Philadelphia police and the FBI are ramping up digging at a home linked to seven missing women after recovering more than a million photos and videos.
Federal agents and Philadelphia homicide detectives returned Monday to a house on the 400 block of West Chew Avenue in the city’s Olney neighborhood, executing another search warrant in a case tied to multiple missing women.
Fox News reported that authorities are bringing in more resources for deeper digging, road closures, and a wider sweep of the property once home to the late Raymond “R.C.” Horsch and linked to his son, Eugene Horsch, now in custody.
Police have connected seven missing women to the address. Investigators believe at least five of them are dead. The renewed search marks a third FBI return to the same house.
On Monday, July 13, 2026, FBI agents were seen removing evidence from the Chew Avenue home, including an autoclave and other items. Digital material already recovered from the property tops one million photos and videos, and investigators are still working to determine what those files show.
The latest warrant follows a June discovery of chemicals, ammunition, and drugs inside the house. Eugene Horsch, 44, was arrested that month on charges involving unlawful firearms and forgery. He remains in custody on several charges.
His father, R.C. Horsch, died last year at 82. The older man was known for producing violently themed pornography and books. The property at the center of the probe was his.
Authorities have not publicly detailed a motive for the disappearances in the material released so far. They have also not named the seven women or spelled out how each was tied to the home beyond the official link.
Philadelphia police warned neighbors at a community meeting that the investigation will keep disrupting daily life. Roads near the house are set to shut down as digging expands.
Councilmember Anthony Phillips addressed the concern head-on.
Phillips said:
"We all came together just to make sure neighbors understood that this is an ongoing investigation, we understand it is disruptive, neighbors and businesses are concerned, so we need to provide support and resources,"
That is the reality for people living next to a house now treated as a major crime scene. Lawful residents and local businesses absorb the cost while investigators chase answers for families still waiting on the missing.
The public record from the probe is stark and still incomplete. Seven women are missing and linked to one Olney address. At least five are believed dead. More than a million images and videos sit in evidence. Chemicals, ammunition, and drugs turned up in June. An autoclave came out in the latest raid. Eugene Horsch is locked up on firearms and forgery counts, not yet described in charging papers released here as a murder case.
FOX 29 Philadelphia covered the on-scene warrant activity, the planned road shutdowns, and the deeper dig. Federal and city homicide investigators are working the same ground. A childhood friend of Eugene Horsch, Jeremy Perry, has spoken publicly about the suspect’s past, though the available report does not include his verbatim remarks.
R.C. Horsch’s history of brutal pornography production sits in the background of the same address now under repeated federal search. That fact does not prove the disappearances. It does explain why investigators keep returning with shovels, warrants, and a growing evidence haul.
Open questions remain hard and basic. Who are the seven women by name? What exactly do the million-plus files depict once fully reviewed? What further charges, if any, will follow the firearms and forgery case? Officials have not closed those gaps in the reporting to date.
For now the work is physical and methodical: more digging, more road closures, more evidence out the door, and a neighborhood told to brace for it.
When women vanish and a house yields chemicals, guns, drugs, and a million hidden files, the only decent response is relentless police work until every family gets a straight answer.
