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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tory Shepherd

‘Every day we get tourists’: current owner of infamous bodies-in-barrels bank says Snowtown is ‘nice and quiet’

Police outside the old bank building in Snowtown
Police patrol the old bank building in Snowtown, South Australia, shortly after eight bodies were found stuffed in barrels in the vault in May 1999. Photograph: AP

“The town is not a scary place,” says Snowtown resident Rob Vanderveen. He and his partner, Kryss Black, bought its infamous former bank building in 2012 – decades after bodies were discovered hidden in barrels in its vault.

“It’s nice and quiet,” he says of the South Australian wheat-belt town that became known around the world after the murders were uncovered.

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