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Serial Killers

The 10,000 Bones at Fox Hollow Farm

Serial Killers

Spotify Studios

True Crime, History, Education

4.630.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the fall of 1994, a 13-year-old boy found a human skull in his backyard. Detectives later discovered thousands more bones scattered about his family's estate, a property known as Fox Hollow Farm. The remains belonged to the presumed victims of Herb Baumeister, an alleged serial killer active thought to be active in Indiana for more than a decade. The investigation closed in the late-‘90s without an arrest. 11 unique DNA samples were catalogued and 8 victims identified at the time, but officials suspect the remains belong to as many as 25 people. In 2022, Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison set out on a brand new investigation to put them to rest. Keep up with us on Instagram @serialkillerspodcast! Have a story to share? Email us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode includes discussions of murder, assault, and suicide. Consider this when deciding how and when you'll listen. For mental health support, visit Spotify.com slash resources.

0:17.8

Is there a place near you with an especially dark past? Every time you drive by it, someone always brings up the stories. Maybe it's an old psychiatric hospital that played host to inhumane experiments, or a section of woods where people tend to vanish into thin air, or a house where a string of gruesome murders took place.

0:40.4

There's a legal term for these kinds of properties.

0:43.7

They're said to be stigmatized or psychologically affected.

0:48.3

And in many states, when they go up for sale, the seller is required to disclose certain

0:52.9

details of asked, like suspicious deaths and

0:55.8

homicides. Some states even have specific language around reported hauntings and supernatural

1:01.0

activity, all of which can affect the asking price. It's the reason Robert and Vicky Graves could

1:07.5

afford to buy Fox Hollow Farm, an enormous estate in Indiana with an indoor pool,

1:13.3

two libraries, and a five-car garage. The original asking price was $2.8 million in 2004,

1:21.4

but the Graves reached a deal a few years later for just shy of $1 million. All because, about a decade earlier, police searched

1:30.3

the property and found human remains, a bunch of bone fragments scattered about a pocket of woods.

1:37.3

It started with a few, then a few hundred, then a few thousand.

1:47.7

The graves haven't gone out of their way to look for more fragments,

1:50.8

but every time they've stumbled on a new one,

1:54.3

Robert has brought it to the lab at the University of Indianapolis,

1:56.0

where they're stored for safekeeping.

2:08.8

The remains are believed to belong to at least 12 victims of a suspected serial killer who owned Fox Hollow Farm before the graves and who they believe still haunts the grounds.

2:19.1

Welcome to serial killers, a Spotify podcast. I'm Janice Morgan. You might recognize me as the voice behind the investigative docu series Broken and the true crime podcast, Fear Thy Neighbor. I'll be your host for the next few weeks,

2:24.7

and I'm thrilled to be here. To help us tell today's story, we interviewed Hamilton County

2:29.9

coroner Jeff Jellison, the man responsible for the latest investigation to identify the victims

2:35.3

at Fox Hollow Farm. We're so grateful for his time and expertise. Stay with us.

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