Snowtown locals are seriously considering a formal request to rename their town as the infamous farming community grapples with the “Bodies in the Barrels” stigma 25 years on. The serial killings ...

The 1999 serial murders that took place in a sleepy town in Southern Australian don’t just provide the inspiration for “The Snowtown Murders,” Justin Kurzel’s nightmarish directorial debut. The movie ...

A former police cell block, located only metres from Snowtown’s infamous bodies-in-barrels bank, has been sold to an Adelaide investor after “surprisingly strong” interest. The former state asset at 2 ...

A key player in the notorious Snowtown murders has asked the Parole Board to release him to live in the community. It can be revealed the Parole Board this week examined Mark Ray Haydon’s application ...

On the Rhode Island Report podcast, two Snowtown Project team researchers tell the Globe they aim to put the people of Snowtown “back into the imagination, as real as people who matter, as someone ...

The police and victims' rights commissioners have 60 days to request a review of the parole board's decision on James Vlassakis. The youngest perpetrator in the Snowtown murders was granted parole ...

In short: The SA governor has signed off on amendments which will make it easier for the state government to have Mark Ray Haydon deemed a high-risk offender by the Supreme Court. Such a step would ...

One of the most deeply affecting films thus far this year is Justin Kurzel‘s dark drama Snowtown. Telling the true story of a serial killer in South Australian, the director showed astounding talent ...

Was that a real kangaroo? I kept wondering that as John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) hacks off the paws and head of the dead creature as his girlfriend’s 16-year-old son Jamie Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway) ...

Justin Kurzel directs a well-crafted but hard-to-watch film about Australian serial killer John Bunting. By Megan Lehmann SYDNEY — Only the truly ghoulish will find any pleasure in Snowtown, Justin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 30—When Snowtown first got its start in the 1980s, a snow sculpting competition was one of the main attractions — and it will ...