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PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The signs were chilling \u2014 and hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n

Neighbors of the Philadelphia house of bizarre horrors tied to the disappearance of at least two women describe the current owner as a \u201cpsycho\u2019\u2019 who helped turn the once-quaint townhouse into an eyesore with boarded up windows, bars on the doors and security cameras.<\/p>\n

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The father of current owner Eugene Horsch was even more sinister. RC Horsch, who died last year, was an infamous photographer whose work allegedly deviated into predatory pornography.<\/p>\n

Creepy convicted drug felon Eugene would lurk in a back shed \u201cdoing I don\u2019t know what,\u201d said neighbor Yana Smith, 50, to The Post.<\/p>\n

Smith said her husband once got into an argument with the 44-year-old \u2014 who lived in the Olney home with his sadist smut-peddling dad \u2014 when Horsch tried to point a security camera at their bathroom window.<\/p>\n

The guy gave off \u201cpsycho\u2019\u2019 vibes, Smith said.<\/p>\n

Eugene is now being eyed in the missing women\u2019s disappearance \u2014 but has claimed to cops that they should be looking at his father R.C. Horsch, who was in his early 80s when he died last year, law-enforcement sources have told The Post.<\/p>\n

Eugene said his father \u2014 who boasted on his website about photographing \u201cscantily clad women in sadomasochistic settings\u201d \u2014 was the one behind the disappearance of the R.C.\u2019s much younger ex-wife Amy McHale and another woman, according to sources.<\/p>\n

The son came on the radar of authorities June 19 when a US Park Ranger overheard his girlfriend say, \u201cYou\u2019re going to hurt me,\u2019\u2019 while the pair was sitting in a parked car near Independence Hall.<\/p>\n

Eugene was discovered carrying a fake Drug Enforcement Administration badge, a switchblade and two guns with \u201cobliterated serial numbers.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

His girlfriend meanwhile had a fake ID on her \u2014 with a name belonging to one of the missing women, a 38-year-old who vanished from the nearby Kensington area in 2023.<\/p>\n

Eugene had given her the bogus identification, police said.<\/p>\n

A police raid of the Horsch home later turned up vats of chemicals, drugs, firearms, urns of human ash and a handwritten letter referencing infamous 1970s serial killer Ted Bundy, Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore said last week.<\/p>\n

Police are still conducting testing on the 55-gallon drums and other suspicious items found in the home \u2014 as well as searching local sewers \u2014for potential DNA traces of the missing women.<\/p>\n

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The house was the last known location of R.C.\u2019s ex-wife Amy McHale, who vanished without a trace in 2016.<\/p>\n

No details have been given about the other missing woman, including her potential ties to either man.<\/p>\n

Eugene has denied having anything to do with the women\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is much ado about nothing. \u2026 They\u2019re barking up the wrong tree,\u201d Eugene\u2019s lawyer, Jerome Brown, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.<\/p>\n

The dad was a photographer, indie filmmaker, porn actor, and \u201cfugitive, sociopath, ex-convict and all-out villain,\u201d according to the bio page on his own web site.<\/p>\n

R.C. bragged about his own criminal history that included forging art, going AWOL from the army and growing illegal pot.<\/p>\n

The dad and McHale met in the 1990s \u2014 when she was in her 20s and he was in his 50s \u2014 and later got married and divorced.<\/p>\n

But they stayed close even after their relationship ended, said Amy\u2019s daughter, Amanda Stofer, to the Inquirer \u2014 possibly because RC kept giving her drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure it had something to do with the drugs and alcohol. I think he enabled her with things that weren\u2019t really permitted in my grandmother\u2019s house,\u201d Stofer told the outlet.<\/p>\n

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McHale, then 44, visited RC the house before she dropped off the map.<\/p>\n

Though Eugene has denied having anything to do with the missing women, he did follow in his dad\u2019s felonious footsteps with a 10-arrest rap sheet that included drug possession and dealing, assault and drunken driving, according to the Inquirer.<\/p>\n

The raid of his home turned up several other fake IDs, plus fake law enforcement badges.<\/p>\n

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Eugene Horsch does not face any charges in connection with the missing women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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