I-70 Strangler The I-70 Strangler is the nickname of an unidentified American
serial killer who killed at least eleven young boys and adult men in
Indiana and
Ohio between June 1980 and October 1991, dumping their bodies near
Interstate 70. The killer met his victims in popular
gay bars and other similar establishments within a four-block radius in Indianapolis. All of the victims were later found naked or partially clothed near Interstate 70, often dumped in rivers, streams and ditches in the rural countryside. Each had been
strangled to death. Though officially unsolved, law enforcement officially named Baumeister as a
prime suspect in the case in April 1999. According to investigators, bodies related to the Strangler case stopped being found in 1991 after Baumeister purchased Fox Hollow Farm, which he would use as a burial site for his subsequent victims. • On July 21, 1982, the topless corpse of 22-year-old Maurice Allen Taylor was found in Hamilton County's Weasel Creek. • On May 7, 1985, 17-year-old Eric Allen Roettger vanished. His shirtless body was found a few days later near a stream in rural
Preble County, Ohio, east of
Lewisburg. When found, Roettger had an apparent burn mark on his left shoulder and had been strangled with a rope. • On August 15, 1986, the body of 29-year-old Michael Allen "Mike" Glenn, clad only in his underwear, was found in a ditch near
Eaton, Ohio. He lived separately from his parents in a trailer park located on the outskirts of Indianapolis and worked as a handyman. The exact date of his disappearance was not established. Strangulation marks, possibly from a rope, were found on his neck. He was identified three years after his discovery with the help of
fingerprinting. • On August 12, 1989, the body of 26-year-old Steven Lynn Elliott, clad in his underwear, was found in Preble County, Ohio. • On September 6, 1990, 18-year-old Thomas Ray Clevenger Jr. vanished; his semi-nude corpse was later found at an abandoned railroad track near
Greenville, Ohio.
Fox Hollow Farm killings In May 1988, Baumeister purchased Fox Hollow Farm, an 18-acre property built in 1978 off 156th Street and the
Monon Trail in
Westfield, Indiana. In 1994, Baumeister's son had been playing in the family's wooded backyard when he found a complete, partially buried human skeleton. Baumeister explained to his family that it had been one of his father's
dissecting skeletons; he had it stored in their garage before eventually burying it again in the garden. On June 24, 1996, investigators recovered human bone fragments belonging to at least eleven people buried in the woods at Fox Hollow Farm. A new search on December 4, 2022, found one bone and identified twenty additional locations where more may be buried. Only ten victims whose killings were directly linked to Baumeister have been identified since the initial discovery. Three additional remains are still unidentified, although they are all believed to be male and to have been victims of
homicide. The Hamilton County coroner's office have appealed to the public requesting anyone with missing family members from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s in the Indianapolis area to complete a DNA test in an effort to help identify the victims' remains. As of January 2024, forensic experts continue working in an effort to identify nearly 10,000 portions of human remains recovered from an unknown number of victims at Fox Hollow Farm. • John Lee "Johnny" Bayer, aged 20, went missing on May 28, 1993. • Jeffrey Allen "Jeff" Jones, aged 31, went missing on July 6, 1993. • Richard Douglas Hamilton Jr., aged 20, went missing on July 31, 1993. • Allen Lee Livingston, aged 27, went missing on August 6, 1993. His remains were recovered in the initial search of the farm in 1996 but remained unidentified until October 2023. He was the first victim to be identified following Hamilton County's new effort to identify more than 10,000 pieces of human remains. • Daniel Thomas Halloran, aged 21 or 22, went missing sometime after March 1994. Identified in 2025 by forensic genetic genealogy. • Steven Spurlin Hale, aged 28, went missing on April 1, 1994. • Allen Wayne Broussard, aged 28, went missing on June 6, 1994. • Roger Allen Goodlet, aged 33, went missing on July 22, 1994. • Michael Frederick "Mike" Keirn, aged 45, last seen on March 31, 1995. • Manuel Resendez, aged 34, last seen at a gay bar in downtown Indianapolis on August 6, 1993, the same date that Livingston disappeared. In January 2024, the Hamilton County coroner announced the identification of remains recovered in 1996 from Fox Hollow Farm as belonging to Resendez.
Additional victim Authorities have publicly and posthumously linked the unsolved disappearance of 34-year-old Jerry Williams-Comer to Baumeister. Williams-Comer was last seen in Indianapolis on August 8, 1995. After his disappearance, his vehicle was found at Castleton Square Mall. As a young gay man, Williams-Comer fit the profile of Baumeister's victims, despite the fact that his remains were never recovered from Fox Hollow Farm. ==Identification, investigation and death==