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Fox Hollow: Serial Killer Herb Baumeister, Part 2

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True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In Part 1 we introduced you to Herb Baumeister: Husband, father of three, prominent Indianapolis businessman…secret necrophile. By the early 1990s, Herb and his wife Julie were practically printing money with their chain of thrift stores, and they’d recently moved into a spectacular mansion on acres of beautiful woodland. It was the perfect place for the kids to run and play…and even more perfect for Herb’s favorite form of recreation. And in the summer, when Julie and the kids left for their vacation house in Lake Wawasee and Herb took to the Indy gay scene under the fake name “Brian Smart,” men started to go missing at an alarming rate. Join us now for part 2 of this chilling true story.

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.

0:17.0

So, campers, in 1, we introduced you to Herb Balmeister, husband, father of 3, prominent Indianapolis

0:29.3

businessman, secret necrophile. By the early 1990s Herb and his wife Julie were

0:35.6

practically printing money with their chain of thrift stores and they'd

0:38.9

recently moved into a spectacular mansion on acres of beautiful woodland. It was the perfect

0:44.3

place for the kids to run and play and even more perfect for Herb's favorite form of

0:48.6

recreation. And in the summer when Julie and the kids left for their vacation house in Lake Wawasi and Herb took to the indie gay scene under the fake name Brian Smart, men started to go missing at an alarming rate.

1:02.0

Join us now for part two of Fox Hollow, serial killer Herb Baumister. It was May 28th 1993 when a 20-year-old man named Johnny Bear left to go to his job at McDonald's.

1:27.0

He never made it, and he was never seen again.

1:30.0

A few months later, in July, 30-year-old Jeff Jones walked out of a rehab center and into oblivion.

1:37.0

Later that same month, Richard Hamilton, 20 years old, left his apartment at 2 o'clock in the morning to go buy cigarettes.

1:45.0

He never came home again.

1:47.0

August 7th 28 year old Alan Livingstone was seen getting into a lightcolored car and then never seen again.

1:55.0

Later that same night, 31-year-old Manuel Resendez went out to a gay club with friends.

2:01.0

When they were getting ready to leave at the end of the night, they realized they couldn't

2:04.0

find Manuel. None of them ever laid eyes on him again.

2:07.8

Now if you haven't been keeping count campers, that's five so far, all in the span of a few months, and two of them on the same night.

2:17.0

That was the summer of 93, while Julie Balmeister and the kids were happily ensconced at Grandma's

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