The Olney Father’s Book Described THIS Before Investigators Found the Chemicals

In 2014, Raymond “R.C.” Horsch published a book called Empathy: The Memoir of an Empathetic Serial Killer. He described strangling a woman named “Krista,” driving to an industrial supplier off Packer Avenue, buying a drum of sodium hydroxide, and using forty pounds of lye to dissolve her in a basement bathtub. He said it was fiction.

R.C. died in May 2025. He was eighty-two. Never charged with a violent crime. His son Eugene—born in New Zealand while R.C. was a fugitive living under a stolen identity—inherited the house at 417 West Chew Avenue in Philadelphia’s Olney neighb...