Police Found “Grim Evidence” Inside a Philadelphia Home — Now They’re Linking It to Missing Women

Inside a home in the city’s Olney neighborhood, investigators say they discovered more than 1 million digital images and videos, chemicals, unidentified cremated remains, writings about serial killers, and footage involving women who had been missing for years.

Now police say seven missing women have been linked to the property, and at least five of them appear lifeless in material recovered from the home.

No bodies have been recovered.

But what investigators say they found has turned one Philadelphia house into the center of a sprawling FBI-assisted investigation.

It started with an unrelated arrest

The case began in June when 44-year-old Eugene Horsch was arrested on weapons and drug charges.

Authorities say he was also carrying identification that allegedly made him appear to be a law-enforcement officer.

That arrest eventually led investigators to search his home on West Chew Avenue.

Eugene had lived there with his father, Raymond “R.C.” Horsch, an adult photographer who died in 2025.

What police found inside dramatically changed the direction of the investigation.

Investigators found more than a million files

Police say computers and digital devices recovered from the property contained an enormous amount of material.

Authorities are reviewing more than 1 million photographs and videos connected to the home. Investigators have so far identified at least 58 women appearing in the footage.

And they are nowhere near finished.

Police said this week that only around 30% of the digital material has been reviewed.

That means investigators could still uncover significantly more evidence.

Five women appear to be dead

Among the images and videos, police say they identified multiple missing women who appear unconscious or lifeless.

Authorities now believe at least five women shown in the recovered material may be dead.

Two additional missing women have also been linked to the property, bringing the total number currently connected to the investigation to seven.

The women include people who disappeared over a period stretching back years.

Police are still working to determine exactly what happened to each of them.

Then investigators found chemicals and urns

The digital evidence was not the only thing that raised alarms.

Police say they also found what has been described as a laboratory-like collection of chemicals inside the property.

Investigators also recovered five urns believed to contain cremated remains.

Authorities believe some of those ashes belong to known individuals, including Horsch’s father and another relative.

But at least two of the urns had not yet been identified when police publicly discussed the evidence.

No confirmed human remains belonging to the missing women have been recovered from the property.

Police also found disturbing writings

Authorities say thousands of pages of documents, manuscripts and drawings were seized along with the digital files.

Earlier searches reportedly uncovered writings involving serial killers and methods of disposing of bodies.

Investigators are now trying to determine what was fantasy, what was documentation, and what may be connected to actual crimes.

That distinction is especially important because of the volume of material involved.

Police are effectively reconstructing years of activity one file at a time.

The FBI is now involved

The investigation has expanded beyond Philadelphia police.

Federal agencies, including the FBI, are helping review evidence and identify the people shown in the recovered material.

Authorities are also trying to locate women who appeared in the images but whose current whereabouts are unknown.

Some women who have been identified are alive.

Others have died from unrelated causes.

And several remain missing.

No murder charges have been filed

Despite the disturbing evidence, authorities have not announced homicide charges against Eugene Horsch in connection with the missing women.

He remains in custody on separate gun-related and drug charges.

His late father, R.C. Horsch, is a major focus of the investigation because many of the images and videos allegedly appear connected to his photography work.

But he died before the current investigation began.

That leaves detectives with an unusually difficult problem:

They are trying to determine what happened to women who disappeared years ago while one of the central figures in the investigation is no longer alive to answer questions.

Families could finally get answers

For relatives of the missing women, the investigation may provide answers they have waited years to receive.

But those answers may be devastating.

Police have stressed that the work is far from finished.

With hundreds of thousands of files still left to examine, authorities do not yet know how many victims may ultimately be connected to the home.

For now, seven missing women have been linked to the property.

At least five appear lifeless in recovered images.

And investigators have reviewed less than a third of what they found.

That means one of Philadelphia’s darkest investigations may still be in its early stages.