alt_edThe deadliest state in Australia...
August 27th 2008 00:43
South Australia of course!
The Snowtown bodies-in-the-barrels murder case is the worst serial killing in Australia's history.
John Justin Bunting was today found guilty by a South Australian Supreme Court jury of 11 murders, while his co-accused Robert Joe Wagner was found guilty of seven killings.
Wagner had pleaded guilty to another three charges of murder before he went to trial. Bunting and Wagner were sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment.
Eight victims were found in six plastic barrels in a disused bank vault at Snowtown, north of Adelaide, in May 1999.
Another two bodies were found buried in a suburban Adelaide backyard and two more bodies were found at other places.
Australia's previous worst serial killings were the backpacker murders in NSW between 1989 and 1992, in which seven people died.
Ivan Milat is currently serving seven life sentences - without parole - in NSW's Goulburn Prison.
Convicted serial killer James Vlassakis, who confessed his involvement in four of the bodies-in-the-barrels killings, was given a non-parole period of 26 years.
A fourth man charged over the murders, Mark Ray Haydon, will be tried later.
The killings capped South Australia's reputation as a state of bizarre murders, including the infamous Truro murders in the 1970s in which the bodies of seven women who had been raped and killed were discovered in scrub near Truro, also north of Adelaide.
James Miller was found guilty of six of the Truro murders.
In Adelaide between 1979 and 1983, five young men were killed in what later became known as The Family murders - called so because of the perpetrators allegedly being a group of paedophiles.
There was also the bizarre disappearance of the three Beaumont children - Jane, nine, Arna, seven, and Grant, four - from Glenelg in 1966.
No trace of the children has ever been found.
The Snowtown bodies-in-the-barrels murder case is the worst serial killing in Australia's history.
John Justin Bunting was today found guilty by a South Australian Supreme Court jury of 11 murders, while his co-accused Robert Joe Wagner was found guilty of seven killings.
Wagner had pleaded guilty to another three charges of murder before he went to trial. Bunting and Wagner were sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment.
Eight victims were found in six plastic barrels in a disused bank vault at Snowtown, north of Adelaide, in May 1999.
Another two bodies were found buried in a suburban Adelaide backyard and two more bodies were found at other places.
Australia's previous worst serial killings were the backpacker murders in NSW between 1989 and 1992, in which seven people died.
Ivan Milat is currently serving seven life sentences - without parole - in NSW's Goulburn Prison.
Convicted serial killer James Vlassakis, who confessed his involvement in four of the bodies-in-the-barrels killings, was given a non-parole period of 26 years.
A fourth man charged over the murders, Mark Ray Haydon, will be tried later.
The killings capped South Australia's reputation as a state of bizarre murders, including the infamous Truro murders in the 1970s in which the bodies of seven women who had been raped and killed were discovered in scrub near Truro, also north of Adelaide.
James Miller was found guilty of six of the Truro murders.
In Adelaide between 1979 and 1983, five young men were killed in what later became known as The Family murders - called so because of the perpetrators allegedly being a group of paedophiles.
There was also the bizarre disappearance of the three Beaumont children - Jane, nine, Arna, seven, and Grant, four - from Glenelg in 1966.
No trace of the children has ever been found.
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Think of South Australia, as the equivalent to the states Bible belt region...
Hope that sheds enough light lol
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