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Reporter. Investigations team @PhillyInquirer / email: mmarin at inquirer dot com

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What Horsch told the feds to score a plea deal

The pornographer provided information about drugs, fraud, and child prostitution, newly unsealed records show.

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What Horsch told the feds to score a plea deal

The pornographer provided information about drugs, fraud, and child prostitution, newly unsealed records show.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•OCT 30, 2026•Lead Story
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Questions swirl around 2012 Horsch plea deal

The late pornographer traded information to federal prosecutors for a short prison term. Details remain sealed.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•OCT 29, 2026•Lead Story
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Horsch luring case records could be destroyed

The Olney pornographer had been found guilty of approaching a 9-year-old girl. His conviction was later expunged.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•SEP 23, 2026•Lead Story
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Raymond Horsch tied to Philly crematorium

The late pornographer had access to a facility linked to a funeral home that illegally sold body parts. His Olney home is at the center of a probe into missing women.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•SEP 21, 2026•Lead Story
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More images of lifeless women recovered at Horsch home in Olney

Authorities said one of the victims was 25 and the other appeared to be in her mid-20s. No human remains have been found.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•SEP 17, 2026•Lead Story
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Nicole Fusaro identified in gruesome Olney video

Sources have said that they believe Raymond Horsch strangled the woman, who went missing in 2018.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•SEP 12, 2026
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‘Consumed by anger’: Raymond Horsch’s 1985 psych profile

The pornographer was “grandiose, mistrustful, suspicious, and excessively controlling,” a psychologist concluded.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•SEP 6, 2026
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Video from Olney house may chronicle a killing

Footage of Raymond “R.C.” Horsch apparently strangling a woman marks another disturbing turn in the investigation.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•AUG 30, 2026
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Police say 2 women likely killed in Olney home

Maribel Fresses and Gabrielle Amarando had struggled with drugs, loved ones said. Their bodies are still missing.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•AUG 13, 2026•Lead Story
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DARK ARTS

A pornographer's obsession and criminal past blur fact and fiction in a mystery surrounding missing Philly women.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•AUG 2, 2026•Lead Story
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Montco SPCA reaches settlement with Pa. over shelter conditions

The nonprofit revamped its operations after a 2024 Inquirer report sparked outrage. A state investigation followed.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•JUL 9, 2026
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Police searched Olney home last summer

Drugs — not missing women — were the focus after a small blaze at the crumbling twin now connected to the disappearance of Blair Tonzelli.

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Olney rowhouse raid may be tied to missing women

Investigators have spent the week at Eugene Albert Horsch's home: "We just don't know what he's doing."

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Philadelphia Inquirer•JUN 27, 2026•Lead Story
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From VIP suites to fraud allegations: An AI-fueled start-up’s rise and fall

T.J. Colaiezzi, a former Delco gym manager, had a plan to seize on the cancel culture moment. Then it all collapsed.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•JUN 21, 2026•Lead Story
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$20K gala expense upended Pa.’s civil rights watchdog agency

The head of the PHRC pressed staff to fast-track the cost. The state launched an investigation amid a flurry of high-level departures.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•MAY 11, 2026
Frames the issue as an investigative look into bureaucratic mismanagement and questionable spending at a state agency.
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Kratom makers tweak formulas to evade bans

In the gray market for synthetic drugs, the difference between legal and illegal can be as small as a molecule.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•MAY 5, 2026•Lead Story
The paper frames the issue as a complex regulatory challenge, focusing on the chemical ingenuity of manufacturers operating in a legal gray market rather than sensationalising the drug's societal effects.
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Shapiro asks civil rights agency head to resign

Chad Dion Lassiter plans to leave the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission by June 30.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•APR 18, 2026
Reports straightforwardly on an executive personnel change at the state level amid an investigation into tax dollars.
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A cornucopia of unregulated psychedelics

Lab testing showed many products found in area smoke shops carried reports with fabricated or misleading information.

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Philadelphia Inquirer•APR 12, 2026•Lead Story
The paper leads with the factual development of a local tragedy, focusing on the human toll and the official shift in emergency response phases.

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Paperboy tracks bylines on the front pages of major US and UK broadsheets. This page shows every front-page story attributed to Max Marin in our archive, based on bylines extracted from front-page images by AI. It covers only front-page stories — not the full output of this journalist. Data begins April 2026.