Herb Baumeister

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Yeah, Herb Baumeister

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Baumeister.

And he would bury the majority of them on his property, which was known as Fox Hollow Farm.

When an investigation into all these missing young men in Indiana points at Herb Baumeister being the primary suspect, Baumeister flees his property and ultimately ends his own life.

And in the note he leaves, he just says that the reason he's taking his own life is because his business is failing and so is his marriage.

He doesn't confess to any of the murders.

I think I've heard of this place on TV before.

And he's having like an epiphany.

And he's like, I think that this could actually be the home of one of the most notorious serial killers in Indiana's history, Herb Baumeister.

It just came to him that the name Fox Hollow Farm was something he remembered hearing on TV.

yeah and you have the franklin conspiracy you have jeffrey epstein so you know these things are happening i don't know if there are any murders associated with with epstein but there's a lot of sketchy stuff happening right now so um yeah it's pretty incredible um What about, maybe we can talk a little bit more about Kraft, I mean, or some of these other ones.

You mentioned some other names that pop up, like Herb Baumeister, Nelson.

Yeah, it's interesting that Randy Kraft actually stated that he said, I didn't get a fair trial.

The government turned it into a serial killer trial.

This is another guy, kind of like Kearney, who's traveling between jurisdictions.

So very sinister, very sinister stuff.

We can talk about Herb Baumeister because this guy was also videotaping everything around him.

And you can't believe it because when the police first came to his huge estate...

And he would bury the majority of them on his property, which was known as Fox Hollow Farm.

When an investigation into all these missing young men in Indiana points at Herb Baumeister being the primary suspect, Baumeister flees his property and ultimately ends his own life.

And in the note he leaves, he just says that the reason he's taking his own life is because his business is failing and so is his marriage.

He doesn't confess to any of the murders.

I think I've heard of this place on TV before.

And he's having like an epiphany.

And he's like, I think that this could actually be the home of one of the most notorious serial killers in Indiana's history, Herb Baumeister.

It just came to him that the name Fox Hollow Farm was something he remembered hearing on TV.

aren't the only two that's been in Indiana.

Herb Baumeister was here.

Yeah, but I know, but I'm just talking, like, these are the two most infamous in history.

Like, everyone knows their names.

Let's talk some true crime.

[upbeat music] Who killed the victims along I-70? Was it one person responsible for all of them, or were multiple predators hunting in overlapping spaces at the same time? Did Herbert Baumeister commit some of the I-70 murders before the crimes connected to Fox Hollow Farm, or were the similarities misleading, the result of different killers targeting the same vulnerable population? From ghost at Fox Hollow Farm to a confirmed monster we go, and we have to discuss Larry William Eyler.

Eyler was born in December of 1952.

Now, over time he became known as the Interstate Killer and the Highway Killer.

And I think I mentioned on yesterday's show there's two books written about him.

But he is, in a way, like you were talking about with Fox Hollow Farm, where we got a lot of people reaching out to us.

Fox Hollow Farm and Herb Baumeister is one of those dudes that, like, you can't, you can't swing a bat in the state of Indiana without hitting somebody that knows about that case.

Mm-hmm.

It is a story that stretches across years, highways, counties, police jurisdictions, and state lines.

It involves missing men and boys, bodies left near the interstate, profiles written by the FBI, suspects who seemed to fit part of the pattern but not all of it, and two names that would come to haunt the investigation in different ways, Herb Baumeister and Larry Eyler.

The killings associated with the I-70 Strangler took place across Indiana and Ohio between 1980 and 1991.

During that span, at least 12 men and boys were murdered, their bodies later discovered in places connected to Interstate 70, the major east-west highway commonly known as I-70.

Over the years, investigators, journalists, and true crime researchers have returned again and again to the same question.

Was the I-70 Strangler one man, more than one man, or someone whose name later became infamous for another series of murders? This is True Crime Garage.

[upbeat music] One of the most frequently discussed suspects in this case is Herbert Baumeister, an Indiana businessman who later became connected to the remains discovered at his property, known as Fox Hollow Farm, in 1996.

Those crimes became known as the Fox Hollow murders.