Mystery Bones Found at Philly 'House of Horrors': Report

New discoveries in the so-called Philadelphia House of Horrors case, a home allegedly tied to seven missing women, once owned by an adult filmmaker who investigators are now calling a suspected serial killer. Law enforcement say they have found bones in the backyard of the property. What this could mean, as police try and solve the mysteries of the missing women. Think GLP-1s are too expensive? On Rowe, you can access FDA-approved GLP-1 weight loss treatment at your lowest possible price if you're covered. Start with Rowe's free insurance checker. Just upload your insurance card to see if you're covered for certain GLP-1 shots. Whether you use insurance or pay cash, Rowe helps you find an option that works best for you. Plus, Rowe's membership plans help you save even more. See if you qualify at rowe.co slash health. Rx only for side effects of GLP-1 medications, including boxed warning. Go to rowe.co slash safety. Additional Rowe membership fee required. Find the truth of what was happening behind closed doors. We're on the case presented by Law and Crime. I'm Chris Stewart. Since June, police say they have found urns, a chemical lab, hard drives with more than a million images, including videos of women being suffocated inside of a home on Chew Avenue in Philadelphia. And yet, at this point, no charges for violent crimes have been filed in this case. And police now say they have found bones in the backyard. And the big question is, who do those bones belong to? I want to share for you here. This is the backyard of the home on Chew Avenue that we are talking about here. 417 Chew Avenue. This is the home of Eugene Horsch. He currently owns it. His dad, R.C. Horsch, who media outlets, including CBS Philadelphia, say investigators are considering a suspected serial killer. R.C. Horsch once owned the home. He died in 2025 of a heart condition. And his son, Eugene, who's in custody. Right now in unrelated charges, nonviolent charges. He is currently the homeowner of this house. And when you look at the backyard, this is where the FBI have brought in heavy machinery. They're going through this area. And they reportedly last week found bones that are currently being investigated. The big question at this point, though, is, of course, whose bones are they? But also animal bones have been found at that home in the past, according to NBC 10 in Philadelphia. Now, on top of that, the other new development that they have, is a safe that was reportedly found in a wall of the house. We don't know yet what was in that safe. So, again, R.C. Horsch once owned this home. He was a adult filmmaker who was pretty infamous for his work because it was very disturbing. It often showed women who were in pain and distress. And the question is, is law enforcement go through the million images that they found on hard drives inside of this house, videos and pictures? Are they looking? Are they looking at fiction or are they looking at something that was real, which is really scary to think about? Investigators also say that they found a chemical lab inside of the house when they first stumbled upon all of this back in June. And according to CBS Philadelphia, they're looking for evidence of wet cremation, which is when chemicals are used to break a body down. So R.C.'s son is Eugene Horsch. He was arrested after a traffic stop in June, and that sparked this investigation. He's currently facing. Guns and drug charges, but he's not facing any violent charges. He became the homeowner of this house after his dad died, and we're learning more about that traffic stop and the woman who was with Eugene Horsch when he was arrested. Now, you might remember this case started on federal property. It was near the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, and there was a park ranger on a morning in June who heard Eugene Horsch allegedly arguing with a woman. They were in a BMW on June 19th inside of the car park rangers. He allegedly found two illegal handguns and $8,000 worth of heroin, marijuana, and crack cocaine. Eugene Horsch also allegedly had a DEA badge with his name on it. Now, he was with a woman, and the woman gave the park ranger an ID with the name Blair Tanzeli. That's a woman who's been missing since 2023. This is her profile on the National Missing Person Database. The thing is, the woman who was with Eugene Horsch was not Blair Tanzeli. She is still missing, but according to court records, the woman has been identified. She is identified as A.T., so they're not giving out her full name, just her initials, and she has not been charged with a crime, but Action News in Philadelphia says that they went to an address for A.T., and they found that she was someone who has spent time in jail. She's someone who has dealt with drug issues, and a neighbor of hers says that Eugene Horsch was infatuated with this woman and that he would wait for her for hours outside of the house, and that's just one story. Of dozens of women who are tied to Eugene and R.C. Horsch, according to investigators. In fact, 58 women are connected to their home on Chew Avenue, and police have been able to track down the majority of those women, some of them still alive, some of them have passed away. But still at this point, there are seven women who are still missing, and authorities fear they could be dead. Now, the women that are of those seven, Maribel Frieses and Gabrielle Amarando. Frieses was 27 when she went missing in 2018. Amarando was 22 when she went missing back in 2012. Another woman reportedly. Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have eczema, so I get how it can steal your time. 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Taxes and fees extra. new customer offer for initial plan term only greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy see terms tied to the home still missing 27 year old nicole fizarro she went missing in 2018 according to family members who spoke to local media and police say they have id'd amirando and freser and fusaro reportedly in videos that were found inside of the home on shoe avenue and these videos are dark according to what law enforcement say they've also identified a woman whose name they're not giving out, as well as a woman that they're still considering Jane Doe. Authorities, though, they don't know what happened to these women. There are concerns that some of them have been murdered, but they don't have a body at this point. Then you have Blair Tanzelli. That's the woman who is still missing, whose ID was with the woman who Eugene Horsch was with when he was arrested. Also, Amy McHale, who was once married to R.C. Horsch. These are images from her Facebook. She's been missing since 2016. Her daughter posted this missing persons poster back in 2024. And she was last seen about a mile from the Chew Avenue house. R.C. Horsch makes this case very complicated. He died in 2025 from a heart condition, but because of his work, it's hard to sift through exactly what law enforcement are looking at. And there's just so much of it. He made incredibly dark content, as I said. And just an example of that, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. He had an art exhibit in 2014 in Kensington, which is an area that has dealt with drug issues for a long time in Philadelphia. And that exhibit reportedly showed autopsy photos of dead women. And at the end of the show, there was a video of a woman's body being put into an incinerator at a crematorium. This is video of the crematorium where that reportedly took place. R.C. Horst reportedly described the exhibit as, quote, the medical examiner totally botched the autopsy and didn't even bother to sew her up properly. My horrible photograph is all that is left of her, the only trace of her short, sad existence. And then police say as they have gone through the million images that were found on hard drives inside of RC's house, this is just an example of one that they spoke about at their most recent update. At some point during this, using channel lock tool of some kind, he puts a zip tie around her neck and she becomes unconscious on that video appeared to be lifeless at that time the philadelphia inquirer reports that rc horse was known for going through kensington and offering drugs and money to women to be in his pornographic films another few videos were found that were significant um the one being the the last video was viewed while homicide detectives were viewing it um it's It's a video also with metadata from 2017. This video depicts a female and RC Horsch, who is the father of Eugenia. who is the father of Eugene as I said. They're in the video. Both are not wearing clothing. There's two separate cameras, one he's controlling and one that's affixed somewhere in the bedroom where they're at. Both videos were obtained by us. We have them all. You could see during the course of this time, the female uses narcotics during the course of this time. She is then given money by Mr. Horsch and then affixed to the bed with handcuffs by him. At some point during this, using channel lock tool of some kind, he puts a zip tie around her neck and she becomes unconscious on that video. Appeared to be lifeless at that time, but it's just appearing that way. One of the biggest questions is whether the material that authorities are uncovering, is it art, if you want to call it that, or is it evidence of murder? But without bodies, police say they cannot definitively know at this point. Police also found multiple urns in the home, and they're still trying to identify all of the people who are in those urns, but they believe one of them is R.C. Horsch. Right now, Eugene Horsch, R.C.'s son, is facing federal gun and drug charges in connection to that traffic stop in June, but it's unclear if he is going to face charges in connection to the missing women or what was found inside the house. His attorney is a man named Jerome Brown, who has called the investigation a, quote, runaway train, said that, to CBS Philadelphia. He also said his client's upset that his house will likely be destroyed by police activity. Joining me now to talk more about this is retired NYPD detective David Sarney. Good to talk with you about this case again. We don't know if these bones are human bones. We don't know if these bones are related to anything that was going on inside the house. They could be animal bones for all we know, but how does, let's just say they are human bones. How would that impact this investigation? Well, let's say if they're human bones, again, thanks for having me. Let's say they're human bones. Now they're going to try to get some genetic material. In other words, hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have eczema. So I get how it can steal your time. But why let eczema take over when you can talk to your doctor about EBCLIS? EBCLIS, Leberkizumab LBKZ, a 250 milligram per two milliliter injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe eczema. Also called atopic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies. EBCLIS can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you are allergic to EBCLIS. You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with EBCLIS. 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Just because you have bones and we can determine they're human, we have to also determine whether or not what we can do with them. Can someone be identified? And we've seen throughout this case that we've had numerous missing women who have, you know, they've been found, numerous other missing women have been found deceased outside of the home. So, and also you're having non-cooperative witnesses, which is another problem to itself. So, hopefully, if these are human, and we'll say this, if it's human, they'll see, they'll check the DNA to see if anything, if their DNA matches anything within the criminal justice system. And that's the thing. They could also go outside that, but I don't know how, again, this comes back to how long have these bones been there. This is, again, one of those situations that this house just continues to have more and more evidence, but is it criminal? And right now they're determining that throughout this entire investigation. It's taking a long time. Well, and we've talked before about, I mean, to go through a million images and to document all of it and to make sure you're looking at something that's real. I mean, it's a lot of work. It's taken months of, you know, the FBI is going and you look at this house and Eugene Horsch owns the house because his dad gave it to him. He is not facing charges at this point related to any violent crime, but we've seen heavy machinery in the backyard of the home. They're going through walls. I mean, they're really trying to figure out what was going on. And I think the general public can see why that you would want to rip and tear every single piece of this home through. Like, what restrictions are there, though, on police knowing that, like, he's not charged with anything yet, like, related to this? Or we don't know if he will be. And this is technically his house. Like, what limitations are there on what you can do to it? Well, the excavations be going on. I've had we've had situations where there has been an informant said it was body buried in the backyard. Detectives get a search warrant and then they try to they excavate it till then. As each evident evidentiary item comes up, I guarantee you that because speaking to a judge, so they're coordinating this with the criminal justice and the prosecutor's office. This isn't just happening, you know, just by the police doing it. They're actually in coordination, the prosecutor, because they have. Have to be the ones to prosecute this case if it goes somewhere and it goes back to do the sins of the father go to the sins of the son. And we're not sure. And that's going to be the biggest, the biggest issue here. If you're talking about the father who's deceased, what do you get out of that? Does the son do anything with the father or do anything after the father that could that could be determined to be criminal? And right now, all you have is a criminal charges based on that initial stop near the park. How how does the fact that R.C. Horsh is dead? How does that complicate this case? Well, we've had what's called, you know, when you talk about clearances and when it's about detective work, you have closure is closing to be based on any type of, you know, lack of evidence. You close it. Uncooperative witness or uncooperative victim that could be closed. A clearance is an arrest. Let's say there is able to determine that the father was involved in criminal activity. He cannot be arrested. Thereby would be an exceptional clearance. And that's why this case, you know, that comes back to the same thing. The issue is the sins of the father going to the son. Does the son continue the. The if this criminality doesn't continue the criminality with the father, and that's the issue. And so far, there is nothing tying him to actual criminality yet. And that's why it's taking. That's why the evidence you have to go through is taking a long time. I'll tell you, the police are doing a mountain, an amazing type of work to do this because the mountain of evidence you have to go through and then have to check it again and have a team. You have a task force probably working within this and then verifying information and then forward it, finding that information, finding that information, finding that information, finding that information, finding that information, and then you're missing people that might be identified in those videos and in those photos. That's the other part. That's why we've seen so much work being done on this case. And unfortunately, right now, there's no we don't have any. There's no smoking gun in a sense right now saying this is what a did is what he did. And that's what they're looking for based on the evidence in the house. When it comes to, you know, I think of these victims and a lot of them, you know, and, you know, I've talked about this before, like if you search their names on Facebook, you'll see people in 2015 and 2022, like posting pictures, trying to find their loved ones. A lot of them have dealt with issues of addiction and homelessness. They've been in the Kensington area of Philadelphia, which is, you know, struggled with, you know, drug issues for a long, long time. The fact that you are dealing with people who had been off the grid for so long in a lot of these cases, you know, they were missing, you know, and who knows, like when they came in contact with RC or Eugene Horsch. But how does that, you know, that type of victim create challenges for law enforcement? And even like the witness. The witnesses of the people that they knew who were in the house, a lot of them don't even want to speak to the police. Right. And that's, that's. 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Go to Stamps.com and use code PODCAST to try Stamps.com risk-free for 60 days. issue too because these people who are missing who have been found who don't want to cooperate maybe because they don't go back to their what they talk about their old lifestyle that's one thing also these missings you know that's why we've seen unfortunately when it comes to missing persons and incidents like this and let's say we go to a serial killer standard where do they go they go to people who will not be looked to be found they usually try to find people who are in the feeding ground scene it seems to be as kensington is where they found women to come to the house to use drugs to be in their to be in his videos or whatever it's going to be whatever whatever parameters they were working with in that house and that's the thing because if they're missing and this is why we've seen unfortunately comes to missings females who have been involved in drug addiction um sex workers at times and they are the ones that are considered never to be found again so the background of that person you know four five six years ago we don't know and they've lost contact you know they when you go off the grid and it's you're shocked to see it when people go off the grid meaning if they go two or three years without you know cell phones or any business contacts or any financial contract financial holdings they disappear off the grid they're gone and that's why i think that area kensington is an area where they found people who are easily lost within within that lifestyle but there are people going to want to find them anyway and that's the only thing that actually keeps missing is from being disappeared totally is you have a family member or families looking to find that loved one how i also just think of the challenge too i mean eugene horse is being held on federal charges like he has a lawyer he's not going to talk to police like he's not giving an interview you can't ask him like what did you know about this person who we haven't seen in years but they were last seen at the house or in a video with your dad you know where it appears like he's strangling that person to death as as police have said that happened um when you're trying to figure out whether or not he was connected to this stuff at all how do you find that connection knowing that you're not even able to ask him about it and that's that comes back to the same thing evidentiary information is going to get you to that point and that's why the videos and the photos is it a true snuff film where someone was someone was killed or is it art and that's the dynamic that you're dealing with this is art or is a criminal is a criminality going on there that's why i say this that house is a treasure trove of information of evidence but the evidence is a treasure trove of information of evidence but the evidence doesn't right now go to a crime it goes to problems it goes to it was growing weed out of the house there were uh chemical tubs there or chemical containers there there are things that look bad but we still you know it comes back to do we have probable cause to arrest anybody right now for what was going on in that house right now they do not but it will take time to find that and that's why as investigators as a detective this is those cases that you want you work really you want to do you work really hard to see if you get something from this because you want the family members that may have been missing that won't let's say they find them on a video or on a photo you want to connect them and kind get in contact with them and even though like we've had witnesses or non-cooperating witnesses of the house we might be able to get some sort of relationship back between the missing and the family member that's been looking for them when you look at rc horse and like i haven't seen a lot of his work or was familiar with it prior to to this investigation beginning in june but i mean it's dark stuff that he was like even the stuff that was just the art part of it that had nothing criminal to do with it like he's doing art shows showing bodies going into you know incinerators and you know a lot of the the images that he would produce show like women in pain and all of this stuff how does it complicate the investigation where because of who he was for a long time you have no idea whether you're looking at art or you're looking at actually someone being suffocated to death and that goes back to the same the missings if we identify a face or someone in the video and then determine and that's why when you look let's say they find that they have bones if they turn out to be human and then they can connect a photo of a person of a missing that may be connected to those phones that might be something more but that's why this case is so difficult to go through and that's why it's not easy detective work is not easy it's not 47 minutes and and with commercials it is one of those type of cases that will take a while until they determine something whether this is the house of horrors ed dean style house or is it a house that was just a place of drug use and fetish filmmaking by the uh by the father and the husband and the son just continued on just using that as a as a house to bring girls in and smoke up yeah it's um it's just a you know bizarre like doesn't i think get like a serious enough word for like everything they seem to be discovering but it's like now there's a safe in the wall hey it's kelly rowland you may not know this but i have eczema so i get how it can steal your time but why let eczema take over when you can talk to your doctor about ebglis ebglis labrakizumab lbkz a 250 milligram per two milliliter injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe eczema also called atopic dermatitis that is used to treat severe eczema so eczema is a 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they're looking for more chemicals and whether those chemicals had anything to do with what happened to the missing women and it's just a very very disturbing case to say the least of what they found inside the house retired nypd detective david sarnie always great to have you here on law and crime thanks for doing this that will do it for on the case presented by law and crime i'm chris stewart i'll see you next time I'll see you next time.