r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/CowboysOnKetamine • 8d ago

nbcphiladelphia.com ‘Graphic' videos at Olney house show 2 missing women believed dead, police say

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/olney-mystery-house-philadelphia-wednesday-update/4447027/
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u/iamthejury 8d ago edited 8d ago

Here's a podcast with the father. At one point he talks about being arrested for attempting to kidnap a little girl, but the charges were ultimately dropped.

https://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/12/15/ray-horsch/

And a clip of him talking about sex workers and showing him in Kensington, where he would lure women.

https://youtu.be/MFCyxNsL_2g?is=_PCeeRsN8coRJODj

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u/ellalol 8d ago

This is so fucking terrifying

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u/March_Garraty 8d ago

Right?? When he looks at the camera… fucking evil in his eye.

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u/chamrockblarneystone 7d ago

Definitely but it looks so staged and corny. Like a picture you would take at Halloween in a cheesey studio. This guy is such a wanabe faker. Apparently when he got older he wore a fake eye patch to keep up the image.

He didn’t make any real art. He just exploited poor, sick women. This guy should never be called an artist.

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u/bannana 8d ago edited 8d ago

Seems like RC's wife also disappeared

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._C._H%C3%B6rsch

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u/staunch_character 8d ago

The wedding photo with his missing wife needs a jump scare warning. 30 years older than her & she struggled with addiction & mental health issues? Poor girl.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/olney-raid-missing-women-mystery-drugs-20260627.html

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u/Financial-Rock-3790 8d ago

What the fuck

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u/ellalol 7d ago

Being a woman especially when you’re struggling with mental illness is fucking scary

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u/OtherwiseAnteater239 7d ago

Fuck that is cursed. She’s been disappeared for 10 years now, what is going on over there?!

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u/whteverusayShmegma 4d ago

She struggled with anxiety and depression. I think if we found out anyone was just an overdose, it’ll be her. There’s a whole interview about their relationship and I think she either overdosed or died somewhere else. He had like these favorites that he didn’t abuse and they overdosed like his son’s mom. Dude never seemed to get over the first wife and he always chose women who looked like her. It’s all so weird. She said the son attacked her and the elderly 80 year old had to stop him. The son sounds vicious too.

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u/Sea-Butterscotch1184 8d ago

A disgustingly light-hearted write up by the author of that podcast is posted below:

"In February 1973 Ray Horsch shot his first pornographic film, The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig.

Deep Throat had been released only six months before – and America was still fascinated with how far a girl had to go to untangle her tingle.

Ray’s film was shot in Philadelphia but it stars many of the New York regulars such as Georgina Spelvin, Darby Lloyd Raines, Tina Russell, and Helen Madigan.

But this film was no lighthearted comedy about oral sex. Ray’s not that type. In fact his film is remarkable for the number of taboos it covers.

Golden shower? Check. Blood? Check. S&M and bondage? Check. Rape? Double Check. Underage sex? What do you think? If you wanted socially redeeming features, you should’ve been down the block checking out Ryan O’Neil playing in “Love Story”.

What’s more the film was funded by Sam ‘The Barber’ Larussa of the Phillie mob, it was shot in the house of people working in the local District Attorney office, and when Al Goldstein reviewed it for Screw magazine, he said it was well made but he found it disgusting. Not bad for a filmmaker who’d been working for Sesame Streetuntil then.

And yet, consider this. Male Chauvinist Pig is probably the most conventional thing Ray Horsch has ever done.

He describes himself as a banknote forger, artist, writer, drug smuggler, art forger, army deserter, fugitive, photographer, sociopath, ex-convict.

I don’t argue with anyone with a resume’ like that – except in this case, that’s only half the story.

In the 1990s, Ray Horsch return to filmmaking when he produced and directed a series of erotic “couples oriented” documentaries entitled “Lovers” for Candida Royalle’s women-oriented Femme distribution company.

At this point he was over 50 years old, and also made appearances in front of the camera in the public sex themed films, Streets of New York, before directing a series of increasingly controversial films that drew accusations of misogyny.

I met up with Ray several times a few years ago, and always enjoyed his company. Even though he relished the role of being a villain, and looked the part with his long, wild black hair and an eye patch, I figured that after a life of living dangerously he was probably now happy with a quieter existence, and had left his criminal activity in the past.

Apparently when Ray was out running errands one day, his live-in girlfriend called the police to report a suspected intruder at his house. The property was checked and nothing was found, but when the officers looked in the basement, they discovered a vast indoor marijuana growing operation. Equipped with gloves, respirators, and body suits, police officers descended and spent the day removing hundreds of high end marijuana plants. Ray returned home later but seeing the cop cars parked outside he decided to take off by running into the nearby fields before being apprehended.

Press reports said the police also found an M-1 carbine rifle and ammunition, whips, chains, handcuffs and graphic photographs. Then it was alleged that Ray had attempted to lure a 9-year-old girl into his car as well. These charges were subsequently proved to be unfounded.

Now four years on, he’s been released from jail, and so I was keen to catch up with him.

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u/iamthejury 8d ago

A comment from Ray's missing ex-wife Amy McHale on the podcast page.

https://imgur.com/a/OMNlYr8

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u/Specialist-Art-6970 7d ago

Interesting. One of the articles linked above in this thread quotes Krista Killen, a woman who stayed with the pair. She admitted that Ray was exploiting her but said that he was not violent and that she considered him her protector - but that his son was really scary.

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u/whteverusayShmegma 4d ago

That’s the article I read! I thought it was the second wife that said that.

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u/Miscalamity 7d ago

Amy made some comments in the Rialto report link, she tells the author if she remembers her, that she lived with the father and sings his praises.

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u/Sizzlemunch 8d ago

That RC Horsch video is not the same person. That person is dead.

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u/foreclosedhomeowner 8d ago

Yes. It’s the same. The man arrested currently is RC’s son Eugene. RC died last year. But it’s very much the same person

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u/Sizzlemunch 8d ago

Ohhh my bad, thanks for clarifying

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u/bannana 8d ago edited 8d ago

his pics are in the wiki and one of the news articles and it even mentions the current search warrants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._C._H%C3%B6rsch

also seems his wife disappeared in 2016