Jedidiah "Jed" Sawyer [1], also known as Leatherface, and as Jackson while living in a sanitarium, [2] is the inbred and intellectually disabled member of the Sawyer family who regularly murders and eats any perceived intruders in their rural home of Newt, Texas. [3]
Biography
Early Life
Jedidiah Sawyer was born into the cannibalistic Sawyer family in Newt, Texas, in 1947. [2] As Jed grew older, he would become very close to his incredibly inbred family, as well as being very loyal to their commands. [3]
Throughout much of his early life, Jed was pushed to kill by his family as part of the savage Sawyer rituals. He would receive a chainsaw for his eighth birthday from his family, but could still not muster the strength to slaughter a kidnapped man. [2]
Jedidiah celebrating his eighth birthday with his family
Shortly after his eighth birthday, Jed would participate in a family scheme revolving around luring a girl named Beth Hartman into his family's tender mercies. After Nubbins kills Betty, Texas Ranger Hal Hartman discovered the Sawyer's murder of his daughter. Enraged, Hal was unable to legally arrest the entire family, but was able to arrange for Jed to be transferred to a children's sanitarium, the Gorman House Youth Reformatory. [2]
Gorman House
After being sent to the asylum, Jed was forced to take the assumed name 'Jackson', and grow to the age of 18 by 1965. While in the sanitarium, Jackson would grow to be more sociable and openly talkative. [2]
While at the reformatory, Jackson would come to know many other dangerous youths, such as Bud, Clarice, and Ike. [2]
Escape
While in the Gorman House, Sawyer family matriarch (who had since wed to wealthy man Benjamin Carson), Verna Sawyer, and her lawyer, Farnsworth, made repeated efforts to have Jed released, to no avail. During one of these visits, Verna would break into the patient section of the Gorman House, hoping to see Jed, but was eventually stopped by the house staff. Despite this, her break-in instigated a mass breakout across the facility. [2]
The Massacre
"Justice"
Aftermath
Vengeance
Mental State
Personality
Physical Appearance
Known Kills
- 1965: Unnamed mental patient [2]
- 1965: Unnamed police deputy [2]
- 1965: Hal Hartman [2]
- 8/18/1973: Kirk [3]
- 8/18/1973: Pam [3]
- 8/18/1973: Jerry [3]
- 8/18/1973: Franklin Hardesty Enright [3]
- 2012: Darryl [1]
- 2012: Kenny [1]
- 2012: Marvin [1]
- 2012: Ollie Brown [1]
- 2012: Burt Hartman [1]
- 2012: Gavin Miller [1]
- 2012: Arlene Miller [1]