Former New Britain Township Police Chief Robert Scafidi said he arrested Raymond "RC" Horsch at a Chalfont home in 2009 and found firearms and female IDs in the basement.

That arrest has drawn renewed attention. Philadelphia police announced Sept. 17 that seven missing women have been linked to a property in the city's Olney neighborhood connected to Horsch and his son, Eugene Horsch, 44. Five of those women appeared injured, lifeless or possibly deceased in digital images and videos recovered from the home, police said at a Sept. 17 press conference, according to NBC10 Philadelphia.

Before moving to Olney, the Horsches lived in Chalfont, Bucks County. Scafidi told 6ABC that a woman's call to police about noises at the home led to a search warrant and the discovery of nearly 200 marijuana plants in the basement. Investigators also found guns and identification documents belonging to multiple women.

"The DA's office took them and were going to follow up," Scafidi told 6ABC. "I really don't know what happened after that."

Raymond Horsch was taken into federal custody after the 2009 arrest. Court documents show he received a 54-month federal prison sentence but got credit for time served in Bucks County jail. Scafidi said Horsch "always got light sentences for some reason."

Raymond Horsch died in 2025 at age 82. Investigators described him as a photographer and filmmaker who produced violent fetish films, NBC10 Philadelphia reported.

One of the seven women linked to the investigation, Amy McHale, was previously married to Raymond Horsch. McHale was 44 when she was last seen in 2016 at the Chew Avenue home in Olney, 6ABC reported. Bucks County neighbors told 6ABC they remembered seeing McHale in Chalfont.

Chalfont neighbor Kimberly Rissinger told 6ABC that Horsch would leave his house late at night and bring women back from the city. She said children in the neighborhood called him the "porn-o" man and knew to stay away.

Philadelphia police said investigators have not searched the former Chalfont property. Neighbor Emily DiDomenico told 6ABC she found that troubling.

"I do question why they haven't looked at the Chalfont house honestly, that's his origin story," DiDomenico said.

The current homeowners of the former Chalfont property told 6ABC that a large safe is built into the basement foundation. The homeowners said it appeared large enough to hold four to five people and existed when Horsch lived there. The basement has since been renovated and the area around the safe sealed off.

Philadelphia police have executed nearly 100 search warrants on the Olney home, according to 6ABC. Investigators recovered more than one million digital images and videos, and the FBI has increased the number of agents assigned to help review them. A late June search of the Chew Avenue residence also turned up falsified law enforcement credentials, urns believed to contain cremated human remains, and containers of unidentified chemicals sent to a federal lab in Chicago for testing.

Eugene Horsch faces federal charges of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, including one with an obliterated serial number, and possessing fake DEA and FBI credentials. Pennsylvania prosecutors withdrew all five state charges against him at an Aug. 6 hearing, NBC10 reported. No charges related to the missing women have been filed. A federal jury trial is scheduled for January 2027.

Authorities said they plan to return to the Chew Avenue property later in September with an additional search warrant.

Anyone with information can call the Philadelphia Police Department tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477) or reach a Homicide Unit investigator at 215-686-3334.