Snowtown, Australia
Australia’s worst serial killers got life in prison this week for torturing and dismembering 11 people in the notorious “bodies in barrels” murders. John Bunting and Robert Wagner forced their victims to call them “God” and “Lord Sir” as they were being slowly cut to pieces. The two men mutilated the bodies and let them rot in barrels in an abandoned bank vault. Prosecutors said the murderers were motivated by greed—they cashed the welfare checks of several victims—and by a hatred of those they believed to be pedophiles or homosexuals.
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