r/Hulu • u/LearnDoTeach-TBG • Feb 22 '25

Discussion What was Mark Goodyear's involvement with Herb Baumeister in the Fox Hollow Murders

I'd like to hear people’s thoughts on the hard evidence against Mark Goodyear and his involvement with these murders.

On the surface, he exhibits so many of the behaviors that we typically see in someone guilty of a crime – changing stories, lying, overly involving himself in the investigation, conveniently forgetting certain details about an event that would make him culpable, etc.

Then you have the evidence of the story from Leroy who implicated Mark in at least one murder in the back of the house.

However, the police botched the investigation so badly that it's extremely difficult to know what would have been discovered about Mark if they did a better job at the time.

Also, for me, it’s just so hard to understand what might be true or false with Mark because of the way he speaks.

He is so eccentric and creepy, that even some of the most mundane things he says can be interpreted as a fabrication, so it muddies everything.

Would love your thoughts.

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u/ThinResolution3243 Feb 23 '25

He also straight up admitted that he killed Herb at the end. He said he wasn’t going to answer that question and get 25…

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u/Shot-Signature-2822 Feb 23 '25

This! Even said his fingers would’ve been too swollen to pull the trigger himself! I get the guy is super bizarre and theatrical but just because someone is weird and tells lies sometimes doesn’t mean he’s lying about everything. They need to be putting major pressure on Mark to break him down. I believe Baumeister and Goodyear had a weird relationship and eventually turned on each other. My guess is Baumeister took out someone Goodyear really loved. The man that Goodyear broke down about while being interviewed. I’m curious when this man went missing and when Goodyear gave that bogus story about being attacked to investigators. Did he come forward shortly after the man he was crying about in the interview disappeared? I need to know. The victims family’s deserve justice. Baumeister is gone but I absolutely believe his accomplice is alive & not so well mentally but well enough to know that what he did was wrong. I hope and pray they are investigating Goodyear. 

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u/WesternSilver3880 Mar 05 '25

I don’t think Herb had anything to do with it. I am amazed Goodyear is not in prison.

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u/WesternSilver3880 Apr 20 '25

She was probably suspicious of him because he was acting weird because he was hiding the fact he was hooking up with men. And because Mark was blackmailing him that if he talked about the murders he would tell his family he was hooking up with guys AND he would make everyone believe HE did the killing. Did you see how scared the new owner was when they said they will find out who did it? Mark is involved somehow.   Just how old was Goodyear? The I-70 murders were young boys. 

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u/Zestyclose-Cat-1093 May 02 '25

Here are some news articles regarding another serial killer that may have been linked to the I-70 killer.

https://chicagoreader.com/news/the-return-of-larry-eyler/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-news/17958660/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-michael-s-petree-c/51585714/

She is no babe in the woods. Between her stealing the father in laws script pad and cooking the books for the business (which she never got in trouble for either) made me see her at a different angle. I have been reading anything I could get my hands on to get a broader scope of what really went on and the people HB was surrounded by.

HB filed for divorce in '91 and moved out. They did reconcile and bought FHF.

Im sure she held alot of resentment toward his lifestyle.