Police suspect that Herb Baumeister targeted individuals from the LGBTQ+ community, burying a significant number of victims on his high-value Indiana property during the 1990s.
Initially appearing as a conventional family man with a successful life, Herb Baumeister’s facade crumbled when bone fragments, believed to be from numerous missing gay men, were unearthed on his million-dollar Indiana property in 1996.
Indiana officials, alarmed by the bone discoveries, initiated a dig on the Baumeister family’s $1 million property, revealing a grim reality. Baumeister, leading a double life, allegedly lured men from gay bars to his Westfield home, where he murdered and buried them on the 18-acre property.
In 1994, Baumeister’s son found a human skull on the property, but Baumeister dismissed it as a medical school skeleton gift from his late father. Julie Baumeister, his wife, was temporarily reassured. However, her fears intensified two years later when extensive bone fragments were discovered, leading to the estimate of around 25 victims buried at Fox Hollow Farm.