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EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: PHILADELPHIA — Police have returned again to a home in Philadelphia’s Olney neighborhood where they collected “glass vials,” a vacuum cleaner, workout equipment and other items, photographs show.
This is after city police have said they recovered more than a million pieces of digital evidence from the home, described as a “house of horrors” in some reports.
It used to belong to a pornographer named Raymond “RC” Horsch, who died last year at 82.
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An FBI agent brings out a large paper bag as the search for evidence continues in the home of Eugene Horsch on West Chew Avenue in Philadelphia on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. Authorities are investigating the property after linking it to at least seven missing women. Eugene Horsch is the son of the late Raymond “R.C.” Horsch. (Kyle Mazza/CNP for Digital)
One evidence bag was photographed with a partially legible label. It listed “glass vials,” a “board” as well as references to a bin and drawers.
Investigators were also seen taking out a rowing machine and a vacuum cleaner among boxes and bags of packaged evidence Monday.
An FBI agent brings out a large paper bag as the search for evidence continues in the home of Eugene Horsch on West Chew Avenue in Philadelphia on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. Authorities are investigating the property after linking it to at least seven missing women. Eugene Horsch is the son of the late Raymond “R.C.” Horsch. (Kyle Mazza/CNP for Digital)
“The investigation remains active and ongoing,” a Philadelphia police spokesperson told Digital Tuesday. “Additional information will be released as it becomes available and is appropriate for public release.”
Horsch specialized in sadistic themes — some of which may ultimately prove to be nonfiction after investigators say evidence in the home has been linked to seven separate cases involving missing women.
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FBI agents bring out a vaccum cleaner as they search for evidence in the home of Eugene Horsch on West Chew Avenue in Philadelphia on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. Authorities are investigating the property after linking it to at least seven missing women. Eugene Horsch is the son of the late Raymond “R.C.” Horsch. (Kyle Mazza/CNP for Digital)
Philadelphia police have repeatedly revisited the building following the June arrest of his 44-year-old son, Eugene Horsch, on drug, firearms and forgery charges.
While searching the home after his arrest, police allegedly found “snuff” videos believed to show multiple missing women, a drum of chemicals hooked up to the water system, and five urns that contained what police said might be human ashes.
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Maribel Fresses was last seen in 2018. (National Missing and Unidentified Persons System)
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Four of the seven missing women believed to be connected to the home have been identified in those images, according to authorities.
Only some of them have been publicly identified. Philadelphia police identified Maribel Fresses, 26, who vanished in 2018; and Gabrielle Aramando, 27, earlier in the investigation.
Blair Tonzelli was last seen in Philadelphia on February 21, 2023, when she was 35. She was wearing a hooded gray sweatsuit. (National Missing and Unidentified Persons System)
During Eugene Horsch’s arrest, the woman with him had an ID for Blair Tonzelli, 38, who was last seen in Philadelphia in February 2023, police told Digital in September.
Two other women were identified in local reports. Both are listed as missing persons in the National Missing and Unidentified Person System, or NamUs.
Amy Teresa McHale was last seen in Philadelphia on June 13, 2016, when she was 44. She has a butterfly tattoo on her right thigh and a rose on her left shoulder. (National Missing and Unidentified Persons System)
One is Horsch’s ex-wife, Amy McHale, 54, who was 44 when she was last seen on June 13, 2016, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported in June.
The other is Nicole “Nikki” Fusaro, 34, according to CBS’s Philadelphia affiliate, citing local police sources.
Nicole Amanda Fusaro was last seen in Philadelphia near Kensington and Allegheny Avenue on July 19, 2019, when she was 27. She has several tattoos and piercings, including a rose on her inner right ankle and a “Playboy” bunny on her left shoulder. (National Missing and Unidentified Persons System)
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She was 27 when she vanished near the intersection of Kensington and Allegheny Avenue in July 2019.
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Investigators said they have also identified dozens of other people from the images.
FBI agents bring out a rowing machine as they search for evidence in the home of Eugene Horsch on West Chew Avenue in Philadelphia on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. Authorities are investigating the property after linking it to at least seven missing women. Eugene Horsch is the son of the late Raymond “R.C.” Horsch. (Kyle Mazza/CNP for Digital)
Excavation crews have previously been seen searching outside and under the home, including the sewers.
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The younger Horsch has not been charged in connection with any of the missing women. But at the time of his unrelated arrest in a BMW at the city’s Independence Mall, authorities allege that the woman with him was carrying one of their IDs.
FBI agents bring out evidence from the home of Eugene Horsch on West Chew Avenue in Philadelphia on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. Authorities are investigating the property after linking it to at least seven missing women. Eugene Horsch is the son of the late Raymond “R.C.” Horsch. (Kyle Mazza/CNP for Digital)
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Dr. Kris Mohandie, a board-certified forensic psychologist, has warned that the elder Horsch may have been part of a wider network centered on the production and distribution of “snuff films.”
R.C. Horsch seen in a 1999 mugshot. (S. E. Stokowski/Wikimedia Creative Commons)
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“The fact that the father was involved in the pornographic industry indicates that there may have been, in addition to the sadistic motives that we usually see in serial murders, that there may have been profit in distribution of so-called snuff films,” he told Digital previously.
Eugene Horsch’s mugshot. (Fox29 Philadelphia)
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The older Horsch was a convicted producer of methamphetamines and an author of sexually explicit and violent books. In one, 2014’s “Empathy,” there is a chapter about dissolving a murdered woman’s body with boiling chemicals.
