If you've seen The Snowtown Murders floating around Netflix, just know that the real-life crimes were also known as the "bodies in barrels murders," so that should clue you in to how brutal the film version (pictured above) of one of Australia's longest and most publicized murder cases is. In the late '90s in a poor suburb of Adelaide, Australia, a charismatic, homophobic man named John Bunting murdered 11 people (with the help of some friends) so that he could steal their welfare payments.
Eight of the bodies were found stored in barrels in an abandoned bank vault, and the other two were in the backyard of his former home. When he was caught and the case went to trial, a witness claimed the killers were cannibals, eating portions of flesh from one of their victims. He is currently serving 11 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
