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In 2003, while a student at [[Drexel University]], Horsch caused a drunk-driving crash that left the other driver in a vegetative state; the man died sixteen years later. Horsch pleaded guilty in 2004 to driving under the influence and aggravated assault and was sentenced to two to four years. He was released in 2006. In 2013 police found about 1.9 million dollars' worth of marijuana in the house, and he was sentenced to four to eight years. He was in prison from 2013 to 2017. His father's former wife [[Amy McHale]] was last seen at the house in 2016. After a fire at the house in May 2025 he was charged with possession of marijuana and amphetamine and received three years of probation.[^1][^6][^12] Firefighters had answered a small fire on the second floor on May 18, 2025, and a fire marshal and a patrolman found a marijuana grow, an AR-15 pattern rifle modified to fire automatically, a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun, and a 9mm pistol, all with destroyed serial numbers, and more than a hundred rounds of ammunition. According to a spokesperson for District Attorney [[Larry Krasner]], [[Jerome Brown]] told the court that the guns had belonged to his father, who had died three days before the raid, and that he had planned to dispose of them properly. The *Inquirer* reported that he pleaded guilty to manufacturing drugs and that prosecutors withdrew the gun charges.[^13]
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[[Krista Killen]], who lived in the house and appeared in his father's films, told friends that Horsch broke down her bedroom door and threatened to kill her. She died of drug intoxication some months after his father's death in May 2025.[^14]
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[[Krista Killen]], who lived in the house and appeared in his father's films, told two friends that Horsch shattered her bedroom door and threatened to kill her; in another version of their account he broke the lock on her basement door armed with a gun.[^14][^1] She died in August 2025, some months after his father's death; the affidavit for the 2026 search gave the cause as "drug intoxication," and the city medical examiner found an overdose.[^20][^1]
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### Arrest and Federal Case
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[^17]: *United States v. Horsch,* Nos. 2:26-mj-01270 and 2:26-cr-00296, and *United States v. Horsch,* No. 2:09-cr-00794 (E.D. Pa.), docket metadata and attorney listings via CourtListener search. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73593607/united-states-v-horsch/
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[^18]: United States v. Horsch, No. 2:26-cr-00296 (E.D. Pa. filed July 8, 2026), docket via CourtListener / RECAP.
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[^19]: "Eugene Horsch Denies He's a Serial Killer as Philadelphia Cops Hunt for Missing Women," *Newsweek,* 2026. https://www.newsweek.com/philadelphia-obviously-serial-killer-former-fbi-agent-12457175
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[^20]: Briggs, Ryan W., Max Marin, and Barbara Laker. "A woman missing since 2016 had close ties to the Olney house that's now the target of a massive investigation," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* June 27, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/olney-raid-missing-women-mystery-drugs-20260627.html
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aliases:
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- Krista Marie Killen
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- Krista M. Killen
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category: "Other"
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- Krista Killen
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category: "Victims & Witnesses"
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tags:
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- AbuseNetworks
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- Person
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- RCHorsch
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- OlneyHouseInvestigation
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- Kensington
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summary: "Longtime companion of the Philadelphia pornographer R.C. Horsch who appeared in his films from 2003 and lived at the Olney house from 2016 until her death in 2025."
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- Philadelphia
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- Pornography
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- MissingWomen
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- Overdose
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summary: "Longtime companion of the Philadelphia pornographer R.C. Horsch who appeared in his films and lived at the Olney house from 2016 until her death in August 2025."
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born: 1978-06-15
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died: 2025-08-16
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location: "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
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- type: partner_of
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with: "[[R.C. Horsch]]"
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role: "companion and film performer"
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created: 2026-09-23
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updated: 2026-09-23
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updated: 2026-10-07
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Krista Marie Killen (June 15, 1978, to August 16, 2025) was the longtime companion of the [[Philadelphia]] pornographer [[R.C. Horsch]], appeared in his films from 2003 to 2021, and lived off and on from 2016 at the Horsch house at 417 West Chew Avenue in the [[Olney, Philadelphia|Olney]] section of Philadelphia, which is the subject of the [[Olney House Investigation]].[^1][^2]
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Krista Marie Killen (June 15, 1978, to August 16, 2025) was a [[Philadelphia]] woman who was the longtime companion of the pornographic filmmaker [[R.C. Horsch]]. She appeared in his films, lived off and on from 2016 at the Horsch house on West Chew Avenue in the [[Olney, Philadelphia|Olney]] section of the city, and died at 47, about three months after Horsch. The house is the subject of the [[Olney House Investigation]].[^1][^2][^5]
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### Films
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She first appeared in Horsch's film *Slaves* in 2003. She recalled wondering during the shoot, "Is he gonna [expletive] kill me?", and Horsch telling her, "This is a movie. I don't want you to be scared." He later filmed her using drugs for a 2017 documentary, *Whore!*, in which she called her own conduct "slow suicide." She is credited as Krista Marie Killen in his films as late as 2021 and at times gave the Chew Avenue house as her address. In 2014 Horsch self-published a novel, *Empathy: The Memoir of an Empathetic Serial Killer*, whose narrator strangles a woman named Krista and dissolves her body in a basement bathtub.[^2][^3]
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Killen first appeared in Horsch's 2003 film *Slaves*. She recalled wondering during the shoot, "Is he gonna [expletive] kill me?", and Horsch told her, "This is a movie. I don't want you to be scared."[^3] In 2017 he filmed her using drugs for the documentary *Whore!*, in which she described her own behavior as "slow suicide."[^3] She is credited as Krista Marie Killen in multiple films he directed, including one released as recently as 2021, and at times listed the Chew Avenue house as her residence.[^4]
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### The Chew Avenue House
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Horsch's self-published novels include scenes of violence against women. In one of them the narrator dissolves a body with chemicals in a bathtub.[^2] The *[[New York Post]]* reported that in his 2014 self-published book *Empathy: The Memoir of an Empathetic Serial Killer* the narrator kills an addict named Krista whom he met in Kensington, and quoted the line "Krista will live longer than most because she will always exist in my [photographs]."[^6]
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Estranged from her family, she told friends that Horsch was never violent toward her and that she cared for him, but that she was afraid of his son, [[Eugene Horsch]]. She told two friends that one night Eugene broke the door of the basement room where she was sleeping, armed with a gun and threatening to kill her, and that Horsch, then about 80, pulled him away. "Krista was always fearful that if something happened to Ray or he passed away, Eugene would not know what to do and not know how to control himself," a friend, Danielle Wynne, said. A lawsuit filed in 2025 over a 2023 car crash near Adams Avenue and Montour Street named Horsch and Killen as defendants and described her occupation as caregiver.[^2]
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### The Olney House
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In late 2024 part of her leg was amputated. Horsch died in May 2025, and three days later a cigarette started a fire in her second-floor bedroom that brought police back to the house, where they found guns and a marijuana grow. She died on August 16, 2025, at 47, of an overdose, according to the *Inquirer*. Eugene Horsch announced her death on her Facebook page, writing that they had been in love and planned to marry; her friends said neither was true.[^1][^2][^4]
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Killen was estranged from her family. She told friends that Horsch was never violent toward her and that she cared for him, and she viewed him as her protector.[^2][^3] Horsch provided her with housing and drugs, and she posed nude for his photographs and videos, some of which simulated brutality or death.[^3] She was addicted to fentanyl and crack cocaine and at times did sex work on [[Kensington, Philadelphia|Kensington]] Avenue to stave off withdrawal. Horsch's house stood about three miles north of Kensington.[^3] She continued to perform sex work while living off and on at the house.[^3]
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She ran errands for Horsch when his eyesight deteriorated, driving him in an aging Chrysler luxury sedan.[^3] In 2025 a motorist sued Horsch, Killen, and an unidentified man, claiming that the three had crashed a [[Chrysler]] 300 into her SUV near [[Adams Avenue, Philadelphia|Adams Avenue]] and [[Montour Street]] in 2023. Court papers list Killen's occupation as "caregiver" and as the "adult in charge of residence."[^4]
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Friends described her fear of [[Eugene Horsch]], the son of R.C. Horsch, who she told friends was prone to drug-fueled bouts of rage and carried knives and guns.[^3] She told two friends that one night she was asleep when Eugene shattered her bedroom door and threatened to kill her, and that Raymond, then 80, pulled his son away.[^2] In a second version of the account, the incident took place about two years before mid-2026, in the basement of the house, where her cat BabyCat slept beside her, and says that she awoke to a crash as Eugene shattered the lock on her door, burst in armed with a gun, and screamed that he was going to kill her, according to two of her friends.[^3] She said she was afraid to enter the basement of the house because Eugene had told her he had hurt people there.[^3] [[Danielle Wynne]], a longtime friend, said: "Krista was always fearful that if something happened to Ray or he passed away, Eugene would not know what to do and not know how to control himself."[^3]
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### Final Months
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In late 2024, after a long infection in her leg, doctors amputated it above the knee. A month later her cat, BabyCat, died of a brain tumor.[^3] R.C. Horsch died of a lung condition in May 2025. Three days after his death, a lit cigarette started a fire in the second-floor bedroom where Killen had moved after losing part of her leg. The fire destroyed most of her belongings.[^3] The fire brought police to the house, where officers found a marijuana grow and guns.[^3]
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Killen died on August 16, 2025.[^1][^3] Investigators searching the house in 2026 found her death certificate, and the affidavit of probable cause for the search gave the cause of death as "drug intoxication."[^4] The city medical examiner found that she had overdosed at the age of 47; she was one of at least five women connected to Raymond Horsch who "ultimately died of accidental drug overdoses."[^3][^2] Eugene Horsch later told people close to Killen that she had died just outside the house, or shortly after he took her to the hospital.[^3] Investigators also found five urns in the house.[^3] A funeral home obituary gives her age as 47 and states that services and interment were private.[^1]
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Eugene Horsch announced her death on her [[Facebook]] page. He wrote: "Please let everyone know we were in love and we were going to get married." Her friends said neither of those things was true.[^3]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: "Krista M. Killen," obituary, Philadelphia Cremations, Tribute Archive (June 15, 1978, to August 16, 2025). https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/45838508/krista-m.-killen
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[^2]: "Five takeaways from Philly missing women mystery connected to Raymond and Eugene Horsch," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 4, 2026, and "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 2, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-missing-women-20260804.html
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[^3]: "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 2, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-philadelphia-missing-women-history-20260802.html
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[^4]: Cuffe, Davis. "Philadelphia's 'house of horrors' investigation: All that we know," *Billy Penn,* September 18, 2026. https://billypenn.com/2026/09/18/philadelphia-house-of-horrors-police-investigation-olney-update/
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[^1]: "Krista M. Killen Obituary | 1978 - 2025 | Philadelphia, PA," Philadelphia Cremations, hosted on Tribute Archive. https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/45838508/krista-m.-killen
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[^2]: Laker, Barbara, Max Marin, Ryan W. Briggs, and Ellie Rushing. "Five takeaways from Philly missing women mystery connected to Raymond and Eugene Horsch," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 4, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-missing-women-20260804.html Sole source for the account that Eugene shattered her bedroom door, which the Inquirer gives as told to two friends.
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[^3]: "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 2, 2026 (the Dark Arts feature). https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-philadelphia-missing-women-history-20260802.html Sole source for the account of the basement room, the lock on the door, the basement warning, the Wynne quote, the amputation and fire details, and the medical examiner's statement.
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[^4]: Briggs, Ryan W., Max Marin, and Barbara Laker. "A woman missing since 2016 had close ties to the Olney house that's now the target of a massive investigation," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* June 27, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/olney-raid-missing-women-mystery-drugs-20260627.html
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[^5]: Briggs, Ryan W., Max Marin, and Ellie Rushing. "A troubling photo of a missing woman appeared on Raymond Horsch's erotic website, years before police investigated," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 21, 2026. The article describes Killen as "Horsch's longtime companion, who died of an overdose last year." https://www.inquirer.com/news/raymond-eugene-horsch-missing-women-olney-blair-tonzelli-20260821.html
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[^6]: Stevenson, Thomas, summarizing a *New York Post* report. "'I am a murderer': Suspect in Philly 'house of horrors' case said humans are 'cancer,' railed against racism, global warming in writings," *The Post Millennial,* October 1, 2026. https://thepostmillennial.com/i-am-a-murderer-suspect-in-philly-house-of-horrors-case-said-humans-are-cancer-railed-against-racism-global-warming-in-writings Sole source for the passages so cited; the article spells the name "Krsita" once and "Krista" in the quotation, and attributes the book text to the *New York Post*.
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Eugene Horsch, then a [[Drexel University]] student, caused a drunk-driving crash in 2003 that left the other driver in a vegetative state until his death sixteen years later. He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was released in 2006. His great-aunt [[Helen M. Hoersch]], the last of Albert Hoersch's children, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a senior editor at the [[American Society for Testing and Materials]], died on April 5, 2004, at 83, "at the home of her nephew," Ray Horsch.[^76] The *Inquirer* reported in 2026 that Horsch acquired the Chew Avenue house after her death and in 2007 used a power of attorney to transfer it to his son for one dollar; the city's deed index records a deed executed on October 1, 2007, with "Hoersch Helen M" as grantor and Eugene A. Horsch as grantee. Horsch moved into the house with his son.[^77][^78][^79] In 2013 police found about 1.9 million dollars' worth of marijuana in the house, and Eugene was sentenced to four to eight years.[^1][^80]
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From about 2017 to 2021 Horsch's website, rchorsch.com, advertised an escort service whose client reviews describe visits to the Olney house. Its motto was "I fear what I love." In 2014 he self-published Empathy: The Memoir of an Empathetic Serial Killer, in which the narrator strangles a woman named Krista and dissolves her body with sodium hydroxide in a basement bathtub; the publisher's description calls the book fiction. In 2016 he released Deleted Scenes: A Serial Killer's Video Journal, filmed over twelve years under the name Ich Bin Niemand, about a man who selects victims among addicts, prostitutes, and runaways. A woman named [[Krista Killen]] lived in the house for years and appeared in his films. His online biography described him as an "artist, filmmaker, composer, writer, porn performer, drug smuggler, some-time political activist, art forger, counterfeiter, pot grower, air show pilot, army deserter, fugitive, sociopath, ex-convict and all-out villain." In 2014 a [[Wikipedia]] user named "S.E. Stokowski" created an article about him and made more than 150 edits to it over the following years. [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] sold his books until the third week of September 2026.[^1][^5][^37][^68][^81]
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From about 2017 to 2021 Horsch's website, rchorsch.com, advertised an escort service whose client reviews describe visits to the Olney house. Its motto was "I fear what I love." In 2014 he self-published Empathy: The Memoir of an Empathetic Serial Killer, in which the narrator strangles a woman named Krista and dissolves her body with sodium hydroxide in a basement bathtub; the publisher's description calls the book fiction.[^85] In 2016 he released Deleted Scenes: A Serial Killer's Video Journal, filmed over twelve years under the name Ich Bin Niemand, about a man who selects victims among addicts, prostitutes, and runaways. A woman named [[Krista Killen]] lived in the house for years and appeared in his films. His online biography described him as an "artist, filmmaker, composer, writer, porn performer, drug smuggler, some-time political activist, art forger, counterfeiter, pot grower, air show pilot, army deserter, fugitive, sociopath, ex-convict and all-out villain." In 2014 a [[Wikipedia]] user named "S.E. Stokowski" created an article about him and made more than 150 edits to it over the following years. [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] sold his books until the third week of September 2026.[^1][^5][^37][^68][^81]
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### The Kensington Crematorium
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### The 2026 Investigation
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In May 2025 a fire at the Chew Avenue house brought narcotics officers, who found marijuana plants, firearms, and containers of chemicals. Horsch died the same month and was cremated. Killen died of drug intoxication some months later.[^37][^81]
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In May 2025 a fire at the Chew Avenue house brought narcotics officers, who found marijuana plants, firearms, and containers of chemicals. Horsch died the same month and was cremated.[^37][^81] Killen died in August 2025; the affidavit for the 2026 search gave the cause as "drug intoxication," and the city medical examiner found that she had overdosed.[^77][^1]
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On June 19, 2026, a federal park ranger stopped Eugene Horsch's car beside [[Independence National Historical Park]]. His passenger carried an identification card in the name of [[Blair Tonzelli]], who was reported missing in February 2023. A photograph of Tonzelli, nude, with an apparent black eye and blood near her mouth, had been in rotation as the lead image on Horsch's website from about 2020 until at least September 2023, seven months after the missing-person report. The search of the Olney house that followed, and its results, are set out under [[Olney House Investigation]].[^68][^80]
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[^82]: Briggs, Ryan W., Max Marin, Barbara Laker, and Ellie Rushing. "Raymond Horsch had access to a Kensington crematorium linked to illegal body parts sales, years before missing persons investigation," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* September 21, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/raymond-horsch-missing-women-kensington-bodies-crematorium-20260921.html
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[^83]: "Philadelphia police identify 58 people in images from investigation into Olney house," *CBS News Philadelphia,* September 2026. https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/horsch-investigation-chew-avenue-olney-philadelphia/
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[^84]: "Eugene Horsch Denies He's a Serial Killer as Philadelphia Cops Hunt for Missing Women," *Newsweek,* 2026. https://www.newsweek.com/philadelphia-obviously-serial-killer-former-fbi-agent-12457175
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[^85]: Stevenson, Thomas, summarizing a *New York Post* report. "'I am a murderer': Suspect in Philly 'house of horrors' case said humans are 'cancer,' railed against racism, global warming in writings," *The Post Millennial,* October 1, 2026. https://thepostmillennial.com/i-am-a-murderer-suspect-in-philly-house-of-horrors-case-said-humans-are-cancer-railed-against-racism-global-warming-in-writings Sole source for the name Krista in *Empathy*.
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