EP276: The Murders at Fox Hollow Farm

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

They called it Fox Hollow Farm, a quiet estate tucked away in the Indiana woods. By day, its owner, Herb Baumeister, was a family man, a businessman, someone who seemed perfectly ordinary. But at night, shadows lengthened, and secrets began to stir. Men vanished, whispers grew louder, and a chilling pattern emerged—one that would forever stain the ground where the farmhouse stood. What lay hidden beneath the surface was far darker than anyone could have imagined. As investigators began to connect the dots, they uncovered a chilling story that would leave a community shaken and questioning how well we ever truly know the people living next door.

SOURCES:
1) UPI Focus: Sheriffs link 9 deaths to Indiana man
2) Cold cases: Lyons homicide not only unsolved investigation
3) Bone found during Sunday search of Herbert Baumeister property
4) Remains found on serial killer's Indiana estate identified as man missing since 1993
5) While Julie Was Away
6) The Hunter of Fox Hollow: Part One
7) 'Several Tragedies' Still Left in Fox Hollow Farm Serial Killer Case, Coroner Says
8) 10th victim identified in Fox Hollow Farm serial killer case in Indiana
9) Encyclopedia of Indianapolis: Herbert R. Baumeister
10) Fox Hollow Farm in Westfield was home to Herb Baumeister, suspected serial killer
11) Where is Herb Baumeister’s wife Julie Baumeister and their children now?
12) Julie Baumeister: Where is Herbert Baumeister’s Ex-Wife Now?
13) Herb Baumeister’s killing field and the new effort to identify his victims: Forgotten at Fox Hollow
14) Herb Baumeister “The I-70 Strangler”
15) The True Story Of The Fox Hollow Murders
16) After 29 years, another victim of suspected serial killer Herb Baumeister identified after burned remains found at farm
17) Who Was Herb Baumeister? Revisiting the Serial Killer's Crimes and Horrifying Post-Murder Rituals 29 Years After His Death
18) A new push may finally identify all the victims of Indiana serial killer Herbert Baumeister
19) This private investigator cracked the case of notorious serial killer Herbert Baumeister
20) Wikipedia: Herb Baumeister
21) Was Herb Baumeister The ‘I-70 Strangler’? Inside The Case Against The Indiana Father Of Three
22) 'I-70 Strangler' remains mysterious Midwest boogeyman, but private investigator has theory

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals.
0:21.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:34.3	Hi, this is Tanya.
0:36.5	Hi, this is Shannon. And we are Crimes and Consequences, a is Tanya. Hi, this is Shannon.
0:37.9	And we are Crimes and Consequences, a hardcore true crime podcast.
0:43.4	Hey, Shannon.
0:45.0	Hey, Tanya.
0:45.9	How are you doing?
0:47.2	I'm doing great, fabulous.
0:49.4	Couldn't be better.
0:51.0	Yeah, I have a funny thing.
0:52.8	So, okay, I got these indoor security cameras, right,
0:57.0	for Levi. The one's over his crib. I got one in the living room. I got a pack of four for a decent
1:03.0	price. I love it. I love being able to pop over his crib and see how he's, if he's fussing,
1:09.2	stuff like that. Right. The one in the living room is just
1:12.6	straight on to like the couch right so it's right under the TV that's mounted on the wall and
1:19.9	you know when I go through it it's just usually me holding Levi it's just who's ever holding Levi
1:25.7	on the couch in a certain spot is being recorded.
1:29.7	Well, I forget.
1:31.4	And I have given my daughter access to the, of course, the camera's in the house.
1:36.3	So she had left over to her boyfriends.
1:38.6	I got the boy down for the evening.
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