April 7, 1947 - Herb Baumeister

Baumeister operated largely in plain sight — a married businessman with a suburban estate — while investigators struggled for years to connect the disappearances of men from Indianapolis's gay bar scene to a single perpetrator. The eventual search of his Fox Hollow Farm property produced skeletal remains belonging to at least eleven victims, making it one of the more significant serial homicide discoveries in Indiana history. He died by suicide in 1996 before charges could be filed, leaving a number of cases formally unresolved.

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Herbert Richard Baumeister (April 7, 1947 – July 3, 1996) was a German-American businessman and serial killer who came under suspicion of murdering over a dozen men in the early-to-mid 1990s, most of whom were last seen at gay bars in central Indiana. Police ultimately found the remains of eleven men, eight identified, on Baumeister's property. He died by suicide after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Since his death, he has come under suspicion for the murders of twelve other men along Interstate 70 in Indiana and Ohio, which occurred from the early 1980s to the early 1990s.

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