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 Bones May Be Linked To Gay Serial Killer
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: April 29, 2008 - 5:00 pm ET
(Indianapolis, Indiana) Cold case detective have
re-opened a 13 year old murder case of an unidentified man to see if he was a
victim of a serial killer who preyed on gay men in the 1990s.
The man's body was found in a wooded area in
Floyds Knobs. Indiana in in 1995. Never identified, he was buried as a
"John Doe".
On Monday the remains were being exhumed from a cemetery
in New Albany and police say new information and modern investigation methods
may help in identifying him.
Officers said they believe the man may be Jerry
Williams-Comer, 34, who disappeared from Indianapolis in August 1995.
The case was re-opened after a woman who works
for the Doe Network - a Web site run by amateur sleuths who try to solve cold
cases.
The women contacted police saying that
Williams-Comer had disappeared shortly before the body was found. She also said
that both Williams-Comer and the unidentified body where those of white males
around the same age.
In addition, Williams-Comer was known to have had
bad knees and that surgery had been performed on one knee of the body that was
discovered in 1995.
The date also coincides with the mysterious
disappearances of nearly 20 gay men from the greater Indianapolis area.
The men began to go missing in the early
1990. At first no one made the connection that all were gay, or that they
may have been victims of foul play until a private investigator hired by the
family of one of the men began putting the pieces together.
When police became involved in the disappearances
the investigation led them to an 18-acre suburban estate known as Fox Hollow Farm
owned by local businessman Herb Baumeister.
Baumeister had fled, but his wife allowed police
to search the grounds where the remains of 17 men were discovered.
Before police could question Baumeister he had
crossed the border into Canada and committed suicide.
Only four of the bodies have been identified.
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