Richard Douglas Hamilton Jr. was 20 when he was last seen in Indianapolis on July 31, 1993. Employed as a telephone marketer and known to frequent gay bars in the city, he disappeared without explanation, leaving his family searching for answers.

In June 1996, searches of Fox Hollow Farm in Westfield, the estate of businessman Herbert Baumeister, turned up thousands of charred and crushed bone fragments. Forensic work identified some of those remains in March 1999 as belonging to Richard; he was one of at least eleven men whose remains were recovered from the property. Baumeister fled to Ontario after a warrant was issued and died by suicide in Pinery Provincial Park in July 1996. He left a note mentioning marital and business troubles but did not confess to the killings.

Baumeister has long been suspected in additional killings, including those attributed to the I-70 Strangler, and investigators have suggested the pattern of bodies dumped along Interstate 70 ceased after he bought Fox Hollow Farm. Richard’s remains were buried at Floral Park Cemetery in Indianapolis.

Did anyone in Indianapolis know Richard’s habits or who he spent time with in 1993?