Snowtown: The Bodies in the Barrels — Australia's Worst Serial Killers

In May 1999, police opened the vault of a disused bank in the tiny South Australian town of Snowtown and found barrels — and bodies dissolving in acid inside them. It wasthe end of the worst series of killings in Australian history: at least eleven people murdered over seven years.

But almost nobody died in Snowtown. The town just owned the vault. The real horror happened in the suburbs of Adelaide, carried out by a group of men led by JohnBunting — a charismatic, certain man who believed he was a hero. He kept a wall of names. He told himself and his followers he was ridding the world of pedophiles.

He wasn't. His victims were vulnerable friends, partners, and family — and the group quietly collected their welfare payments after they died. This episode unpackshow one dominant man built a worldview where murder felt righteous, recruited broken and dependent followers into it — including a groomed teenage stepsonwho became both killer and victim — and nearly got away with all of it. Plus where each of the men stands now, including the accomplice released into the community in 2024.

The most dangerous intent in the world isn't the kind that knows it's evil. It's the kind that's certain it's good.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

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