A disturbing investigation into possible serial killings could become even more sinister if authorities determine that gruesome images found inside the home of a deceased pornographer were shared with a broader underground audience, a prominent police and forensic psychologist said.

Raymond “RC” Horsch, 82, produced pornography and books centered on violent themes before his death last year. The case took a troubling turn in June, when his 44-year-old son, Eugene Horsch, was arrested on allegations involving illegal firearms and forgery. A subsequent search of the family property on West Chew Avenue in Philadelphia’s Olney neighborhood uncovered a series of disturbing items.

Investigators may also find that so-called snuff films were distributed through underground networks of people interested in that kind of material.

Among the evidence reportedly recovered were videos described as possible “snuff” footage, including images believed to show several missing women, as well as a barrel of chemicals connected to the home’s water system.

“The father’s involvement in pornography raises the possibility that, beyond the sadistic motives often associated with serial murders, there could also have been a financial motive tied to distributing alleged snuff films,” said Dr. Kris Mohandie, a board-certified forensic psychologist.

Police have connected the Olney property to investigations involving seven missing women. Authorities believe at least five of them may be dead, though no homicide charges had been filed as of Friday.

RC Horsch, who had a conviction for producing methamphetamine, also wrote sexually explicit books featuring violence. His 2014 title, “Empathy,” includes a chapter describing how a murdered woman’s body could be dissolved using boiling chemicals.

Amazon and Goodreads removed the book from their listings Friday.

Philadelphia police say they recovered more than 1 million digital files, including photographs and videos, from the residence. Investigators had examined fewer than one-third of them by Friday, but officials reportedly recognized four of the missing women in the material.

Two of the women have been publicly named as Gabrielle Amarando and Maribel Fresses.

Mohandie said the nature of the video evidence was especially troubling.

“In addition to the horrific crimes allegedly connected to this case — including abduction, rape and torture, acts often associated with sadistic offenders — investigators may also be examining whether alleged snuff films were supplied to underground networks,” Mohandie said. “That is frightening, and I hope investigators can answer those questions.”

Authorities have also alleged that, when Eugene Horsch was arrested in the spring, a woman who was with him possessed identification belonging to one of the missing women.

Search crews have been examining the area around and beneath the property, including nearby sewer lines, as the investigation continues.

The younger Horsch has not been charged in connection with the missing women.

The investigation remains ongoing.

The mother of a Michigan toddler killed by a car says she is devastated after prosecutors decided the driver will not face criminal charges.

Jessica Fernandez said she has been left with painful unanswered questions following the decision not to pursue charges against the driver who struck and killed her two-year-old son, Darwin Olson.

Darwin was hit at about 5am on March 19 outside his grandmother’s home in Ironwood, Michigan. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Fernandez told KBTX that Darwin had spent the previous evening at her mother’s house. She said she woke to a 7am phone call asking whether she had already arrived to collect him.

When Fernandez replied that she had not, she said her mother screamed over the phone and told her Darwin was missing.

Fernandez rushed to the house but was stopped by emergency barricades and police officers at the scene. She said she immediately feared the child was her son.

“I got out of the vehicle and I said, ‘Is he OK?’ And (an officer) told me, ‘No, he’s not.’ And I said, ‘Is he alive?’ And he told me, ‘No,’” Fernandez recalled.

The Gogebic County Prosecutor’s Office said its review found that the child had been left “unattended.” Images from the scene also showed heavy snowfall in the area where the collision occurred.

Prosecutors announced this week that they would not file charges against the driver, a decision Fernandez said she could not understand.

“That’s the biggest thing is just I have all these questions, and it feels that no one wants to answer them for me,” the mother said.

Fernandez said the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Office did not disclose the driver’s identity. She said officials told her only that the driver was a man and described the type of car involved.

The sheriff’s office disputed this to KBTX, and said a full police report with the driver’s identity was given to Fernandez’s attorney. 

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Gogebic County Sheriff Jorge Cruz said investigators conducted a comprehensive inquiry, including an examination of “the circumstances in which the toddler was unattended.”

The Daily Mail has contacted the sheriff’s office for comment.

Prosecutors ultimately declined to bring charges, but Fernandez said officials’ explanation did not satisfy her.

“Their words were that he didn’t think he could win the case,” she said.

‘When I called, he had told me that they didn’t present anything criminal with my son’s case.’

The decision sparked outrage in the area, and a protest and candlelight vigil was held outside the Gogebic County courthouse. 

Protesters were seen at the vigil with signs reading, ‘Justice for Darwin.’ 

Fernandez said she has been left heartbroken. ‘I just miss him all around,’ she said of her son. 

‘I’ll never get to see those milestones or anything that you would hope to see when your child grows up.’

Jimmy Fallon reached a “Fever Pitch” of celebration at the Manhattan pub, capping his bachelor party with an unexpected kiss for the owner.

The Mean Fiddler is marking two decades in the Theater District, celebrating its lively past and the long list of celebrities who have passed through its doors — sometimes on their feet, and occasionally less steadily. Among them is the “Tonight Show” host.

Fallon spent his 2007 bachelor party watching a UFC bout with roughly 25 friends and relatives, including his brothers, brother-in-law and father-in-law. The group gathered in the pub’s downstairs bar, where another customer was celebrating her 30th birthday.

As the evening came to a close, Fallon walked over and kissed co-owner Patrick McNamee on the lips. “I’m like, ‘Oh my God, this is the first time a guy ever kissed me,’” McNamee recalled.

Fallon then told him, “Man, I love you. This place rocks.”

“That’s my favorite part of the story,” Patrick’s brother Mike said. Fallon stayed with the birthday crowd, drank with them, played beer pong and eventually joined in for karaoke.

The McNamee brothers, who grew up in Dublin, Ireland, opened the pub in 2006 at West 47th Street and Eighth Avenue. The location had previously housed Stella’s, which Patrick described as a “raunchy gay bar.” Since then, the brothers have poured drinks for a steady stream of famous visitors.

“Bono came in with Johnny Depp, hammered,” said Patrick, 60.

Pierce Brosnan was another regular, often sitting at the bar to write. Patrick once asked why actors tended to sit on bar stools turned at a 45-degree angle. Brosnan explained that the position helped keep people from recognizing them — prompting Patrick to ask whether he had learned the trick in acting school.

Before the brothers renovated The Mean Fiddler in 2019, the pub welcomed even more celebrity visitors. The McNamees have since expanded their Manhattan hospitality empire with 11 additional bars and restaurants.

“I know it sounds crazy, but the more dive-bar-like we were, the more celebrities seemed to come in,” said Mike, 51.

“We still see famous people, just not at the same level as we used to.”

Broadway performers, sports fans and celebrities frequently stop by before or after shows and events at Madison Square Garden.

Mark Cuban, the billionaire and minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was a familiar sight whenever his team faced the Knicks at MSG. During those visits, he could transform the bar into what Patrick called a full-scale dance club.

“He’s the nicest guy ever,” Patrick said enthusiastically.

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Whenever the Mavericks were in town, Cuban would reportedly visit every night, buy drinks for the room, hand the DJ $400 and take over the music with his own playlist. “The place would be pumping,” Patrick said.

Cuban also joined customers for beer pong and pool, Mike added. He usually arrived with friends, often women, and tended to appear late at night.

Not every celebrity guest embraced the pub’s party atmosphere. Patrick remembered one particularly serious visitor: “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage.

“He is not a happy guy,” Patrick said.

Dinklage had arrived with a striking six-foot-tall woman when one customer approached and asked, “Any chance I can have a photograph? It’s just for my kids?”

After Dinklage flat out denied the fan, Patrick called him out on his inhospitable behavior.

“I turned around and I said to him, ‘You’re big right now, but remember in 10 years from now, you’ll be wishing you did that photograph.’”

Most of the selfies taken with celebrities at The Fiddler were captured by its former security manager, Alex Serrano, because the owners prefer not to bother them.

Patrick, who worked at the now-shuttered Mickey Mantles Restaurant on Central Park South, said he learned not to pester stars when they come in to unwind after watching the baseball legend get bombarded for photos and autographs.

“Mantle would be in the middle of his chicken fried steak and people would come over once, twice, I’d say three times,” he recalled.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the bar is going back to its original, 2006 prices on the week of Sept. 21, so cocktails such as a cosmopolitan and an appletini will be marked down to $8 and shots like the red headed slut will cost $6.

After its staff recovers from that celebration, they will be gearing up for the bar’s favorite holiday — Halloween.

That night, the place is full of A-listers in costume, so customers can’t recognize them. But Patrick checks IDs at the door — so he knows their true identities.

“We have Oscar winners, I won’t name the Spider-Man … they come in, I pick up their ID, and I look at it. But I won’t say a word. The same guys come back every year, different disguises,” he said.

A Missouri woman has been federally charged in Texas after allegedly issuing threats against the family of Austin Metcalf following Karmelo Anthony’s conviction in the teenager’s death.

Sharifa Nicole Henderson, 34, was taken into custody in Kansas City on Sept. 11, two days after a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas returned an indictment accusing her of three counts of transmitting threats across state lines.

Anthony’s trial ended June 9. Prosecutors allege Henderson made three separate threats against the Metcalf family in the days immediately after the verdict.

According to the indictment, Henderson sent one family member a Facebook Messenger message on June 10 threatening to kill them and place them in a body bag. She allegedly followed the threat by writing, “now this is a threat take me to court [expletive].”

Later that same day, Henderson allegedly contacted the Collin County government, which prosecuted Anthony, and said she would “demolish” the Metcalf family and “strangle” one of its members, court documents state.

Prosecutors say Henderson sent a third threat to a Metcalf family member through Facebook Messenger on June 11.

“Don’t worry I’ll kill you next,” she allegedly wrote, according to the indictment. “I will hunt you forever until I kill you…I will be there. You will always have to look over your [expletive] shoulder.”

Each charge carries a potential sentence of up to five years in federal prison if Henderson is convicted.

Jeff Metcalf, Austin’s father, recently told FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth that the family has faced more than 100 threats since the murder trial concluded.

The case attracted national attention and became deeply charged along racial lines. Anthony’s supporters questioned the absence of Black jurors and urged an acquittal, while supporters of the Metcalf family gathered outside the courthouse demanding justice.

Anthony, now 19, was convicted more than a year after 17-year-old Metcalf was fatally stabbed during a regional high school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, on April 2, 2025.

Investigators said Anthony, who attended Centennial High School at the time, approached the Memorial High School team’s tent and sat beneath it.

Metcalf, a Memorial High School student, allegedly told Anthony to leave. Prosecutors argued that the confrontation escalated after Anthony provoked the encounter, ending when Metcalf was stabbed in the chest.

Surveillance video released later appeared to show Anthony fleeing the tent. Police reports obtained by News Media say Anthony told officers during his arrest, “I’m not alleged, I did it.”

Authorities later reported finding no indication that the two teenagers had known each other before the track meet.

A Collin County jury sentenced Anthony to 35 years in prison. A judge rejected his request for a new trial last month, but his family is preparing to pursue another appeal.

A Pennsylvania judge ruled Friday that a criminal case tied to the 2024 death of 18-year-old college football player Calvin “CJ” Dickey Jr. can move forward against one of his former Bucknell University coaches.

Mark Kulbis, Bucknell’s former strength and conditioning coach, is set to face trial on a felony aggravated hazing charge. He is also charged with misdemeanor involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and hazing in connection with Dickey’s death.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday described the ruling as a significant development in the case. “This was an important step in the prosecution process and in our continued pursuit of justice for a young man who died tragically due to the defendant’s conduct,” Sunday said in a department statement.

Senior Deputy Attorney General Jaime Keating will lead the prosecution of Kulbis. Through his attorney, the former coach has denied being responsible for the tragedy.

According to the attorney general’s office, Dickey was a freshman in July 2024 when Kulbis directed him and other Bucknell football players to complete 100 “up-downs,” commonly known as burpees, as well as full-body plank exercises. Dickey had sickle-cell trait, a condition that can heighten the danger of severe injury or death after extreme physical exertion.

When charges were first announced in July, Dickey’s father, Calvin Dickey Sr. of Land O’ Lakes, Florida, said the family was relieved that someone was being called to account. “We’re at the point where we’re just glad that someone is being held responsible for our son’s death,” he told The Associated Press by phone. “We just want to see the process through, and we’re going to leave it to the attorney general to continue following the evidence.”

Kulbis’ lawyer, Barbara Zemlock, has maintained that her client did not cause Dickey’s death. “While the death of Calvin Dickey is tragic, Mark Kulbis did not contribute to it and is not responsible for it,” Zemlock said in a written statement. She added that the strength and conditioning program used was appropriate, consistent with Kulbis’ training and aligned with applicable standards.

Sickle-cell trait is identified through a blood test and typically does not interfere with day-to-day life. However, intense exercise, dehydration and elevated body temperatures can reduce blood flow and trigger muscle breakdown. In extremely rare instances, those complications can lead to a collapse and death.

After other deaths involving athletes with sickle-cell trait, the NCAA in 2010 began requiring that new Division I athletes be tested for the condition and alerting coaches that athletes with it should slowly build up their intensity while training and be provided adequate rest and recovery.

Dickey, who was 6ft 5in (195 cm) and nearly 300 pounds (136 kg), had grown up playing sports and by his junior year of high school decided to focus on football, his parents said. He played both offensive and defensive lineman, meaning he was often in for the vast majority of the game.

According to a federal lawsuit they filed against Bucknell last year, they did not know he had sickle-cell trait until he took the mandatory screening just weeks before training camp. Calvin Dickey Sr. said that the day before camp was to start, he received assurances from the offensive line coach that his son would be protected.

But Dickey Jr. started struggling and passed out while doing exercises that Kulbis had assigned as a punishment for the players not performing drills correctly, the lawsuit said.

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‘Upon information and belief, the up-downs were intended to serve as a punishment for all or some of the Bucknell freshman football players, including CJ,’ read the lawsuit, obtained by The Daily Mail.

He was hospitalized and died two days later.

The lawsuit also accuses the school of failing to be properly prepared in the event of such an emergency.

‘Although the NCAA requires college sports facilities to have Emergency Action Plans (‘EAPs’) designed to respond to emergencies such as the incident involving CJ, and requires that the EAPs be rehearsed by all coaches, trainers, and university employees, Defendant Bucknell did not have the required EAPs and therefore could not and had not rehearsed the EAPs,’ the complaint read.

Bucknell has declined to comment on the pending litigation.

‘The death of a student is always a tragic loss,’ Bucknell said in an April 2025 statement. ‘While the University will not comment on pending litigation, we again extend heartfelt sympathies to CJ’s family, and we will continue to focus on our most important priority — the health and safety of all Bucknell students.’

While it is rare for coaches to be charged criminally in cases where athletes collapse and die, there are several examples.

In Georgia, a girls basketball coach and an assistant coach were charged with murder after 16-year-old Imani Bell suffered heat stroke and died in 2019 during a training session that was held outdoors despite a heat advisory being in effect. That case remains pending. The school district settled the family’s lawsuit for $10 million and agreed to rename the gym in her honor.

In 2009, a former Kentucky high school football coach was acquitted of reckless homicide and endangerment charges in the heatstroke death of 15-year-old Max Gilpin. Defense attorneys argued that Gilpin’s medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder had caused him to overheat.

Dickey Sr. and his wife, Nicole Dickey, said their son loved playing football, but he planned to use his scholarship to Bucknell to receive an education that would eventually help him work in pharmacy. He became enamored of the field after speaking to a family friend who worked as a hospital pharmacist, they said.

Since his death, they have channeled their grief into a foundation that helps raise awareness about sickle cell trait in athletes and promotes the health of student-athletes. It provides scholarships and hosts a program for football linemen called ’50 Cal Big Man Camp,’ after the number he wore.

‘Those are the kind of things right now that bring a smile to my face and touch my heart,’ Nicole Dickey told The Associated Press in July. ‘We want to protect the next generation and share what we’ve learned.’