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True Crime Campfire

Fox Hollow: Serial Killer Herb Baumeister, Part 1

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True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We talk a lot about masks on our show. Most people wear them sometimes. We have our professional mask, our “make a good first impression” mask, our “fake it til you make it” one, when we don’t want anybody to know how anxious we are…But for most of us, the masks aren’t that different from our real personalities. Just a little more polished, maybe. Most of us don’t absolutely need the masks to survive. To avoid the horror and revulsion of our peers. To avoid prison. We hear it all the time on news reports about horror-movie style atrocities: He seemed like such a nice guy. He seemed so normal. He never even raised his voice. It’s unsettling, to realize how convincing a mask can be…even when what lies behind it is nothing short of monstrous.

Sources:
You Think You Know Me by Ryan Green
A&E's "Investigative Reports with Bill Kurtis," episode "Secret Life of a Serial Killer"
Various articles from this collection: https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/baumeister-herbert.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Baumeister


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0:00.0

Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:05.0

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.

0:08.0

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

0:12.0

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the

0:13.8

true crime campfire.

0:16.7

We talk a lot about masks on our show. Most people wear them sometimes. We have our professional

0:28.2

mask, our make a good first impression mask, our fake it tell you make it one when we don't want anybody to know how anxious we are.

0:35.0

But for most of us, the masks aren't that different from our real personalities,

0:39.0

just a little more polished maybe.

0:41.0

Most of us don't absolutely need the masks to survive, to avoid the

0:45.9

horror and revulsion of our peers, to avoid prison. We hear it all the time on news

0:51.6

reports about horror movie style atrocities.

0:54.0

He seemed like such a nice guy.

0:56.0

He seemed so normal. He never even raised his voice.

0:59.0

It's unsettling to realize how convincing a mass can be, even when what lies behind it is nothing short of monstrous.

1:07.0

This is Fox Hollow, serial killer Herb Bamister. So, Camper's, we're at Fox Hollow Farm, a spectacular multi-million dollar home on acres of beautiful

1:32.3

woodland in Westfield, Indiana, just a few minutes outside Indianapolis.

1:37.0

June 1996.

1:39.0

It was hot and still in the woods behind the mansion as Indianapolis police detectives follow Julie Baumister and her lawyer through the trees.

1:47.5

Mrs. Baumister, a polite, prepily dressed mother of three and the soon to be ex wife of a prominent local

1:54.4

businessman was leading the investigators to the place where about a year

1:58.8

earlier her children had found a human skull. They'd brought it into the house, all excited to show her,

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