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Source: theguardian.com

<p>City on edge as police comb home of Raymond Horsch, pornographer who died last year, in grisly case involving disturbing pictures and film</p><p>A dilapidated house, burned out above the second story, may hold clues to dark tales and – potentially – the darkest of endings as the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/fbi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">FBI</a> and police in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/philadelphia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Philadelphia</a> try to unpick what took place at 417 West Chew Avenue for more than three decades.</p><p>Last week, homicide investigators shifted their focus from examining an archive of a million photographs and film recovered from what is known locally as the “house of horrors” to excavating what is in or under the home of Raymond “RC” Horsch, a career criminal, local artist, author and snuff photographer who died last year aged 82, and his son Eugene, 44.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/02/philadelphia-missing-women-raymond-horsch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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