The world’s w orst SERIAL KILLERS
These men and women committed the most heinous of crimes – cold-heartedly taking life after life
Sixbarrelsina disusedbankvaultin
Snowtown,SouthAustralia,helpedcatch
someofAustralia’smostevilserialkillers.
Fromlate 1992 toMay1999,John
Bunting,RobertWagner,JamesVlassakis
andMarkHaydonpreyedonfriends
andfamilywhomtheybelieved to be
gayorpaedophiles.
Bunting,then37,anda formerabattoir
worker,Wagner,31,andVlassakis,23,
torturedtheirvictims,cutthebodiesinto
piecesandkepttheminbarrelsof
hydrochloricacid.Othervictimswere
buried.Haydon, 41, helped cover up
thecrimes.
DetectiveSteve
McCoywasa key
witnessatthetrial.
“Thestenchwas
unbearable...It was
putrid.It permeated
yourhair,clothing,
everything...It was
horrific,” he recalled.BuntingandWagnerwerefound
guiltyof 11 and 10 countsofmurder
respectively.Bothweresentencedto
lifeinprison.Vlassakiswasjailed
for 26 years.Haydonreceived
a 25-year sentence.BODIES-IN-THE-BARRELS
MURDERERS
JOHN
BUNTINGMARK
HAYDONROBERT
WAGNERintheremoteNSWbush.In
1996,Milatwasfoundguilty
ofsevenmurdersbutnever
confessed.Hediedofcancer
in 2019 attheageof74.The
NSWCorrectionsMinister
AnthonyRobertssummedup
thefeelingsofmanywhenhe
saidMilatcould“rotinhell”.
In2012,Milat’sgreat-
nephew,MatthewMilat,
followedinthesamebloody
footstepswhenhewas
jailedfor 30 yearsforthe
axemurderofa friendin
Belanglo.Heallegedly
boasted“that’s what the
Milats do”.Eightbodies
werefoundin
barrelsina
disusedbank
vaultat
Snowtown.The 2011 movie
Snowtown
revisitsthe
grisly murders.