Remains on Serial Killer's Estate Identified as Man Missing Since 1993

Overview

• Remains found on the estate of suspected Indiana serial killer, Herbert Baumeister, have been identified as Manuel Resendez, a man reported missing in 1993.
• Approximately 10,000 charred bones and bone fragments have been found at Baumeister's 18-acre estate in Westfield, Indiana.
• Baumeister, who committed suicide in 1996, is believed to have lured men to his home from gay bars and killed them.
• Authorities have linked Baumeister to the disappearance of at least 16 men since 1980.
• A renewed effort to identify the remains began in 2022, with relatives of young men who disappeared between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s asked to submit DNA samples.