Over one million digital files featuring dozens of women in front of the camera. Photos and videos in which some appear injured, unconscious, or showing no signs of life. These are the findings from a home in North Philadelphia, USA, that belonged to a photographer who died before authorities realized the extent of what he had left behind.
The house at 417 West Chu Avenue is located in the Olney neighborhood and was home to Raymond “R.C.” Hors and his son Eugene. The former was a photographer and producer of pornographic material who died in 2025 at the age of 82. Today, the police and the FBI are trying to sort through the massive volume of files to determine which of the violent scenes he recorded were staged and which may depict actual crimes.
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As of September 16, investigators had identified 58 women who appear in the footage, according to CBS. There are concerns that five of them may be dead, while two others linked to the house remain missing. Meanwhile, the FBI had examined only about 30% of the digital material.
The Arrest That Led to the House
On June 19, 2026, 44-year-old Eugene Hors was arrested in Philadelphia. In the car with him was a woman in possession of a fake ID bearing the name “Blair Tonzel,” who had been reported missing in 2023. Authorities also reported that two unlicensed firearms and a forged DEA (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration) accreditation were found in the vehicle.
It was Tonzelis’s name that drew investigators’ attention to the house on West Chu Avenue. During the search of the property, police officers discovered more than 20 containers of unknown substances, a barrel connected to pipes, weapons, drugs, five urns, and dozens of electronic storage devices. The containers with the unknown substances were sent for laboratory analysis.
Later, police officers dug around the property and removed sections of the piping. Sources familiar with the investigation told CBS Philadelphia that detectives were looking for evidence of the possible use of so-called “wet cremation,” that is, a chemical process by which human remains can be broken down. To date, however, no human remains have been found in the house.
600,000 photos and 70,000 videos
In August, the police announced that they had collected over 600,000 photographs, 70,000 videos, and more than 10,000 pages of text, handwritten notes, and drawings from electronic devices in the house. At that time, investigators had only managed to examine 5%–7% of the material.
Photos and videos of missing persons
Among the first files, two names from old disappearance cases emerged: Gabrielle Amarante, who was 22 years old when she disappeared in 2012, and Maribel Freses, who was 27 when she went missing in 2018, as reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Police found footage of the two women alive inside the house, as well as later footage in which they appear to be lifeless. Their bodies have not been found, and, as the police announced, without them, the medical examiner cannot issue a death certificate or officially determine the cause of death.
The Strangulation Video
Police officers subsequently located a video which, according to the New York Post, is a “snuff movie” showing Raymond Hors strangling a woman. The woman was later identified by a relative as Nicole Amanda Fuzaro, who was 27 years old when she disappeared from Kensington in 2018. Police sources told the Philadelphia Inquirer that they believe Hors killed her. Police had also informed members of her family about the discovery. NBC confirmed the existence of the video but reported that it had not been able to confirm the identity of the woman appearing in it.
On September 16, Deputy Police Chief Frank Vanore publicly described part of the footage. According to the police, the woman appears to be using drugs and then takes money from Hors. He ties her to the bed and places a plastic zip tie around her neck. The woman then appears to lose consciousness and remains motionless, as reported by 6abc.com.
“Nicole was a beautiful, kind-hearted woman who deserved so much better than what happened to her. She will always be loved and will be missed by her family and friends,” said her cousin Jonathan Halloran-Koren.
The missing Blair Tonzelly, whose case sparked the investigation
To this day, the disappearance of Blair Tonzelly remains unsolved; the woman whose fake ID was found in the possession of Eugene Hors’s female passenger and essentially led the police to the house. Tonzelis disappeared in 2023 and, according to the police, was one of the women connected to the house. Authorities have not announced that they have found any material in the digital archive that shows what happened to her.
The New York Post has also published a particularly chilling account from a friend of Tonjeli’s. According to the newspaper, the missing woman had described Eugene Hors as a “sociopath” and had said that he spoke about the possibility of dissolving human remains with chemicals.
The photographer’s ex-wife went missing
There was another woman whose trail led to the same house long before the current investigation began. Amy McHale, the ex-wife of Raymond Hors, disappeared in 2016. On June 13 of that year, she left a message for her daughter saying she was safe and at Hors’s home on West Chu Avenue. She has not been heard from since.
Seven women
Authorities have recovered footage showing two more women who appear to be injured and unconscious or showing no signs of life. One is approximately 25 years old and has been identified, but her family has requested that her name not be made public. The second has not yet been identified.
Currently, seven women who are missing or presumed dead are linked to the investigation at the house. Nicole Fuzaro, Gabrielle Amarante, and Maribel Freses are considered by authorities to be presumed dead, while Blair Tonzelly and Amy McHale remain officially missing.
Photographer Raymond “R.C.” Hors
The man at the center of most of these files can no longer provide answers. Raymond Hors died in 2025, at the age of 82. For decades, he produced erotic and pornographic material, some of which featured particularly violent scenarios, such as strangulations and death scenes.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, he approached women struggling with addiction in Kensington, offering them money and drugs to appear in his photographs and films. He also had a criminal record, including charges of drug manufacturing and forgery, though he has not been charged with any of the potential crimes currently under investigation involving the women linked to the house.
The nature of his work is also one of the reasons the investigation is proving so difficult. Police officers know that some of the material was staged to appear violent and real. They must, therefore, examine every photo and every video to determine where the staging ends and where the crime may begin.
Eugene Hors’s
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At the same time, although Eugene Hors’s arrest was what led the police to the house, he has not yet been charged with the death or disappearance of any of the women. He remains in custody on charges that arose after his arrest.
The focus of the investigation now falls on the hard drives Raymond Hors left behind, containing over a million files. Five women featured in the material are being investigated by authorities, while two linked to the house remain missing. And despite the excavations, the searches of the plumbing, and months of investigations, no remains have yet been found on the property.
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