In late June 1996, sheriff's deputies and forensic anthropologists began searching the woods behind Fox Hollow Farm, an 18-acre estate in Westfield, Indiana, a suburb north of Indianapolis. Over the following weeks and in later searches they recovered about 10,000 burned and broken bone fragments, along with remnants of handcuffs and shotgun shells. The owner of the estate was Herbert R. Baumeister, a 49-year-old businessman who ran two thrift stores in Indianapolis, a married father of three. Police wanted to question him. On July 3, 1996, his body was found in Pinery Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. He had shot himself.
Baumeister was never charged, tried or convicted of any crime connected with the remains. Police named him as the only suspect in the deaths of the men found on his land, and two years after his death investigators in several Indiana counties said they also suspected him in nine earlier deaths of men and boys whose bodies had been left in rural Indiana and western Ohio. Those cases were never charged.
Herbert Baumeister was born in Indianapolis on April 7, 1947, the oldest of four children, according to the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, the reference work published by the Indianapolis Public Library. His father was an anesthesiologist, and the family moved to Washington Township as his father's career prospered. WRTV, the Indianapolis ABC station, later described him from police records as six feet three inches tall and 185 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
He attended North Central High School, graduating in 1965. The Encyclopedia records that classmates noticed antisocial behavior and that, after incidents in which he left a dead crow on a teacher's desk and later urinated on the same desk, the school contacted his parents. It says a psychiatrist diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder, and that it is not clear whether he received treatment.
He spent a semester at Indiana University in 1965 and returned for another semester in 1967. In between he worked as a copyboy at the Indianapolis Star, where, according to the Encyclopedia, his outbursts continued. He married in November 1971, and the couple had three children. In May 1972, the Encyclopedia says, his father had him committed to a psychiatric hospital for two months because of severe depression. A month after his release he enrolled at Butler University, and he left after a semester.
In 1974 Baumeister joined the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles. He rose to program director but was fired in 1985, the Encyclopedia says, after he urinated on a letter addressed to Governor Robert D. Orr and was blamed for urine found on his manager's desk months earlier. He was arrested in September 1985 over a drunken hit-and-run and in March 1986 on a charge of conspiracy to commit theft; both charges were dropped. Neighbors in the northeast Indianapolis neighborhood where the family then lived remembered him as eccentric, overly eager to please and quick to anger.
After working in a thrift shop, he borrowed 4,000 dollars from his mother and in 1988 opened a thrift store of his own, Sav-A-Lot. A second store followed. Accounts differ on when the family moved to Fox Hollow Farm: Fox News reported in 2024 that they moved into the house in May 1988, the Encyclopedia gives 1991, and WRTV's 2023 account gives 1992. By the summer of 1993, the Encyclopedia says, employees had noticed his volatility and frequent absences, and the business was under strain from money problems and lawsuits over unpaid bills.
To those around him he was, as WRTV put it in 2022, a successful businessman with a wife, three children and a horse farm in the suburbs.
Between 1993 and 1995 a number of men disappeared in Indianapolis. Most were in their twenties or early thirties, and police later said they had last been seen at gay bars in the city. At the time there was no public link between the cases.
The list that Hamilton County sheriff's Sergeant Eddie Moore gave the Indianapolis Star in June 1999, as reported by WRTV, set out the men whose remains had by then been identified from Fox Hollow Farm, with their ages and the dates they went missing:
Johnny Bayer, 20, of Indianapolis, missing May 28, 1993.
Jeff Allen Jones, 31, of Indianapolis, missing July 6, 1993.
Richard D. Hamilton, 20, of Indianapolis, missing July 31, 1993.
Manuel Resendez, 31, of Lafayette, missing August 6, 1993.
Steven S. Hale, 26, of Indianapolis, missing April 1, 1994.
Allen Wayne Broussard, 28, of Indianapolis, missing June 6, 1994.
Roger Allen Goodlet, 33, of Indianapolis, missing July 22, 1994.
Michael Kiern, 46, of Indianapolis, missing March 31, 1995.
The coroner's office now spells the last name Keirn, and gives the full names as John Lee Bayer, Jeffrey Allen Jones, Richard Douglas Hamilton Jr., Steven Spurlin Hale and Michael Frederick Keirn. Two more men have been identified since 2023: Allen Lee Livingston, who was 27 when he disappeared in August 1993, and Daniel Thomas Halloran, born in 1972, whose date of disappearance has not been made public.
According to the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, the disappearances fell in periods in 1993 and 1994 when Baumeister's family was away. WRTV, summarizing what police believed, reported that he picked up young men at gay bars while his wife and children were on summer vacations and took them to the house.
In 1994 two families hired Virgil Vandagriff, a former police detective working as a private investigator. One was the family of Allen Wayne Broussard, who disappeared in June that year; the other was the family of Roger Allen Goodlet, who disappeared in July. Vandagriff told WRTV in 2022 that he sent investigators into gay bars to gather information and hand out posters of the missing men, and that they found that many other gay men had gone missing in the Indianapolis area.
Detective Mary Wilson of the Indianapolis Police Department took over the search, WRTV reported in 2023, drawing on a 12-page handwritten memo she wrote on June 27, 1996, summing up two years of work. The Encyclopedia says detectives from the Marion County Sheriff's Department and the Indianapolis police were both involved.
The lead that brought police to Baumeister came from a man who said he had met him at an Indianapolis gay bar. According to WRTV's 2023 account of the police records, the man said that in August 1994 he went home with someone who called himself Brian. The man drove him to a large house with a swimming pool in the northern suburbs. He said that during the night the man tried to choke him with a pool hose. In WRTV's account of the records he fought back; in Vandagriff's account to WRTV in 2022, he pretended to pass out, and the man then drove him back to Indianapolis. He told investigators he had not been able to find the house again, and Wilson drove the area with him repeatedly without success. An attempt to trace calls from "Brian" to his telephone failed.
In July 1995, WRTV reported, the man saw the same person in a bar again, and friends followed him outside and took down the license plate of his vehicle. The plate led to Baumeister. Fox News reported in 2024 that law enforcement said he had used the name "Brian Smart". In August 1995 Wilson went to Fox Hollow Farm, found that it matched the man's description of the house, and wrote down the plates of the vehicles there. A judge refused to sign a search warrant. Vandagriff told WRTV that Hamilton County judges did not find the witness credible enough.
The man has never been accused of any crime; the Hamilton County coroner has said publicly that he is not a suspect.
On November 1, 1995, Wilson and an Indianapolis police lieutenant confronted Baumeister at one of his stores. According to WRTV, he first denied going to a gay bar in Indianapolis and then admitted it, and said he would call them after he had spoken to a lawyer. Weeks later his lawyer told police he would not consent to a search of the property. In December 1995, on the advice of her own lawyer, his wife also declined to allow a search.
His wife filed for divorce in January 1996, months after police had first asked her about a possible link between her husband and the missing men, WRTV reported. The Encyclopedia gives the filing date as January 4, 1996.
Some time before, one of the couple's children had found a human skull in the woods behind the house. Accounts differ on the details. WRTV, citing the account given to investigators, places the find in December 1994; the Encyclopedia places it in November 1994; and CBS News, citing the Indianapolis station WTTV, reported in 2022 that the skull was found about 60 yards from the home. According to the accounts given to investigators, Baumeister explained it as a medical specimen that had belonged to his late father, the anesthesiologist. WRTV's 2023 account says he later threw the bones away. Investigators came to believe, WRTV reported, that the remains of at least seven men were on the property by then.
On June 24, 1996, the lawyer representing Baumeister's wife in the divorce told Detective Wilson about the skull, WRTV reported. Baumeister was out of town. Investigators went to the farm with his wife's consent, and an Indianapolis police detective and two Hamilton County sheriff's deputies found teeth and human bones. A judge signed a search warrant by 10 p.m. that night. The next day, June 25, University of Indianapolis forensic anthropologists joined the search, beginning a relationship between the university's laboratory and the case that has lasted ever since.
The Associated Press reported on July 5, 1996, that the searches had by then turned up the remains of five adults at three places on the property, along with a pair of handcuffs and remnants of 12-gauge shotgun shells, and that some of the bones were charred. A forensic anthropologist said identifying them could take more than a month. Hamilton County firefighters joined the search and found more remains in the following days, CBS News reported. "It's an unusual spot to find bodies," the then-sheriff, Joe Cook, told the Indianapolis Star.
The AP also reported that the divorce was in progress, that his wife and the three children were living on the property, and that she had obtained a protective order against him. CBS News reported that the court granted her an emergency protective order and custody.
The dig went on for weeks. Investigators came to believe, as WRTV reported, that the bodies had been burned, the bones broken up and the remains spread across parts of the farm. The fragments ranged from long bones to pieces as small as a fingernail.
Baumeister had already left. According to the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, he learned of an arrest warrant and drove to Ontario on June 30, 1996. WRTV reported that police had an arrest warrant when his body was found on July 3 at Pinery Provincial Park, near Grand Bend. He had shot himself in the head. The AP's report of July 5, quoting the Hamilton County sheriff, said he had killed himself. Investigators found his car stripped, with its carpeting removed, WRTV reported.
He left a three-page note. According to the Indianapolis Star of July 6, 1996, as reported by WRTV, it apologized for spoiling the park and spoke of his failing marriage and his failing businesses. It said nothing about the missing men or the bones found at his home.
Kathleen Clark, then a deputy prosecutor in Hamilton County, went to Canada to gather evidence and watched the autopsy. Looking back in 2023, she told WRTV that his death meant the men never had justice. "There's no reckoning," she said.
Fox News reported in 2024 that he was never charged with the deaths and admitted no crime in his note.
The University of Indianapolis laboratory processed the remains. The first two men were identified through dental records about two months after the digging began, WRTV reported. By September 12, 1996, according to the Encyclopedia, the team had identified four: Richard Hamilton, Manuel Resendez, Steven Hale and Roger Goodlet. Over the next two years, DNA analysis of the 11 profiles that could be extracted with the methods of the time identified four more: Johnny Bayer, Jeff Jones, Allen Broussard and Michael Keirn. Three DNA profiles could not be matched to anyone.
In June 1999 Sergeant Moore gave the Indianapolis Star the list of eight. After that, the work stopped. In 2025 the Hamilton County coroner, Jeff Jellison, told the Associated Press that county officials had decided in the 1990s not to pay for more DNA testing, which in effect placed the cost of a homicide investigation on the families of missing people. "It was just game over," he said. The remains were stored at the University of Indianapolis.
In April 1998 the Hamilton County sheriff, James Bradbury, said the case was considered closed. "Herb Baumeister is the only suspect we have in any of them," he said, as quoted by Fox News in 2025.
Investigators had concluded, according to the Encyclopedia, that the men were mainly white, aged from their teens to their forties, with ties to the gay community, and that they had been chosen at Indianapolis gay bars, taken to Fox Hollow Farm, strangled and left on the property. No court ever heard that evidence, and none of it was tested at a trial.
Two years after Baumeister's death, investigators from Hancock, Shelby and Hamilton counties linked him to nine strangulation deaths of men and boys whose bodies had been found in Indiana and Ohio between 1980 and 1990, WRTV reported. The Indianapolis Star published the list, which WRTV reprinted:
Michael S. Petrie, 15, found June 16, 1980, in a ditch in Hamilton County, Indiana.
Maurice A. Taylor, 22, found July 21, 1982, in northeastern Hamilton County, Indiana.
Michael A. Riley, 22, found June 5, 1983, in a ditch in Hancock County, Indiana.
Eric A. Roetiger, 17, found May 9, 1985, in a creek bed in Preble County, Ohio.
Michael A. Glenn, 29, found August 17, 1986, in a creek bed in Preble County, Ohio.
James B. Robbins, 21, found October 17, 1987, in a remote part of Shelby County, Indiana.
Steven L. Elliott, 26, found August 12, 1989, in a creek bed in Preble County, Ohio.
Clay R. Boatman, 32, found August 14, 1990, near a bridge in Preble County, Ohio.
Thomas R. Cleveger Jr., 19, found September 12, 1990, on an abandoned rail bed in Darke County, Ohio.
The former Hamilton County sheriff, James Bradbury, said the bodies had been found in small bodies of water or dumped over concrete culverts in rural areas, partly undressed, and that all were white males with ties to the gay community, WRTV reported. The press had called the unknown person responsible the I-70 Strangler, after the interstate highway that runs from Indianapolis into western Ohio.
The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis gives the basis investigators cited. It says Baumeister had been in western Ohio around the time of the deaths, and that he frequented the Vogue Theater in Broad Ripple, where Michael Riley was last seen before he disappeared in 1983. A witness identified Baumeister from a photograph as the man Riley had left with. Investigators in each of the counties concerned, the Encyclopedia says, concluded that he was responsible.
That remains a conclusion of investigators, not a finding of any court. Nobody was charged in any of the nine deaths. The Ohio Attorney General's unsolved-homicide database still lists the Preble County deaths, spelling the names Eric Roettger, Michael Glenn, Steven Elliot and Clay Boatman, with no suspect or resolution shown. By 1999, the Associated Press has reported, authorities had linked Baumeister to the disappearances of at least 16 men since 1980. Accounts also differ on the count and span of the highway cases: the Encyclopedia and The Advocate give 11 deaths between 1980 and 1991, while the Indianapolis Star list reprinted by WRTV has nine between 1980 and 1990.
In November 2022 Jeff Jellison, then chief deputy coroner of Hamilton County and coroner-elect, announced a new effort to identify the remains. "For the past 26 years these people have been placed on a shelf at the University of Indianapolis," he said, according to WRTV, and that "is not acceptable." DNA testing, he said, had become faster, easier and cheaper since the 1990s. He brought together the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, the Fishers Police Department, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the Indiana State Police biology unit, the University of Indianapolis archaeology and forensic laboratory and his own office.
He asked relatives of young men who had gone missing from Indiana and nearby states between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s to give DNA samples. A cheek swab took seconds, he said, and his office would bring a kit to any family. "These remains represent people. These people are someone's son, someone's brother, someone's father," he said, as quoted by CBS News and the Associated Press. "They're not just a box of bones." About 100 bones had been judged possibly suitable for new DNA extraction.
On December 4, 2022, the coroner's office returned to the property with about ten dogs from Indiana Canine Search and Recovery, trained to detect the scent of human remains. They found one bone and marked about 20 places where more remains might lie, WRTV reported; a deputy coroner logged each location by GPS. "These are people and that's what we have to keep at the forefront of our minds," Jellison said. He described the site as resembling a mass-fatality scene. The man who owns that part of the land today told WRTV that he still finds bones and takes them to the University of Indianapolis.
The renewed effort began with a message. In late 2022 Eric Pranger, a cousin of Allen Livingston, wrote to Jellison on Facebook asking whether his cousin might be among the dead at Fox Hollow, the Associated Press reported. Livingston was 27 when he disappeared in August 1993, after getting into someone's car in downtown Indianapolis. His mother, Sharon Livingston, had long suspected that he was there. Her search grew more urgent after she was diagnosed with cancer.
Police took DNA from her and one of her daughters in late 2022. A leg bone was among the first batch of 44 remains sent for testing, NBC News reported, and on October 17, 2023, the coroner announced that remains recovered in 1996 were Allen Livingston's. He was the ninth man identified, and the first new name in more than two decades. Jellison telephoned his mother to tell her. Without his remains, she told NBC News, the story would have been "unfinished for me." Pranger said the family was happy to have closure and sad to have to relive it. Sharon Livingston died in November 2024. "At least you know," her daughter told the AP.
In January 2024 the coroner announced that remains from the farm had been matched by DNA to Manuel Resendez, using a family reference sample. Resendez was one of the eight men named in the 1990s. The coroner gave his age at disappearance as 34; the 1999 list had given 31. Current, the Westfield newspaper, reported that he was one of the original eight and that his remains were confirmed by DNA a month earlier.
In May 2024 the coroner announced that FBI genetic genealogy had identified remains as those of Jeffrey A. Jones, whose last known address was in Fillmore, in Putnam County, and who was reported missing in August 1993. WTHR reported that investigators had first identified some of his remains almost 30 years earlier, and that the new match came from a database of genealogy-website profiles. "These remains are 30 years old. They've been burnt, they've been crushed, so that makes our DNA efforts difficult," Jellison told WTHR. The 1999 list had described him as an Indianapolis man last seen in July 1993.
By January 2025, the Associated Press reported, eight distinct male DNA profiles had been drawn from more than 70 of the 100 bones sent to the Indiana State Police laboratory. One matched Allen Livingston's mother and sister. Four matched men identified in the 1990s: Jeffrey Jones, Manuel Resendez, Johnny Bayer and Richard Hamilton. Three profiles were unidentified and two were still being tested. Jellison had obtained reference samples from relatives of seven of the eight men named in the 1990s. Steven Hale had been adopted, and efforts to find his biological relatives had failed. About 40 families had submitted DNA, which is entered into the national CODIS database and used only to identify missing people. Krista Latham, director of the University of Indianapolis Human Identification Center, said most of the bones had been crushed and burned, and that some fragments in poor condition were being held back for future technology. The men, she said, had been "marginalized in life."
On April 29, 2025, the coroner announced that remains from the farm were those of Daniel Thomas Halloran, born in 1972. The identification came from forensic testing and genetic genealogy by Othram, a Texas laboratory. Halloran became the tenth man identified. "This is a significant development in our ongoing efforts to provide answers to the families of those who went missing," Jellison said, as reported by Fox 59 and WRTV.
His daughter, Coral Halloran, told WRTV that she was almost two years old when her mother sent her father back to Indiana, and that her mother had hired private investigators and contacted social services trying to find him. "There was never a match because obviously, he had no bills or anything in his name for them to trace back to him," she said. On the advice of an aunt she contacted the coroner and took a DNA test, which matched the bone fragments. "For more than 30 years, I've been grieving the absence of my father," she said. Current reported that Halloran was the only one of the identified men who had not gone missing between 1993 and 1995.
On November 4, 2025, the coroner announced that the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification had confirmed by DNA that remains from the farm were those of Roger Goodlet, reported missing from Indianapolis in 1994. The result supported the identification first made from dental records in 1996. "Today's confirmation provides an opportunity for continued closure to the family and loved ones of Roger Goodlet," Jellison said, adding that advances in forensic science had "finally allowed us to restore names to the victims." WRTV reported that ten men had been positively identified from the site.
Goodlet's family was one of the two that had hired Vandagriff in 1994. The other, Allen Broussard's, also learned in the 1990s that he had been found on the farm. Vandagriff, by then 80, told WRTV in 2022 that he had been upset when Baumeister took his own life.
On August 29, 2024, the coroner's office and the Indiana ministry He Knows Your Name held the first public memorial for the men, in Westfield. A monument by the Canadian artist David Perrett lists the nine men then identified, with room for more names, and an ossuary beside it lets any connected family lay remains to rest there at no cost. The cremated remains of Jeff Jones and Allen Livingston were placed there. Jellison told the families, WTHR reported, that they had spent 30 years grieving with unanswered questions. "Honoring victims and their family is finishing a story," said Linda Znachko, the ministry's founder. Matthew Pranger, a first cousin of Livingston, said the memorial brought a sense of reality to something that had felt unreal. Jellison had earlier released Michael Keirn's remains to his family for burial in a marked cemetery plot, WRTV reported.
Jellison has been openly critical of how the case was handled after 1996. In 2024 he told Current that past law enforcement officers and coroners had been morally and ethically irresponsible in not trying to identify the dead, and said the men "are no longer forgotten." In June 2025 he told Fox News that "our county really dropped the ball," though he said the original excavation had been done well, and that he did not know whether law enforcement had pursued other possible victims or suspects "as aggressively as they could have." The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office declined to comment.
Baumeister remains the only suspect police have named. Jellison has said he believes others were involved. "I feel strongly that there were other people involved in this case," he told a public forum in Westfield on April 22, 2026, Current reported. In August 2026 he told Fox News that he had "always" been convinced there was more than one person, asking how one man could have carried remains about 200 yards through dense woods. He said the man who had escaped the encounter at the pool knew a lot about the case but had not been fully honest with him, and stressed that the man was not a suspect. That man has never been charged and has denied any involvement, Fox News reported. No one else has been charged or publicly named as a suspect by police.
These views were aired in two documentary series made for Hulu by ABC News Studios: The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer, from 2025, and a follow-up, Return to Fox Hollow: New Victims, Darker Secrets, which Fox News described as streaming in August 2026. Jellison said his office received about 500 messages after the first series aired.
Baumeister has been dead since July 3, 1996. He was never charged, and no court has ruled on any of the deaths attributed to him. As of the April 2026 forum, ten men had been positively identified from the remains at Fox Hollow Farm and work was continuing to identify two more, Current reported. Fox News reported in August 2026 that more than 9,000 of the roughly 10,000 bones and fragments had not been examined. Investigators have put the number of people whose remains are on the property at 25 or more, but the coroner has said he cannot give a firm count. The Hamilton County Coroner's Office continues to ask relatives of men who went missing between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s to contact it and provide DNA.
Never proven in court: every death linked to him. Baumeister died before he could be arrested, charged or tried. Police named him as the only suspect in the deaths of the men found on his property; investigators said in 1998 that they suspected him in nine earlier deaths in Indiana and Ohio. These are the conclusions of investigators, and no court has tested them.
Facts that differ between sources:
When and where the skull was found: November 1994 (Encyclopedia of Indianapolis) or December 1994 (WRTV); the child's age is given as 13 (Encyclopedia, The Advocate) or 15 (CBS News, citing WTTV).
When the family moved to Fox Hollow Farm: May 1988 (Fox News, 2024), 1991 (Encyclopedia) or 1992 (WRTV, 2023).
The encounter at the pool and the license plate: August 1994 and July 1995 (WRTV, 2023). The Encyclopedia links the witness to the disappearance of Roger Goodlet and dates that to 1992, which conflicts with the 1994 date in the 1999 list.
The announcement on the highway deaths: April 1998 (Fox News quoting Sheriff Bradbury; WRTV, 2022) or April 1999 (another WRTV report, 2022).
Ages: Manuel Resendez 31 (1999 list) or 34 (coroner, 2024); Michael Keirn 46 (1999 list); Steven Hale 26 (1999 list).
Spelling: Keirn (coroner) or Kiern (1999 list); Roetiger (1999 list) or Roettger (Ohio Attorney General); Elliott or Elliot.
Jeffrey Jones: an Indianapolis man last seen July 6, 1993 (1999 list), or a man whose last known address was in Fillmore, reported missing in August 1993 (coroner, 2024).
The number of people represented by the remains: "at least 25" (coroner and police, as reported), "possibly up to 25" (WRTV) or unknown (the coroner's own caution).
Where Baumeister died: "near Toronto" (AP, 1996) or Pinery Provincial Park near Grand Bend (WRTV, Encyclopedia).
April 7, 1947: Herbert Baumeister is born in Indianapolis.
1965: graduates from North Central High School; first semester at Indiana University.
November 1971: marries; the couple later have three children.
May 1972: committed to a psychiatric hospital for two months.
1974 to 1985: works at the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles; fired in 1985.
1980 to 1990: nine men and boys are found dead in central Indiana and western Ohio; investigators later say they suspect him.
1988: opens his first Sav-A-Lot thrift store.
May 28, 1993, to March 31, 1995: eight of the men later identified at Fox Hollow Farm go missing; Allen Livingston disappears in August 1993.
1994: the Broussard and Goodlet families hire private investigator Virgil Vandagriff.
August 1994: a man says someone calling himself Brian tried to choke him at a house with a pool.
Late 1994: a child finds a skull in the woods at Fox Hollow Farm.
July and August 1995: the man sees "Brian" again and a license plate leads to Baumeister; Detective Mary Wilson visits the farm; a judge refuses a warrant.
November 1, 1995: Wilson confronts Baumeister at his store; his lawyer later refuses consent to a search.
January 1996: his wife files for divorce.
June 24, 1996: with his wife's consent, investigators find bones and teeth at the farm; a search warrant is signed that night.
June 30, 1996: he drives to Ontario.
July 3, 1996: found dead at Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario, having shot himself; police hold an arrest warrant.
September 12, 1996: four men have been identified.
April 1998: the sheriff calls the case closed with Baumeister the only suspect; investigators link him to nine earlier deaths.
June 1999: eight identified men are listed by the sheriff's office.
November 28, 2022: the coroner-elect announces a new identification effort.
December 4, 2022: a dog search finds one bone and marks about 20 sites.
October 17, 2023: Allen Livingston is identified.
January 2024: DNA confirms Manuel Resendez.
May 2024: DNA confirms Jeffrey Jones.
August 29, 2024: memorial dedicated in Westfield.
April 29, 2025: Daniel Thomas Halloran is identified.
November 4, 2025: DNA confirms Roger Goodlet; ten men positively identified.
April 22, 2026: public forum in Westfield; work continues on two more identifications.
August 2026: the coroner repeats his view that more than one person was involved.