The_Info_Web/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Myroslawa Ferkuniak.md

category	tags	alias	summary	died	location	relations	created	updated
Crime & Abuse Networks	Person RCHorsch NewZealand IdentityFraud Fugitive	Anna Ferkuniak Anna M. Horsch Myroslawa Anna Ferkuniak	Welsh-born wife of the fugitive R.C. Horsch, whom she married in Nevada under his stolen name and accompanied to New Zealand, and mother of Eugene Horsch.	1989-07-28	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	type with start end fn spouse_of R.C. Horsch 1980 1989 1 type with role fn relative_of Eugene Horsch mother 2	2026-09-23	2026-09-23

Myroslawa "Anna" Ferkuniak (about 1950 to July 28, 1989), known after her marriage as Anna M. Horsch, was the second wife of the Philadelphia pornographer and counterfeiter R.C. Horsch and the mother of Eugene Horsch. She married Horsch in Nevada in 1980 while he was a fugitive using the stolen identity of a California chemist, Dr. Stanley Eugene Stokowski, and lived with him in New Zealand until he fled the country in 1984.¹²

Family

She was born in Nantymoel, Wales, a daughter of Michael and Maria (Perwiczko) Ferkuniak, and her parents later lived on a rural route outside Lehighton, Pennsylvania in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. She had one sister.²

With Horsch

According to the The Philadelphia Inquirer, she met Horsch at some point after her arrest in an LSD raid on a house near Temple University. After Horsch was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration for manufacturing methamphetamine in February 1977 and jumped bail, she went with him to the West Coast, where he took the identity of Stokowski, a chemist with a doctorate from Stanford University. They married in Nevada in 1980 under that name and flew to New Zealand.¹ The Press of Christchurch reported in 1984 that "Stokowski" had arrived in Canterbury, New Zealand in 1980 with his "wife Anna and 18-month-old son"; the Inquirer gives her son Eugene's birth as 1981, in New Zealand.¹³ The family lived near Timaru, where Horsch worked with Chemical Technology Limited at Clandeboye, New Zealand on a whey-to-ethanol plant, and the company's founder, John Rutherford (New Zealand lawyer), described Horsch to The Press as "an excellent family man."¹³ When Horsch left New Zealand on March 17, 1984, on a passport that police believed had been stolen in a burglary at Temuka, he left his wife and son behind, and they returned to the United States later.¹³

The psychologist Don Seraydarian, who examined Horsch in 1985 before his federal sentencing, recorded that his only real support at the time was his wife, who had a "therapeutic and rehabilitative effect" on him. Horsch was released from federal prison in 1987.⁴

Death

She died at the family's house at 1101 Devereaux Avenue in Philadelphia on Friday, July 28, 1989, at 39. Her obituary in The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania said that she died "after a lengthy illness"; the Inquirer reported in 2026 that she died of an accidental overdose of glutethimide and codeine while sitting in the living room. Her funeral was held from the Andrew P. Ovsak Funeral Home in Lehighton, with a Divine Liturgy at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church (Lehighton). The following month Horsch bought a house in New Britain Township, Pennsylvania, where their son grew up.¹²⁵

Footnotes

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1. "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 ↩︎

2. "Anna M. Horsch," obituary, The Morning Call, August 1, 1989, p. 18 ("Born in Nantymoel, England [sic], she was a daughter of Michael and Maria (Perwiczko) Ferkuniak of Lehighton R.2."; survivors include "son Eugene, at home"). https://www.newspapers.com/image/283766965/ Death notices ran in the same paper on August 1, 1989, p. 30, and August 2, 1989, p. 37. ↩︎

3. Leask, Anna. "Man linked to multiple missing women in US had fled NZ 40 years ago after posing as scientist," The New Zealand Herald, September 23, 2026 (quoting The Press of 1984). https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/raymond-horsch-man-linked-to-philadelphia-house-of-horrors-lived-near-timaru-under-stolen-name/BVQSWBL3LZDL3GIXFEHHBFY6RY/ ↩︎

4. 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 ↩︎

5. [Bucks County real-estate transfers], The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 29, 1989, p. 480 ("520 Airy Ave. ... to Raymond C. Horsch"). https://www.newspapers.com/image/177531276/ ↩︎