UNHINGED! Philly House Of Horrors: Largest Serial Killer in 50 Years? | Eugene Horsch

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Cops are calling it a disturbing house of ours while searching this sprawling property. They say they found shocking videotapes.

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Was this dilapidated property, a torture chamber and slaughterhouse?

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One day the phone calls just stopped, and we knew it was something deeper.

**Annie Elise** (0:21)
Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialously.
With me, your host, Annie Elise, happy Monday. I feel like back to back now, two Mondays in a row, I am probably ruining your day, if not your week, especially given today's case and everything that we're going to be discussing, because first of all, let me start by saying this. I have seen your DMs for the last couple of weeks asking me not only to cover this, but also like, Annie, can you make sense of this? What the hell is going on? Is this the world's biggest serial killer that has finally been caught? What's really going on inside this house? Is this like an actual real life version of Silence of the Lambs? And the reason it's taken me so long to do the deep dive into this case, even though we've discussed it a little bit on Headline Highlights, is because I knew I needed to do the deep dive, like go back through and look up everything I could possibly find and figure out just how layered this is and how deep this case goes.
Which, I gotta tell ya, for my own mental health, I kinda wish I didn't do that because it is so foul, so disgusting, and just, I don't even know the word, like diabolical, yes, but like just unbelievable.
So like I said, I know that oftentimes I ruin your day with a lot of these episodes. This one, it's probably going to ruin your week because it is especially grotesque.
Now, before we get into it, if you are a newer listener, let me give you the breakdown of everything that we do over here on Serialously together. As I said, my name is Annie Elise, and I deliver these true crime cases for you every Monday in a deep dive way where I'm going down the rabbit hole so that you don't have to, going through social media posts, old archival, you know, newspaper clippings, anything I can find on reddit, on news reports, interviews, foyers, police interviews, whatever I can get my hands on so that I can deliver a case to you and do it justice. But also in more of a conversational way so that it doesn't feel so clinical or sterile, and just feels like we're talking as friends. So today, I've got all my notes with me. We are going to be going through this together.
But like I said, I wanted to give you a little bit of a heads up because it certainly is not an easy one to discuss. Not that any of them are, but this one you're probably going to want to have a barf bag handy nearby. So with that, today we are diving in to the Philadelphia Horsch House of Horrors. Say that five times fast, right? Now if you haven't heard about this case yet, you probably will soon. I'm sure you also have seen it somewhere on your social media feed. But right now, investigators are looking into what could possibly be one of the biggest serial killer cases in the last 50 years. It is massive, and it's unfolding right now in Philadelphia, more specifically in the Alney neighborhood. Now the investigation actually began around 6am on June 19, 2026
This is when a US park ranger stopped a suspicious vehicle. Now at first, they thought it was going to be, okay, maybe a little suspicious, but an otherwise routine stop. They certainly did not expect that it was going to be anything like what they have uncovered. But what the investigators found inside the vehicle, it would eventually lead them to a very disturbing trail of evidence that was connected to at least four different missing women. Now normally, I would walk you through this case from the very beginning. However, because we're already now about, I don't know what, two months behind, I want to speed things up a little bit, and I'm going to use the police department's updated timeline. That way, it'll catch you up to speed with everything that they've been looking into, and you can hear directly from their mouths, what they are looking at and what they've uncovered. But then what I want to do is I want to break down what has happened ever since that announcement, and how I've been kind of in the back room, doing my own little investigation, connecting all the dots. Picture like a big board with the yarn going from photo to photo, and notepad to notepad, and post-its all over. Literally, that is what I have been doing. But first, before we get into all of that, let's start with the police timeline. Take a listen.