due to Part 3 reference
Heather	Back impaled on meat hook, back set of fire, neck crushed underfoot	"Leatherface" Slaughter and Vilmer Slaughter
Vilmer Slaughter	Head split open by airplane propeller	Apparent Illuminati Pilot

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)[]

Name	Cause of death	Killer	Notes
Jessica Crawford	Shot through mouth/rear windshield with .357 magnum	Herself	Suicide
Kemper	Hit in back of head with sledgehammer, face flayed with knife	Thomas Brown "Tommy/Leatherface" Hewitt
Pepper Harrington	Back sliced/sliced in half with chainsaw	Thomas Brown "Tommy/Leatherface" Hewitt
Andy	Leg sliced off with chainsaw, back impaled on meat hook, chest impaled with knife	Thomas Brown "Tommy/Leatherface" Hewitt and Erin Hardesty	Mercy kill by Erin
Morgan Hardesty	Handcuffed hands tangled on chandelier, crotch sliced with chainsaw	Thomas Brown "Tommy/Leatherface" Hewitt
Sheriff Winston Hoyt/Charles "Charlie" Hewitt Jr.	Run over 3 times with police car	Erin Hardesty
Officer Wallace	Hacked with chainsaw	Thomas Brown "Tommy/Leatherface" Hewitt	Not seen
Officer Adams	Hacked with chainsaw	Thomas Brown "Tommy/Leatherface" Hewitt	Not seen

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)[]

Name	Cause of death	Killer	Notes
Sloane Murphy	Birth complications	Her baby	Adopted and raised by "Thomas 'Leatherface' Hewitt"
Meat Plant Owner	Hit in back with sledgehammer, caught under desk, legs broken/head bludgeoned with sledgehammer	Thomas Brown "Tommy/Leatherface" Hewitt
Sheriff Winston Hoyt	Shot through head/cheek with shotgun	Charles "Charlie" Hewitt Jr.	Identity stolen
Alex	Shot in chest with shotgun	Sheriff Winston Hoyt/Charles "Charlie" Hewitt Jr.
Holden	Sliced in half with chainsaw	Thomas Brown "Tommy/Leatherface" Hewitt
Eric Hill	Arms flayed with knife, impaled through stomach/gutted with chainsaw while on table, face flayed with knife
Bailey	Chest impaled with meat hook/pulled out of tow-truck/dragged, tongue cut out, throat slit with scissors
Dean A. Hill	Impaled through back with chainsaw/lifted
Chrissie	Impaled through driver's seat/back with chainsaw while driving car
Motorist	Run over by car		Accident, double kill
Police Officer	Run over by car		Accident, double kill

Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)[]

Name	Cause of death	Killer	Notes
Female Sawyer Relative	Shot in neck, burned in house	Residents of Newt, Texas
Male Sawyer Relative	Shot in chest, burned in house
Boss Sawyer	Shot in back, burned in house
Bear Sawyer	Shot in chest, burned in house
Drayton Sawyer	Shot in stomach, burned in house
Male Sawyer Relative	Burned alive by molotov, fell through window
Grandpa Sawyer	Shot in chest, burned in house
Loretta Sissy Sawyer	Shot in back, head kicked/neck snapped	Residents of Newt, Texas, Gavin Miller
Darryl	Head bludgeoned 6 times with sledgehammer	Jedidiah "Jed/Leatherface" Sawyer
Kenny	Back impaled with meat hook, back impaled on meat hook, sliced in half with chainsaw
Ryan	Tires slashed with chainsaw/head smashed through windshield in van crash
Nikki	Leg/stomach slashed with chainsaw, frozen in freezer, forehead shot with handgun	Jedidiah "Jed/Leatherface" Sawyer and Officer Marvin	Accident
Officer Marvin	Chest hacked once/back 5 times with hatchet, face flayed with knife	Jedidiah "Jed/Leatherface" Sawyer
Ollie Brown	Cheek sliced with filet knife, chest impaled with pitchfork	Edith Rose Sawyer/Heather Miller
Mayor Burt Hartman	Ankles sliced/hands sliced off with chainsaw, fell into meat grinder/hacked apart	Jedidiah "Jed/Leatherface" Sawyer
Gavin Miller	Hacked with chainsaw		Off-screen, double kill
Arlene Miller	Hacked with chainsaw		Off-screen, double kill

Leatherface (2017)[]

Name	Cause of death	Killer	Notes
Blake	Leg slashed with chainsaw, head basked in with mallet	Jedidiah Sawyer and Grandpa Sawyer
Betty Hartman	Fell through floor, impaled on spikes, crushed under engine	Jedidiah Sawyer and Nubbins Sawyer
Nurse	Head slammed against table	Verna Sawyer-Carson	Debatable
Orderly	Beaten	Bud Horton
Orderly	Beaten	Bud Horton
Asylum Patient	Strangled with own hair	Clarice
Doctor Lang	Head bashed against window 9 times	Bud Horton
Nurse	Mouth slashed repeatedly with straight razor	Insane Asylum Patient
Asylum Patient	Kicked in head/stomped 7 times	Jedidiah Sawyer
Orderly	Tied up in wheelchair, pushed through second floor window	Asylum Patient
Male Diner Customer	Neck impaled with fillet knife	Clarice
Diner Customer	Shot in head with revolver
Diner Chef	Shot in head with revolver
Tammy	Slashed with knife, head blown off with shotgun	Isaac "Ike"
Man	Hanged in cord noose	Himself	Found dead
Isaac "Ike"	Hit over head with log, curb stomp on rock	Bud
Clarice	Head bludgeoned/shot leg/forehead with revolver	Texas Ranger Hal Hartman
Bud Horton	Shot in stomach/shoulder/through head with revolver	Diner Customer and Deputy
Deputy	Beaten, head bashed with police car door 6 times, head stomped twice	Jedidiah "Jackson" Sawyer
Deputy Sorells	Back impaled twice with knife, eaten alive by pigs	Drayton Sawyer
Texas Ranger Hal Hartman	Hit in leg/back with sledgehammer, chest partially flayed with knife, fingers off/hand sliced/disemboweled with chainsaw	Nubbins Sawyer, Drayton Sawyer, and Jedidiah Sawyer
Nurse Elizabeth "Lizzy" White	Foot caught in bear trap, decapitated with chainsaw	Jedidiah Sawyer

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)[]

Name	Cause of death	Killer	Notes
Virginia "Ginny" McCumber	Heart attack	Natural Causes
Deputy Barrett	Arm broken/neck impaled 4 times with broken arm bone in police van	Leatherface
Stonebrook High Students	Shot	Shooters	Flashback, shown dead
Sheriff N. Hathaway	Shot in neck with handgun, head bludgeoned twice with oxygen tank in police van	Deputy and Leatherface	Accident
Ruth	Gutted with broken metal shard in police van	Leatherface
Dante Spivey	Face slashed with cleaver
Richter	Leg broken with sledgehammer, neck impaled by broken glass window shard, head basked in 10 times with sledgehammer
Bus Driver	Decapitated with chainsaw		Off-screen
15 People	Hacked apart with chainsaw in bus
Catherine	Cut in half with chainsaw in bus
Texas Ranger Sally Hardesty	Impaled through chest with chainsaw/disemboweled
Melody	Sledgehammer thrown at chest/knocked through floor, leg slashed with chainsaw, leg impaled by metal rod, decapitated with chainsaw

Trivia[]

Leatherface has physical and mental disabilities, such as being deformed, intellectually disabled, overweight, cross dressing and cannibal.
Franklin Hardesty, from the original film, suffers from paraplegia.
Lieutenant Lefty, from the second film, turns out to be Sally and Franklin's uncle.
In the prologue narration of the third film, Sally, from original film, has died in a private health care facility.
- She made a cameo appearance in the fourth film being wheeled through a hospital on a gurney.
  - Meaning the events had to take place between were Sally escaped, Jenny taken to the hospital, and Sally's death before the third film.
The sixth film is a prequel to the fifth film.
- Sloane died giving birth to her son.
- The owner of the meat plant disposes him in the dumpster where Luda names him Thomas and takes him in to the Hewitt residence.
- Thomas murdered his abusive boss.
- Charlie Hewitt Jr. kills the sheriff and takes his identity.
- Holden, who's the boyfriend of Alex, seeks revenge on the Hewitts and attacks Monty by shooting him in the leg with a .357 magnum.
- Charlie orders Leatherface to remove the wounded leg with his chainsaw.
- Leatherface accidentally nicks Monty's second leg, so Hoyt tells him to remove that as well to lower the risk of infection, and for "balance".
The seventh film is a direct sequel to the 1974 original film and starts immediately after Sally Hardesty's escape.
- The residents of Newt, Texas takes justice into their own hands when they burn down the farmhouse of the Sawyer family for role in aiding Jed in several murders.
- Gavin Miller found an infant and promptly murders her mother, Loretta Sawyer, and adopts the infant with his wife, Arlene.
- Decades later, the infant has been raised by Gavin and Arlene as Heather Miller.
- Heather learns that she was adopted when she was notified that her grandmother, Verna Carson, has passed away and left everything to her.
- Sheriff Hooper realizes that Leatherface survived the fire and is still alive.
- Officer Marvin happens to be one of the Newt residents who burned down the Sawyer house and killing the family.
- Deputy Carl Hartman, who's the son of Mayor Burt Hartman, caught Heather and ties her up at the long-abandoned Sawyer slaughterhouse to lure Leatherface.
- Leatherface finds out that Heather is his cousin.
- Heather kills Ollie and helps her cousin by his chainsaw, which he uses to force Mayor Hartman into a meat-grinder.
- Heather reads the letter from Verna, who her real name is Edith Rose Sawyer, that tells her Leatherface will protect her in return for being taken care of.
- Realizing Leatherface is the only family she has left, Heather decides to stay with him.
- In a post-credits scene, Heather's abusive, adoptive parents arrive at the mansion, discussing how they greedily plan to split her assets. Leatherface opens the door, with his chainsaw in hand.
The Hewitt family have more members than the original Sawyer family.
The Slaughter family are the most hated characters in the franchise.
The Slaughter family are not cannibals nor incestous, only chaotic.
Some deaths in the movie were unintentional or suicidal.
- Nubbins was unintentionally run over by a truck driver.
- Drayton grabbed a grenade to kill himself, Leatherface, Lefty and Grandpa, but during the duel between Lefty and Leatherface, he is struck Leatherface's chainsaw that causes the grenade to explode prematurely.
- A hitchhiker shoots herself with a .357 magnum.
- Erin stabbed Andy to end his suffering.
- While Leatherface was killing Chrissie, the car she is driving goes out of control that runs over both a motorist and a police officer.
- When Officer Marvin open the freezer, he was startled and accidentally shot Nikki.
In the fourth film, the Slaughter family are involved in a Illuminati conspiracy to provide society a source of horror but when Agent Rothman discovered the are "breaking the rules" he has set for them, Rothman decides to shut them down, ordering Vilmer to be assassinated and rescuing Jenny from him.
Halloween was shown in the seventh film.