New DNA technology and witnesses reveal dark secrets in the Fox Hollow Farm case

Over the years, various notorious groups of murderers have attracted national attention for their shocking crimes, including numbers such as Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. A murderer who was just as brutal in his crimes did not receive as much national recognition as Gacy or Dahmer. He came from Indiana and his farm raised a dark double life and, according to investigators, ultimately called for the lives of at least 13 men.

The businessman Herbert Baumeister from Westfield, Indiana, has never been convicted, but the police believe that he is responsible for killing these victims, mainly gay men – and possibly more – after more than 10,000 bone fragments and bones on his Fox Hollow Farm were scattered.

To date, nobody knows the identity of all alleged victims of builders or how many people they may have killed. With today’s new technology, forensic doctor Jeff Jellison from Hamilton County has opened a new study of the infamous serial killer.

“If you look at the original investigation in the 90s when the search order was delivered, I don’t think we were ready to really treat such an investigation,” said Jellison.

The four-part ABC Studios series “The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer”, which has its premiere on Hulu on February 18, follows the forensic doctor Jeff Jellison and his team while examining the victims of Herbert Baumeister. As you dive deeper, you will discover potential accomplices, missing evidence and a central witness, the certificate of which is changing again and again.

In 1994, some families of missing gay men in Indianapolis commissioned a private investigator after saying that the police did not help them find their loved ones. There were several reports from the summer of 1993 that several gay men were missing after visiting the local gay bars.

These men were all about the same old and about the same size. The last place where most of them could consist of a number of open gay bars in an area of ​​2 miles.

The case started when Mark Anthony Goodyear talked to a private investigator about a strange encounter he had with a man he had met in a bar.

Goodyear mentioned that he met a man named Brian in a gay bar in downtown Indianapolis. According to the report, Brian Goodyear persuaded him to accompany him to his house, which had a pool and bar so that they could continue to get in touch.

They went into the basement, where the pool area was located. Goodyear remembers that there were mannequins around the pool and behind the bar and creates a kind of club environment.

“I already knew that something was strange to him,” said Goodyear. “I wouldn’t take him a cocktail. He tried to drink or whatever. So I went to the toilet with the cocktail.

According to Goodyear, they went swimming and dealt with mutual sex. And then took part in the autoerotic suffocation, which contains the air material to a sexual partner that brings it into an euphoric state before they become passed out.

“I knew that this guy was wrong,” said goodyear to the police. “There were different attempts there, as I said, a tie, a belt. He had a fascination for strangulation. I think that if I was strongly under influence, he would probably have gone further with me. I’m not even a murderer, To believe that he has done this before.

Goodyear couldn’t remember where Brian brought him, and he said several people to look for a man who corresponds to Brian’s description. During this time, nobody asks the Goodyear story. Over the years, some people who met him had more than he knew when he was concerned.

One of these people was Jane Gerlach, a paranormal filmmaker who said ABC that she found his stories his stories for a documentary during the interview with Goodyear. She also mentioned that he wrote a strange puzzle in a letter.

“I was never attacked,” said Goodyear in a letter. “I’m not a murderer. Exactly what am I? Tell me what I am. No accomplice, no victim, never attacked. What am I?”

ABC News has confirmed that Goodyear has never been charged with crimes related to the case. Goodyear denies all participation in the missing persons.

“I have not presented anyone in Herb Baumeister,” Goodyear told ABC News. “I would introduce people to the builder, yes. This is your murderer. Don’t let the building with him. Don’t be alone with him. Above on my lungs. A shrill cry. While standing on furniture in public places. No, I have never prepared someone. “

Nevertheless, Goodyear was on the right track for the leading detective during the police investigation. Thanks to the word of mouth, one of the friends of Goodyear discovered a person who agreed to the description that Goodyear offered and received the number of license number of the person’s vehicle. With this record number, Detective Mary Wilson, Detective of the Indianapolis Police Department, initiated a background examination and carried out an overview of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) to find out who the vehicle belongs. The investigation showed that the car belonged to Herbert Baumeister.

Previously, builder hadn’t been on the radar of someone. He and his wife Julie lived with her three children in Westfield, Indiana, in Fox Hollow Farms. Baumeister appeared a decent father who went into the church.

But now Baumeister became a suspect and the police wanted to check his home. At that time, the investigators learned from his wife that he had not lived there because she had applied for a divorce.

“My first impression of Mr. Baumeister, when I saw him in the shop for the first time, was a very strange man,” said Wilson. “But only he was so nervous. He has a woman and three children, and he said that nobody in his family knew the fact that he goes into gay bars.”

In 1996 Julie Baumeister Detective said that Herbert strangely behaved and wanted to leave him. She told an incident when her son found a human skull in the forest near her house.

Julie Baumeister granted the police to carry out the property of Fox Hollow, and a preliminary search was carried out in this area. Detectives observed during the search, which seemed to be apparently burned bone fragments. The fragments looked like human bones, so the investigation had to include others with specialist knowledge in this area.

“We took a walk through the forest, and when I went through I saw down and saw what seemed to be an articulated foot,” said Cary Milligan, a former detective of the sheriff of the Hamilton County. “The bones of a foot were on the floor. Some shotguns were found. Oh, the strikers are handcuffs.”

Investigators and forensic anthropologists spent weeks to dig the earth around the 18 hectare property. In total, they found more than 10,000 human remains. They were only able to identify 13 men.

Baumeister was finally found in Canada, dead through suicide. The criminal investigation died with him, but the forensics team is obliged to identify as many victims as possible.

“We have 10,000 bone and bone fragments,” said Jellison. “Well, to put it in the right perspective, this is the second largest number of non -identified human remains in this country. I have published this large plea with this study. And tried to identify the remains. If you have missed someone Please know us.