Herb Baumeister
I began reading true crime books when I was in high school in the late 1980's and one would say I have been obsessed ever since. So, when a suspected serial killer and his story is being uncovered on the local television you can bet my eyes were glued. It was the summer of 1996 in the town of Westfield Indiana, just twenty miles or so north of where I lived in Indianapolis at the time. News crews were live on the scene as investigators were digging up the yard of a home in a fairly prestigious area. By the time they were done they would find the bodies of eleven humans. As far as I can tell, to this day only eight of those bodies have been positively identified. The home in which the investigators were at belonged to Herb and Julia Baumeister. They had come into wealth when in 1988 they had opened a store called Sav-A-Lot (not to be confused with the grocery store chain), a thrift store company in Indianapolis. They had moved into their lavish...