“I WAS JUST ENDING THEIR PAIN”!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT, POLICE SAY LATE PORNOGRAPHER RAYMOND HORSCH RECORDED A PURPORTED SNUFF MOVIE AT HIS NORTH PHILADELPHIA HOME LINKED TO FIVE MISSING WOMEN… AND HIS SON NOW FACES FEDERAL CHARGES AS AUTHORITIES SEARCH THROUGH DOZENS OF SEIZED HARD DRIVES.
Philadelphia police have recovered a snuff movie purportedly depicting a woman being killed at a house tied to multiple murders across the city.
The footage was discovered on a hard drive kept inside a home belonging to the late pornographer Raymond “RC” Horsch.
According to police sources cited by The Philadelphia Inquirer, the video appears to show Raymond Horsch strangling a woman at his residence.
The house is located in the Olney neighborhood of North Philadelphia.
Authorities have not publicly revealed the identity of the woman shown in the recording.
Police sources stated that investigators have notified one of her relatives.
Her body has not been found.
She is one of at least five missing females now tied to the property.
Raymond Horsch resided at the sprawling house with his 44-year-old son, Eugene Horsch.
The elder Horsch lived at the residence until his death in May 2025 at age 82.
Authorities are continuing to sift through 50 hard drives seized from the home.
Those drives hold hundreds of thousands of videos, photographs, and pages of disturbing writings.
In total, about 600,000 images and 70,000 videos were recovered from the devices.
Investigators also uncovered more than 10,000 pages of manuscripts, writings, and drawings containing references to serial killers and body disposal.
Officers searching the residence discovered five urns containing cremated remains.
They also located more than 20 containers filled with unknown chemicals and an oily substance.
Police believe digital evidence confirms three of the missing women linked to the house are dead.
Yet as of now, no human remains have been discovered at the property.
The residence drew national scrutiny after law enforcement intervened in June.
On June 19, Philadelphia police and federal agents arrested Eugene Horsch in Philadelphia.
Eugene Horsch was accompanied by a female companion at the time of the arrest.
Officers found drugs, loaded firearms, and a fraudulent DEA badge in his possession.
The female companion was carrying an identification badge belonging to Blair Tonzelli.
Tonzelli has been missing since 2023.
Following that arrest, Eugene Horsch was charged with federal firearms violations and fraudulent credential offenses.
He has not been charged in connection with any deaths.
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Then, in August, Philadelphia police confirmed that hard drives from the home contained images and videos of two other missing women.
Police said the recordings appeared to show both women deceased with visible injuries.
One of the women was identified as Maribel Fresses.
Fresses disappeared in 2018 at the age of 27.
The other woman was identified as Gabrielle Amarando.
Amarando was last seen in 2012.
Among the thousands of files was the snuff movie, a term used to describe footage capturing a real-life slaying used for sexual gratification either for personal use or sale.
Raymond Horsch built a career luring female drug addicts from Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood to his Olney residence.
Once at the house, he produced graphic and pornographic videos and photographs of them.
His work frequently featured graphic violence, including hangings, drownings, and stranglings.
Throughout these productions, Raymond Horsch adopted the persona of an “empathetic” serial killer who murdered drug addicts to end their pain.
A fifth missing woman linked to the residence is Raymond Horsch’s ex-wife, Amy McHale.
McHale was last seen at the home before vanishing in 2016.
Former FBI profiler James R. Fitzgerald spoke to The Post regarding the victimology surrounding the house.
“Someone like Amy McHale with her drug problems hanging around a guy like Raymond Horsch would put her into the level of a high-risk victim,” Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald grew up just blocks away from the Olney house.
He described the neighborhood in the 1960s and 1970s as a “row-house neighborhood, mostly Italian, German and Irish, very very low crime rate,” before drug problems moved in.
Fitzgerald is currently investigating the unsolved murder of his friend Joe Welsh, who died “about eight city blocks from where Horsch lived.”
Fitzgerald also commented on the ongoing inquiry surrounding Eugene Horsch.
“Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior,” Fitzgerald said.
“If there are multiple missing women, and Eugene was found with a missing woman’s ID … apples don’t usually fall far from trees,” he said.
“It’s very likely that the son is involved in some of the same activities as the deceased father. And no doubt, through learned behavior, his regard for women and his disrespect for women, especially marginalized and vulnerable women, would probably be in the same category as his father’s,” Fitzgerald added.
Eugene Horsch’s defense team claims the thousands of pages of writings, drawings, and manuscripts may have belonged to his late father.
Philadelphia police did not respond to requests for comment.
A lawyer representing Eugene Horsch did not respond to requests for comment.
Federal authorities continue to hold the seized digital files.
The investigation remains open.
The charges are allegations and have not been proven in court.
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