The late owner of a Philadelphia “house of horrors,” where police recovered videos depicting the abuse and alleged strangulation of missing women, left behind a self-published manifesto filled with climate dread and diversity sermons, along with a semi-autobiographical novel in which the narrator declares, “I am a murderer,” the New York Post reports.
The Post obtained the 230-page 2023 book, “Worldview: A User’s Guide to the Human Brain,” written by suspected serial killer Raymond “RC” Horsch before it was pulled from booksellers. Horsch, a pornographer and self-described artist, died last year at 82. He is now linked by investigators to the disappearance of at least seven women.
In the book, Horsch calls humans “an insignificant lifeform” and devotes a full chapter to ending racism. “Every mention or reference to racial characteristics or race is, by definition and without exception, racist,” he wrote. He also described humanity in environmental terms: “The human species is analogous to a cancer,” lamenting “the effects of resource rape, pollution and carbon emission.”
Investigators are also combing through at least three works of fiction Horsch self-published in 2013 and 2014. In one, “Empathy: The Memoir of an Empathic Serial Killer,” the narrator kills a woman named Krista whom he meets in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, an area the real Horsch was known to frequent. “I am a murderer,” the narrator says. “I crush her trachea. I feel her hyoid crack and collapse.” The book goes on to describe disposing of the body in a bathtub using lye, and the narrator hints that he suffocated his elderly mother with a hospital pillow.
The federal and local investigation began after Horsch’s son, Eugene, was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in June 2026 and a female companion produced the ID of a missing woman. A search of the family’s Chew Avenue home in the Olney neighborhood turned up more than a million pieces of graphic digital evidence, chemical equipment and weapons, according to the report. Authorities also recovered urns containing ashes and containers of an unknown oily substance. No physical human remains have been positively identified so far.
The recordings include footage tied to Nicole Fusaro, who went missing in 2018. Law enforcement has named five missing women with ties to Horsch: Gabrielle Amarando, missing since 2012 at age 22; Maribel Fresses, 26, and Fusaro, 27, both missing since 2018; Blair Tonzelli, 35, missing since 2023; and Horsch’s ex-wife, Amy McHale, 44, missing since 2016.
The Post also found that for more than 40 years Horsch used the stolen identity of a real Stanford-trained physicist, Dr. Stanley Stokowski. He first used the name in the 1980s to land a job at a chemical plant in New Zealand while on the run from U.S. authorities after jumping bail on a 1977 meth lab bust. He was captured there in 1984. Later, the name surfaced as an online account praising Horsch’s own work.
The real Stokowski, now 83, told the Post he learned of the theft decades ago from a reporter at the New Zealand Herald. “I hate to have my name attached to his, but it’s a done deal,” he said.
In a 2006 interview with the UK’s Bizarre magazine, Horsch described himself as “an empathetic, caring sexual predator.”