ESAD's Serial Killers/Psychology/Pathology Thread.

[Eat Shit And Die]

Herb Richard Baumeister AKA : "Herb" - "The I-70 Strangler"

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Lust killer - Torture
Number of victims: 8 - 16
Date of murders: 1980 - 1996
Date of birth: April 7, 1947
Victims profile: Johnny Bayer, 20 / Allen Wayne Broussard, 28 / Roger A. Goodlet, 33 / Richard D. Hamilton, 20 / Steven S. Hale, 26 / Jeff Allen Jones, 31 / Michael Kiern, 46 / Manuel Resendez, 31 (gay men)
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: Indiana/Ohio, USA
Status: Committed suicide to avoid arrest on July 3, 1996 in Ontario, Canada

In the early 1990s investigators with the Marion County Sheriff's Department and the Indianapolis Police Department began investigating the disappearances of gay men in the Indianapolis area. In 1993, investigators were contacted by a man claiming that a gay bar patron calling himself "Ron Rosen" had killed a friend of his, and had attempted to kill him. The detectives told him to contact them in case he ever saw the man again. In November 1995, he called them and supplied the man's license plate; after checking the license registry, investigators discovered that "Ron Rosen" was actually Herb Baumeister.

Investigators approached Baumeister, told him he was a suspect in the disappearances, and asked to search his house. When Baumeister refused, investigators confronted his wife, Julie, who also forbade police to search the house. By June 1996, however, Julie Baumeister had become sufficiently frightened by her husband's mood swings and erratic behavior that, after filing for divorce, she consented to a search. The search of the 18-acre (73,000 m2) estate named "Fox Hollow Farm" was conducted while Baumeister was on vacation; it turned up the remains of 11 men, only 5 of whom were ever identified.

Baumeister escaped to Ontario, where he committed suicide at Pinery Provincial Park by shooting himself in the head. In his suicide note, he described his failing marriage and business as his reason for killing himself. He did not confess to the murders of the men found in his backyard.

In addition to the murders at his estate, Baumeister is also suspected of killing nine more men, the bodies of whom were found in rural areas along the corridor of Interstate 70 between Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana. Julie Baumeister told authorities that her husband made as many as 100 business trips to Ohio, on what he said was store business.

My summary

This guy was a true psycho, he started of murdering and dumping hundreds of miles away from his home, as time went on he dumped bodies closer and closer to his own residence to the point where they were scattered around his property he dumped many of his victims along the I-70 interstate between Ohio and Indiana.

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