Remains found at Indiana estate of suspected serial killer identified as victim who has been missing since 1993

Remains found on the estate of a suspected Indiana serial killer have been identified as a man reported missing in 1993, the Hamilton County Coroner’s Office said Thursday.

Forensic experts matched the human remains recovered in 1996 from Fox Hollow Farm, the former Westfield property of suspected serial killer Herb Baumeister, to then-34-year-old Manuel Resendez, Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison said in a press release.

Resendez was reported missing in 1993. A family reference sample submitted early last year helped identify him from the nearly 10,000 other remains discovered at Baumeister’s estate.

The coroner’s office renewed efforts to identify the bones at Fox Hollow Farm in 2022, asking relatives of young men who disappeared between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s to submit DNA samples.

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