James Vlassakis, the youngest of the perpetrators in Australia's infamous Snowtown murders, is set to be released from prison after South Australia's Parole Administrative Review Commissioner upheld a decision to grant him parole. Vlassakis, now in his mid-40s, pleaded guilty to four of the 11 killings carried out between 1992 and 1999 and was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 26 years, which he has now served. The Snowtown case — named after the rural town north of Adelaide where eight victims' dismembered remains were found stored in acid-filled barrels inside a disused bank vault in 1999 — is widely regarded as one of Australia's worst serial murder cases, and Vlassakis's release is expected to be subject to strict conditions including possible electronic monitoring.