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In 1994, little Erich Baumeister was playing in a wooded area behind his home when he found something unusual: a human skull. The 13-year old boy went to his mother, Julie Baumeister. It appeared there was a human skeleton in the wooded grounds of their Tudor home in the Fox Hollow Farms section near Westfield in Hamilton County. Mrs. Baumeister alerted her husband, but, thankfully, he had a practical explanation. Herb Baumeister's father was an anesthesiologist. Herb had stored one of his dad's medical skeletons in the garage. Cleaning the garage, he"d simply thrown the skeleton in the woods. That explained everything, of course.
Born in 1947, one of four children, Herb attended North Central High School, worked as a copy messenger at The Indianapolis Star, got a job at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and, in 1971, married Julie, a high school journalism instructor. They had three kids and eventually opened two thrift stores. It was a Hoosier success story, but some people thought Herb had quirky habits. No one knew he"d been treated briefly for mental illness. Things like renting a hearse or urinating on his boss" desk were just part of weird ways.
In the year that the skeleton was found, three young homosexual men had vanished at separate times. The police didn't seem to be very interested, but the gay community was alarmed. Authorities didn't pay much attention to one man's story of how a man he met in a gay bar had taken him to a Hamilton County home with an indoor swimming pool and talked about the pleasure of having sex while choking his partner. The informant couldn't locate the house. Three more young homosexuals disappeared.
In the summer of 1995, the informant spotted the same man at a gay bar and got the license number of his pickup truck. It was registered to Herb Baumeister. But there was no evidence against the presumably respectable husband, father and businessman.
