Had to study this in Year 10 Legal Studies, and the detailing of these murders were quite sickening... To think Bunting, Wagner, Vlassakis etc. were going around and doing these horrific murders and doing it for nearly a decade is just shocking.
Thank goodness that they were finally caught and were sentenced to life imprisonment... To think this all stemmed from their homophobia (which was a bit hypocritical too)...
They killed 12 people, whom they believed were either of a homosexual preference or a sexual predator of young children. Some of them were, but some were unjustly killed even though they were not. Some of the circumstances in the killings were very disgusting and always amplified after each murder, to the point where torture was present and killing whilst listening to their favourite songs.
This is also known as the 'Snowtown Murders', but only one of the victims were killed in Snowtown, so as my teacher once said, "It's a bit misleading calling it Snowtown Murders as only one was killed in the town. Obviously the bodies were kept in a Snowtown bank, it is still misleading... Bodies in the Barrels is the right way of calling the case...!"
So there you have it... One of the most horrendous cases of murder in South Australian and Australian Criminal History...
Thank goodness that they were finally caught and were sentenced to life imprisonment... To think this all stemmed from their homophobia (which was a bit hypocritical too)...
They killed 12 people, whom they believed were either of a homosexual preference or a sexual predator of young children. Some of them were, but some were unjustly killed even though they were not. Some of the circumstances in the killings were very disgusting and always amplified after each murder, to the point where torture was present and killing whilst listening to their favourite songs.
This is also known as the 'Snowtown Murders', but only one of the victims were killed in Snowtown, so as my teacher once said, "It's a bit misleading calling it Snowtown Murders as only one was killed in the town. Obviously the bodies were kept in a Snowtown bank, it is still misleading... Bodies in the Barrels is the right way of calling the case...!"
So there you have it... One of the most horrendous cases of murder in South Australian and Australian Criminal History...