Overview
- Investigators announced on Wednesday that images and videos recovered from a hard drive at 417 Chew Avenue appear to show Maribel Fresses and Gabrielle Amarando alive in the house and later appearing deceased, and the victims’ families have been notified.
- The Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s office said it would believe the individuals in the images are deceased but cannot issue death certificates without recovered remains or body parts.
- The probe began after a U.S. Park Ranger stopped a BMW on June 19 and found Eugene Horsch with counterfeit credentials, firearms and drugs, which led detectives to execute scores of search warrants at the Olney property.
- Searches of the three‑story home produced about 600,000 images, 70,000 videos, more than 10,000 pages of writing, five urns believed to hold cremated remains, over 20 containers of unknown chemicals, weapons, and evidence of a grow operation with some samples sent to a Chicago lab for testing.
- Horsch remains in federal custody on weapons and related charges while homicide detectives, the FBI and lab teams continue slow, resource‑intensive digital forensics, excavation and chemical analysis before prosecutors can seek any homicide charges.