Karla

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Karla, last name unknown, is a fictional journalistic assistant and a supporting character in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre multimedia franchise. She appeared in the six-issue Texas Chainsaw Massacre comic book series by DC Comics and WildStorm Productions. Karla was a young woman with dark hair who operated out of Travis County, Texas in the early 1970s. She worked as an assistant to WTX reporter Kim Burns. In June of 1974, Kim and her camera crew began investigating a series of macabre events, which would soon drag her into the gruesome world of the cannibalistic Hewitt family. They stopped at a trailer home off Route 17. The owner of the trailer was a corpulent woman who offered them tea. Karla, Kim and their cameraman Marcus went to the Blair Meat Co. packing plant. Kim recorded a brief narrative before Marcus and she entered the abattoir. Karla remained behind in the news van. While Kim and Marcus were in the facility, Karla began to feel woozy, not realizing that the tea she had accepted from the large woman was drugged. The woman was an accomplice of the Hewitt family, and Karla was abducted and brought to the family's underground sanctuary, where she was subsequently killed. Later, the Hewitts captured Kim Burns. They sat her down in front of a grotesque dinner table where she was horrified to find Karla's head inside of a stew pot.