WESTFIELD, Ind. — The cremated remains of two men are now resting at a new memorial for the victims of the Fox Hollow Farm suspected serial killer. The memorial was dedicated Thursday, Aug. 29 with the names of nine identified victims. Now, their families have some closure in the 30-year-old case.
The ceremony remembered the victims, including those yet to be identified.
The limestone monument is located at Hamilton Memorial Park Cemetery in Westfield, just four miles from Fox Hollow Farm, where Herb Baumeister is believed to have killed a still unknown number of men on the 18-acre estate in the 1990s.
The cremated remains of Jeff Jones and Allen Livingston were place in the ground at the memorial donated by He Knows Your Name ministry.
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"Honoring victims and their family is finishing a story,” said Linda Znachko, founder of He Knows Your Name. “It's bringing beauty from ashes. But please hear me say that doing this today does not undo the horror of this tragedy."
Several family members of victims attended the dedication.
"I still felt a sense of it being surreal because it's such a large case in such a wild situation,” said Matthew Pranger, a first cousin of Livingston. “But to actually see this today brings some realness to it. And I'd rather the realness come during a time of light and peace as opposed to the tragedy."
Ten-thousand human remains have been recovered at Fox Hollow Farm. The hope is that the memorial will bring more families forward, and perhaps lead to more identifications.
"To those families that may be waiting to have a loved one identified, you have been grieving in a darkness for 30 years of unanswered questions,” Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison said. “Please understand we also see your grief and that we are working diligently to provide you with a path of closure."
Investigators found the remains of eight men on the Fox Hollow Farm estate in the 1990s. Jellison reopened the investigation two years ago and identified Livingston just last year. Jellison asks any family who has a missing loved one who may be connected to the case to contact the Hamilton County Coroner’s Office.