Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and listen summer is officially

coming to an end but I hear you guys you guys have been so vocal about loving the

Thursday throwback episodes we were doing.

So I figured maybe we could keep it going a little bit longer.

It just so happens, we have 16 weeks left in 2024.

So, for each Thursday through the rest of the year,

I'm going to be giving you a different episode of crime junkie

from the archives.

Or if you're a new listener, it's stuff buried in the back catalog of hundreds and hundreds of episodes.

It's almost like my very own era's tour if you will honoring these past cases and the evolution of Crime Junkie Nation.

But there's also a secret message hidden among these 16 episodes.

So see if you can find the Easter eggs among them.

And to start, I'm starting right here in my hometown of Indianapolis,

with a case that we released just a couple of months after we launched crime junkie.

So be kind because this is Ashley and Britt,

circa 2018 when we were just baby crime junkies.

This is the story of one of Indianapolis's most infamous serial killers,

Herb Balmeister. Oh, All right crime junkies. I heard you and I'm finally covering the local Indianapolis

serial killer Herb Baumister. This has been requested over and over and over so let's just do it. And a

quick note as I was like researching this case I've always known about this case at a

very high level yeah but for whatever reason I always

thought that it took place in like the 70s it didn't no it took place in like

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