Indianapolis Monthly: Unburying the Truth

“THE HAWKS ARE CIRCLING,” Hunter Vale tells me from a booth at Almost Famous, a bar on the 700 block of Massachusetts Avenue.

Though he’s just 31 years old, Vale is an archivist of the earliest years of the Indianapolis LGBTQ+ community, posting vintage photos, magazine articles, and other ephemera on his Queer Circle City Instagram account. His role as high-profile historian of the scene means he was one of the first stops for true crime content creators when newly elected Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison announced he was reopening the effort to identify the tens of thousands of partial human remains discovered at the family estate of Herb Baumeister. [continue reading]