True crime fans left horrified over shocking revelation in bizarre Hulu series: 'Craziest thing I've ever seen'
True crime fans have been left horrified over a Hulu docuseries about a serial killer who has been dubbed 'worse than Jeffrey Dahmer.'
The four part-series, titled The Fox Hollow Murders from ABC News Studios, explores the case of Herb Baumeister, who is thought to have killed around 25 young men during his murderous rampage in the early 1990s.
The married father-of-three would meet his victims at gay bars in downtown Indianapolis and lure them back to his 18-acre suburban estate, called Fox Hollow Farm, where he enticed them into acts of erotic asphyxiation before killing them.
He would then burn their remains before scattering their bones around the family property before his wife and kids returned home.
Once the authorities caught wind of his sick crimes, Baumeister fled to Canada and killed himself, leaving multiple unanswered questions - including whether or not he had an accomplice.
Viewers of The Fox Hollow Murders have been left incredibly disturbed by series, which revealed that 10,000 human remains were discovered buried around the property.
It is the largest number of unidentified human remains second only to the World Trade Center after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
At one point, before Baumeister was caught, his young son even found a human skull in the woods behind the house.
'The Fox Hollow Murders should've knocked Bundy, Dahmer, and Gacy off the front pages. This is crazy!' wrote one viewer on X (formerly Twitter).
'Did y'all see the documentary about the Fox Hollow murders??? Over 10,000 bones found in the backyard,' wrote another.
A third added, 'Okay the Fox Hollow Murders may be the craziest doc I've seen in a while and I'm still on episode one,' while a fourth wrote, 'The Fox Hollow Murders is a WILD story. One of the craziest serial killers you've never heard of.'
Another terrifying detail from the series is the fact that the lower level of Baumeister's Fox Hollow Farm was filled with mannequins.
'Mannequins forever ominous after watching The Fox Hollow Murders doc,' wrote one viewer.
Another commented, 'I have watched many true crime documentaries, including serial killer series. I have never heard of these murders. This docuseries was one of the most chilling I've seen.'
Baumeister's murders remain a mystery as the only person who lived to tell the tale as a victim, a man named Mark Goodyear, has changed his story multiple times.
He previously admitted lying about his relationship with the serial killer but denied ever being involved in the murders.
Baumeister's crimes came to light when Goodyear came forward to claim he survived an attack by a man he met in a bar in August 1994, who took him out to a huge farm in the suburbs and tried to strangle him.
That man was later identified as Herb Baumeister.
Investigators have long believed that Baumeister filmed his victims, before, during or after their murders with a secret camera hidden in an air vent in the basement of his home.
The father-of-three is believed to have taken this crucial evidence with him when he fled to Canada.
His wife said his large tape collection had gone missing from their home and Canadian police spotted a box of tapes inside his vehicle in the days before his death.
To this day, the whereabouts of these suspected 'snuff films' remains unknown.
Viewers have flooded social media with their thoughts about the 'crazy' docuseries
It is unclear what the tapes may reveal about Baumeister's killing spree. It is also unclear if Baumeister disposed of the tapes in Canada or if he had help in hiding them before he killed himself.
Decades after the murders, Baumeister's victims are still being identified.
Just last week, Daniel Thomas Halloran was identified as the 10th known victim of the man now believed to be one of America's worst ever serial killers.
Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison, who has been leading a new push to identify all the Fox Hollow Farm victims once and for all, announced that Halloran had been identified using investigative genetic genealogy.
Halloran marks the second victim identified since Jellison launched a new investigation in 2022 to identify all the remains and name all of Baumeister's victims.
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