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Episode 56 - Snowtown: The Bank Vault Body Barrels - Part 2

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week in the concluding episode of the harrowing Snowtown saga; John Bunting and Robert Wagner start to spiral. As they killed with increasing impunity, the net began to close - and their eventual capture led to a trial so gruesome members of jury walked out in disgust.


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0:00.0

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0:20.0

I'm Hannah, I'm Sruti, and this is Redhanded. Welcome back. Last week we left you just as Barry Lane was being dismembered by John Bunting.

0:29.0

Mark Hayden and his former lover, Robert Wagner. As Barry's flatmate Thomas Trevellian watched.

0:36.0

And some people claim that he joined in too. Thomas had very severe mental health issues.

0:42.0

He was a paranoid schizophrenic, and after watching the torture and murder of Barry Lane, he was understandably the most vulnerable he had ever been.

0:50.0

Thomas would walk around carrying a large knife and wearing camouflage. He was a fully fledged member of the tinfoil haphragade

0:57.0

and was constantly worried about being tracked by satellites. Which in the 90s sounded ridiculous, and everyone would have had a good laugh at him, but look at where we are now.

1:07.0

Fully correct. We are all being tracked by satellites all the time.

1:11.0

All right, Alex Jones. We are, how do you think Google Maps works?

1:14.0

Thomas Trevellian moved in with Robert Wagner and his new partner, Vicki Mills, after Barry's murder and stopped taking his medication.

1:22.0

After Barry was gone, one would assume that Thomas couldn't pay all of his rent himself, and that's why he moved in with Wagner.

1:28.0

I also think that I was thinking about this whether I think Thomas joined in with the murder or not.

1:33.0

It seems odd that afterwards he would move in with one of the murderers if he wasn't involved.

1:38.0

I mean, I know he's incredibly vulnerable mentally, but I just, that doesn't quite sit right with me, I don't think.

1:44.0

While living with Wagner, Thomas's behaviour became incredibly erratic.

1:49.0

He started to threaten their dog and ran around the house with a large knife, which is less than ideal in a house full of children.

1:55.0

So John Bunting and Robert Wagner took Thomas out for a drive. His body was found in November 1997, hanging from a tree by the side of the road.

2:05.0

Now this is really an out of character kill for Robert and John.

2:09.0

They didn't take the pleasure they took with Barry Lane. They just needed him out of the way. And at just 18 years old, he didn't even have anything worth stealing.

2:17.0

No one, including police and forensic pathologist, treated Thomas Trevellian's death as suspicious.

2:23.0

After all, he was a paranoid schizophrenic who had just come off his medication.

2:27.0

It's hardly beyond the realms of imagination that he would have been driven to suicide.

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