It is assumed that a series of missing video tapes is the key to reveal the dark secrets of a notorious serial killer who is 'worse than Jeffrey Dahmer'.
Herb Baumeister is supposed to have killed around 25 young men during his murderous rampage in the early 1990s.
The married father of three and rich businessman would meet his victims in gay bars in the center of Indianapolis and to lure them back to his 18-hectare propagate Fox Hollow Farm where he killed them, burned their remains and spread their bones around it family. .
While the officers closed him in the summer of 1996 and searched his house, Baumeister fled to Canada and killed himself – brought his secrets to the grave and left several unanswered questions about his horror crime.
Three decades further, the number of victims and their identity remains unclear by only nine so far, while 10,000 human remains on Fox Hollow Farm still have to be identified.
The murder methods of the serial killer also remain a mystery as the only one known to tell the story if victim has changed his story several times.
And whether Baumeister may have had an accomplice, some of those who are connected to the case remain.
But a secret stock of tires can finally answer these questions and solve this dark mystery that the communities are still haunting in Baumeister's hunting ground of the center of Indianapolis and his murder field in Westfield.
An air opening in the ceiling of the basement in the Fox Hollow Farm of Herb Baumeister where it is supposed to have hidden a camera to take up his victims
Herb Baumeister is said to have killed about 25 young men after they have lured them back to Fox Hollow Farm (photo)
Researchers have long believed that Baumeister filmed his victims, before, during or after their murders with a secret camera hidden in an air opening in the basement of his house.
Baumeister is supposed to have taken over this crucial evidence with him when he fled to Canada.
His wife said his large tape collection had disappeared in their house and the Canadian police saw a box of tires in his vehicle in the days before his death.
To this day, the place of residence of these suspected 'sniff films' remains unknown.
In the new four -part ABC News Studios Docuseries 'The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer,' retired Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Detective Cary Milligan remembered the moment during the summer 1996 search for the ownership of Baumeister found. In the ceiling of the Poolbar area of ​​the basement, where Baumeister is supposed to have killed his victims.
He said that a screw was missing, which means that the opening was loose and looked like someone had almost had something to get something out.
“Inside it was big enough that a video camera could have been placed above it,” said Milligan.
“It was positioned, so if you placed a camera, it would look directly on a chaise lounge.”
Herb Baumeister disguised as a rich businessman and family man while he was hunting for victims at local gay bars, attracting them to his house where he killed them and left their remains over the building
He said that agents believed that Baumeister would position a video camera in the ventilation to film possible 'sniff films', pointing that serial killers often keep trophies or destroys to relive the murders. '
“He recorded something. That is why he lost from the tires, “said Milligan.
The man who was long thought as the only survivor of the serial killer, also claimed that Baumeister had him watch some videos when he went back to Fox Hollow Farm with the serial killer one evening in August 1994.
Mark Goodyear told ABC News Studios that the images were so 'bad' that it shout him.
“It was bad, bad. You couldn't make it, “he said.
“It was like having a camera right against something. You will not be able to tell what is going on, but the moment you got a flash from what was going on, it shout you. '
Goodyear – who has changed his story several times about his interactions with the notorious serial killer – has not specifically revealed what he saw in the video.
But he said 'he begged to die' while he described the disturbing moment 'insane', Baumeister grabbed his tongue to prevent him from screaming.
Mark Goodyear (photo) claims in the new docuseries that Baumeister forced him to watch some of his videos
“He put his hands in my mouth when I screamed. He grabbed my tongue, he held my tongue, “he said.
“Oh, it's the most horrible thing. “Hold your tongue, hold your tongue,” he would tell you. '
He added: 'For someone to put himself in your mouth and grab your tongue. You are terrified, you are just scared, you are terrified … I begged to die. Begged to die. '
But a search for Baumeister's house did not discover any tires.
According to the ABC News Studios series, the wife Julie Baumeister of Baumeister told the police that her husband was a very enthusiastic videographer.
She led researchers to a room in their house where he kept hordes of tires. But she discovered that they were all gone. In the Chamber, researchers found two VHS recorders that could be used to absorb one tape to the other.
Where the tires have gone, it is unclear, but it has been revealed that Baumeister was seen in possession of a supply of tires after he fled to Canada while searching for Fox Hollow Farm.
ABC News Studios reported in the series that, in the days before he committed suicide, the Canadian police had come into contact with Baumeister when officers noticed that he was sleeping in his car.
The swimming pool room in the basement of the Herb Baumeister house. It was this room where he is supposed to have killed his victims
When researchers on Herb Baumeister's Fox Hollow Farm Estate (photo) dived, his tape collection had disappeared
The officers noticed a large box with video tires on the back seat of his gay Buick, ABC News Studios reported.
Days later, on July 4, 1996, Baumeister was found dead next to his car in Pety Provincial Park, Ontario. He had shot himself.
A search for the car discovered that it was stripped of all the carpet – and the tires were nowhere to be seen.
Dailymail.com has contacted Hamilton County's Sheriff's Office for more information.
Three decades later these mysterious tires have never been found.
It is unclear what they can reveal about Baumeister's murderous Spree. It is also unclear whether Baumeister has thrown away the tires in Canada or whether he had help to hide them before he committed suicide.
In the docuseries of ABC News Studios, Goodyear also claimed that Baumeister came to his house on the day that law enforcement started looking for Fox Hollow Farm.
He said that the serial killer had a gun and watched the TV report on TV.
When asked in the show about an earlier claim, he made Baumeister brought a box, Goodyear refused to comment.
'Yes, we will not discuss that. What about that? “He said.
“No, there was something else. A piece there that I did not announce. '
Goodyear has never been accused or accused of any crime in connection with the Baumeister case.
He denied some involvement in the murders in the docuseries of the ABC News Studios when he was confronted with speculation that he could have been the accomplice of Baumeister.
However, he admitted that he lied to the police about the most important aspects of his story in the nineties and revealed that he was never attacked by the serial killer.
Eric Pranger, the cousin of Baumeister all Livingston Allen Livingston, told DailyMail.com that he thinks goodyear is 'a real sketchy guy'.
“I think he knows more than what he told the police then,” he said.
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Pranger said he believes that Baumeister must have had an accomplice in his horrible crimes, partly because of the pure physical toll it would have had to drag dozens of bodies out of the house completely in the surrounding forest.
“I don't think Baumeister did this alone. I think more people were involved, “he said. “I believe it's a whole group of men.”
Dailymail.com previously asked the Hamilton County Sheriff office whether the authorities once investigated the possibility that there was more than one murderer.
“Not that I am aware,” said a spokesperson.
Although there are many questions about the case, Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison works to answer something through a new study to still identify all 10,000 non-infected human remains on the farm.
He spoke with DailyMail.com last month and revealed that it is 'the second biggest study into non -created human remains in the history of the United States, the second only for the World Trade Center'.
The team is now very close to identifying two more victims among the remains, he revealed – the number of Baumeister's victims to 11.
The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer 'is produced by One Traveler, an All3Media company for ABC News Studios. Alex Jablonski is a director. Jen Casey, Nick Gilhool, Alex Walton and Jacob-Cohen Holmes are executive producers for one traveler and All3 media. Alex Jablonski acts as an executive producer, with Angela Borg and Sophie Kruz as co-executive producers. Victoria Thompson acts as an executive producer and David Sloan acts as a senior executive producer for ABC News Studios.
'The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer' will premiere on February 18 at Hulu.
