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More on Baumeister: A serial killer buried bodies on his Westfield property. Two years after his death, police concluded he also had killed nine other young men whose partially nude bodies were found dumped into shallow streams along Interstate 70 across Central Indiana and western Ohio during the 1980s. The property where many of the bodies were recovered was worth more than $2 million.Ībout one week after the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department began investigating the discovery of the bones, Baumeister drove to Canada, where he shot and killed himself. He is believed to be responsible for the deaths of 16 teenage boys and men who he picked up from bars in Indianapolis, then strangled.īaumeister, 49, was the wealthy owner of Sav-A-Lot thrift stores.

Here is a look at some of those cases: Donald Harvey, the 'Angel of Death'īaumeister was identified as a serial killer when investigators found thousands of human bone fragments buried on his Indiana property in 1996. Retro Indy: Heinous crimes of serial killers in Indiana Over the years, Kentucky and Indiana communities have been haunted by several serial killers who collectively claimed dozens of lives.

Most prolific serial killers series#

More on Greenwell: Louisville native identified as 'I-65 Killer' who killed 3 women from Kentucky and IndianaĬongress defined "serial killings," as a series of three or more killings by a person or persons that have common characteristics, with at least one committed within the United States. Officials believe he may also be linked to other attacks and killings, given similar crimes took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Minnesota, Kentucky and Illinois. The FBI is seeking the public’s help in identifying some of the victims of Samuel Little, who has been confirmed as the nation’s most prolific serial killer after confessing to 93 murders. Using investigative genealogy, Louisville native Harry Greenwell has been named as the "I-65 Killer."Ĭlothing, hair, DNA & technology: How police identified the I-65 Killer after 35 yearsĪlso known as “The Days Inn Killer,” Greenwell's known victims were all clerks at motels along the Interstate 65 corridor. More than 30 years passed before the serial killer responsible for the rape and murders of three women in Kentucky and Indiana was identified.