Sep 28, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 19 segments
The investigation into RC and Eugene Horsch’s Philadelphia “House of Horrors” just keeps getting darker, with police now linking seven missing women to the home and uncovering disturbing images and…
RC had a decades-long history of criminal activity and very disturbing creative work.
I am talking work that is out of American Horror Story, okay? He produced independent adult films that would feature violent and sadomasochistic themes, and he would often recruit very vulnerable women from the streets: addicts, sex workers, people Just struggling with addiction all throughout Kensington.
He would be like, "Hey, come be a part of my movie," or, "Hey, I wanna photograph you, and I'll give you some money." Or, I don't know, maybe he was offering drugs.
It's like BDSM on steroids, okay? I'm talking zip ties around necks, really vulgar, crude things, just barbaric behavior.
This was truly some sadist-level type shit, okay? He also self-published books, including a fictional story about a serial killer who, by the way, those methods reportedly resemble to some of the physical evidence that was later found by police.
So was this a fictional story about a serial killer, or was this an autobiography? Who's to know? But his criminal history al- included drug and forgery charges, fleeing to New Zealand under a stolen identity, a 1985 federal psychological evaluation that described him as having bipolar and paranoid personality disorders, and also reports of him just being consumed by anger.
Just this very hateful, spiteful man who had very dark, sinister thoughts and then executed those thoughts, either through film, still photography, or, as we are coming to learn, truly executing them in real life, not just this fictional serial killer novel that he wrote.
Now, during a 2009 raid on his Pennsylvania home, it uncovered a very large marijuana operation.
They also seized firearms, fake IDs that belonged to different, not only different identities, but different federal identities, like government fake IDs, and ultimately it sent him away to prison.
However, RC was released in 2013 at the age of 70, and he took permanent residence at his Chew Avenue home until ultimately he died in May of 2025.
But after his death, his son Eugene took over that family home, and that's when everything appeared to spiral or, or at least start to now finally come to fruition or be exposed.
Just three days after RC died, a cigarette sparked a fire in Eugene's fiancée Krista's bedroom.
And I'm putting fiancée kind of, you know, out there in very broad, loose quotes because her friends and family said that Krista actually feared Eugene, so I don't want it to sound like it was some sort of love story.
But when the fire department showed up and they started extinguishing the fire, police discovered guns and a marijuana grow operation, which remember, there had already been one years and years earlier.
So Eugene ended up being thrown in jail, but then was released a few weeks later.
Then fast-forward to August 16th, 2005, and Krista died of a drug overdose, and that is when things really seemed to take a turn for Eugene.
Neighbors said that he became increasingly quiet, he seemed paranoid, and he was often seen outside washing his black BMW.
I really do think that you need to listen to it because there is so much backstory between Eugene and Krista as well, what that dynamic was like.
I'm just giving you kind of this top-line overview so that you can be fully caught up.
Then in March of this year, Eugene was arrested for allegedly stabbing a man over a dispute over a woman.
RC had a decades-long history of criminal activity and very disturbing creative work.
I am talking work that is out of American Horror Story, okay? He produced independent adult films that would feature violent and sadomasochistic themes, and he would often recruit very vulnerable women from the streets: addicts, sex workers, people Just struggling with addiction all throughout Kensington.
He would be like, "Hey, come be a part of my movie," or, "Hey, I wanna photograph you, and I'll give you some money." Or, I don't know, maybe he was offering drugs.
It's like BDSM on steroids, okay? I'm talking zip ties around necks, really vulgar, crude things, just barbaric behavior.
This was truly some sadist-level type shit, okay? He also self-published books, including a fictional story about a serial killer who, by the way, those methods reportedly resemble to some of the physical evidence that was later found by police.
So was this a fictional story about a serial killer, or was this an autobiography? Who's to know? But his criminal history al- included drug and forgery charges, fleeing to New Zealand under a stolen identity, a 1985 federal psychological evaluation that described him as having bipolar and paranoid personality disorders, and also reports of him just being consumed by anger.
Just this very hateful, spiteful man who had very dark, sinister thoughts and then executed those thoughts, either through film, still photography, or, as we are coming to learn, truly executing them in real life, not just this fictional serial killer novel that he wrote.
Now, during a 2009 raid on his Pennsylvania home, it uncovered a very large marijuana operation.
They also seized firearms, fake IDs that belonged to different, not only different identities, but different federal identities, like government fake IDs, and ultimately it sent him away to prison.
However, RC was released in 2013 at the age of 70, and he took permanent residence at his Chew Avenue home until ultimately he died in May of 2025.
But after his death, his son Eugene took over that family home, and that's when everything appeared to spiral or, or at least start to now finally come to fruition or be exposed.
Just three days after RC died, a cigarette sparked a fire in Eugene's fiancée Krista's bedroom.
And I'm putting fiancée kind of, you know, out there in very broad, loose quotes because her friends and family said that Krista actually feared Eugene, so I don't want it to sound like it was some sort of love story.
But when the fire department showed up and they started extinguishing the fire, police discovered guns and a marijuana grow operation, which remember, there had already been one years and years earlier.
So Eugene ended up being thrown in jail, but then was released a few weeks later.
Then fast-forward to August 16th, 2005, and Krista died of a drug overdose, and that is when things really seemed to take a turn for Eugene.
Neighbors said that he became increasingly quiet, he seemed paranoid, and he was often seen outside washing his black BMW.
I really do think that you need to listen to it because there is so much backstory between Eugene and Krista as well, what that dynamic was like.
I'm just giving you kind of this top-line overview so that you can be fully caught up.
Then in March of this year, Eugene was arrested for allegedly stabbing a man over a dispute over a woman.
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