#Philadelphia
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- Albert Hoersch Philadelphia grandfather of the pornographer R.C. Horsch, whose house at 417 West Chew Street in Olney became the house searched in the 2026 Olney House Investigation.
- Art Carduner Germantown bookseller and art-house exhibitor who ran the Bandbox Theater from 1966 to 1975 and gave R.C. Horsch's condemned film Black Mass a midnight screening in 1975.
- Charles B. Flack Jr. Former FBI agent who merged his investigative firm into the Wackenhut Corporation in 1962 and ran its Philadelphia office for the Pennsylvania and New Jersey area.
- Elizabeth F. Abrams Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania who prosecuted R.C. Horsch's 2009-2012 marijuana and firearms case.
- Eugene Horsch Son of the pornographer R.C. Horsch and owner of the Olney house searched in 2026, held on federal firearm and forged-credential counts and charged with no offense against the seven missing women.
- Frank Vanore Philadelphia police deputy commissioner who has led public briefings in the 2026 Olney House Investigation into women connected to R.C. and Eugene Horsch.
- Gerald Garzone Philadelphia funeral director and co-owner of Liberty Crematorium who sold bodies to Michael Mastromarino's tissue company and whose appeal of a prosecution-cost order reached the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
- Helen E. Hoersch Philadelphia grandmother of the pornographer R.C. Horsch, who died in 1968 at the family house at 417 West Chew Street in Olney.
- Helen M. Hoersch Philadelphia editor, daughter of Albert Hoersch and aunt of the pornographer R.C. Horsch, whose name appears as grantor on the 2007 deed transferring the Olney house to Eugene Horsch.
- J.J. Klaver Retired FBI special agent and former spokesman of the Philadelphia field office who called R.C. Horsch a serial killer in 2026.
- Jerome Brown Philadelphia criminal defense lawyer who represented R.C. Horsch in his 2009 federal drug and firearms case and his son Eugene Horsch in the 2026 Olney House Investigation.
- Jill Fertel Former Philadelphia assistant district attorney who prosecuted R.C. Horsch in 2010 for luring a nine-year-old girl, a conviction later vacated and expunged.
- Joanne Epps Philadelphia prosecutor quoted in April 1985 on the guilty pleas and four-year sentence of Raymond Charles Hoersch, the fugitive known in New Zealand as Dr Stanley Stokowski.
- John Butterworth Philadelphia cameraman who co-directed the 1973 pornographic feature The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig with R.C. Horsch and later shared a barbecue business with him.
- John Krol Archbishop of Philadelphia from 1961 to 1988 and cardinal from 1967, who led sixteen religious leaders in condemning R.C. Horsch's film Black Mass in 1975.
- John Milton Younge Philadelphia Common Pleas judge appointed to the federal bench in 2019 and assigned the 2026 firearms and false-identification case against Eugene Horsch.
- Joseph L. McGlynn Jr. Federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, appointed by Nixon in 1974, who sentenced R.C. Horsch in 1985 to three years for manufacturing methamphetamine.
- Kevin Bethel Philadelphia police commissioner from January 2024, a 1986 recruit and former school-district safety chief, who led the September 2026 briefing on the Olney House Investigation.
- Leo Goldstein Deputy commissioner of Philadelphia's Department of Licenses and Inspections who closed Ray Hoersch's Underground Cinema 16 in October 1969 amid a wider closing of small theaters.
- Louis Garzone Philadelphia funeral director and co-owner of Liberty Crematorium who supplied at least 244 bodies to Michael Mastromarino's tissue company and was sentenced in 2008 to 8 to 20 years.
- Michael Mastromarino Former New Jersey oral surgeon whose company, Biomedical Tissue Services, took bone and tissue from more than a thousand corpses without consent and sold it to tissue processors.
- Philip Nordo Philadelphia homicide detective fired in 2017 and convicted in 2022 of sexually assaulting witnesses and stealing reward money; dozens of his homicide cases were reviewed.
- R.C. Horsch Philadelphia pornographic filmmaker, counterfeiter and fugitive who lived in New Zealand under a stolen identity, said he wiretapped for Wackenhut in the 1960s, and whose Olney house is the center of a 2026 missing-women investigation.
- Raymond Evers Philadelphia police inspector, formerly head of the Narcotics Bureau and the subject of a 2018 Internal Affairs finding, who in August 2026 named two women believed killed in the Olney house.
- Sally A. Kocher Federal defender in Philadelphia who represented R.C. Horsch at his 1985 sentencing for methamphetamine manufacture and bail-jumping.
- Salvatore La Russa Sicilian-born Philadelphia barber, bar owner and restaurateur, a friend of mob boss Nicodemo Scarfo, whom R.C. Horsch named as the main backer of his 1973 pornographic feature.
- Wayne Jacobs FBI special agent in charge of the Philadelphia Field Office, a former counterintelligence section chief, who briefed with police on the Olney House Investigation in September 2026.
Organizations (10)
- Arcadia Theatre (Philadelphia) First-run cinema at 1529-1531 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, which cancelled a February 1975 midnight showing of R.C. Horsch's Black Mass after reported pressure from the Archdiocese.
- Bandbox Theater Art-house cinema at 20-22 East Armat Street in Germantown, owned by Art Carduner from 1966 to 1975, which screened R.C. Horsch's condemned film Black Mass in 1975.
- Garzone Funeral Home Philadelphia funeral home and crematorium whose owners sold 244 corpses to the tissue broker Michael Mastromarino between 2004 and 2005, and to whose crematorium the pornographer R.C. Horsch is reported to have bought access.
- Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections Philadelphia's building-code and licensing department, whose deputy commissioner Leo Goldstein closed R.C. Horsch's Underground Cinema 16 in 1969, and which Mayor Cherelle Parker split under two commissioners in 2024.
- Philadelphia District Attorney's Office Prosecutor for the city and county of Philadelphia, led since 2018 by Larry Krasner, which charged and in August 2026 withdrew state gun and drug counts against Eugene Horsch.
- Philadelphia Police Department Municipal police force of Philadelphia, created by the Act of Consolidation of 1854, which with the FBI has led the 2026 Olney House Investigation into women connected to R.C. Horsch.
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia Roman Catholic see erected in 1808 and made an archdiocese in 1875, whose archbishop Cardinal John Krol led the 1975 condemnation of R.C. Horsch's film Black Mass.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia daily founded in 1829, owned by the Annenbergs, Knight Ridder, local investors and H.F. Lenfest, and since 2016 by a nonprofit institute under the Philadelphia Foundation.
- Underground Cinema 16 Sixteen-millimeter underground film theater on Sansom Street in Philadelphia, opened by R.C. Horsch in 1969 and closed within weeks by the city for lack of licenses.
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Federal trial court for southeastern Pennsylvania, sitting in Philadelphia, created when Congress divided the District of Pennsylvania in 1818, which heard four federal cases against R.C. Horsch and his son Eugene.
Events (1)
- Olney House Investigation Philadelphia police and FBI investigation, opened in June 2026, into seven missing women linked by recovered video and photographs to the West Chew Avenue house of the late pornographer R.C. Horsch and his son Eugene.
Misc (3)
- Black Mass (1975 film) Philadelphia film of a satanic mass by Ray Hoersch, later known as R.C. Horsch, withdrawn from the Arcadia Theatre in 1975 after protests led by Cardinal John Krol.
- In the Year of the Pig Emile de Antonio's 1968 Vietnam War documentary, nominated for an Academy Award, whose Philadelphia run moved to the Bandbox Theater after city inspectors closed R.C. Horsch's Cinema 16 in 1969.
- The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig 1973 pornographic feature shot in Philadelphia by Ray Hoersch, later R.C. Horsch, and John Butterworth, which Horsch said was financed by the Philadelphia bar owner Salvatore La Russa.
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