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People (51)

  • Al Goldstein Brooklyn-born publisher who co-founded Screw magazine in 1968, was arrested 19 times on obscenity charges in its first three years, and hosted the cable show Midnight Blue.
  • 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.
  • Amy McHale Former wife of the Philadelphia pornographer R.C. Horsch who was last heard from at the Horsch house on West Chew Avenue in June 2016 and remains missing.
  • 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.
  • Bill Birch New Zealand National Party minister of energy from 1978 to 1984, the minister behind the Think Big projects, and later finance minister; he co-announced the 1981 Temuka distillery licence.
  • Blair Tonzelli Philadelphia woman missing since 2022 whose identification card, found during a 2026 traffic stop of Eugene Horsch, led police to the Horsch house in Olney.
  • Candida Royalle Adult film actress who in 1984 founded Femme Productions to make adult films from a woman's perspective, and a founder of Feminists for Free Expression.
  • Cecilia T. Hagerty Stroudsburg nurse and maternal grandmother of the pornographer and fugitive R.C. Horsch.
  • Charles Griffith Delaware County man arrested with R.C. Horsch in the December 1974 Secret Service raid on a counterfeit ten-dollar-bill and forged-license printing operation in Doylestown.
  • Clara Hoersch Mother of the pornographer and fugitive R.C. Horsch, a daughter of a Stroudsburg family who lived with her husband Raymond C. Hoersch in Bucks County.
  • Darby Lloyd Rains New York adult film actress of the 1970s, one of the industry's early performers, who appeared in R.C. Horsch's Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig.
  • Don Seraydarian 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.
  • Donald W. Van Artsdalen Bucks County prosecutor and federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1970 who added a year and a day to R.C. Horsch's 1985 sentence for bail-jumping.
  • 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.
  • Gabrielle Amarando Doylestown woman missing since 2012 whom Philadelphia police identified in 2026 as appearing dead in images recovered from the Horsch house in Olney.
  • George Newsome 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.
  • Georgina Spelvin Broadway performer who at 36 starred in The Devil in Miss Jones (1973), appeared in R.C. Horsch's Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig, and published a memoir in 2006.
  • 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.
  • Hugh Templeton New Zealand National Party minister of customs from 1978 who, with Bill Birch, announced the 1981 distillery licence for the Temuka ethanol plant of Chemical Technology Limited.
  • Ian Shearer New Zealand National Party minister of science and technology, environment and broadcasting from 1981 to 1984, who opened the Chemical Technology Limited whey-to-alcohol plant at Temuka in April 1982.
  • 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.
  • James D'Amelio United States Secret Service agent who announced the December 1974 counterfeiting arrests of Raymond Hoersch, later R.C. Horsch, and Charles Griffith in Bucks County.
  • 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 B. Hannum Chester County Republican and federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1969 who ruled against the army deserter Raymond C. Hoersch Jr. in 1974.
  • 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 Rutherford (New Zealand lawyer) Christchurch lawyer who set up Chemical Technology Limited and brought the American fugitive R.C. Horsch, posing as the chemist Stanley Stokowski, to New Zealand to build a whey-ethanol plant.
  • 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.
  • K.N. Curnow Christchurch chartered accountant of Deloitte Haskins and Sells, appointed by Westpac in May 1984 as joint receiver of Chemical Technology Limited after its American director fled.
  • Kerry Burke New Zealand Labour minister of immigration from July 1984 who announced in October 1984 that the impostor Raymond Hoersch had entered the country in 1980 and cleared the department of blame.
  • Krista Killen Longtime companion of the Philadelphia pornographer R.C. Horsch who appeared in his films from 2003 and lived at the Olney house from 2016 until her death in 2025.
  • 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.
  • Lindsay Smith New Zealand army brigadier who directed the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service from 1983 to 1991, including the 1984 Stokowski affair and the 1985 Rainbow Warrior bombing.
  • 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.
  • Maribel Fresses Bucks County woman missing since 2018 whom Philadelphia police identified in 2026 as appearing dead in images recovered from the Horsch house in Olney.
  • 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.
  • Michael Yoder Retired FBI profiler who reviewed R.C. Horsch's 1985 psychological evaluation for the Philadelphia Inquirer and said it described a potential serial killer.
  • Myroslawa Ferkuniak Welsh-born wife of the fugitive R.C. Horsch, whom she married in Reno in 1980 under his stolen name and accompanied to New Zealand, and mother of Eugene Horsch.
  • Nicole Fusaro Philadelphia woman last seen in Kensington in 2018 whom police believe R.C. Horsch killed on video, identified in September 2026 in the Olney House Investigation.
  • 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 C. Hoersch Bucks County engineer and Second World War glider pilot, father of the pornographer and fugitive R.C. Horsch, whose Chalfont house and aircraft registration were tied to his son's cases.
  • Richard Barclay Surrick Delaware County judge appointed to the federal bench by Bill Clinton in 2000 who presided over R.C. Horsch's 2009-2012 marijuana and firearms prosecution.
  • Robert Scafidi 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.
  • 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.
  • Sam Lake New York pornographic film distributor, named by R.C. Horsch as the head of Mature Pictures, to whom Horsch said he sold his 1973 feature for 50,000 dollars.
  • Tina Russell Early 1970s New York adult film star, born Linda Marie Mintzer, author of the 1973 memoir Porno Star, who appeared in R.C. Horsch's Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig.

Organizations (17)

  • 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.
  • Biomedical Tissue Services Fort Lee, New Jersey, tissue-recovery company run by Michael Mastromarino that took tissue from more than a thousand corpses without consent and sold it to processors, until closed by the FDA in 2006.
  • Chemical Technology Limited South Canterbury company, set up by the Christchurch lawyer John Rutherford, that built a whey-to-ethanol plant at Clandeboye with the American fugitive R.C. Horsch working under a stolen chemist's identity.
  • Development Finance Corporation New Zealand state development lender founded in 1964, corporatized in 1987, sold in 1988 to the National Provident Fund and Salomon Brothers, and placed in statutory management as insolvent in October 1989.
  • Femme Productions Adult film company founded by Candida Royalle in 1984 to make films from a woman's perspective; it released 18 films through 2007, two directed by R.C. Horsch.
  • 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.
  • Screw (magazine) New York sex tabloid founded in 1968 by Al Goldstein and Jim Buckley, whose publisher was arrested 19 times on obscenity charges in its first three years; it folded in 2003.
  • Superior Court of Pennsylvania Intermediate appellate court of Pennsylvania, established in 1895, which ruled on the Garzone and Mastromarino body-parts sentences in 2010 and on which Judge John B. Hannum sat before 1969.
  • 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.
  • The Press Christchurch daily newspaper published by the Christchurch Press Company from Cathedral Square, whose 1981 to 1986 reporting is the principal record of the Stokowski affair.
  • 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.

Places (3)

  • Hadlow, New Zealand Rural settlement just west of Timaru in South Canterbury, New Zealand, where the fugitive R.C. Horsch lived as Dr Stanley Stokowski until March 1984.
  • Temuka South Canterbury town north of Timaru, site of the ethanol distillery of Chemical Technology Limited licensed in 1981 and of the 1984 burglary in which a passport was stolen.
  • Washdyke Industrial suburb five kilometres north of central Timaru, where the fugitive R.C. Horsch ran a mail-order computer software exchange as Dr Stanley Stokowski.

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.