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True Horror: Columbian Chainsaw Massacre

Apr. 14 3:11 PM by Eater of Entrails

Leatherface and his brutal series of chainsaw murders may be fiction, but there was a man who butchered countless humans by sticking a chainsaw through them (no, we're not talking about Ed Gein, the serial killer whom Leatherface is based on and who never actually killed with a chainsaw).

His name was Carlos Castaño, founder of a ruthless Columbian paramilitary group and murderer of hundreds of peasants and Marxist-sympathizers, many of whom were slaughtered with chainsaws. Castaño, who was known as the most feared man in all of Columbia, began his campaign of bloodshed after his kidnapped father was killed by Marxist rebels in 1981. Even though the $7,000 ransom fee was paid, his father was still executed, giving birth to a lunatic with a taste for ravaging humans with a motorized saw. Castaño's monstrousness rivaled even that of Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Leatherface.

One of Carlos Castaño's most heinous chainsaw attacks was during the Mapiripán Massacre of '97, where he and his men used chainsaws to slice off civilians' heads and limbs, and even used the tool to disembowel them. Castaño, who was also known for trafficking large shipments of cocaine, was eventually slain by his brother's second lieutenant in 2006.

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