One of many lacking girls tied to a Philadelphia home of horrors as soon as advised a pal {that a} man within the house was a “sociopath” who talked about melting our bodies with chemical substances and flushing them down the bathroom.
The chilling new element surfaced Tuesday together with extra details about the lacking girl, Blair Tonzelli, who was 35 when she vanished from a Philly neighborhood in 2023.
Tonzelli was a drifter out and in of jail for drug and prostitution fees who fell in with a person named “Raymond” who offered marijuana, one other buddy advised the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Raymond is the primary identify of late pot-peddling fetish photographer R.C. Horsch — who used to reside within the house alongside together with his 44-year-old son Eugene Horsch.
The primary Tonzelli pal stated the lacking girl beforehand labored in the home as a “house healthcare aide” — and referred to as Eugene “a sociopath” who mentioned the chemical substances wanted to make a physique “so small it might be flushed down a bathroom,” the outlet stated.
Tonzelli and Eugene ended up having a dispute over cash whereas he had entry to a CashApp account in her identify, and though he didn’t hurt her, he stated issues that recommended he had damage others, the buddy claimed.
Eugene has not been charged however is being eyed within the disappearance of Tonzelli and his dad’s a lot youthful ex-wife, Amy McHale, 44, who vanished in 2016, law-enforcement sources have stated. He has blamed his father for the ladies’s disappearance.
RC, who died final yr in his 80s, had been arrested for rising unlawful pot and made a reputation for himself photographing and filming graphic twisted photographs of nude girls, boasting on his web site about taking snaps of “scantily clad girls in sadomasochistic settings.”
Eugene nonetheless lived within the house in Olney when police raided it earlier this month after discovering a pretend ID with Tonzelll’s identify on it on his girlfriend throughout an encounter with a road cop, in accordance with police paperwork seen by the outlet.
Cops later discovered Tonzelli’s identify on financial institution playing cards inside the home — together with extra pretend IDs, medication, weapons, vats of chemical substances, urns of human ash, a doc referencing notorious serial killer Ted Bundy and different objects straight out of a horror film set.
Eugene is being held on drug and weapons fees as cops proceed testing 55-gallon drums and different suspicious objects within the house — in addition to native sewers — for potential DNA and different proof.
As for McHale, she and RC stayed shut after their divorce — presumably as a result of he provided her with medication, the girl’s daughter Amanda Stofer advised the Inquirer.
McHale, a grandmother, was final seen on the home earlier than her disappearance a decade in the past.
Whereas Eugene has tried to place the blame on his father, neighbors described to The Submit how the son, a convicted drug felon is a “psycho’’ who helped flip the once-quaint townhouse into an eyesore with boarded up home windows, bars on the doorways and safety cameras.
Eugene would lurk in a again shed “doing I don’t know what,” stated neighbor Yana Smith, 50.
Her husband received into an argument with the person after he tried to level a safety digicam at their rest room window, she stated.
