The News Snowtown Victims Families Have Been Dreading
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In May 1999, two detectives followed a trail of suspicious missing persons cases to an old, red-brick bank in Snowtown, South Australia. 

As they head inside, they head straight for the bank’s vault where they find six large plastic barrels containing human remains. They also find handcuffs, knives, a saw, boxes of disposable gloves and bottles of hydrochloric acid. 

They’d come to realise they'd found the dumping grounds of Australia’s worst serial killings, crimes that would see four men sent to prison with lengthy sentences. 

But now, 2 years later, two of these men could soon be eligible for release.

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**Guest: **Jeremy Pudney

You can find more info about his book *Snowtown: The Bodies in Barrels Murders *here).

**Host: **Gemma Bath

Executive Producer: Gia Moylan****

**Audio Producer: **Scott Stronach

The story is not the first time we've covered the Snowtown Murders. Hear our past episode with Debi Marshall here).

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