The Snowtown murders, or the Bodies in Barrels murders, refers to a series of gruesome murders perpetrated in Adelaide, South Australia in the 1990s. The crime spree was uncovered when the remains of eight victims were found in barrels of acid in a rented former bank building in Snowtown, South Australia, on May 20, 1999. The town of Snowtown (population 520) is in the Mid North of South Australia, 145 km north of Adelaide. Though Snowtown is frequently linked with the crimes, the bodies had been held in a series of locations around Adelaide for some time, and were moved to Snowtown in early 1999, very late in the crime spree that had spanned several years. Only one victim was killed in Snowtown; none of the victims or the perpetrators were from that town.