Philly mom went into to house of horrors and never came out as FBI finds vats and chemicals: She wouldnt just go missing
A Philadelphia mom went into a decrepit house of horrors 10 years ago and never came out, the missing woman’s daughter revealed — as the FBI and cops found 55-gallon drums, chemicals, weapons, and a horrifying note referencing serial killer Ted Bundy.“Something happened to her in that house,” Gloria McHale, whose last contact with her missing daughter, Amy McHale, was a June 13, 2016 voicemail attempting to reassure her mom she was safe and at the home of Raymond Charles “R.C.” Horsch in the city’s Olney neighborhood.Horsch’s 44-year-old son, Eugene, was arrested June 19 after the FBI and local police searched the home and found a trove of chemicals, firearms, and drugs, Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore announced during a press conference Friday.R.C.
Horsch and Amy McHale met in the 1990s — when she was in her 20s and he was in his 50s — and later got married and divorced, but stayed close after their relationship ended, Amy’s daughter, Amanda Stofer, told CBS News.The elder Horsch, who died in 2025 with a rap sheet including drug manufacturing and forgery, was a smut-peddler whose medium of choice was filming and photographing “scantily clad women in sadomasochistic settings.”Stofer said her mother had grappled with drug addiction and mental health issues throughout her life, and told the outlet she was exactly the kind of woman Horsch would have preyed upon.“My mom wouldn’t just go missing,” Stofer said, noting that she was a caring and involved parents despite her problems.“Amy did have her issues, but I don’t think she was isolated in these situations.I think these were bad men who took advantage of women who needed help.
Real help.”Gloria McHale described Horsch as “kind of a strange dude” who “considered himself an artist, but he was really like a porn king.He made pornographic videos.
He liked to pick up girls who had drug problems, and he liked to take pictures of them shooting up heroin,”...