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On June 24, 1996, Herbert Baumeister’s 15-year-old son stumbled onto bones while on the family’s 18-acre property in a remote wooded area of Hamilton County. The discovery took place about 60 ...
- A Disturbing String of Murders in The Indianapolis Area
- Who Was Herb Baumeister?
- The Horrific Crimes of Herb Baumeister
- The Discovery of The Bodies at Fox Hollow Farm
In the early 1990s, men began disappearing from the Indianapolis area. As police began to investigate these disappearances, they quickly found a pattern: all of the men were gay and had been visiting gay bars in the area shortly before they went missing. As word of the missing men began to spread through the community, the police got the break in t...
Born Herbert Richard Baumeister on April 7, 1947, he had a long reputation for being strange. As a child, he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia after constantly getting in trouble at school for disruptive behavior. There were even rumors that he had urinated on a teacher’s desk. After a brief attempt at college, Baumeister tried out a number of ...
At these bars, Herb Baumeister allegedly picked up men and invited them back to his pool house. After slipping drugs into their drink, he strangled them with a hose. Their bodies were then burned and buried on the property. In November, police acting on the tip they received asked to search the property and told Julie that they suspected her husban...
With news that the bodies had been discovered at Fox Hollow Farm, Herb Baumeister vanished. His body was eventually found 8 days later in Canada and his death meant that Baumeister couldn’t be charged. And so, he officially remains only a suspect in the killings. But based on the bodies buried near his home, police eventually tied him to a string o...
Nov 28, 2022 · WESTFIELD — Most people knew Herbert Baumeister as a successful businessman with a wife and three kids who lived in a big house on a horse farm in suburban Indianapolis. But Baumeister led a secret, murderous life. He picked up young men in gay bars and brought them back to his home at Fox Hollow Farms in Westfield — and killed them.
- victor.ryckaert@wrtv.com
- Digital Reporter
Jun 2, 2024 · 5. At least 10,000 pieces of remains have been discovered on his former property. WTHR. Jones was the third victim identified by the coroner’s office in the last six months. Before him ...
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May 22, 2024 · The Baumeisters refused the request, but Julie consented while Herbert was out of town in June 1996. Baumeister’s body was found with a single gunshot wound to the head on July 3, 1996, at a ...
- Donald Padgett
State (s) Indiana and possibly Ohio. Herbert Richard Baumeister (April 7, 1947 – July 3, 1996) was an American businessman and suspected serial killer. A resident of the Indianapolis suburb of Westfield, Indiana, Baumeister was under investigation for murdering over a dozen men in the early 1990s, most of whom were last seen at gay bars.
Feb 12, 2024 · In 1996, Indiana officials began digging up the $1 million dollar property where Herb Baumeister and his family lived and made horrific discoveries: Hundreds — and then thousands — of bone ...
