Julie Baumeister Julie Baumeister, is arguably the most gullible wife. She was given a smoking gun, or more accurately a human skull, yet still believed her husband, Herb Baumeister, when he said it belonged to a medical school skeleton owned by his anesthesiologist father. The couple’s son was the first to uncover the skull along with a pile of other bones buried in the backyard. Maybe if the skeleton was on one of those classroom-type stands and someone had cleverly put a ‘Bonaparte’ name tag on his chest, then maybe his story would’ve been believable—but buried in the backyard—how does that make the slightest sense? Julie says the bones quickly disappeared after her son unearthed them and she simply assumed animals had carried them off. Evidently she wasn’t too concerned about the incident, as she said, “It wasn’t like I was sitting at home with nothing else to think about,” And, who can blame her? Why would anyone think twice about human remains in their yard? As if that wasn’t enough, Herb was secretly very active in the Indianapolis, Indiana gay bar scene, and when several of his bar buddies turned up dead or missing, police eventually tracked the crimes back to Herb. He told his wife the authorities were falsely accusing him for theft and ordered her not to let them search their house. Later, the police talked to Julie alone and told her the real reason they wanted to search the home (her husband was a suspected serial killer), and she still staunchly refused to let them enter. Months later, when Herb’s erratic behavior had escalated to an undeniably peculiar level (even to the oblivious Julie), she finally let police search their property. Although they found remains of 11 men, they could never arrest Herb because he committed suicide before they could apprehend him. -Steph
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:17:16 +0000
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