Mark Goodyear as acomplice
Goodyear started off claiming to be a victim of Baumeister who was trying to help the mother's of other victims solve their sons murders. It later became clear that Goodyear was in fact Baumeister's acomplice looking to shift the murders solely onto him after one of their victims escaped a ritual murder with a description of Goodyear's face.
Goodyear hiding evidence - Goodyear would appear on multiple programs with his back to the camera. He would be interviewed by a local station, but also A&D. And in both of his appearances, he told of Herb insinuating to him that he had killed up to 50 to 60 people. None of the investigators have ever heard this number before, nor did they think the physical evidence backed it up. Still, this made them extremely suspicious. Why didn't Goodyear tell them this before? He said he was having psychic intuitions in which he suggested both Julie and a group of unidentifiable men were involved.
He lied to Mary Wilson about seeing the blue car Goodlet got into the night he disappeared in Herb's garage, and he told her so. He told Connie, the partner to Virgil Vandergri, that he indeed knew how to find the house the entire time.
And now he apparently withheld information from investigators regarding over 50 homicides. Soon, Laura Mucil, a local reporter, got in contact with Eddie Moore from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, and he told her they were looking at Goodyear as a suspect. Carrie Milligan admits they never ruled Goodyear out.
''Did you guys ever look at Goodyear as a suspect?''
''Um, when you're investigating a case like this and you have someone like Goodyear pop up, you you try to do your best to either eliminate him or incorporate him. And I don't know that he was if he was ever eliminated.''
But shortly after both of his appearances aired, he skipped town and was nowhere to be found. ''But a roommate of Mark said that Mark had packed his bags and had left. They don't know where he went.'' This could be to avoid police action, but given their track record, this is less likely. It's more likely Goodyear skipped town to avoid whoever he was afraid of all of these years as the A and program didn't mask his identity. His back was to the camera, but they addressed him as Mark Goodyear. It could be a bit of both, but it seems the people he was afraid of had more power than the police.
The director of the four-part Hulu series on Fox Hollow says they initially went out there to make the dock centered around Jeff, but then they saw the video of Mark Goodyear giving a tour of Fox Hollow to a team of paranormal investigators who also feature in the documentary. In this video, which is unfortunately not publicly available, Goodyear reveals that not only did he not see Herb just the handful of times he told police, but that he had actually dated Herb for 2 years. ''But to get to your question, so it was originally centered on Jeff because Jeff is coming in and saying, "This is not right. We need to find out who these men were and we need to let their v families have the remains." And all these bones had been sitting on a shelf at the University of Indianapolis, which is where the the lab was kind of working with them. So that was originally the entree into the story. But then there was this crazy other piece of it, which is that these paranormal investigators, these amateur paranormal investigators who have a YouTube channel called Paranormal Consequences, had come in and interviewed a guy who said he'd been a victim of Bound Meers. But over the course of their interview with him, in which he would not show his face, and he insisted on doing it at the house where all the murders took place, he revealed that, oh, he wasn't just with her one night. He had actually dated Bowmeister for two years. Two years during which Bowmeister was killing people, including some of this guy's friends.''
Goodyear dated Herb - The paranormal investigators themselves, Jane and Russ, were out there, of course, just for the property. Get footage of any potential supernatural activity. This was nothing new for the owner, Rob Graves, who picked up the property in 2009, 50/50, with a silent partner. He had had film crews there before and has even had the property cleansed multiple times. While he had the crew out there, he told them the story of Fox Hollow. And of course, Goodyear story came up. Rob suggested to the paranormal investigators that they get in contact with Goodyear. Rob had befriended him a few years after he got the house, so he knew Mark well enough. He puts Jane in contact with Goodyear and after a few texts, he calls her and begins to tell her things no one has heard before. The part about dating Herb for two years and making things up to the police to have them come out to the property. ''And then Mark Goodyear told me he actually dated her bombmeister for 2 years. You know, the opportunity was there for him to do harm to me, but no. Uh-uh. See, I was never attacked. I made it up so that I could help get a search warrant for the property.'' Immediately, Russ and Jane felt they needed to contact the authorities, and they actually sat down with Jeff Jellison, who used to be law enforcement, but of course, as the county coroner, there's nothing he could do. Nevertheless, they sat down with him on September 11th, 2023, and showed him the texts that Goodyear sent, but also the calls they had with him where he was completely revising his story. jealous assures them there's something there. So, they run a plan by him to see what Goodyear is like while he's at the house. 6 days later, Russ and Jane roll into Foxhell Farms and they let Goodyear give them a tour of the house that he treats with reverence. By the time they gather this footage, Steve Ainsworth had already been in contact with Jeff Jellison since April of that year. Steve Ainsworth being a cold case detective with an extensive history in law enforcement. It's unclear when exactly Steve began to take a serious look at this case, but I think it's safe to say Steve and the director of the Hulu documentary, Alex Jablonsky, had the same feeling once they actually looked into the files. After viewing the footage for himself, Alex began filing Freedom of Information Act requests on this case when they started filming. And over and over again, Goodyear's name would pop up in the files. Makes sense. after the almost 30 years of Goodyear being in front of the story. But the files were different. Others, people that Goodyear knew and some that didn't, were implicating him in the crimes themselves. For the first time, it seems someone from outside the case was looking at this entire thing for what it was. He saw the call with John Eglloff. He saw the interview with Fulham. He saw what Leroy Bray had reported to police. And with all of these stories pointing in one direction now matched with the odd behavior at Fox Hollow and Mark's admittance that he wasn't a survivor of Bowmeister but actually had a 2-year relationship with him. It was looking like in their presence was not a potential victim of Herb, but actually an accomplice. They get in contact with Goodyear and he agrees to tell his story. He wants to tell his story. And this time, for the first time, he's putting his face out on camera. Initially, they kept what they knew close to the chest. They didn't let on that multiple people had come forward to police to point out Goodyear as anything but a survivor. So, they approach Steve and ask how they should handle this. And in the last episode, you get to see Goodyear face questions he's never had to before.
Goodyear knowlege of bodies and satanic cult - ''So, one of the most interesting aspects uh other than meeting, you know, Rob and Vicki and all of that was meeting Mark, that former lover. >> He was really generous with time with us. He spent several days with us. We were there for 4 days total. >> And um >> he led us through the forest and he was pointing out, well, there was a body here and there was a body there and there's still a body here. And we're kind of thinking, how do you know this... So, I don't know seriously to take some of the things that he said. Um, for instance, one interesting thing was he told us that Herb was part of a a satanic cult or coven or whatever you want to call it in the area that had a ton of members. Um, I'm not really sure if we can believe that or not, but you know, take it for what it's worth.''
Witness to Goodyear as acomplice - In October, police sat down with a man named John Fulham. Fulham claimed he also had been taken to Fox Hollow Farms once and he also had a strange encounter. Police heard his story and his credibility is established when he gives a detailed account of the house beyond which could be gathered from a view of news footage. His account takes place on July 4th, 1993. At this point in the official story, the only victim at this time would be Johnny L. Bear. And the next victim, Jeffrey Allen Jones, would actually disappear in 2 days. The account Fulham gives is very similar to Goodyears. He's picked up at one of the gay bars he's taken to Fox Hollow. The only difference between this account and Goodyears is Fulham drives himself. We get no detail on what actually took place once he got there, but we do get the description of the man who took him there. He was around 6 ft, straight brown hair, no facial hair, but he was also in his 20s, around 25 or 26. Herb was 46 at this time, so that's not adding up. The police show him a picture of Herb and he says that is not the man who took him to the farm that day. And it wasn't Herbert that you were there with? He says the man who took him out to the farm had the name Michael or Mark. ''It was the guy trying to think either Michael or Mark and he was house sitting for his boss.''
Police apparently never showed him a picture of Goodyear. And now they never will as Fulham has passed away. This account very clearly points to Goodyear, but it is not certain. What is certain is that someone other than Herb took Fulham out to the farm under the pretense he was housesitting for his boss. The next story police would receive would leave no room for doubt. 4 months after Fulham talked with police, a man named Leroy Bray would come forward with information he has about a murder that took place at Fox Hollow Farms. He was out there for what is supposed to be a surprise party. He has a few drinks. He felt the drinks were pushed on him and he also felt they were laced. It's unclear how many people are there, but Bray has a history with Herb. Next, he's out on the back porch, and he's soon, in his own words, introduced to several different people. ''and I thought we were having a barbecue or something, and I was introduced to several different people.'' He's confused about what's going on, and he's told they are all going to do some theatrical stuff, like a play. A man comes out in a raincoat with a hat and a mask on, shortly followed by two young guys. One of the young men asks, "What's going on?" when the other turned and held him and handcuffed him while the man in the raincoat pulled a pistol and shot the man three times. This was followed with a single shot from a shotgun. Someone came over and held the shotgun on Bray while the man in a coat took off his disguise and shouted, "Surprise! This man was Herbert Bowmeister." He asked what this was about, and he was told, "Well, we don't like snitches and we don't want any trouble." Quickly, him and another man named Danny Covert ran off into the woods and escaped. The man who was shot he had never seen before, but he told police the man who held his arms and handcuffed him was Mark Goodyear.
This happened in 1995. What else happened in 1995? Well, in August, Goodyear finally turns a piece of information in on Herb that actually leads to his downfall.
It could be this incident with two escaped witnesses that pushed Goodyear into finally pulling the thread to unravel the killings at Fox Hollow. Of course, it was never up to just Goodyear, though, was it? From this account alone, we have multiple suspects, Herban Goodyear, but also the several people that came out and that Bray was introduced to that saw the shooting happen. Unfortunately, to this day, both Fulham's account and Bray's are not available to the public in full. We know Fulham's interview was taped as well as Goodyear's, but we only get the transcribed version of Goodyear's interview. But again, no version of Braze or Fulham's account is available in full. It's also likely they taped other interviews that would shed a lot of light on this case, but we have access to none of them. It's also unfortunate that many of these key players are now dead.
So, what was the house used for? Well, obviously for murder given the dozens of remains in the backyard alone. But what purpose did the murders serve? Steve Ainsworth, a cold case detective brought on to this case from the outside, noticed something peculiar about Mark's behavior on the grounds of Fox Hollow. ''One of the things I noticed was he wasn't wearing any shoes. And you know, he has recently found God. I started thinking biblically, when you take your shoes off, it's because you're on holy ground. I wonder if he thinks of that house and those grounds as being holy ground somehow.''
In fact, according to a paranormal investigator that sat down with Mark, she says he told her Herb was in a local satanic cult with lots of members. ''Um, for instance, one interesting thing was he told us that Herb was part of a a satanic cult or coven or whatever you want to call it in the area that had a ton of members.'' The scene in which Herb himself was found was ritualistic. according to Vandagramrif who to my knowledge has not had his credibility questioned. So was Fox Hollow Farms being used for ritual killings by a group of powerful individuals that had the ability to cover up this case for almost three decades.
Goodyear admission - Here also, for the first time, and only time, do we get Goodyear admitting he's been to the farm not just more than once, but so many times he can't recount. Goodyear tells of an encounter he had in 2016 with the spirit of a victim no one has heard before. This spirit actually tells Goodyear who he was and how he was killed. Not that there was any other way that Goodyear would know who this victim was and how he was killed. You know, more plausible ways like perhaps being there when it happened. But no, apparently the spirit of Albert told him his backstory and how he was murdered. Next, he would go on to tell the paranormal investigators that a spirit haunted Fox Hollow, but it was an evil spirit and not one of the victims. In fact, it was Herb's accomplice. Apparently, Goodyear knew who Herb's accomplice was the whole time. He even says this accomplice was the one who killed Herb in Canada, and the reason he never said anything was because he was afraid of the man. He also says this man killed many women at Fox Hollow Farms. Goodyear says this man haunts the grounds of the farm, but he never says he got this information from the spirit like Albert, meaning he likely knew Herb's accomplice while he was alive and knew about the deaths that took place there at the hands of this man and never reported it to police. He is admitting right here that he knew that murders were happening at Fox Hollow. He is admitting that he knew Herb had an accomplice. And he is admitting that he knew Herb was in fact murdered. And this person that he was likely in contact with was free not only from prison, but from police suspicion. They never even knew who this guy was, and we still don't to this day. Finally, Goodyear says that good and evil spirits haunt Fox Hollow, but one in particular may be responsible for the deaths. Goodyear calls it the frog, and he goes on to say that Herb and his accomplice both haunt Fox Hollow. Herb's accomplice apparently thinks it is using the frog, but the frog is in fact using him. He calls the frog a liar and a trickster and says that it has been there long before Herb bought the property. Now, how in the world could Goodyear possibly know this? Goodyear is constantly referring to his god. He knows his God is real and it was there with him the entire time. Now we know that time was more than the one night and there his God was all the while. Goodyear never says he's a Christian. He never proclaims a particular faith. We know he views Fox Hollow as a holy place and treats it with reverence, something that Steve Ainsworth would point out himself. One has to wonder who his god is. It doesn't appear to be Jesus Christ. So, what does he mean when he says he knows his God is real and was there with him the entire time? How does he know that this frog entity is a trickster and a liar? And how does he know it has been there for a long time?
Something I find interesting and worth pointing out here again is that another paranormal investigation team sat down with Goodyear and was told something even more damning in terms of what was really going on at Fox Hollow Farms during the murders. Again, Goodyear told them Herb was in a satanic cult or coven that had a ton of members. All of this is left out of his newest telling while still holding on to the same fundamental changes. Rob Graves, who has befriended Goodyear and has known him for a decade, has a problem himself with Goodyear's story and finds it difficult not to point the finger at him. When asked what leads him to believe that Goodyear knows more than he's letting on, he says it's not good that Mark says he's seen bodies in the backyard. More accurately, he says it's not a good thing to say. ''What has he said that's led you to think he knows more than he's saying? >> I mean, he's told me things like, uh, I he had seen, you know, he had seen some seen some bodies here. I mean, that's that's not good. That's that's not good. I mean to say that on I mean I''
Graves himself is a strange character and not so innocuous. ''You know my given name is Robert but I've always gone by Rob and then of course my last name just happens to be Graves. Um we we've never put it on the mailbox but uh there's some irony in in the fact that if you say it together you're robbing Graves. Then I got a phone call one day that um a lady had told me that Rob has bones >> in his personal possession >> in his kitchen in a drawer. So I said, "Can't have that. That's evidence. I need to identify those." So he did and he says he takes them occasionally down the University of Indianapolis. Well, >> occasionally, >> you know, they the these are these are remains. These are people, deceased individuals that you just decide to go out and in your backyard and kick up bones and then not call law enforcement or not call the coroner, >> right? That should have been the first phone call, >> right? So, Rob had explained that and I sat Rob down and had a conversation and explained that's not the way we're going to do it in the future.'' Not turning in bones he found in the backyard is not the worst of it, though. Graves also told Jeison that he was approached by a lead detective for the case and for $10,000, he was offered a box of evidence. ''Um, I called Rob over and I said, "Hey, you know what? I really question some of these photos that you have because they look to me to be law enforcement photos. They had scales in them and you know, not just something you'd just take your camera out and snap a picture of. And Rob told me that the lead detective showed up at his front door and offered to sell him a box of evidence in this case for $10,000. >> Well, Rob told me he didn't buy it. >> Oh, >> yeah. He didn't buy it. He said that the some of the photographs he had were given to him uh by law enforcement, but he didn't buy the box.''
after escaped with a description of Goodyear, he would start helping try to catch Baumeister in the hopes that the murders would be pinned on him alone.
Goodyear's controlled takedown of Herb - When gay men started disapearing in Indianapolis, the mothers of the missing men (Catherine Araujo, Mary Marinis) hired private investigator, Virgil Vandagriff. Mark Goodyear was introduced to Vandagriff by Jeff, the same person who persisted in getting victim Alan Goodlet out the night he went missing, night only to leave him at the bar. Goodyear's initial tip was that he saw Herb with Goodlet but had never interacted with him himself. Later statements would show that he had known Herb the whole time, meaning he was withholding infromatino from the investigation, indicating himself as an acomplice, while still trying to sink Herb by helping Vandagriff's private investigation.
In Goodyear's police interview, he says he could have met Herb before 1994. He then claims that Herb would show up to his house spontaniously as marriage got rough, even going so far as to claim he called the police while Herb was in the house, and the Herb would taunt him by telling him no one would beleive him. Another time Goodyear describes chasing Herb down alleyways between the different bars and confronting him in front of everyone, getting on top of furniture and telling everyone he is the killer, and that Herb would, again, taunt him that know one would beleive him.
Goodyear would eventually point out Herb in a bar, publicly telling everyone there he was the killer, and making sure his friend Albert wrote down his plate number, which led them to Fox Hollow Farm. We know now from later interviews that Goodyear had in fact had regular contact with Herb for a year.
Herb's wife, Julie, would say of Goodyear: ''He was a weirdo, a criminal bent on revenge for some strange reason.''
Herb fear of Goodyear - Herb's lawyer, John Egloff, called the police on Herb for a welfare check after a phone call he had with him. Herb started the conversation by stating that five minutes after he hung up he wouldnt be around anymore. He went on to say that were would be a note for his wife behind a picure of their kids in the den, and that he wasnt supposed to call her until later that evening, to give him time to do what he wa gonna do. Herb would also tell him that he had gotten involved with someone called Mark Goodyear, that had been stalked by him, that had woken up one morning to Goodyear trying to strangle him, and that he was worried he might go after his family. He also told Egloff that there was more information about Goodyear above the lockers in his Westside store. Unfortunately, neither the note or the Information on Goodyear would be reported by the police.
Indication of Cover-Up
Cover-up of acomplice - ''August 7th, 1993. Alan Livingston, 28, last seen getting into a White vehicle. That same night, Manuel Rezendez, 31, went to a nightclub with some friends. When it came time to leave, [music] the friends couldn't find Manuel.'' Just a week later and on the same night, two men would disappear. Only one program gives the description of when Alan Lee Livingston disappeared, and that's the A&E documentary. A few articles managed to detail the date Livingston went missing, but no book has managed to do so. I've got five different accounts to source from. Most don't even mention this victim. Even still, there are inconsistencies. The program dates his disappearance as August 7th. But the articles list it as August 6th. Why there is a discrepancy is unclear, but it perhaps has to do with the fact that another man disappeared on the same exact night. How exactly is Herb supposed to accomplish this? We get the story from Goodyear that his killings, if he was the one killing, and if this truly was his manner of killing, that they were very up close and personal, drawn out. Well, supposedly he managed to do this not only to Alan Lee Livingston, but also Manuel Rosendez. They both disappeared on the same night. Allan was last seen getting into a car, and Manuel disappeared in one of the clubs. Finding an exact date on Manuel's disappearance is a challenge, too. Again, out of the five books I have on this case, not one of them details the exact date he went missing. Better yet, not a single book or program makes note of the fact these two men disappeared the same night except the A&E documentary. Even still, the program doesn't question it and just continues on. Let me know what you think in the comments. Why is this fact ignored and I'd say covered up given most accounts don't even give you the dates they disappeared when they had access to them? To me, it's clear they did this so they didn't have to account for how Herb was supposed to have done this alone. After that night in August, it would be another 8 months before the next victim would disappear.
In April, Steven Hail, 27, was bailed out and never seen again. The person who bailed him out, the same man who was obsessed with Hamilton. The police later looked into Douglas Anderson for obvious reasons, but found nothing on his property. They used cadaavver dogs to see if any corpses were present at his home. And that seemingly is the extent of their investigation on Anderson. Anderson indeed had another connection to one of the missing men in the area revealed in this clip.
''During the investigation, we started to examine all the commonalities that were involved to find out who we could definitely say knew who. And the police do have a suspect, a man who had a relationship with two of the missing men. We certainly felt we were on the right track. Uh what we were trying to do from that point on is not only tie him in with actually just two of the people that were missing, but see how many other connections we could make. It doesn't take long for the IPD to make those links. We found later on another one of our missing persons also had a personal relationship with this person. He was looking to be a pretty good suspect to us at that time. Police now have reason to search the suspect's home. We did make a site visit to his hall with his permission. We took cadaabver dogs with us, made a thorough examination of the property, looking for any depressions in the ground that might indicate that someone had been buried on the property. But once again, as the the investigation played out, uh that proved to be a dead end for us.''
Articles online say Hail disappeared April 1st, 1994. where the bodies are buried simply places his disappearance in April. Yet, a newspaper article from the time of Herb's death states he was last seen in August. An A&E documentary places it in July.
90s police inaction - ''When you have somebody that's a good suspect and you're just trying to you're you're working on a warrant or you're getting ready to arrest him. We would always have surveillance on somebody. BM got away with nobody surveilling him.''
''And I didn't know this until I spoke to other, you know, kind of career homicide detectives who said like it is policing 101 that when you have a suspect and you are writing the arrest warrant, you have that suspect surveiled. They never surveiled her. They didn't even have a car parked outside of the lakehouse, which is all it would have taken is one police cruiser sitting outside the lakehouse to know where he was going to be. And that is one of the pieces of this case that, you know, viewers seem to struggle to understand and I'm right there with I do not understand how that happened.''
Despite the inaction, the case moves forward with or without Hamilton County's interest. Just this year, we got the four-part documentary that exposed new evidence detrimental to the initial story. We got multiple case files available to the public and perhaps most importantly, we got a new identification. Daniel Thomas Howerin was not listed among the suspected victims. And yet, almost 30 years later, his case has been closed. Work continues on this case today, and it seems nothing will slow Jeff Jalison down, nor Alex Jablonsky, who says he now has enough information to make another eight episodes.
Not askig for a search warrent - Hamilton County disregarded basic protocol as they decided to return the next morning to continue the search and they allow Julie and the kids to stay on the property overnight. Crucial hours would be lost there where potential evidence could have been disturbed or destroyed. The next morning, the search began, but for some reason, Sonia Liramp, a prosecutor for Hamilton County, decided Julie's allowance of the search was enough, and they really didn't need a search warrant. The next step was to check with the prosecutor's office to find out what actions were within their legal power. Anderson placed a call to Sonia Sony Liramp, Hamilton County's prosecuting attorney. We've got human bones on an estate in Westfield, he told her. Lots of them, looks like. Oh no, Lear Camp groaned. Oh yeah, Anderson shot back. He told her about the Indianapolis men, Tony Harris's night at the estate and the Bowmeister's impending divorce. Did they need a search warrant? Julie had extended an invitation for the next day. He explained Julie's invitation was enough for Lar Camp. If a property co-owner allows a search, a warrant isn't necessary, she told Anderson. When it came to procedural caution on a serial killer case, nah, we'll just take the word of the serial killer's wife. This didn't go unnoticed by others around her. And luckily enough, Wilson went ahead and got a warrant anyway.
Pontentual snuff film production & cover-up thereof - When they police were searching the hosue same day they are searching the house, investigator Carrie Milligan sees the TVs by the pool, and he also notices a loose vent above the pool area that he figures was a perfect spot to put a hidden camera in. So, he questions Julie. Goodyear, of course, stated in his interview that he found a closet full of camera equipment. With all of this in mind, hopefully he asks Julie if Herb kept any videotapes in the house. ''Yes, he did,'' she says. ''Right this way,'' she takes him to a closet in the pool area where she said Herb kept hundreds of videotapes. But she was baffled. They were gone. He must have took them. So, by now they have plenty of reasons, not only to question Herb, but to bring him in. Well, perfect timing would come in. As from the start, the reason Julie let police onto the property was so that they could go get Eric from Herb. They told her she would need a court order for them to do anything. So Julie files an emergency custody order that is to be fulfilled on the 25th, the same day they're searching the house. So two birds, one stone, right? They go up to Lake Wawasi, take herb in, and return Eric to Julie. They secure the tapes and finish at the house and begin to stack charges on Herb, right? Nope. They act on the court order to retrieve Eric, but they leave Herb at the lakehouse because they say they didn't have enough evidence to take him in, let alone to question him. They also assumed Herb was not going to run, so they didn't put any surveillance on him. The guy who preemptively removed hundreds of tapes from the house that Carrie Milligan himself suspects showed evidence of his crimes. The guy who clearly had fornowledge that the police were going to be searching his house. They didn't think this guy was going to run. So, they leave Herb there with the tapes and with nobody watching him. As Sonia Liramp would put it, by the time they realized his potential link to the bodies they were finding, they could no longer locate him. Of course, it didn't take very long for them to figure this out as it was the very next day on Wednesday that they decided to try and take her in, but could no longer locate him. Now, this looks very much like they let him get away, but surely this is just good old incompetence. A single night of surveillance on Herb would have prevented this. But it seems they were determined to let Herb escape with the tapes that would never be seen again. I wonder what or who was on those tapes and why all protocol was abandoned so Herb could offload the tapes to who knows where. They never turn up intact or destroyed, so they very well could still be out there.
Unfortunately, we don't get to see the entire walkthrough that the police taped. We only get a glimpse of specific corners of the house with very lowquality footage. I'm curious why that might be. The rooms that were also in use didn't appear to be used for normal activities. One of the kids' rooms had a closet that was filled not with clothes, but it was instead filled with camera equipment. Again, this is being pointed out from a man who was reportedly involved in the crimes, dropping hints to police.
Herb's assassination - Police began tracking Herbs movements from wire transfers his brother Brad was making to him. By Friday, Herb was in Fenville, Michigan. the 29th, the next day, he was in Port Hiron and Ontario police said he was in Sarnia, which borders Port Hiron in Canada, the next day. For the next 4 days, Herb's movements and actions are unknown. The next time anyone involved in the case would see him, he would have a bullet hole in his forehead.
Goodyear on Herb's deatg: ''We'll save that for another damn show. How about that? I'm not trying to do 25. Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes. I can tell you at the end of his life his fingers were as round and swollen as sausages. There's no way he could have pulled that trigger.''
Kathleen Clark, who was one of the investigators sent up to Canada, was told by local police that one of their officers had actually stopped Herb the night before his death. He was sleeping in his car under a bridge. And in the back seat was a box full of videotapes. Again, no tapes were ever recovered, intact or destroyed, from the selection he removed from the house. At the scene of his death, the man who discovered Herb's body claims there was no gun there. >> So, where's the gun? I was there. I'm standing over the body. There's no gun there. Trust me, I had a really good look around. There was no gun there. It was also discovered Herb's car had the carpeting removed from the inside of the vehicle. something pointing very clearly to the cover up of a homicide. The missing gun and ritual scene were dismissed by investigators, including Carrie Milligan. >> No, the gun was there. There was rumors that they had some kind of like satanic halter and [ __ ] set up. That's all [ __ ] He was just dead. Dead right there. >> The ripped out carpets remains a mystery without an answer. In fact, it appears investigators simply never questioned the missing carpets or what motive Herb would have to rip them out. Also discovered at the scene was a three-page note that was addressed to Canadian authorities. We do not have direct access to the entire note, but from what is detailed by those who have read it, Herb rambles on about his family and the business. Nothing is mentioned about the victims or any illegal activities that took place at the farm or elsewhere.
I70 strangler coverup - When the bones on Fox Hollow were uncovered and the victims not only matched the description, but the method, Linlaw figured this was the guy. He could finally put the I70 Strangler case to bed. But of course, as mentioned earlier, the case is still open. By 1991, Linloff had two solid pieces of physical evidence. He had a seaman sample and a handprint. Both were left at different crime scenes. In 1991, Lynloff was to meet with the FBI in Richmond, Indiana about his case. Two weeks before this, he was to have the seaman sample tested and analyzed and have the results passed out to each of the departments working on the I70 case. When he went to his own department in Prebble County, Ohio, and asked for the sample, well, it was gone. Somehow the chain of custody for a key piece of evidence in a serial killer case failed and the seaman sample disappeared and no one knew how. Now years later, all they had was the palm print. Now all they needed was their suspect. In 1996, they got him dead, but they still had a chance to close their case for the I70 stranglings. All they would need to do was get a match from the palm print they had with the palm print of Herbert Bowmeister. The body was still in the hands of the Canadian authorities and the case was still Hamilton counties. So David Lynloff in contact with Sergeant Wisman asked for a palm print from Herb's corpse. They of course obliged and they had one of their own Hamilton County technicians sent up to Canada to collect a palm print from the corpse of the only suspect in both the Fox Hollow killings but also the I70 stranglings. The technician returns and Linloff himself goes and picks up the print and drops it off at the Miami Valley Crime Lab in Dayton, Ohio. Bad news, the print didn't take. It wasn't clear enough. Somehow, in the process of extracting the print from Herb's body, the man whose entire job it is to conduct successful forensic tests, failed to do so and made it all the way back down to Indiana and turned the print in without ever noticing. This level of incompetence is baffling, but there was still a chance to get another print. This time done right. Lynoff gets in contact with Mary Wilson to get another print, but she informs him that Herb unfortunately has already been cremated. Now, I can't imagine the level of anger Linloff would be dealing with in this situation, but nor could I imagine the relief he felt when the very next day Mary calls him and tells him Herb actually hadn't been cremated. This time, IPD sent their technician up to Canada to get the print. Surely, whoever this individual was knew the last one didn't take, and they should take extra care to get a good print. The print comes back. Lindloff picks it up again, drops it off at the Miami Valley Crime Lab. Lindloff is once more informed the print didn't take. At this point, Lindloff is ready to go up there himself to get his print, but Mary Wilson soon informs him that Herb actually had been cremated for real this time. There went the last piece of physical evidence that would ever potentially tie Herb to the I70 killings and thus close a case that is still open today.
The only link besides the circumstantial evidence came in June 1997 after the word of Herb's crime spread. Sheriff James Bradbury of Hancock County, Indiana, compared the sketch of the man who was last seen leaving with I70 strangler victim Michael Riley. To him, the comparison was a hit, and he quickly reached out to Riley's friend, who was the last to see Riley with the mysterious man that night, to look at the picture of Herb to see if he could make an identification. The friend at first claimed he wasn't the guy, but the photo he was looking at was a more recent one. In this murder happened over 10 years ago. Bradberry wastes no time in retrieving a photo from 1983, the exact year his friend was found. And right there on Herb's wrist was the watch he remembered so vividly all those years ago. Herb was that man.
Turning a blind eye to Goodyear - And now he apparently withheld information from investigators regarding over 50 homicides. Soon, Laura Mucil, a local reporter, got in contact with Eddie Moore from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, and he told her they were looking at Goodyear as a suspect. Carrie Milligan admits they never ruled Goodyear out.
''Did you guys ever look at Goodyear as a suspect? Um, when you're investigating a case like this and you have someone like Goodyear pop up, you you try to do your best to either eliminate him or incorporate him. And I don't know that he was if he was ever eliminated.''
Hereb's lawyer had even reported to the police that Herb had called him before his death saying that he was scared of Goodyear
Despite this, Goodyear has not yet been aprehened, despite a survivior recognising him.
non cooperation from county in documentary - In the making of the four-part documentary, many involved with the case were contacted to participate, but only one responded. ''Yeah. I mean, so the first of all, I should mention we reached out to every single investigator who is still alive and was part of this case, and only one was willing to speak to us. So, um, uh, so one from Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and and one kind of person who was tangentially involved from the Indianapolis PD, but that's it out of probably 11. So, I think that they're they're they are aware that there are a lot of questions around this case. >> After the documentary came out, there was no reaction from Hamilton County. Something that surprised Alex Jablonsky. >> The one place there hasn't been any real reaction is the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office. They refused to speak to us on camera when we were making this. They have I thought for sure I was going to get like reached out to. They're going to say, "Hey, what material do you have?" Maybe even a subpoena. And none of that. And I asked, you know, folks in India in Hamilton County like, "What's going on?" They're like, "Meh, they're not they're not touching it."
There appears to be no effort to reopen the case, no interest in the new evidence or unfollowed leads. This inaction in uninterest mirrors the initial investigation in the '9s. Something that both Steve Ainsworth and Alex Jablonsky question.
Herb as a patsy for an elite Cult
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LSD Testing - Herb would graduate high school in 1965 and like his father would enroll at Indiana University naming anatomy as his major. He would only stay for the first semester, then he would drop out. He landed a job at the Indianapolis Star as a copy boy. This job is suspected to have come from his father's connections. Somehow a local anesthesiologist was able to pull a job for his son that the book Where the bodies are buried describes as a position for the children of prominent citizens. Regardless of his father's involvement, the control his father had over his life would be shown in other places not far down the road. For the rest of 1966, Herb would stay at the Indianapolis Star and make the very same impressions he did while he was in school. His co-workers found him odd, but his boss, Gary Donna, actually took a liking to Herb's eccentricities. Regardless, Herb also wouldn't stay there much longer and actually tried his hand again at school, right in the middle of the so-called counterculture revolution. The campus was rampant with LSD. And perhaps unsurprisingly, Eli Liy, the company that worked directly with the CIA to produce mass quantities of LSD in 1954, was based in Indianapolis. Obviously, this drug didn't remain in the confines of the labs, and soon all over college campuses in the US, the next generation would be experimenting with the drug the CIA had written plans to use on a mass scale.
Wife as possible handler - I couldn't find a smooth way to put this in here, but I have to mention it. Julie claims in her first year of marriage with Herb that he packed up his stuff, moved into a different room in the house, and refused to speak with her for almost a year. This narrative is left out of most books as it comes from her police interview in 1996 that has only recently become public. Given Herb went into the mental ward 6 months after his wedding, this could be the period of time Julie is referring to. But that would mean as soon as they got married, Herb refused to speak to her and lived in a separate room. One really has to scrutinize Julie's role in this relationship because there is nothing about these two that is romantic. So, why did Julie stay past all of Herb's various and serious issues? I'll save my opinion for the end, but it's pretty clear the role she is playing with Herb.
On Monday, June 24th, 1996, Julie would invite Mary Wilson to Fox Hollow Farm. Wilson would invite Captain Tom Anderson and Detective Jeff Markham from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department and they would all convene with Julie to discuss what she and her son found a year and a half ago.
Phsychotic break & MK Ultra - In the beginning of 1972, Herb blains a job at the local BMV. It wasn't long after he started working at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, another job his father is rumored to have secured for him, that her began behaving strangely, ranting and raving at fellow employees for no apparent reason. It became obvious to Julie, too, that something was terribly wrong. He'd just sit in the living room and cry and cry and cry. A friend would later recall, "What sparked this reaction in Herb is unknown to this day. But what we do know is this behavior did not sit well with his father or Julie. So they had Herb committed just six months into his marriage. Herb and Julie were still newly weds when Herb's father had him committed to Laru D. Carter Memorial Hospital. Named for Laru Dew Carter, a prominent IU School of Medicine neurossychiatrist and neurology professor and the first president of the Indiana Council for Mental Health. The state-run psychiatric institution opened its doors in 1952. Its purpose was to serve as a research and teaching facility for IU faculty and students. Why the Elder Bowmeister chose to have Herb sent to Carter when he easily could have afforded a private hospital is unclear. His decision though said a great deal about the degree of help he felt Herb needed. ''If you were a doctor in this town back then and you put your child in Laroo Carter, said one lifelong resident of Indianapolis, you were essentially admitting you knew he or she had a long-term problem, [said another longtime resident of the city.] That's not where somebody who was just a little disoriented went. That's where somebody went if they had serious psychological problems.'' Julie visited Herb often during what ended up being his nearly two-month stay at Carter. almost unbelievably though she would say it was because he began to seem like his old self once he returned home. She would later claim to have never broached the subject of Herb's hospitalization with either him or his father. The writers of Where the Bodies Are Buried lay the blame solely at the feet of Herb's father, but the author of The Garden of Evil says it was a joint decision between Julie and her father-in-law to have Herb committed. Whatever they did in the IU research facility called Laru De Carter Memorial Hospital seemed to have worked as according to Julie, Herb seemed like his old self again. What actually went down at Laru is unknown. Julie apparently never brought it up again with either Herb or his father. What we do know is in this time period at colleges and universities on army, air force and naval bases, at prisons, hospitals and clinics, and perhaps most importantly for Herb, psychiatric institutions, a project known as MK Ultra was taking place, and its main aim was to achieve mind control. Certain projects dealt with people like Herb, who had more than one personality. These projects dealt with getting one personality to kill without the main personality being aware of this action, making them perfect for covert operations in which secrecy was necessary. We don't know all of the facilities this project took place at, nor do we know the true extent of this project either because a majority of the documents were shredded in 1973. The director of the CIA said MK Ultra was a failure. George Esther Brooks, one of the leading MK Ultra Doctors, went on to write the opposite, proudly touting his success at splitting soldiers personalities for secret missions. Well, Herb comes from a military family, meets a girl who also had family in the military on a college campus just an hour away from the company that was synthesizing LSD on mass for the CIA. This girl would show loyalty that we know was not born out of romance, and she would stick with her, though he was isolated from everyone around him. The same guy never showed interest in girls and Julie just the same never got any interest from him. Yet they date for four years, get married, don't consummate the marriage. Then he gets sent off to a psychiatric institution for 2 months that was used for research by the same college he attended off and on for years at her and her father's bidding, according to one author. And he returns his old self, which is still a mentally ill person that would supposedly go on to kill well over 20 people all on his own. Then after Herb walks out of the IU research facility, he picks right back up at his job that he abruptly left for 2 months and continues on with his life like nothing happened. He even picks up a single college class at Butler University later in the year. The class being psychology.
Herb Split personality - In this interview, he changed his story drastically from his initial telling in the '90s, but it is actually not the first version of this revision. It's actually very similar to the account he gave Rob Graves and Richard Estep in their book, The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm. The book released September 8th, 2019 and covers Estep's paranormal investigation into Fox Hollow Farm. And much like the paranormal investigators that came after him, he also got to meet Goodyear and hear his story from his own mouth. Interestingly, this version has details Goody Year left out of his interview with Alex Jablinsky that I find very telling. Right off the bat, Goodyear says Herb had two personalities and referred to himself in the third person. In fact, Goodyear would say Herb's personality split was due to being demonically possessed. After telling the crew about Albert, Goodyear once again drove home the fact Herb had two personalities. That whenever he was with Herb and he dissociated into another personality, it was as if a switch had been flipped and a visible change would come over him like another person was looking out of the same eyes.
Goodyear knowlege of bodies and satanic cult - ''So, one of the most interesting aspects uh other than meeting, you know, Rob and Vicki and all of that was meeting Mark, that former lover. >> He was really generous with time with us. He spent several days with us. We were there for 4 days total. >> And um >> he led us through the forest and he was pointing out, well, there was a body here and there was a body there and there's still a body here. And we're kind of thinking, how do you know this... So, I don't know seriously to take some of the things that he said. Um, for instance, one interesting thing was he told us that Herb was part of a a satanic cult or coven or whatever you want to call it in the area that had a ton of members. Um, I'm not really sure if we can believe that or not, but you know, take it for what it's worth.''
Goodyear admission/accult - Here also, for the first time, and only time, do we get Goodyear admitting he's been to the farm not just more than once, but so many times he can't recount. Goodyear tells of an encounter he had in 2016 with the spirit of a victim no one has heard before. This spirit actually tells Goodyear who he was and how he was killed. Not that there was any other way that Goodyear would know who this victim was and how he was killed. You know, more plausible ways like perhaps being there when it happened. But no, apparently the spirit of Albert told him his backstory and how he was murdered. Next, he would go on to tell the paranormal investigators that a spirit haunted Fox Hollow, but it was an evil spirit and not one of the victims. In fact, it was Herb's accomplice. Apparently, Goodyear knew who Herb's accomplice was the whole time. He even says this accomplice was the one who killed Herb in Canada, and the reason he never said anything was because he was afraid of the man. He also says this man killed many women at Fox Hollow Farms. Goodyear says this man haunts the grounds of the farm, but he never says he got this information from the spirit like Albert, meaning he likely knew Herb's accomplice while he was alive and knew about the deaths that took place there at the hands of this man and never reported it to police. He is admitting right here that he knew that murders were happening at Fox Hollow. He is admitting that he knew Herb had an accomplice. And he is admitting that he knew Herb was in fact murdered. And this person that he was likely in contact with was free not only from prison, but from police suspicion. They never even knew who this guy was, and we still don't to this day. Finally, Goodyear says that good and evil spirits haunt Fox Hollow, but one in particular may be responsible for the deaths. Goodyear calls it the frog, and he goes on to say that Herb and his accomplice both haunt Fox Hollow. Herb's accomplice apparently thinks it is using the frog, but the frog is in fact using him. He calls the frog a liar and a trickster and says that it has been there long before Herb bought the property. Now, how in the world could Goodyear possibly know this? Goodyear is constantly referring to his god. He knows his God is real and it was there with him the entire time. Now we know that time was more than the one night and there his God was all the while. Goodyear never says he's a Christian. He never proclaims a particular faith. We know he views Fox Hollow as a holy place and treats it with reverence, something that Steve Ainsworth would point out himself. One has to wonder who his god is. It doesn't appear to be Jesus Christ. So, what does he mean when he says he knows his God is real and was there with him the entire time? How does he know that this frog entity is a trickster and a liar? And how does he know it has been there for a long time?
ritual - It was also stated the manner in which Herb was laid out was ritualistic in nature. This coming from Virgil Vandergri, >> 1996. When Herb up in Canada, he kind of made a ritual type uh scene. >> How he raised the sand up and made a kind of an alder type thing out of it. His arms were spread out. He had some dead birds laid out. >>
Goodyear scared of others - ''This is kind of a groundbreaking moment cuz you've never shown your face on camera. I have done silhouette. Never before a face tof face interview with the with the camera. >> Why now? >> There was a time when people were alive had something to be afraid of. Now it's been 30 years. >> It doesn't bother me anymore.''
continued killing after Herb's death - The search of the grounds was over around the time Herb's body turned up. In all, they found over 10,000 bone fragments and other items that would later match a Bray's story, that being handcuffs and shotgun shells. One thing they never found among the fragments were the skulls. They found multiple mandibles that they would use to ID the first set of victims, but the skulls themselves were never found. By September, identifications came back for Steven Hail, 26, Richard Hamilton, 20, Manuel Rosendez, 31, and Roger Alan Goodlet, 33. Work proceeded on the Fox Hollow case, though not for long. David Lynoff from Ohio was left as much in the dark after the search of Fox Hollow as he had been before. For over a decade now, Lynloff had been investigating his own string of homicides just across the state line. Since 1980, young boys and grown men were disappearing only to turn up dead, all strangled, all from the gay scene in Indianapolis. Overall, 12 victims would turn up with half of them being found in Ohio. The first being Eric Allen Rodger on May 9th, 1985. After that was Michael Allen Glenn in August 1986. Then John Paul Talbot in May 1989. Just around three months later in August, Steven Elliot was found dead and strangled. Then the last two turned up just a year later in the same month. Clay Russell Boatman and Thomas Claver both turned up dead and strangled in August 1990. These were just the first victims in Ohio. But Lindloff, of course, was aware that just a few miles away, both men and boys were turning up dead in just the same fashion as they were on his side of the state line. The last victim to be found was Otto Gary Becker, who turned up dead in a ditch in Henry County, Indiana on October 7th, 1991. After that, the body stopped turning up. And yet, gay men from Indianapolis kept disappearing.
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By: Semmiot
Raped by: Otto Heckel
