Kim Burns

Kim Burns is a fictional news reporter and a main character in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre multimedia franchise. She appeared in the six-issue The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' comic book series by WildStorm Productions in 2007.

Biography
Kim Burns was a field reporter for WTX News in Travis County, Texas in the early 1970s. In June of 1974, Kim and her camera crew stopped at a trailer home off Route 17. The owner of the trailer was a corpulent woman who offers them tea. Kim asked her for directions to the town of Fuller. From within the trailer, a mysterious person intently watched the conversation.

Kim, her assistant Karla, and her 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. She encountered a man named Hank who was carrying a chainsaw. Hank introduced himself as the head "slaughterman" and offered to give them a tour of the facility. Contrary to popular belief, the Blair Meat plant was up and running again with a full crew. Hank went into explicit detail of the methods his men and he employ when it came to slaughtering livestock. Disgusted with the tour, she stomped back towards her news van

Kim and Marcus found that Kara was missing, and nowhere to be found. Reluctantly, they returned to the plant, believing that she may have gone inside. While exploring one of the walk-in refrigeration units, they were stunned when Hank leaped out and attacked Marcus with a cattle prod. Kim began running in terror, but Hank quickly caught up to her. Hank tied Kim to a meat hook and forced her to watch as he slaughtered Marcus. He executed him using the exact same methods that he uses when slaughtering livestock. He slit his throat, bled him out, then tossed him (still alive) into a huge vat of boiling water. As Hank got to the rendering stage of his process, Kim managed to free herself and began running.