Herb Baumeister put a gun to his head and squeezed the trigger at Pinery Provincial Park on Lake Huron on July 3, 1996.
The 49-year-old Indiana man’s suicide note cited the usual tangle of human woe: Marital problems, financial difficulties etc.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
“We do know Mr. Baumeister did frequent gay bars and some of the missing people that were identified were tied back to gay bars and nightclubs,” Jeff Jellison, the Hamilton County Coroner, told reporters.Article content Eleven of Baumeister’s victims were identified and detectives believe the bones are the remains of 25 of the killer’s victims.
Baumeister had a relatively normal childhood but by his teens was acting weird, playing with dead animals and urinating on his teacher’s desk. He was later diagnosed as schizophrenic but was reportedly never treated. It wasn’t until 1992 that one of the city’s gay club denizens told detectives that a man named “Brian Smart” had murdered his buddy. He also tried to kill a man named Tony Harris during an erotic asphyxiation session.Cops identified him as Herb Baumeister.
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