Beth Perry has opened up of the horrors she had to endure, which included being beaten, cut and forced to recreate childhood sexual abuse for his pleasure.
A woman who was hired by “House of Horrors” erotic photographer claims she endured years of abuse and details of her torment have now been made public for the first time.
Beth Perry, not her real name, has opened up of the horrors she had to endure, which included being beaten, cut and forced to recreate childhood sexual abuse for his pleasure.
Erotic photographer R.C. Horsch died in May 2025, but his son Eugene Horsch, 44, who he lived with, is currently in custody and being investigated after police found recordings of two missing women who the police say appear to be deceased.
They also found a firearm, a marijuana operation and five urns containing cremated remains. And Beth has now spoken out to say she believes she had a lucky escape.
The 41-year-old met R.C. in the summer of 2020 after he approached her on Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia, and asked if she would model for him.
Initially, Beth said R.C. would take nude photos of her but “nothing crazy”, but she claims the shoots soon became increasingly sexual.
She alleges that R.C. would make her pose naked in graveyards, where she was instructed to play dead and look battered and bruised. Beth also claims he made her recreate instances of sexual abuse she had suffered as a child and paid her for sex.
She said R.C. would repeatedly try to persuade her to come to his house, telling her she would be “looked after”. Their relationship continued until 2024, when Beth stopped contact with R.C. after she realised he was doing the same things with other women.
Photos of her were found at the house. Beth, a home health aide from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, said: “His endgame was to get me to his house. I feared that if I went there, I would have disappeared.
“That was why it was so chilling to see the house on the TV. The feelings I got from him is if I went around, I would never leave.
“He pitched his home to me as a place that I could move in, and I would never need to leave. That I wouldn’t need to get clean from drugs because he had loads there.”
Eugene Horsch was arrested in June 2026 and is currently in custody on federal charges connected to firearms and phoney federal credentials. After his arrest, police searched Eugene and R.C’s address on West Chew Avenue.
The recordings they found of the women have now been identified as Maribel Fresses, who was last seen in February 2018, and Gabrielle Amarando, who had been missing since September 2012 – as well as photos of Beth and other women.
Beth first met R.C. in 2020, when he approached her in the street. She said he showed her a book of modelling photos that he had taken and asked if she wanted to model for him.
“He presented it as though he was a photographer; he brought his book and gave me a nicer one, with artistic nude photos in,” Beth said.
“He asked if I would want to model for him; I said sure, and he told me there would be no sex, but over time it did turn into sexual favours. Looking back, I realise he was grooming me. He was seeing how much was acceptable for me, and what my limit was.
“When he found my limit, he would try to expand that even more.”
Beth said R.C. paid her between $40 and $120 for everything from modelling shoots and nude photographs to sexual favours. She said that he would often capture photos of women naked in graveyards, covered in blood, battered and bruised or injecting drugs.
Speaking to Talk to the Press, Beth said: “You wouldn’t know how long you would be on a shoot for. He would do the photos during the daylight, so you would either get caught and have to leave, or other times you would be there for longer.
“It depended on whether he was getting turned on by the pictures, if he was into it.”
Beth said that R.C. would take it too far to get the perfect picture. “The photoshoots were all about degrading me,” Beth said. “He would want me naked in dumpsters; he would use handcuffs on me and wanted to mark my body.
“R.C. would want real blood in the pictures; he would want as much blood and reality as possible. He wanted it to be an authentic mark. If he wanted you to look beat, he would beat you for the picture.”
Beth stopped contact with R.C. in October 2024 and said he “didn’t take it well”. She said she started “pulling away” and ignoring his texts. Towards the end of their relationship, Beth claims he tried getting her round to his house – an offer she always refused.
Beth said: “I would tell him that I would meet him at his house, and then I became unavailable as I was terrified to go around. “I just had a gut feeling that I did not want to go into the house.
“I don’t know of anyone who has been in the house and come out. He sold it as a haven where I wouldn’t need to leave.” Earlier this year, when Beth saw the news coverage of R.C. and his son, Eugene’s home on Chew Avenue, she said her “heart dropped”.
She said she had previously thought about reporting him due to his behaviour towards her and his interests but didn’t follow through. “At certain points in our relationship, I had thought about reporting him because of what he would write and his interests,” Beth said.
“When there were sexual exchanges between us, he would want me to describe in detail how I was molested as a child. Describe how I was raped; he would push through the detail, and I would get upset and feel uncomfortable about sharing those details.”
Philadelphia Police searched the home of R.C. and Eugene earlier this year. After the police uncovered more than 50 hard drives and electronic devices, some of which contained photos of Beth, she was questioned about her relationship with R.C.
Beth said: “They wanted to know how we met. It turned out R.C. had a whole file on me on his computer, along with pictures of me.
“They wanted to know his process for taking the photos due to the erotic nature of them. He died in May 2025, so they have never been able to speak to him. The next best thing is those of us who were in the photos.”