Along with the 6 barrels there were an array of knives, rope, tape, rubber gloves, handcuffs, an electric shock machine and plastic bottles labelled as hydrochloric acid. Inside the bank vault the police were met with a scene obviously used for unspeakable acts of violence along with the overpowering stench of human decay. Apparently there had been several large black barrels inside the broken down vehicle but the smell emanating from them was so foul that neighbours had complained, so the barrels were moved to a disused bank which was being leased by the so called friends. Police received information about unusual activity regarding a vehicle parked outside one of the suspects’ homes in the northern suburbs of Adelaide and when the vehicle in question reappeared outside a house in Snowtown days later, police hit the trail.Īfter questioning the owner of the property in Snowtown where the vehicle was now parked they learnt that it had been towed there by two friends who were indeed suspects. That is, until a woman went missing, her disappearance reported by her brother but not her husband, an associate of the suspect trio. They had three suspects, John Bunting, Robert Wagner and James Vlassakis, but not enough evidence to proceed. Part police reporting, criminology text, biography and social history, Snowtown is a compelling book without peer, and will take its place among the classics of the true crime genre.South Australian detectives had already been on the case for two years, suspecting they had a serial killer on their hands after five people had vanished over a period of four years, presumed dead although cash had continued to be taken from their bank accounts. But not every detail of this case has been made available to the public, and Snowtown contains exclusive information revealed for the first time.

the Snowtown murders were Australia's most horrific and sustained serial killings details of the case appalled the nation - not to mention South Australia, which already has a reputation for producing the country's highest number of serial killers.

Not only does he investigate the lives of the convicted men but he digs deeper, telling the stories of their twelve victims and exploring the complicated social web that enabled them to not only prey on their victims, but to get away with their crimes for so long. Now, using his yearas of experience as a police reporter for the Adelaide Advertiser and Network ten, Pudney pieces together the complete story of the Snowtown murders. When bodies were discovered in barrels in 1999, hidden within a bank vault in Snowtown in South Australia, Jeremy Pudney was one of the first journalists on the scene. The definitive account of Australia's most notorious criminal case

Snowtown by Jeremy Pudney