Snowtown, Part Two
Listener warning: this episode will discuss paedophilia, sexual abuse, murder, torture, dismemberment, and other gross things we’ve managed to repress from our psyches. If you want your psyche to remain intact, consider not listening to this episode. It’s fine, we understand.
This week, we look back on how the Snowtown murders all began, what made John Bunting and Robert Wagner the people they would become, and the evidence that Jamie Vlassakis gave at trial that put them behind bards for good. The facts of the case that came out at trial would cement the Snowtown murders as one of the most twisted and brutal serial killing cases in all of Australian history.
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The small country town of Snowtown, north of Adelaide, will forever be entwined with the bodies that were found there in 1999. But all the murders bar one actually occurred in Adelaide’s poverty-stricken northern suburbs. Drug addiction, violence, and abuse were rife within the area.
John Bunting, Robert Wagner, Mark Haydon, and Jamie Vlassakis were aided in their crimes by the fact that many of their victims were isolated, suffering from mental health or substance abuse issues, and reliant on government support.
Clinton Trezise was one of these vulnerable people. Missing since 1992, it was only when his cold case file landed on the desk of Major Crimes Unit Detective Craig Patterson in 1997 that a connection was made between him and several people who were missing from the area. Slowly but surely, Detective Patterson would make connections between these cases, and the two names that kept cropping up in each – John Bunting and Robert Wagner.
Eventually it would be uncovered that these people weren’t missing, but tortured, murdered, and dismembered, their bodies stored in barrels full of acid. John Bunting spoke openly of his desire to kill “dirties” - his term for homosexuals and paedophiles – but it became apparent that a ‘dirty’ was simply anyone John Bunting didn’t want to live any more. The victims ranged from actual paedophiles, to harmless mentally ill neighbours. He murdered his wife Elizabeth’s oldest son, as well as the wife of one of his best mates. He liked to look in the eyes of his victims as they were strangled to death, so he could see the moment the life left their eyes.
Our main source this week was Jeremy Pudney’s Snowtown: The Bodies in the Barrels Murders. It can be purchased here https://www.dymocks.com.au/book/snowtown-the-bodies-in-barrels-murders-by-jeremy-pudney-and-merriman-and-jeremy-pudney-9780732267162 or on other fine internet book dealers.
A thorough though somewhat editorialised version of the events can be found at Crime Library, accessed via the Wayback Machine here https://web.archive.org/web/20070527222342/http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/snowtown/index_1.html?sect=3
An article from the time of the discovery of the murders can be found here https://www.smh.com.au/national/from-the-archives-1999-up-to-six-bodies-found-in-barrels-in-snowtown-20190517-p51ojx.html
Rulings from various trials can be found here https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bunting-john-justin-dec.htm and here https://jade.io/article/178045
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20 Fascinating, Bone-Chilling Facts About the Worlds Most Infamous Serial Killers
As much as they terrify us, serial killers also fascinate us.
Here are 20 spooky facts about some of the world's most notorious murderers.
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Ted Bundy was a good samaritan! That’s right. He once saved a boy from drowning, and on another occasion actually received an honor from the Seattle Police Department for chasing down a thief. Little did they know he murdered at least 30 people.
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Pedro Lopez was one of Colombia’s most frightening serial killers, dubbed the Monster of the Andes. He confessed to his crimes in 1980 but was found insane and released from a mental hospital in 1988 on only $50 bail.
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Rodney Alcala murdered a bunch of people, but before that, he won an episode of The Dating Game. Fortunately, the woman who picked him refused to actually go on the date because he was too creepy.
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Robert Lee Yates, who murdered 13 prostitutes, was an Army veteran and helicopter pilot. He also had a family and was the father of five.
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Kenneth Bianchi, the Hillside Strangler, raped and killed 10 women and girls in the hills of Los Angeles, but while this was happening, he actually went on several ride alongs with the LA Police Department as part of a program and talked to them about the crimes.
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The BTK Killer, Dennis Rader, worked for ADT for 14 years. That means he installed security systems in people’s homes. He murdered ten people.
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Jake Bird, who was suspected of killing as many as 46 people, spoke for 20 minutes in court after his conviction was announced. At the end of his diatribe, he put a “Bird hex” on anyone who had anything to do with him being punished. “Mark my words,” he said, “you will die before I do.” Allegedly, six people involved in the trial died shortly after the trial.
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Robert Pickton confessed to killing 49 women, but the really grisly part is that he would feed the bodies to the pigs on his farm.
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Marcel Petiot, the “Butcher of Paris,” confessed to 63 killings, though there could have been more. No one could believe that he was a murderer. He was beloved. He actually adopted a different name, “Henri Valeri” and was assigned to finding the BUtcher of Paris…which was him.
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Vlado Taneski was a Macedonian serial killer who only got caught because he was also a journalist and a crime reporter and he wrote articles that included information about his own crimes that had not yet been released to the public.
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The Phantom of Heilbronn was a supposed female serial killer who was thought to have been responsible for 40 crimes including murders and burglaries. In 2009, investigators concluded that this murderer didn’t exist and the DNA found at all these scenes was already on contaminated cotton swabs used to collect DNA samples. The DNA belonged to a woman who worked at the cotton swab factory.
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H.H. Holmes, who had the infamous Murder House during the Chicago World’s Fair, was married to three women at the same time. He used different names each time he got married so he wouldn’t be caught.
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Serial killer and cannibal Richard Chase only entered homes to find victims if they were unlocked because he thought that meant he was welcome there. Uh, lock your doors folks.
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Robert Hansen kidnapped women, released them into the Alaskan wilderness, and then hunted them down for sport. He killed 17 women and raped more than 30 women.
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Serial killer James French’s last words while he was in the electric chair were, “How’s this for your headline? French Fries.”
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John Wayne Gacy is one of the world’s most notorious serial killers, but before he was caught, he was very involved in his local community and was even once photographed with the first lady at the time, Rosalynn Carter.
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Albert Fish was a notorious serial killer, child rapist, and cannibal. When he was being executed, he helped the executioner position the electrodes on his body before uttering his last words, “I don’t even know why I’m here.” Eerie.
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Ed Kemper, convicted serial killer, narrated hundreds of books on tape for blind people while he was in prison.
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Joey Metheny was a killer and cannibal who owned a food stand and would mix the flesh of his victims with the meat of cows and serve it to his customers.
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Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole were serial killers and partners. When asked why he didn’t barbecue and eat his victims like Toole did, his response was, “I don’t like barbecue sauce.”
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