Herb Baumeister has made it difficult to discuss his serial killing proclivities because he took one final victim: Himself. He committed suicide in 1996, just as police were beginning to question his wife about some of Herb’s activities.
See, someone in the Indianapolis area was luring young men away from gay bars and those young men were never seen again. Ultimately, the police found the remains of at least 25 people on Baumeister’s property. In total, there were thousands and thousands of individual parts, making it really hard to figure out exactly how many victims there might have been.
One of those parts was a human skull that Baumeister’s own child stumbled upon.
Baumeister went out into the Canadian woods and shot himself in the head. He left a note apologizing for making a mess in the woods, but said nothing about all those poor guys he murdered. Which shows you where his priorities were, I guess.