10,000 Human Remains Found on Serial Killer’s Farm

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Herb Baumeister lived more than just a “double life."

On this episode of "Body Bags," Joseph Scott Morgan explains how it is possible that Baumeister had over 10,000 remains on his million-dollar estate, and Dave Mack dives into the background of the married, father and businessman who owned two Save-a-lot stores in Indianapolis.

Baumeister, who took his own life in 1996, is suspected of enticing gay men to his home, where he killed them and disposed of their bodies at the rear of his property.

Investigators suspected that Baumeister, a married father of three at the time who frequented gay bars, enticed unsuspecting men to his property to murder them. By 1999, investigators connected him to the disappearance of at least 16 men since 1980.

Some of the victims’ bodies were discovered discarded in shallow streams in rural central Indiana and western Ohio

For 30 years, investigators have been working to identify thousands of human remains, will they ever know the truth about how many people Herb Baumeister murdered?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:13 Introduction of serial killer graveyard

00:04:40 Discuss killer double life, wife claims she didn’t know anything

00:08:28 Talk about trying to identify bone from other items

00:12:26 Discussion of Forensic anthropologists

00:17:35 Discussion of hiding secrets from family

00:20:48 Talk about serial killer obsession with dead animals

00:24:24 Discussion of the depth of depravity

00:28:08 Discussion of skeletonized body on the property

00:31:49 Talk about trying to render body down to ash

00:36:36 Discussion of method of destruction after burning

00:40:22 Discussion of other serial killers

00:44:12 Talk about the size of the property

00:44:34 Conclusion

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0:00.0	Body Bags with Joseph Scott Gordon.
0:05.0	Believe it or not, I got a few horror stories, or let me rephrase that, horror movies that I walk. phrase that
0:16.0	I watch every year. And I think when Halloween rolls around,
0:20.0	as dark and the minute as this is, I will generally watch the exorcist.
0:25.0	And I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that it reminds me of how much evil there is in the world because it's truly terrifying. It always comes
0:35.9	back to the fact that you're talking about the devil here, you know. I don't know
0:42.4	is there another one well again probably I don't really get into all the Friday
0:51.0	the 13th stuff and things like that. It's always stuff that has to do with
0:56.5	the spiritual realm that really terrifies me if you're talking about a horror movie. But today, there's another movie that's coming to mind.
1:10.0	A movie that came out a few years ago that was directed by Rob Zombie.
1:15.0	And the title of that movie was actually The House of a Thousand Corpses.
1:22.0	It's kind of a dark, very dark comedy. But the reason that's coming to mind
1:31.1	is that we're going to talk about a case today where we are being
1:38.0	told that we're looking at one location in Indiana.
1:53.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
1:59.0	Dave of your own free will, have you ever subjected yourself to the horror genre?
2:08.0	And is there something in particular that you can reflect upon it's like, okay, thinking about horror movies, this is the one that I always go to.
2:18.0	It's the one that scares me consistently or it's something I enjoy just because of the strange nature of it.
2:25.0	I saw the first Halloween movie, John Carpenter, in theaters.
2:31.0	Yeah, wow, the original Halloween. I hadn't thought about that and that was kind of terrifying because at least at that point Tom it seemed plausible. You know, you got to somebody, you know,
2:42.0	Yeah, I know what you mean? got it somebody you know from a mental institute and they're they're a
2:48.2	violent offender remember Donald Pleasant you know he's saying I tried to get I tried to get through to Michael
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