Does Philly House of Horrors hold secret to missing mom, other women?
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Amy McHale walked into a rundown Philadelphia row house in 2016 and vanished from the face of the earth.
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Now, detectives suspect she has met with foul play at the hands of her late husband’s criminal son.
Philly cops and FBI agents discovered 55-gallon drums, hidden compartments, chemicals, weapons, drugs and a chilling note referencing notorious serial killer Ted Bundy.
‘Something happened to her’
“Something happened to her in that house,” her mother, Gloria McHale, said, adding that she last heard from her daughter in the form of a voicemail on June 13, 2016.
The investigation has been a long and winding path, beginning with Amy’s relationship and later marriage to wannabe porn impresario Raymond Charles “R.C.” Horsch.
Triggering new hope was the arrest of Horsch’s 44-year-old scion, Eugene Horsch, a convicted felon.
According to CBS News , R.C. Horsch and Amy McHale met in the 1990s when she was in her 20s and he, considerably older, was in his 50s. The May-December duo fell in love, got married, and then divorced, but remained close.
The elder Horsch was “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,” McHale’s mother said.
Videos with ‘sadomasochistic settings’
He died in 2025 and took with him a lengthy rap sheet that included drug manufacturing and forgery. His passion project, though, was porn, and he revelled in creating BDSM videos featuring women in “sadomasochistic settings.”
Amy’s daughter, Amanda Stofer, told CBS News that her mom struggled with drug addiction and mental health issues. These woes would have made her attractive to R.C. Horsch.
“My mom wouldn’t just go missing,” Stofer said, adding that her mother was caring and involved. “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.”
The latest twist came when a US Park Ranger overheard an argument between Eugene Horsch and his girlfriend, who were sitting in a parked car near Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. The ranger intervened when he heard the woman plead: “You’re going to hurt me.”
‘More than just an addict’
Eugene Horsch was arrested and found to be carrying a fake Drug Enforcement Administration badge, a switchblade, and two guns with “obliterated serial numbers,” Philly cops said. His gal pal was also carrying a fake ID.
The ID carried the name of a Philly woman who vanished in February 2023. Police have not publicly identified the woman. Horsch’s girlfriend didn’t know the woman but told detectives she feared something bad had happened.
Stofer said of Amy: “She was more than just an addict. She was a mother, she was human, she’s missed and she was preyed upon like so many women are when they are in those positions with drug addiction.”
One detective added: “We just don’t know what he was doing. He’s producing something. If he’s making something, if he’s irrigating something, we don’t know.”
The Ted Bundy references in the handwritten letter are particularly chilling.
“Acting on emotion is where problems occur. What I don’t think I told you was that the first time it was planned ahead of time,” the letter stated, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “The threat was made before you know who came over, and I already had a 2ft zip tie in my pocket and a drum set up.”
The note added: “I had been ready and waiting, and I damn sure showed no hesitation. And it was fun.”
No human remains were found in the dumpy home but several urns were discovered with one bearing a Horsch family member’s name.