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Abe Maddison

Snowtown's grim legacy of trauma endures over decades

Barrels containing the remains of eight murder victims were found in a disused Snowtown bank vault. (Rob Hutchison/AAP PHOTOS)

When detectives pried open the door of a disused bank vault in rural South Australia, it unleashed a fetid stench of death that would haunt all who entered.

The barrels they found inside the chamber contained the remains of eight victims of a murder spree that would ultimately include the names of 11 people; statistically, Australia's worst serial killings.

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