Fox Hollow Farm, the 18-acre estate at 8102 East 161st Street in Westfield, Indiana, is owned by Rob and Vicky Graves, who bought the property in 2001 and have lived there ever since as a private family home. As recently as 2025, local news coverage still identified Rob Graves as the owner. The home is not listed for sale on Zillow or any other real estate platform, and the family has kept it off the market for more than two decades.
What the Graves Family Paid in 2001
The Graveses purchased Fox Hollow Farm for a reported price near $390,000. That figure was a steep discount from what a 10,000-square-foot Tudor mansion on 18 wooded acres in Hamilton County would normally command, and the discount was driven almost entirely by the property’s association with the Herbert Baumeister case. The family has maintained the estate as a private residence since the purchase and has not put it back on the market.
How to Confirm Ownership Through Hamilton County
If you want ownership information straight from the county rather than from a third-party real estate site, Hamilton County runs an online property records portal. You can search by address or parcel identification number and pull up current ownership, transfer history, assessed values, property record cards, and tax balances. The system also lets you view and print tax statements.
The county’s Property Reports page provides deed transfer records, property deductions, and assessed value data pulled directly from county files. That is the most reliable way to confirm who holds title to Fox Hollow Farm or any other Hamilton County parcel, and it will be more current than Zillow or Redfin, which can lag behind actual transactions.
Why People Keep Asking Who Owns It
Public curiosity about the property traces back to 1996, when investigators searched the grounds after Baumeister’s wife, Julie, gave police permission to access the estate. Forensic teams spent weeks excavating and recovered more than 10,000 human bone fragments scattered across the farm. Thirteen male victims were identified from those remains, and investigators have said the true number of victims could be higher. Baumeister fled to Canada during the investigation and died by suicide before he could be arrested or charged, so there was never a criminal conviction.
Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison has since reopened forensic work on the unidentified remains using newer DNA technology, calling the collection “the second-largest number of unidentified human remains in this country.” That ongoing identification effort keeps Fox Hollow Farm in the news and keeps prompting questions about who lives there now.
Fox Hollow Farm Is a Private Home, Not a Site You Can Visit
The estate is not a museum, a historical site, or any kind of public attraction. It is the Graves family’s residence, and walking onto the grounds without permission is a crime in Indiana. The state’s criminal trespass statute makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly enter another person’s property after being denied entry, or to refuse to leave after being asked. A Class A misdemeanor in Indiana carries up to one year in jail.
The statute also covers entering a dwelling without consent, and that applies whether or not “no trespassing” signs are posted. Uninvited visitors drawn by the Baumeister history have reportedly turned up at the property over the years, and the family has dealt with that intrusion for more than twenty years. Whatever your interest in the case, the legal line is simple: stay off the land unless you have the owner’s explicit permission.
What the Property Might Be Worth Today
Residential values across Hamilton County have climbed substantially since 2001, and Westfield in particular has gone through rapid suburban growth. Automated valuation tools like Zillow’s “Zestimate” have placed Fox Hollow Farm well above the million-dollar mark in recent years, but those numbers are algorithmic guesses based on nearby luxury home sales. Zillow does not show interior photos, detailed room data, or a formal appraisal for the property because it is not on the market.
Stigmatized properties are also notoriously hard to appraise. Standard comparable-sale methods break down when there are no similar homes with similar histories in the same market. The gap between a home’s structural value and what buyers will actually pay for it tends to narrow over time as the surrounding area develops and public memory fades, but whether that gap has closed for Fox Hollow Farm is impossible to say without a willing seller and a real transaction. Lenders and title companies generally do not treat stigma as a defect, so financing and insurance would work the same as any other residential purchase, but resale demand is the open question for anyone who might eventually buy a property like this one.