# Bones at Chew Avenue

True crime · Heat 7.7 / 10 · 3 shows · 41m airtime

On October 15, 2026, investigators found bones buried about three feet deep in the backyard of 417 West Chew Avenue in Philadelphia's Olney section, the property of Raymond R.C. Horsch, who died in 2025. The search has since turned up a makeshift crematorium and blue barrels of alkaline solution, a safe containing documents hidden behind a wall, and a letter referencing serial killer Ted Bundy. More than 95 search warrants have been executed in connection with the house. Whether the bones are human and tied to the missing women remains unconfirmed.

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## Segments

- [Surviving the Survivor](https://boilpoints.com/u/survivingthesurvivor), 2026-10-16, 1:33 to 6:38: **Reports bones found in the Chew Avenue yard**. Reports the October 15 discovery of bones buried about three feet deep in the backyard at 417 West Chew Avenue, the medical examiner's callout, and the plan to keep digging through the week of October 21. Also recaps the June 19 arrest and the Luminol and DNA work inside the house. New angle: Bones were found about three feet deep in the backyard at 417 West Chew Avenue on October 15, 2026.
- [Surviving the Survivor](https://boilpoints.com/u/survivingthesurvivor), 2026-10-20, 24:06 to 28:26: **Adds the crematorium and alkaline barrels**. Takes up the bones found at the property and adds what the panel says investigators reported: a makeshift crematorium and blue barrels of alkaline solution. Ramos explains how an anthropologist sorts human from animal bone and how ground-penetrating radar reads disturbed soil. New angle: Investigators reported a makeshift crematorium and blue barrels of alkaline solution at the house.
- [Surviving the Survivor](https://boilpoints.com/u/survivingthesurvivor), 2026-10-20, 33:32 to 36:43: **Reads the excavation photos as organized**. Reads the excavation photos and describes the grid of blue tabs marking each team's assigned area, arguing the scene looks organized rather than chaotic. Observation and opinion on the search already on the record, with no new development.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-10-22, 0:01 to 2:39: **Previews the panel and Horsch's own words**. Opens the episode with the backyard bone dig, crediting KYW and WHYY, and previews the panel. It retells the excavation already on the record and adds only Horsch's own on-camera self-description as a sociopath.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-10-22, 2:39 to 4:24: **Reports a hidden safe at the dig**. Dave Mack reports from the Chew Avenue dig: excavation equipment has found bones in the backyard, the dig is about 50 percent complete, and a safe holding documents was found hidden behind a wall inside the house. New angle: A safe containing documents was found hidden behind a wall inside the Chew Avenue house.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-10-22, 9:26 to 15:06: **Explains how examiners sort animal bones**. Uses the Lori Vallow and Keely Anthony cases to explain how medical examiners separate animal bones from human bones at a dig, then returns to the Chew Avenue excavation - three feet deep, nine segments, an eight-foot brick-lined pit. Background and method, not a new development.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-10-22, 15:06 to 18:36: **Adds a psychologist reading the burials**. Brings on a clinical psychologist to interpret the backyard burials, arguing they show control and dehumanization of victims drawn from Kensington's vulnerable population. Analysis and opinion on the excavation, not a new development in it.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-10-22, 18:25 to 25:53: **Interviews Fusaro's cousin on the notification**. Brings on Nicole Fusaro's cousin, who recounts the next-of-kin notification, the victim resources packet and the detectives' refusal to hear his leads, then describes learning the video's details from the press conference. Personal testimony about the case, not a new development in the excavation.
- [48 Hours](https://boilpoints.com/u/48hours), 2026-10-30, 1:10 to 3:23: **Adds the Bundy letter found in the house**. Opens the episode with Amy McHale's daughter and mother, who describe how Raymond Horsch met Amy and brought her home. It adds one piece of physical evidence to the record: a letter referencing Ted Bundy found in the house. New angle: A letter referencing serial killer Ted Bundy was found in the Chew Avenue house.
- [48 Hours](https://boilpoints.com/u/48hours), 2026-10-30, 12:41 to 15:11: **Reads Horsch's books for the allegations**. Walks through Horsch's books and films as a window into the allegations: the Empathy blurb, the claim in one book that he strangled a woman and broke her body down with chemicals in his basement, and Tonzelli's remark about a man talking of melting bodies. Stays inside the liquid-cremation thread already on the record.
- [48 Hours](https://boilpoints.com/u/48hours), 2026-10-30, 19:51 to 21:01: **Adds the 95 search warrants as a hedge**. Adds a procedural figure to the Chew Avenue search: more than 95 search warrants executed, framed as a hedge against suppression given an unknown number of incidents over perhaps a decade. Stays with the excavation story rather than the arrest or the video material. New angle: More than 95 search warrants have been executed in connection with the Chew Avenue house.
- [48 Hours](https://boilpoints.com/u/48hours), 2026-10-30, 26:21 to 28:05: **Confirms the bones were animal and DNA pending**. Walks through the yard excavation and the luminol treatment in the basement, confirming the recovered bones were animal and that DNA results are still pending. Stays inside the search coverage already on the record.