Westfield businessman Herb Baumeister picked up young men in gay bars in Indianapolis, brought them back to his home at Fox Hollow Farms in Westfield — and killed them. Here's what we know about this notorious serial killer. VicRyc
WESTFIELD — Most people knew Herbert Baumeister as a successful businessman with a wife and three kids who lived in a big house on a horse farm in suburban Indianapolis.
Juliana filed for divorce in January 1996, just months after police questioned her about her husband's possible link to the disappearances of several young men, according to media reports.When Baumeister's wife and children left for summer vacations, police believe Baumeister picked up young men at gay bars, took them to his home and strangled them to death.
According to the Indianapolis Star and other media, Baumeister, 49, shot himself in the head in a Pinery Provincial Park in Canada on July 3, 1996, and died before he could be arrested and put on trial for the killings at his home. "For the past 26 years these people have been placed on a shelf at the University of Indianapolis, and that is not acceptable," Jellison said in a statement."We need to make every effort possible to identify these people and return them to their loved ones,”
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