Traffic stop

Uh, but we do have a lot more information on really Raymond.

You know, we, we're s- kind of being blasted with Eugene's face at first, uh, the son that was recently arrested in sort of a normal traffic stop type situation which kind of led to this larger, uh, investigation unfolding.

But we're gonna take you all the way back to the very beginning of sort of the Horsch-

Right

It's not until five months after America Lydon is reported missing that authorities suspect Weldon is involved.

The first time I learned about Stuart Weldon, he was pulled over for a routine traffic stop, essentially, by some detectives.

The car took off, and Mr. Weldon had just taken off in the middle of the stop, which obviously the officers gave chase to him.

The traffic stop allows for the police officer, with probable cause, with probable cause, to do a search of the vehicle, to check out the welfare of the individuals inside the vehicle, and perhaps to ask questions if there is any speculation of criminal activity taking place.

This isn't somebody who's sophisticated and trying to hide his criminal activities.

He's doing whatever he wants to do right then.

The back window is shot out and your son is dead in the trunk.

Did you guys stop me for a traffic stop this morning? Let's hold off on

talking about that for now.

Let's just keep it super general.

You're here at the oral police department.

We're trying to figure out why this little boy, who we don't even know who he is, is in the trunk of your car.

And I fully understand that these things happen, and I understand the stress that goes with that, and the stress that goes with having to continually get danger orders, and the stress that has to go with constantly wondering about if you're safe, But what I'm struggling with right now is I'm struggling to figure out how that connects to today and how this morning I had, you know, a conversation with, you know, Jalissa on the street after a simple traffic stop and how we got to here right now.

Well, I mean, you

These warnings were available for years, but they existed within a population that the authorities rarely interviewed.

The decades-long oversight ended not through a coordinated task force, but via a random traffic stop.

On the morning of June 19, 2026, a U.S. park ranger noticed a BMW parked illegally near Independence Mall.

When the ranger approached, he heard a woman inside the car say, You're going to hurt me.

Regarding the missing women, anyway.

The dark witness statements keep raising questions.

Witnesses alleged Eugene talked about using chemicals to dispose of bodies, and a woman in his car during the traffic stop admitted she was terrified to enter the basement.

Allegations state he even claimed a missing woman would never be seen again.

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Traffic stops were central to the summer surge.

Some were deadly.

In Houston and Bidford, Maine, traffic stops ended in fatal shootings involving officers.

An encounter between people in a vehicle and agents at a Florida gas station resulted in a fatal car crash.

In Milwaukee, Frankeli Quezada, 34, and Estenderly Marta Polanca, 31, of the Dominican Republic, were running errands with their seven-year-old son on a Saturday morning in June.

And Blair Tonzelli, we mentioned her name earlier, she was officially reported missing in 2023 and entered into the na- the NamUs database.

Her connection to the investigation emerged during the initial traffic stop near Independence Mall when the female passenger in Eugene's car presented a state ID card bearing Tonzelli's name, and the passenger stated that Horsch had provided her with the identification card.

And Blair Tonzelli's physical whereabouts remain unknown.

That is wild.

They were holding the key to a house of secrets.

The single traffic stop unspooled a thread reaching back through years of cold cases, transforming a routine patrol into a sprawling multi-generational homicide investigation.

Armed with a warrant, police descended on Horses' home at 417 West Chew Avenue in Onley.

What they found inside wasn't just chaotic, it was deeply unsettling.

It leaves Eugene Horsch in a strange legal limbo.

To charge him as an accomplice, prosecutors need solid proof connecting him directly to the disappearances.

For now, he remains behind bars on the weapons and fake credential charges from that initial fateful traffic stop.

Meanwhile, the families wait.