Fifth Missing Woman Linked to Philadelphia Home

By Taylor Bennett. Sep 19, 2026

A Philadelphia home that investigators had already connected to four missing women is now tied to a fifth, deepening a sprawling investigation built around years-old disappearances and an enormous cache of digital evidence. Police have not announced homicide charges in connection with the women, and several key questions remain unresolved.

The investigation centers on a property on West Chew Avenue in the city’s Olney neighborhood. NBC10 reported that police had linked at least five missing women to the home by Sept. 14, including three women investigators believed were dead even though their bodies had not been recovered.

For the families involved, the investigation has turned old disappearances into active questions again. Some of the women vanished years apart, but detectives are now examining whether the same property and the same circle of people may connect their cases.

A Traffic Stop Opened the Door

The case began on June 19 after a park ranger stopped a BMW near Independence Mall. Police said the vehicle contained Eugene Horsch, 44, and a woman who gave identification belonging to Blair Tonzelli, who had been reported missing in 2023.

Investigators reported finding two handguns and illegal drugs in the vehicle. Court documents also describe an alleged statement by Eugene Horsch suggesting Tonzelli would never be seen again. He later faced federal firearms and drug-related charges; those charges are separate from the unresolved missing-women investigation.

The traffic stop led detectives to the West Chew Avenue home owned by Eugene’s father, Raymond “R.C.” Horsch, who died in 2025 at age 82. Police said an initial search uncovered an additional firearm, a marijuana-growing operation, a fake FBI badge and five urns containing cremated remains.

A later search involved Philadelphia homicide detectives, ATF agents and a bomb disposal unit. Investigators also found computer equipment and what appeared to be a home laboratory containing unidentified substances.

Digital Evidence Expanded the Mystery

The digital material quickly became one of the largest parts of the investigation. Philadelphia Police Inspector Raymond Evers said investigators had reviewed about 600,000 images, 70,000 videos and more than 10,000 pages of drawings and writings recovered from the property.

At the time of that disclosure, police said the material represented only a small portion of what had been seized. More than 95 search warrants had been obtained in connection with the home and its contents, according to NBC10.

Investigators said video evidence led them to believe missing women Maribel Fresses and Gabrielle Amarando were no longer alive. Fresses disappeared in 2018 and Amarando in 2012. Neither woman’s body had been recovered as of the latest reporting used for this article.

Nicole Fusaro, who disappeared in 2018 at age 27, was also linked to the investigation. A relative told NBC10 that police believed video evidence showed Fusaro being killed. Authorities had not recovered her body either.

Raymond Horsch’s former wife, Amy McHale, who disappeared in 2016, is another woman connected to the home. Police have continued working to determine what happened to each woman and whether evidence from the property can establish a complete timeline.

The Investigation Is Still Growing

Police also removed and inspected part of the property’s sewer system and sent containers of an oily substance to a laboratory for testing. Investigators were examining whether the material could have evidentiary value; authorities had not publicly established what the substance was or tied it to a specific victim.

The scale of the search does not by itself establish criminal responsibility for any death. Eugene Horsch has not been charged with killing the missing women, and his attorney had not responded to NBC10’s repeated requests for comment as of the station’s latest report.

What is established is that a routine vehicle stop led investigators to a residential property now connected to multiple women who disappeared across different years. Digital evidence, physical searches and dozens of warrants have expanded the inquiry far beyond its starting point.

For families who spent years without answers, each new connection brings renewed attention but not yet resolution. Police are still working through the evidence, still trying to determine what happened to the missing women and still asking the public for information that could help complete the picture.

References: 5 Missing Women Tied to Philadelphia Home as Police Review Digital Evidence | 5 missing women are linked to Olney home in Philadelphia. Here’s what we know.