The Disappeared Part 2
America's Crime Lab
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Nearly thirty years after gay men go missing from nightclubs in Indianapolis, one man’s call to the new coroner in town sets off an investigation into what happened at Fox Hollow. Now, there’s a desperate push to excavate the remains of dozens of suspected murder victims whose bodies were burned and crushed beyond recognition.
America’s Crime Lab is a true crime podcast about how science solves cold cases, missing persons, and other unsolved cases. Hosted by journalist and clinical psychologist Elin Lantz Lesser, and powered by Othram’s forensic DNA lab, the show connects the science to the story, revealing what really happens in the lab and why it matters.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | It was clearly skeletal remains of a human. |
| 0:19.4 | It makes me wonder what would happen if his son had not made that discovery. |
| 0:23.6 | I mean, would there be a whole bunch of skulls and skeletons out in the woods? |
| 0:27.2 | You have all of these fragments. |
| 0:29.2 | How do we figure out who these people are? |
| 0:35.6 | In 1996, authorities discovered thousands of human remains on the property of a wealthy |
| 0:41.6 | Indianapolis business owner. The more investigators dug into the wooded grounds, the more they |
| 0:47.4 | found. Femers. Jawbones. Ribs sticking out of a muddy embankment. |
| 0:55.0 | Police were in the midst of one of the most prolific serial killers of our time. |
| 1:01.0 | But the discovery of human remains didn't lead to an arrest. |
| 1:05.0 | It didn't even lead to an in-depth investigation of who died on the property. |
| 1:10.0 | In fact, it took nearly 30 years to |
| 1:13.6 | reopen the case. But even now, does anyone really know the truth of what happened at Fox Hollow Farm? |
| 1:22.7 | I'm Alyn Lance Lesser, and this is America's Crime Lab. |
| 1:32.1 | This is part two of the Fox Hollow story. |
| 1:34.7 | If you missed part one, you'll want to go back and listen. |
| 1:43.2 | Producer Catherine Fenalosa is here, and when we left this story, police were digging up hundreds of human bones at Fox Hollow. |
| 1:46.7 | Meanwhile, her Baummeister was away at the family lakehouse with one of his kids. And his wife, Julie, is worried about what he might do because |
| 1:52.2 | Herb knows that police have found human remains behind the family home. So Julie gets an emergency |
| 1:58.5 | restraining order to have her son brought back to her. |
| 2:02.2 | Honestly, I still can't wrap my head around why the police haven't brought in Herb for questioning, or at least have him under surveillance. |
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