
Max Marin
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.

Questions swirl around 2012 Horsch plea deal
The late pornographer traded information to federal prosecutors for a short prison term. Details remain sealed.

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.

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.

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.

Nicole Fusaro identified in gruesome Olney video
Sources have said that they believe Raymond Horsch strangled the woman, who went missing in 2018.

‘Consumed by anger’: Raymond Horsch’s 1985 psych profile
The pornographer was “grandiose, mistrustful, suspicious, and excessively controlling,” a psychologist concluded.

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.

In Olney case, the lack of bodies adds to the mystery and complexity

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.

The pornographer, his son, and the missing women: Five takeaways

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

$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.

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.

Shapiro asks civil rights agency head to resign
Chad Dion Lassiter plans to leave the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission by June 30.

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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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.
