Manuel Martinez Resendez was 34 when he disappeared from Indianapolis in August 1993. Employed as a children’s counselor, he was last seen at a downtown Indianapolis establishment before vanishing, one of several similar disappearances of men in the area during the early to mid-1990s.

In 1996 investigators searched Fox Hollow Farm, an 18-acre Westfield estate owned by Herbert Baumeister, and found thousands of charred bone fragments and human remains. Law enforcement linked the property to multiple victims and identified at least 11 men as having been buried there; Baumeister fled and later died by suicide in Ontario in July 1996 before he could be arrested. Resendez was initially identified by dental records after the discovery.

In January 2024 the Hamilton County Coroner’s Office announced a definitive identification of Resendez’s remains using advanced DNA matching technology, giving his family scientific confirmation after more than three decades. Did anyone who knew Manuel in Indianapolis in 1993 see him that August or know where he spent his evenings?