Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Cops Conclude Mass Murder in Ind.
> GREENFIELD, Ind. (AP) -- A businessman who committed
> suicide after human remains were found on his country
> estate was responsible for killing 16 men in all,
> including nine whose bodies were found elsewhere,
> authorities concluded.
>
> Police made their conclusions public Monday, saying a
> new eyewitness account helped them solve murders,
> chiefly of gay men, that date to 1980.
>
> ``Until someone comes up with some evidence to prove
> it's different, we'll continue to think that all the
> cases were done by the same person,'' Hancock County
> Sheriff James Bradbury said.
>
> Herbert R. Baumeister was 49 when he fatally shot
> himself in July 1996, days after police started
> investigating human remains found at his 18-acre Fox
> Hollow Farm. In all, seven victims were found there.
>
> In February, a witness identified Baumeister, through a
> photograph, as the man seen leaving an Indianapolis
> nightclub with Michael Riley in May 1983. Riley's
> partially nude body was later found in a small stream.
>
> It was that information that led authorities to
> conclude that Baumeister was behind the killing of
> Riley and eight other men whose nude or partially nude
> bodies were found in shallow streams across central
> Indiana and western Ohio.
>
> Police say the nine murders, committed between 1980 and
> 1990, have striking similarities: All the victims were
> partially unclothed, found near water, and most had
> been strangled. The victims were all from Indianapolis.
>
> Police have said Baumeister apparently led a double
> life -- a family man who also frequented gay bars and
> had sexual encounters with men.
>
> Bradbury said all of the nine victims whose bodies were
> found elsewhere had links to the gay community, and
> investigators have said previously that they believed
> the seven victims found on the Baumeister property were
> gay. Three of those seven, however, were never
> identified.
>
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