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John Justin bunting
John Bunting is an Australian serial killer from Adelaide, South Australia, currently serving eleven consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for his role in the murder of 11 victims of the Snowtown Murders.
John Bunting, driven to murder by his hatred for pedophiles and homosexuals, has been described as a skilled manipulator of people and “Australia’s worst serial killer”.
John Bunting was the ringleader of a “degenerate sub-culture” of murderers whose victims were people they already knew. Under the instruction of Bunting, the group would prey upon the weak so they could steal their welfare payments. His crimes led to the longest and most expensive investigations and criminal trials in South Australia’s history.
Bunting lived in Murray Bridge, South Australia from November 1991, living on Lohman Street until he moved to Burdekin Avenue in May 1997 where he remained until September 1998. Two of his victims were found in the backyard of his former home in Waterloo Corner Road, Salisbury North, a northern suburb of Adelaide, with the remaining eight discovered in a vault of a disused bank rented by Bunting and Haydon in Snowtown, South Australia, 140 km north of Adelaide. John Bunting insisted on playing the 1994 Live album Throwing Copper during many of his later murders.
Rock Spider Wall
John Bunting had fashioned a “rock spider wall” on a wall of a spare room in his house. The chart, created using paper notes and wool, was an interconnected web of names of people Bunting suspected to be pedophiles or homosexuals. At times John would randomly select a name from the wall and call them, insinuating they were pedophiles and “would get what’s coming to them”.
Relationship with James Vlassakis
John Bunting was married to Elizabeth Harvey, mother of co-offender James Vlassakis. Bunting spent a lot of time with Vlassakis, assuming the role of a father figure. Bunting regularly communicated to Vlassakis his hatred for pedophiles and homosexuals. Vlassakis confided in Bunting that his stepbrother, Troy Youde, had molested him at the age of 13. John Bunting replied by suggesting that Youde be bashed.
(Vlassakis later gave evidence against Bunting, Wagner, and Haydon at their criminal trials. Elizabeth Harvey has
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In 1929 Dr. Friedrich Ritter and his lover Dore Strauch arrived on uninhabited Floreana Island, Galapagos, to set up a homestead to escape Hitler Germany. They left their spouses and ran away together to practice Nietzsche’s writings in an isolated utopia. Strauch had MS and Dr. Ritter convinced her she could be healed by her own willpower. They were vegetarians who cultivated their food in their garden and lived as nudists. Dr. Ritter preemptively removed his teeth before coming to the Galapagos to avoid dental problems. Dore’s teeth were pulled out with garden tools on Floreana after they began to rot, and the two shared a pair of steel dentures Ritter had made.
They had many visitors during their stay from passing ships who would leave them supplies and visit their homestead. From these visitors they attracted the attention of the media and their usual story was published internationally.
Inspired by their story in the news another German couple decided to leave their homeland for Floreana. In 1932 Heinz and Margret Wittmer and son Harry arrived to set up their own homestead. Ritter and Strauch were not happy with their arrival and insisted they occupy an old pirate cave across the island from them. Margret was pregnant and asked Dr. Ritter to deliver her baby and he refused. Her child, Rolf, was eventually born in the cave without assistance. The two couples did not get along and many disagreements ensued.
In 1933 a third party came to the island, the self-proclaimed Baroness Eloise Wehrborn de Wagner-Bosquet arrived with her two lovers, Rudolf Lorenz and Robert Phillipson, and their Ecuadorian manservant Manuel Valdivieso. The “Baroness” came with big plans of building an upscale hotel and wanted to develop Floreana. This incensed Dr. Ritter and Strauch and there was immediate hostility between all parties. The Wittmers and Ritter were sure the Baroness was going through their mail and spreading lies about them to passing ships. Meanwhile, Wagner-Bosquet had turned on Lorenz and Philippson began beating and abusing him regularly: he would take refuge at the Wittmer home until someone came for him, when he would sheepishly return to the Baroness. Petty conflicts among the settlers escalated until life on the island was intolerable.
Several mysterious deaths followed. On March 27, 1934, the Baroness and Philippson disappeared. According to Margret Wittmer, the Baroness had come to their home one morning and said some friends had arrived in their
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I’ve been assessing the lines since Saturday and they have been incredibly long every day. Do you think if I get in line tomorrow morning at 5:30am (polls open at 7am) I‘ll be able to make an 8am meeting? Seems like it’ll still be rainy and cold tomorrow morning so hoping that will deter some people.
Bunting hated gay men ( with a cold blooded passion) It strikes me odd that he formed a relationship with Wagner....and he invited Wagner to actually take part in the murders! What was the bond between them? Double standards? I don't know...
