R. C. Hörsch

He had numerous criminal convictions, including for drug manufacturing and forgery. Criticism of his work condemns the exploitation of his subjects. In June 2016, his ex-wife Amy McHale, to whom he was married between 2004 and 2008, disappeared. In 2026, his former residence was searched by police and linked to the disappearance and implied murder of at least two missing women.

• Name — R. C. Hörsch • Birth Name — Raymond Charles Hörsch • Born — 5 May 1943 • Birthplace — East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States • Died — May 2025 (age 81 or 82) • Occupation — * Writer • Pornographic film director • Spouse — (her death) • Relatives — * Eugene Albert Horsch (son) • Conviction — * Counterfeiting • Manufacture of methamphetamine • cannabis cultivation • Victims — 2 (suspected)

• Illustration — R. C. Hörsch circa 2014 R. C. Hörsch was born in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania on May 5, 1943. In 1968, he operated an avant-garde cinema known as “Underground Cinema 16” or "Roxy", which was later shut down for operating without a license. He later directed films, beginning with The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist in 1973, continuing to release films until shortly before his death.

In 1973, he pleaded guilty to passing bad checks in North Carolina. In 1974, he was charged with "passing nearly $180,000 in fake 10-dollar bills and possessing phony driver’s licenses." In 1977, police raided his home and discovered equipment that they alleged was used in the manufacture of methamphetamine. Hörsch fled to New Zealand, and stole the identity of a Stanley E. Stokowski and even found work at an ethanol plant there. Later he returned to California and lived under the alias “Richard Harris”. He was captured in Florida in 1985, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. In 2009 he was charged with growing over 450 cannabis plants, with two shotguns also confiscated. He was subsequently sentenced to 54 months in prison and released in 2013. According to Philadelphia Inquirer, Raymond Horsch was also the alleged Wikipedia user, "S.E.Stokowski", behind the creation of and subsequent 150 plus revisions of namesake Wikipedia entry between 2014 and 2021.

Horsch was married at least three times. In 1964, he married his high school sweetheart, who left him in 1970. In 1980, he married Anna Ferkuniak in Nevada while using the alias Stokowski. They had a son, Eugene. Ferkuniak died in 1989. In 2004, he married Amy McHale. They divorced in 2008, though they stayed close. McHale went missing in 2016. Horsch died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in May 2025, at the age of 82.

In 2026, an ongoing investigation was started by the Philadelphia Police Department involving evidence recovered from his former house in the Olney section of Philadelphia after the arrest of his son, Eugene, on gun and drug allegations. A federal grand jury later indicted Eugene on charges of possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of an unlawfully produced document and authentication feature. Pennsylvania prosecutors withdrew five state charges on August 6.

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