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+---
+category: "Crime & Abuse Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - RCHorsch
+  - MissingWomen
+  - OlneyHouseInvestigation
+  - Kensington
+alias:
+  - Nicole Amanda Fusaro
+summary: "Philadelphia woman last seen in Kensington in 2018 whom police believe R.C. Horsch killed on video, identified in September 2026 in the Olney House Investigation."
+location: "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
+relations:
+  - type: subject_of
+    with: "[[Olney House Investigation]]"
+    start: 2026
+    fn: 1
+created: 2026-09-23
+updated: 2026-09-23
+---
+
+Nicole Amanda Fusaro was last seen in the [[Kensington, Philadelphia|Kensington]] section of [[Philadelphia]] on July 19, 2018, at 27. In September 2026 the [[Philadelphia Police Department]] identified her as the woman in a video recovered from the house of the pornographer [[R.C. Horsch]] on West Chew Avenue, in which, police say, Horsch appears to strangle her. Her body has not been found, and the medical examiner has not ruled her death a homicide.[^1][^2]
+
+### Life
+
+She was raised in [[Northeast Philadelphia]] and attended [[George Washington High School (Philadelphia)|George Washington High School]]. Her cousin, Jonathan Halloran-Koren, said she was lighthearted and loved animals. She began using drugs in her late teens and drifted into the streets of Kensington in her twenties. After she disappeared her mother, Diane, searched Kensington for her, handing out fliers attached to sandwiches, and died in January 2020 without learning what had happened; her father, Thomas, had died in 2009.[^1][^3]
+
+### The Search
+
+When Halloran-Koren tried to reconnect with the family in 2020 and learned she was missing, women in Kensington told him she was last seen getting into a car near Kensington and Allegheny Avenues, and mentioned among the men they feared a "creepy" man named Horsch who picked up women on the Avenue. He filed a report with the [[National Missing and Unidentified Persons System]] in 2024.[^1][^4]
+
+### Identification
+
+At a news conference on September 16, 2026, Deputy Commissioner [[Frank Vanore]] described a video in which Horsch, naked and holding a camera with another mounted in the room, gives a woman drugs and money, handcuffs her to a bed, and tightens a zip tie around her neck with pliers; in Vanore's words, "she becomes unconscious and appears to be lifeless." The family had been told of her death privately that morning. Halloran-Koren wrote to Mayor [[Cherelle Parker]] and the City Council that he was "appalled" to hear the details disclosed in public: "Our family deserved better. Nicole deserved better." Police spokesman Sgt. Eric Gripp said the department was pursuing every lead and would give families verified information "as responsibly and compassionately as possible."[^2][^3][^4]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Rushing, Ellie, Ryan W. Briggs, and Max Marin. "Nicole Fusaro, missing since 2018, identified as woman who police believe Raymond Horsch killed," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* September 11, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/crime/raymond-horsch-olney-nicole-fusaro-missing-20260911.html
+[^2]: Rushing, Ellie, Max Marin, and Ryan W. Briggs. "Police find more photos of women who appear dead in pornographer R.C. Horsch's home, bringing the number of missing to 7," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* September 16, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/raymond-horsch-philadelphia-missing-women-dead-20260916.html
+[^3]: Goggin, Caroline. "Cousin remembers missing woman believed to have been killed inside Philly home," *6abc Action News,* September 18, 2026. https://6abc.com/post/horsch-house-case-family-member-remembers-missing-woman-believed-have-been-killed-inside-philadelphia-home/19845463/
+[^4]: Laker, Barbara, and Ellie Rushing. "Cousin of a Raymond Horsch victim criticizes police for sharing graphic details at news conference before telling family," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* September 17, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/nicole-fusaro-family-complaint-horsch-olney-house-investigation-20260917.html