BEHIND THE PERFECT FAMILY HOME, SOMETHING HORRIFYING WAS BURIED.Herb Baumeister appeared to have finally built the life many people spend decades chasing. He was a husband, father, successful businessman, and owner of Fox Hollow Farm, an impressive eighteen acre estate outside Indianapolis.Then investigators entered the property.What they discovered in the woods transformed Baumeister from a troubled businessman into the central suspect in one of Indiana's most disturbing serial murder investigations.Herb Baumeister, The Fox Hollow Farm Killer: The Definitive Biography explores the extraordinary contrast between Baumeister's public life and the secrets investigators believe he kept hidden from his family, employees, and community.Follow his story from a troubled childhood and psychiatric difficulties through marriage, fatherhood, professional failures, and the surprising success of his Sav A Lot thrift stores. Discover how investigators searching for missing men from Indianapolis's gay community became interested in a mysterious man known as Brian Smart, and how that name eventually led them directly to Herb Baumeister.The investigation would uncover thousands of human bone fragments at Fox Hollow Farm, expose Baumeister's hidden activities, and send him fleeing toward Canada before authorities could arrest him.But the mystery did not end with his suicide in 1996.Was Baumeister also responsible for the earlier murders attributed to the mysterious I 70 Strangler? How many victims were actually hidden at Fox Hollow Farm? And could modern DNA testing finally give unidentified victims their names back?This detailed biography separates documented evidence from suspicion, examines the unanswered questions Baumeister left behind, and gives proper attention to the men whose lives were nearly lost beneath the mythology of Fox Hollow Farm.
