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Ellie Rushing

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  1. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Ellie Rushing

    Raymond Horsch was convicted of luring a 9-year-old girl to his car in 2009. Now those court records could be destroyed. (opens the original)

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    In 2009, Raymond “R.C.” Horsch — the violent pornographer now linked to seven dead or missing women — was arrested and charged with trying to lure a 9-year-old girl into his green Jeep Wrangler in Kensington. “Come here, in my car, sexy girl,” Horsch told the girl, according to an arrest report. When police found Horsch circling the neighborhood that March night, officers recovered a pair of high-powered binoculars, a digital camera, a telephoto lens, an eye patch, and condoms from i

  2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Ellie Rushing

    Head of Conviction Integrity Unit in DA’s office steps down after judge points to possible crimes, sources say (opens the original)

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    The head of the Conviction Integrity Unit in the District Attorney’s Office has stepped down from his supervisory role, sources said, days after a federal judge said his actions in a contentious post-conviction case could amount to crimes. Assistant District Attorney Matthew Stiegler resigned from his position as supervisor of the unit on Thursday, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive personnel decision. Stiegler would remain a prosecutor with the of

  3. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Ellie Rushing

    Police find more photos of women who appear dead in pornographer R.C. Horsch’s home, bringing the number of missing to 7 (opens the original)

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    Police have recovered images they believe show two additional women dead inside the residence of the late Raymond “R.C.” Horsch, officials said Wednesday — bringing the total number of dead or missing women linked to the violent pornographer’s Olney twin home to seven. The discovery marked the latest turn in a sprawling local and federal investigation into the drug, sex, and porn operation Horsch ran out of his home. Horsch left behind a digital archive of more than a million photos and

  4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Ellie Rushing

    At 17, he killed a 14-year-old outside Roxborough High — and then killed again. He faces decades in prison. (opens the original)

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    A 21-year-old man was ordered to spend decades in prison for killing two teens in 2022 and 2023 — including firing dozens of bullets outside Roxborough High School in a shooting that left a 14-year-old dead and four other teens seriously wounded. Following an emotional sentencing hearing Friday, Common Pleas Court Judge J. Scott O’Keefe ordered Zaakir McClendon to serve 40 to 80 years in prison for his part in the shootings that killed Nicolas Elizalde and Nafis Betrand-Hill seven months apa

  5. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Ellie Rushing

    Nicole Fusaro, missing since 2018, identified as woman who police believe Raymond Horsch killed (opens the original)

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    The woman who police believe was killed by pornographer Raymond Horsch on camera has been identified by family members and law enforcement sources as Nicole Amanda Fusaro, who has been missing since July 2018. Fusaro was 27 when she was last seen in Kensington, and after she disappeared, her mother, Diane, combed the streets of the Philadelphia neighborhood looking for her only child. Diane died in January 2020 without answers, and Fusaro’s father, Thomas, had died in 2009. That left Fusaro’

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