Police believe Herb Baumeister targeted gay men and buried at least 25 victims on $1 million Indiana estate in the 1990s.
Investigators estimated at least 25 people were buried at Harold Baumeister's estate, based on evidence that included 10,000 bones and bone fragments.
The wealthy Republican businessman is suspected of killing up to 25 young men and boys before he died by suicide after police discovered human remains on his estate in 1996.
Those samples can then be screened against DNA profiles scientists are extracting from the remains, which were found starting in 1996 on Herbert Baumeister’s sprawling suburban Indianapolis property. The original investigators believed that at least 25 ...
Authorities in Indianapolis are reaching out to the public in a renewed effort to identify the remains of more victims of notorious serial killer Herbert Baumeister, who has been linked to the deaths of at least two dozen men and boys in the 1980s and ’90s.
A renewed effort to identify victims of suspected Indiana serial killer Herbert Baumeister is underway, decades after investigators unearthed thousands of bone fragments on his property. Using advanced DNA technology,
Herb Baumeister’s macabre double life began to unravel in 1994 when his 13-year-old son found a human skull and a pile of bones in the woods of Fox Hollow Farm, his $1 million estate in ...