Crime Investigation Australia — Season 1, Episode 9: Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels

Episode synopsis

In 1999, eight bodies are found in six barrels filled with acid in a former bank vault in rural Snowtown, 50 kilometres north of Adelaide. Their investigation was to lead police to discover another four victims, in and around Adelaide. Four men were charged with murder and other offences. Eventually it was proven that 11 were murdered and another woman severely dismembered. The horrific murders that occurred over a 7-year period involve torture, dismemberment, even cannibalism.

About Crime Investigation Australia

Crime Investigation Australia is an Australian true-crime series that first premiered on Foxtel's Crime & Investigation Network in August 2005. The series is also rebroadcast on the Nine Network, and made its debut there on 14 August 2007. The host of the series is Steve Liebmann.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1No More Grannies - The Granny Killer
• E2Kid for Ransom - Tears for Daniel
• E3Death in a Heartbeat - The Body in the Bag
• E4The Backpacker Murders: Ivan Milat
• E5Contract to Kill / The Mornington Monster
• E6The Moorhouse Horrors / The Call Girl Killing
• E7The Killer Punch/The Will of Death
• E8The Anita Cobby Murder
• E10The Kimberley Killer
• E11The Wanda Beach Murders/Beaumont Children Mystery
• E12The Greenough Family Massacre
• E13The Disappearance of Donald Mackay