Snowtown Murders Research Paper

The Snowtown murders
The Snowtown murders also referred to as the ‘bodies – in – barrels murder’ has been one of the most horrifying serial killing acts to occur in the Commonwealth of Australia, as well as, has become one of the most longest and most publicised trials to occur in the South Australian history. This has been the one of the most terrifying series of homicides committed by four friends called John Bunting, Robert Wagner, James Vlassakis and Mark Haydon over the period of 7 years, while the first one being committed on the 22nd of August 1992 and the last one being committed on the 14th of May 1999, in the state of South Australia. Each of the victims were known to at least one of the accused, because they were a member of the

None of the 11 victims nor the perpetrators were from Snowtown. Snowtown was just the place where the remains of 8 victims were found by the South Australian Police in six plastic barrels in an unused bank vault. According to the a report presented by the AGE ‘The notoriety of the murders have led to a short-term economic boost from tourists visiting Snowtown but created a lasting stigma the town of Snowtown would be "forever stigmatised" due to its relationship to the murders. Shortly after the discovery of the bodies in Snowtown, the community discussed changing the town's name to "Rose town," but no further actions were taken. As of 2012, one shop in Snowtown was selling souvenirs of the murders cashing in on Snowtown's unfortunate notoriety”. The Snowtown murders are well known throughout Australia because of the amount of money that was spent on the trial and its long trial, which lasted over 12 months, and became the first longest trial in the

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