Nearly 30 years after thousands of human bones and bone fragments were unearthed at the sprawling estate of suspected serial killer Herb Baumeister, new questions are being raised about the mystery of what really happened at Fox Hollow Farm.
The coroner leading the renewed investigation claims a key figure in the case has not been fully forthcoming with investigators.
“I have had an opportunity to speak with Mark Goodyear a couple of times,” Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison told Fox News Digital.
“The first question I would ask him is, Are you ready to be honest with me? Because in the conversations weve had, hes not been honest. Ive asked him questions that I knew the answer to, and he didnt pass that test. So for me to sit down with Mark Goodyear, hes going to have to be willing to be honest in this conversation. I dont have time to sit down with somebody that tells lies, untruths.”
Jellison appears in the ABC News Studios “Return to Fox Hollow: New Victims, Darker Secrets,” which explores new theories about potential accomplices, overlooked evidence and witness accounts in the case of Baumeister, a suspected serial killer believed to have murdered numerous men in Indiana. It’s a follow-up to the 2025 docuseries “The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer.”
Jellison said he wants to determine whether Goodyear knows something that could help investigators identify the remaining victims and determine how they died.
Goodyear has never been charged with any crime related to the case and has repeatedly denied any involvement in the disappearances.
“If we move forward in that conversation, certainly I want to know any information I can gather to help identify these remains,” said Jellison. “Were you familiar with anybody? Things that would focus more around identification and how these people died.”
“Mark Goodyear knows a lot about this case,” Jellison said.
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Jellison also shared that Goodyear knew many people through gay nightclubs and could help investigators identify some of the remains.
Goodyear, who participated in the first docuseries, has described himself as Baumeister’s only known survivor. The film detailed how investigators believed Baumeister may have filmed his victims with a secret camera hidden in an air vent in his basement. Goodyear said he was forced to watch some of the tapes in 1994. He said the video was so “bad” it made him scream.
“It was like having a camera right up against something,” Goodyear said. “You’re not going to be able to tell what’s going on, but the minute you got a flash of what was going on, it made you scream.”
The previous documentary examined how Goodyear’s account of his relationship and encounters with Baumeister has changed over the years. At the time, Jellison told Fox News Digital it was unlikely those tapes, if they exist, would ever be recovered.
Fox News Digital reached out to Goodyear for comment but did not receive a response.
Goodyear initially agreed to another interview for the follow-up documentary but did not appear for the scheduled interview, according to the film.
About 10,000 burned and broken human bones and bone fragments were recovered from the 18-acre estate that once belonged to Baumeister. Before investigators could arrest him in 1996, Baumeister was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound . He was 49.
Investigators believe Baumeister frequented gay bars in Indianapolis, lured men to his home while his family was away, killed them there and disposed of their remains on the property.
Baumeister’s son discovered a human skull in the woods at Fox Hollow Farm in 1994, but, according to reports, investigators did not search the property until June 1996.
Goodyear said he first encountered Baumeister at an Indi
