Lou Perryman murdered with an ax

OK, this is really weird.
Lou Perryman is - or rather was - an Austin, TX actor who was an assistant photographer on the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, shot in the Austin area back in 1973 (and a lifelong obsession of mine, in case you didn't know, which you did, because I talk about it every 5 minutes). Then in the nauseating sequel released in 1986, he played L.G. McPeters, a radio station sound tech and good ol' Texas cowboy who comes to a bloody and disturbing end beneath Chop Top's claw hammer. (This scene, probably more than any other in any film, scarred me for life as a child.)
Well, I'm just finding out about this now, but apparently a couple months ago Perryman was murdered with an ax by a bipolar man in his Austin home. The motive isn't known other than that the man needed Perryman's car and other items and decided to kill him to get them.
With an ax.
Yucko.
It's really bizarre since he played this character in a film (Texas Chainsaw Part 2) who comes to a memorably gruesome end.
I just don't know what to make of this. I almost want to believe it's made up.

Here's a link to an article on the topic from Fangoria magazine.

Hair as white as snow

Monday 12/22/08

It is STILL SNOWING! In fact I heard 5-6 more inches expected today. I’ve never seen anything like it in all the time I’ve lived in the PDX metro area. It really is almost Minnesotan now. We should invite the drowning polar bears down to hang out and hunt seals. Kirk is downstairs right now opening his bottle of champagne and squeezing juice out of his little oranges to make fresh mimosas. We’ve patched things up although he continues to annoy me, and I him, all the time with almost every conversation we have. He’s been here three days now, using the blizzard as an excuse to escape his house and Cori, who I gather he’s a bit burnt out on. It’s been fun, like an extended slumber party. It’s a little hard to stay motivated, but all I have to do today is type up the Poison/Austin piece for Just Out and interview Kelli Dunham (lesbicomedienne) over the phone for another piece – stuff that doesn’t require leaving the house. Last night Kirk, Scott & I went for a walk around 11 p.m. after being locked in the house all day and going a bit stir crazy. Kirk turned back when we got to Glisan, but Scott & I walked all the way to Biddy McGraws – only to find it just closed! – and back, probably about 2.5 miles. It was nice to get some exercise, and it’s not that bad out when the wind doesn’t blow. Back at the house I finally persuaded them to watch 30 Rock and I think Kirk & Scott saw that it really is a great show. Kirk also made peanut butter cookies last night using a recipe from the Seventh-Day Adventist cookbook I got ages ago from Dave & Ann Reed! I found a copy of an old photo in it I’d forgotten about: me and young DeeDee playing on the tire swing back on the Reed farm, myself about 4 years old, and with a snow-white mullet! That hair would be so ironically cool in Portland right now.