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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Don Seraydarian.md

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+---
+category: "Scientists & Researchers"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - Psychologist
+  - BucksCounty
+  - RCHorsch
+alias:
+  - Don G. Seraydarian
+summary: "Bucks County forensic psychologist whose 1985 examination of R.C. Horsch, made for his federal sentencing, described a grandiose and controlling man consumed by anger."
+location: "Langhorne, Pennsylvania"
+created: 2026-09-23
+updated: 2026-09-23
+---
+
+Don G. Seraydarian is a clinical and forensic psychologist in [[Langhorne, Pennsylvania|Langhorne]], [[Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Bucks County]], and a graduate of the [[University of Pennsylvania]], who has consulted for the Bucks County courts, corrections, and probation departments, the [[Defender Association of Philadelphia|Philadelphia Public Defender's Office]], and Bucks County Children and Youth. In 1985 the defense lawyers of [[R.C. Horsch]], then Raymond C. Hoersch, commissioned him to examine Horsch before his federal sentencing for manufacturing methamphetamine.[^1][^2]
+
+After a four-hour assessment he wrote that Horsch was "grandiose, mistrustful, suspicious, and excessively controlling," that he "has great concern about 'losing control' over himself and invests great quantities of psychic energy in trying to maintain a sense of equilibrium and control," and that further prison time would "increase his hostility and sense of alienation." He concluded that Horsch likely suffered from bipolar and paranoid personality disorders, measured his IQ at 140, and recorded Horsch's description of his wife and four-year-old son as the "most important things in his life": "now I'm hurting them as well as myself." The report was filed with a motion for a lenient sentence. *[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]* obtained it through a federal records request in 2026; Seraydarian confirmed that he had written it but could recall only that Horsch was "very bright." [[Michael Yoder]], a retired FBI profiler who reviewed it for the paper, said it described "a potential serial killer."[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Marin, Max, Ryan W. Briggs, and Ellie Rushing. "'Consumed by anger': Inside the 1985 psych profile of Raymond Horsch," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* September 3, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/raymond-horsch-olney-missing-women-psych-exam-20260903.html
+[^2]: Don G. Seraydarian, Ph.D. and Associates, "About Dr. Don Seraydarian." https://drseraydarian.com/about_drDonSeraydarian.php

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/George Newsome.md

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+---
+category: "Crime & Abuse Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - RCHorsch
+  - Kensington
+  - GarzoneFuneralHome
+summary: "Kensington man identified by four people as the crematorium employee through whom the pornographer R.C. Horsch said he had access to the Garzone crematorium."
+died: 2014
+location: "Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
+created: 2026-09-23
+updated: 2026-09-23
+---
+
+George Newsome (died 2014) lived on Ruth Street in the [[Kensington, Philadelphia|Kensington]] section of [[Philadelphia]], a block from the crematorium attached to the [[Garzone Funeral Home]], which its owners, the brothers [[Louis Garzone|Louis]] and [[Gerald Garzone]], operated as [[Liberty Cremations]]. In September 2026 four people familiar with the pornographer [[R.C. Horsch]] and with the Garzones' business identified him to *[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]* as the employee through whom Horsch said he had access to the crematorium.[^1]
+
+A woman who worked on Horsch's films from 2003 said that Horsch boasted of access to the crematorium through an employee named George, whom he paid in drugs, and of having filmed a scene there. The house on Ruth Street was one that Horsch was known to frequent. Newsome was arrested for heroin possession in 2011 and for cocaine possession in 2013, according to court records, and died the following year, according to an obituary cited by the *Inquirer*. Gerald Garzone said he had never heard of Horsch; he acknowledged knowing a man named George from the neighborhood and declined to say whether he had employed him. "I don't know anything about that," he said. The Garzones pleaded guilty in 2008 to selling more than 240 corpses to a tissue-recovery company.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: 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

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Scafidi.md

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+---
+category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - Police
+  - BucksCounty
+  - RCHorsch
+summary: "Former police chief of New Britain Township, Pennsylvania, whose officers arrested R.C. Horsch in 2009 and found women's identification cards in his house."
+location: "New Britain Township, Pennsylvania"
+relations:
+  - type: head_of
+    with: "[[New Britain Township Police Department]]"
+    fn: 1
+  - type: investigated
+    with: "[[R.C. Horsch]]"
+    start: 2009
+    fn: 1
+created: 2026-09-23
+updated: 2026-09-23
+---
+
+Robert Scafidi was chief of the [[New Britain Township Police Department]] in [[Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Bucks County]] when his officers arrested the pornographer [[R.C. Horsch]] at his house near [[Chalfont, Pennsylvania|Chalfont]] in July 2009.[^1][^2]
+
+On July 22, 2009, a 21-year-old woman living in the house called police to report an intruder. "The house was checked, nothing was found, the officers then checked the basement, and discovered it was a large indoor marijuana growing operation," Scafidi said at the time. When Horsch returned that night and found police with a search warrant, "he decided to take off running; it was a quick foot chase. He was apprehended and placed under arrest for possession of marijuana." Scafidi confirmed that Horsch was involved with several companies and produced "fetish" pornography that police called "bizarre," with no indication that it involved children.[^2]
+
+In September 2026, as the [[Olney House Investigation]] got under way, he recalled finding nearly 200 plants, firearms, and "IDs of various females. There were a few of them. The DA's office took them and were going to follow up. I really don't know what happened after that." He added: "He always got light sentences for some reason. He was a person who worked at being evil. That was his nature."[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Gallagher, Bryanna. "Former police chief recalls 2009 arrest of R.C. Horsch, man linked to Olney home investigation," *6abc Action News,* September 17, 2026. https://6abc.com/post/former-police-chief-recalls-2009-arrest-rc-horsch/19841495/
+[^2]: "Major drug bust in Chalfont," *6abc Action News,* July 23, 2009. https://6abc.com/archive/6930702/