True Crime Friday: John Bunting, the Snowtown Murders Serial Killer
John Justin Bunting was born September 4, 1996, in the country of Australia. He was the leader of a gang of serial killers. The murders happen in the city of Adelaide, Australia between the years of 1992-1999. The other moniker for the murders is called The Bodies in the Barrels Murders. Robert Joe Wagner, James Spyridon Vlassakis and Mark Haydon assisted Bunting with the murders and the disposals of the bodies throughout their reign of terror. The gang murdered at least eleven people. The trial was one of the longest and most publicized in Australian legal history. Authorities found a body in barrel within Snowtown hence the name the Snowtown Murders by the press. It has been noted that only one body was found in Snowtown, which is eighty-seven miles from Adelaide. The victims were not from Snowtown, and neither were the killers. The murders began because John Bunting was sexually molested as a child and obviously was traumatized by the rape. After his rape as a child if he heard of ...
