Disturbing Pics, Vids Found in Home Tied to Missing Women

Philadelphia detectives are zeroing in on a home that's now tied to at least seven long-missing women and a jailed resident. Homeowner Eugene Horsch, 44, was arrested in June after a park ranger allegedly found guns, drug paraphernalia, fake DEA paperwork, and a woman carrying ID belonging to missing woman Blair Tonzelli in his car near Independence National Historical Park, per CBS News. Authorities say a search of his Olney home turned up hidden spaces holding toxic chemicals, a 55-gallon drum with piping, a small marijuana grow operation, 120 pieces of ballistic evidence, and more than 1 million images and videos, many showing women posed inside the house.

Police say they've identified 58 people from those files, though NBC10 notes that they've only gone through about 30% of the recovered content. Sixteen of the individuals have been found alive, but CBS notes they're not cooperating with authorities. The case now centers on seven missing women and Horsch and his late father, RC, who also lived there. However, in a grim addendum, police say, based on the found photos and footage, five of those women "appear to be deceased," per ABC News. Five urns holding human ashes were also reportedly found at the Olney home—one that's believed to hold the remains of RC Horsch, another the remains of a relative, and a third the remains of a friend.

It's not clear whose remains are in the other two urns. In one recovered video, RC Horsch, who died last year at the age of 82, and a woman appeared nude, with the woman handcuffed to the bed by Horsch after she took drugs and accepted money from him on camera. Then, "he [put] a zip tie around her neck, and she [became] unconscious," said Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore at a Thursday presser, adding that eventually the woman appeared "lifeless." NBC has more on the seven missing women, while WPVI talks to neighbors of the Horsches. "There wasn't much good to say about them at all," one neighbor noted. "We just stayed away from them."