Meshel Laurie
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The following podcast contains accounts of child sexual assault.
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This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie.
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Big news in the world of Australian True Crime this week with the release on parole of Jamie Vlasarkis, the youngest member of the Snowtown Bodies in the Barrels gang.
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In May 1999, South Australian police investigating the disappearance of Adelaide woman Elizabeth Hayden and acting on a tip-off entered a disused bank in the tiny hamlet of Snowtown, a couple of hours north of Adelaide.
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Upon entering the bank, they discovered the dismembered remains of eight people in barrels of acid.
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One of them was indeed Elizabeth Hayden.
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From there, the investigation moved quickly, and within weeks, police had arrested John Bunting, Robert Wagner, and Elizabeth Hayden's husband Mark Hayden.
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Days later, they arrested 19-year-old James Flasarkis.
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Bunting was the leader of the gang.
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He presented the killings to the others.
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As a cleansing of society of pedophiles and homosexuals.
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There's an argument that James Vlasarkis was another victim in this story.
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He was 14 when his mother started a relationship with Bunting.
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He'd been molested by his older brother, Troy Ud, who became one of the gang's victims.
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And Vlasarkas confessed to his involvement in the crimes during his first interview with police before he was even suspected of taking part.
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As of his upcoming
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release, Vlasarkas will have served 27 years in custody.
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It's hard to do this story justice in summary, so we're reissuing a conversation from some years ago with journalist and author Jeremy Pudney, who wrote the definitive book on the subject, Snowtown, The Bodies in Barrels Murders.
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This is Australian True Crime.
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