# Kensington serial killer probe

True crime · Heat 7.3 / 10 · 3 shows · 33m airtime

Philadelphia police said on September 29, 2026 that they may have uncovered a serial killer, naming R.C. Horsch, accused of preying on sex workers battling addiction in Kensington by trading housing and drugs for appearances in his films. Investigators have recovered over a million pieces of digital evidence and identified 58 people from the images, including one showing Horsch strangling a woman with a zip tie. Recent searches deployed dogs trained to find hidden digital storage, and a hidden safe was found at the Philadelphia house that investigators say could unlock secrets. No charges or court record have been detailed, and the case remains at the level of the accusation and the investigation.

Page: https://boilpoints.com/point/kensington_serial_killer_probe_1751528736

## Segments

- [The Fox News Rundown](https://boilpoints.com/u/thefoxnewsrundown), 2026-09-29, 0:13 to 0:43: **Details the Kensington suspect and the accusations**. Opens the story with the police suspicion and the accusation against R.C. Horsch: women in Kensington, sex workers battling addiction, offered housing and drugs for roles in his pornographic films. New angle: Philadelphia police believe they may have uncovered a serial killer and name R.C. Horsch as the accused.
- [The Fox News Rundown](https://boilpoints.com/u/thefoxnewsrundown), 2026-09-29, 0:19 to 7:28: **Goes inside the search of Horsch's home**. Goes inside the federal search of R.C. Horsch's Philadelphia home: more than a million pieces of digital evidence, 58 people identified from the images, seven missing women of whom five are believed dead, and a photo police say shows Horsch strangling a woman with a zip tie. Also traces the case back to the June park-ranger stop of Eugene Horsch. New angle: Investigators recovered over a million pieces of digital evidence and identified 58 people from the images, including one showing R.C. Horsch strangling a woman with a zip tie.
- [Surviving the Survivor](https://boilpoints.com/u/survivingthesurvivor), 2026-10-16, 17:39 to 20:40: **Details the digital archive and storage dogs**. Walks through the scale of the seized digital archive - a million-plus items, 600,000 to 700,000 photos, 70,000 videos, thousands of pages - and adds that digital storage detection dogs were deployed to find hidden devices. New angle: Digital storage detection dogs were deployed in recent searches to locate hidden electronic devices.
- [Surviving the Survivor](https://boilpoints.com/u/survivingthesurvivor), 2026-10-20, 8:49 to 12:31: **Adds the hidden safe and the Horsch family**. Introduces Raymond Horsch and his son Eugene, then goes to the newly reported hidden safe at the Philadelphia house and how a lead detective would process it. The safe is a development not yet on the record; the rest is background on the case. New angle: Investigators discovered a hidden safe at the Philadelphia house that they say could unlock secrets.
- [Surviving the Survivor](https://boilpoints.com/u/survivingthesurvivor), 2026-10-20, 15:33 to 21:15: **Explains how the hidden safe gets processed**. Brings in a retired investigator to walk through how the hidden safe would be processed - DNA swabs on the dial and handle versus dusting the face, then getting it open - and compares it to a safe drilled out of a concrete slab in an old narcotics case. Explains the mechanics; adds no development.
- [Surviving the Survivor](https://boilpoints.com/u/survivingthesurvivor), 2026-10-20, 21:15 to 24:06: **Predicts the victim count will grow**. Speculates that the victim count will grow well past seven, given Horsch's age at death and the 2012 missing-person reports tied to the house. It stays inside the case's existing facts and adds only the hosts' predictions.
- [Surviving the Survivor](https://boilpoints.com/u/survivingthesurvivor), 2026-10-20, 28:31 to 33:32: **Explains luminol and scene control with the FBI**. Phil Waters walks through scene control with the FBI and ATF and explains that luminol and Blue Star can still surface blood from years earlier for DNA recovery. It retells the luminol search already on the record and stays inside the investigators' own experience.
- [Surviving the Survivor](https://boilpoints.com/u/survivingthesurvivor), 2026-10-20, 36:45 to 39:44: **Recaps the evidence haul and the day job**. Recaps the digital evidence haul - a million images, 600,000 photos, 70,000 videos, 58 people identified - and asks how investigators get through it. Phil Ramos answers with Horsch's day job as a pornographer and a detour into 1970s vice-unit snuff film searches.
- [48 Hours](https://boilpoints.com/u/48hours), 2026-10-30, 28:59 to 31:15: **Recaps the digital evidence and the 58 identified**. Recaps the digital evidence trove and the 58 people identified from the images, with an FBI clip on how hard confident determinations are. Stays inside what the September briefing already put on the record.