It was a horrifying crime — and the lair of one of America's most infamous serial killers — which has haunted all those who encountered it for decades since.
The chilling graveyard of terror contained a stomach-churning 10,000 pieces of burnt bone fragments — and the full extent of the victims remains unknown.
Nearly three decades after Herb Baumeister's burial ground was unearthed on his Indiana farm, police discovered yet another victim had been identified.
Daniel Thomas Halloran became the 10th person confirmed as one of Baumeister's victims by Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison in 2025, according to DNA Solves.
Baumeister is believed to have murdered at least 25 people between the late 1980s and early 1990s, predominantly targeting gay men in the Indianapolis suburb of Westfield, reports the Daily Star.
The depraved killer lured his victims to Fox Hollow Farm, where he murdered them and scattered their remains across the grounds.
Jellison told 13News that Halloran's identification came as a complete surprise. "He was an individual that was not on our radar," Jellison said.
"We didn't know anything about him."
Halloran was identified through "advanced forensic testing" and genetic genealogy by Othram, a forensic genealogy lab in Texas. Born in 1972, the date of Halloran's death remains unknown.
"This is a significant development in our ongoing efforts to provide answers to the families of those who went missing," Jellison said. "We are grateful for the expertise of Othram and the advances in forensic science that made this possible."
Halloran had no surviving parents or siblings. His mother had died of an overdose, and the Indianapolis coroner held a DNA card for her, which they "were able to do the comparison of the DNA from the remains to the mother's DNA and lock in that identification," Jellison said.
"We went through most of the investigation without even knowing he had a daughter," he added.
Halloran's daughter, Coral, 33, was just two when her father disappeared, meaning she never had the chance to know him. "I feel kind of like I'm mourning," Coral said.
"All my life, I kind of expected my dad to be around and one day hoping he'd come try to find me."
Coral revealed her mother enlisted a private investigator in an attempt to locate him, though they had long suspected Baumeister was responsible.
"It makes me sick and weary to my stomach, having to know my dad was brutally murdered," Coral said. "It's hard. And for all the other victims out there, their families, I'm with them. I'm praying hard for them."
Baumeister was only exposed when his 15-year-old son stumbled upon charred bone fragments and human skulls in 1994.
Officers then uncovered an overwhelming volume of evidence, including bone fragments, a skull and teeth. Authorities conducted a search of the property during Baumeister's absence, unearthing the remains of several victims, which led to a warrant being issued for his arrest.
Police identified Baumeister as a suspect in 1996, prompting him to flee to Ontario, Canada, where he fatally shot himself and tragically never faced charges for his heinous crimes.
He made no confession to any murders in his suicide note. Further remains continued to be unearthed following his death, and in 2022, Jellison stated his intention to identify every single victim buried on the farm.
"We now know we have four more people, with Halloran and three unidentified DNA profiles," Jellison said.
"That has all come about in a two-to-three-month time period."
The nine other victims who have been identified are Jeffrey Allen "Jeff" Jones, Allen Lee Livingston, Manuel Resendez, John Lee "Johnny" Bayer, Richard Douglas Hamilton Jr. , Steven Spurlin Hale, Allen Wayne Broussard, Roger Allen Goodlet and Michael Frederick "Mike" Keirn.
Jellison urges any relative of a person who disappeared during the 1980s or 1990s to come forward and provide their DNA for genetic testing.