Twenty-five years on, the town still suffers from the stigma of the bodies in the barrels murders.
"Any crime that you name after a location, it's such a burden on that location," Derryn Stringer from the Snowtown Progress Association said."It was a concept put forward to try and put an end to this, so that my kids and their kids aren't standing in front of cameras talking about something that happened 20, 30, 40 years ago."
Eight out of the 11 bodies from the serial killings were found in barrels in a disused bank vault in the town in 1999. All but one was murdered elsewhere."They seem to get lumped in with this adverse reputation that they haven't necessarily earned.""I'm not against it, it would have to be a name that would suit the town and that the community would be happy about," Jinariu said.
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