Authorities are readying themselves to strip the house from top to bottom in the hope of uncovering clues into the disappearance of women who remain missing.
Police are getting ready to search a real life house of horrors that belonged to a serial killer who is believed to be behind the disappearance of at least seven women.
Authorities are readying themselves to strip the house from top to bottom in the hope of uncovering clues into the disappearance of women who remain missing.
Since June, investigators have been looking into Raymond ‘RC’ Horsch, who died last year at the age of 82 and had a reputation for creating violent pornography. He also wrote books featuring serial killers who preyed on women and is believed to have committed a number of grisly crimes himself.
Police became involved after a routine traffic stop involving Horsch’s son, Eugene Horsch, 44, led police to believe he could have been involved in the historic disappearance of a woman who went missing in 2023. Off the back of the stop, officers obtained a search warrant for where he was living – which was a home that once belonged to his deceased father.
During that search, police found more than they bargained for – finding more than a million digital images and videos allegedly depicting sex, drug use and even at least one snuff film with 58 separate victims identified. AT least five of the women in the videos appearED to be lifeless or unconscious, police said.
RC Horsch is now linked to at least seven dead or missing women in Philadelphia, including his own ex-wife, Amy McHale and now officers have warned locals that there is set to be lots of activity in the home soon.
Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit Staff Inspector Ernest Ransom said: “You’re going to see a lot of equipment,” adding that there will be a “large police presence” around the home for a number of days.
He also warned that starting October 5, officers would be bringing “heavy” equipment to the property but declined to say what they would be searching for or how the equipment would be used, only adding that activity could last all of October.
Residents were told they would still be allowed in and out of their homes but said there would be street closures and people would be asked to move their cars off the road in advance.
Some locals are understood to want the house pulled down once police are done with it.
Among the women who appeared unconscious in the videos recovered at the house were Gabrielle Amarando, Maribel Fresses and Nicole Fusaro, all of whom went missing years ago, sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News.
RC Horsch’s ex-wife and another woman tied to him, Blair Tonzelli, also remain missing.