Episode 9: The Murders at Fox Hollow Farm
Something was happening to gay men in Indianapolis in the early to mid 1990s. Over the course of two years, beginning in May 1994, 10 men would vanish, mostly from clubs and bars that catered to gay men. This was, in a way, just the tip of the iceberg, other men and boys had been murdered in the previous decade. They were found strangled in streams and ditches along the 1-70 and 1-35 corridors in Ohio and Indiana.
Herb Baumeister would murder more than a dozen men beginning in 1980. From the outside, Herb looked like a man who had it all. A happy marriage, healthy children, a successful business and a beautiful home located on more than 18 acres and known as the Fox Hollow Farm. Appearances, as many of us know, can be deceiving and rarely is there a more disturbing example than in the case of Herbert Baumeister.
Sources:
The Noblesview Ledger: Various Archived Issues from Newspapers.com
The Indianapolis Star: Various Archived Issues from Newspapers.com
The Indianapolis News: Various Archived Issues from Newspapers.com
New York Times: Indiana Businessman is Linked to 9 Other Killings of Men
People: While Julie Was Away
Murderpedia: Herb Baumeister
Wave3 News: Southern Indiana police exhume body for DNA testing; believe man was victim of serial killer
ThoughtCO: Herbert Richard Baumeister, Serial Killer
Book: The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm by Richard Estep, Robert E. Graves