A tranquil million-dollar farm in Indiana concealed a macabre secret—it served as the clandestine hunting ground for a serial killer, according to the New York Post.
When authorities finally descended upon Herb Baumeister’s expansive 18-acre property in Westfield, located north of Indianapolis, they stumbled upon a gruesome discovery: approximately 10,000 fragments of human remains.
These were predominantly pulverized and incinerated skeletal pieces, remnants of the teenage boys and young men whom Baumeister had abducted and slain during the 1980s and 1990s.
Nearly three decades after Baumeister took his own life while evading law enforcement, investigators are still sifting through the remains and identifying numerous victims.
Last month, the Hamilton County Coroner made a significant announcement. Human remains recovered from Herb Baumeister’s Fox Hollow Farm in 1996 were positively identified as those of Jeffrey A. Jones, a young man who had disappeared in 1993.
Jones is the third victim to be identified in recent months, a grim testament to the enduring mystery surrounding Baumeister’s heinous acts.
Alongside Jones, four additional DNA profiles have been extracted from the remains found on Baumeister’s property, yet these identities remain unknown. This discovery brings the confirmed total of Baumeister’s victims to twelve, according to Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison.
“Because many of the remains were found burnt and crushed, this investigation is extremely challenging; however, the team of law enforcement and forensic specialists working the case remain committed,” Jellison said, noting the extraordinary difficulties faced by investigators.
Baumeister was a businessman, husband, and father of three children. He hunted gay teens and men in central Indiana beginning in at least 1980. It is believed he claimed the lives of at least 25 individuals, according to Fox News Digital.
He reportedly used the fake name “Brian Smart” and targeted young gay men he met at a bar.
Jeffrey A. Jones was the third victim identified by the coroner’s office within the past six months. Prior to him, officials identified Allen Livingston, who was 27 when he disappeared in August 1993, and also Manuel Resendez, who was 34 when he went missing in 1996 after Livingston.
Baumeister relocated to a farmstead with his family in 1988. He utilized its vast expanse and the adjoining trail to discreetly dispose of thousands of decomposed human remains. The dark truth unraveled when Baumeister’s teenage son stumbled upon a human skull and showed it to his mother.
Initially, Baumeister’s wife obstructed law enforcement’s efforts to search their property. However, as the incriminating evidence increased, she eventually divorced him. Law enforcement managed to search the property in Baumeister’s absence, uncovering the bodies of multiple victims.
In 1996, facing arrest after a warrant was put out for him, Baumeister fled to Ontario, Canada… and at the age of 49, he took his own life with a fatal gunshot.
In his suicide note, he neither confessed to the murders nor was he ever charged with the heinous crimes.
WRTV reported that the unidentified bones and bone fragments languished in storage until Jellison resolved to reopen the case in 1996.
The Hamilton County Coroner’s Office, in conjunction with the FBI, Indiana State Police Laboratory, Dr. Krista Latham of the Biology & Anthropology Department at the University of Indianapolis, and DNA specialists from Texas-based Othram Lab, are all diligently working to identify the remaining victims. Each identified victim brings a semblance of closure to the victims’ families, yet the painstaking identification process continues.
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