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After 26 years behind bars — the full minimum sentence — the youngest killer in Australia’s most notorious murder case, James Vlassakis, is finally set to walk free. Once just 18 when he helped orchestrate four of the eleven brutal killings in Snowtown, Vlassakis now faces parole after his release was confirmed by the state’s Court of Appeal. His testimony helped convict two other murderers, and a recent court decision lifted a 25-year media ban, making this moment not just legal, but deeply symbolic for a community still haunted by the gruesome discovery of eight victims in barrels inside a bank vault back in 1999.

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