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The Bodies in the Barrels - August 31 2020 - Daily True Crime

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Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

August 31st: First Snowtown Victim Killed (1992) When a group of troubled individuals get together it can only spell disaster. On August 31st 1992 the first of many Snowtown victims were killed in South Australia. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowtown_murders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement-office of

0:03.8

telecommies and a weird...

0:05.8

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.5

When a group of troubled individuals get together, it can only spell disaster.

0:16.0

On August 31st, 1992, the first of many snowtown victims were killed in southern Australia.

0:23.7

So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a

0:28.8

morning cup of murder.

0:32.4

John Justin Bunting, on his own, would have been a monster.

0:37.1

He, after being sexually assaulted by an older boy when he was just eight, developed a strong

0:42.3

hatred towards pedophiles and homosexuals that was bound to become violent and claimed that

0:47.5

his favorite part of working at a slaughterhouse was killing the animals.

0:51.9

He was truly a monster in the making.

0:57.2

Then, in 1991, he met Mark Hayden and Robert Wagner. John was married to a woman named Elizabeth Harvey, and through her,

1:03.4

John met her sons, James Lasaskes and Troy Ude. Eventually, John would pull all of these people

1:10.2

in one way or another into his murderous vendetta.

1:14.2

Now that John had smooth talked his way into heading his rag-tag group of killers,

1:19.0

they set out to find victims.

1:21.3

His first victim?

1:22.8

A man named Clinton Trezis was an accused pedophile who John invited over for a social visit on August 31st

1:30.0

1992. By the end of his visit, Clinton's head had been smashed in with a shovel and disposed of.

1:37.9

His body was found at Lower Light on August 16th in 1994. Their second victim was an 18-year-old boy named Thomas Trevelyne.

1:47.1

You see, while most murderers choose a stranger, these men slowly began picking off people in their

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