R. C. Hörsch

R. C. Hörsch was born in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, on May 5, 1943.^[8] In October 1969 he opened an avant-garde cinema, the Underground Cinema 16, in a former live theater at 2021 Sansom Street in Philadelphia, as part of a plan to finance a film. Within two weeks, the cinema was closed for operating without a license.^[9] The cinema reopened, and later became the Roxy. He later directed films, beginning with The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist in 1973, continuing to release films until shortly before his death.^[2]

In 1973, he pleaded guilty to passing bad checks in North Carolina.^[2] In December 1974, he was arrested in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, for passing counterfeit 10-dollar bills, he was driving a stolen car with a fraudulent registration and driver's license. The Secret Service raided Hörsch's home in Chalfont, Pennsylvania, allegedly where the bills were being made, where they arrested an accomplice and seized $180,000 in fake bills along with fake drivers' licenses and registrations. He was charged with theft by deception and for making the counterfeit bills.^[10]

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 found work at an ethanol plant there.^[11]

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, and had two shotguns also confiscated. He was subsequently sentenced to 54 months in prison and released in 2013.^[2]

Hörsch 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.^[12] In 2004, he married Amy McHale. They divorced in 2008, though they stayed close. McHale went missing in 2016.^[13]

According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Raymond Hörsch was also the alleged Wikipedia editor, "S. E. Stokowski", behind the creation of and subsequent 150-plus revisions of his namesake Wikipedia article between 2014 and 2021.^[14]

Hörsch died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in May 2025, at the age of 82.^[2]

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.^[15] 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.^[2]

On August 28, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that police believe video recovered from the house shows R. C. Hörsch killing a woman. The police have not found a body.^[16] The video shows Hörsch tightening a zip tie around a woman's neck until she passes out. The woman was identified by a family member as Nicole Fusaro, who has been missing since 2018.^[17]

• The Mammouth Book of Erotic Photography, Maxim Jakubowski (editor), Running Press; Fourth Edition (October 1, 2013), ISBN 978-0762449446
• The Mammouth Book of Erotic Women, Maxim Jakubowski (editor), Running Press; 1ST edition (October 19, 2005), ISBN 978-0786716029
• Photo Sex, David Steinberg (editor), Down There Press, San Francisco, 2003, ISBN 978-0940208322
• Sex in the City – An Illustrated History, by Alison Maddox with foreword by Camille Paglia, Rizzoli Universe Publishing (February 14, 2006), ISBN 978-0789315076
• Empathy: The Memoir of an Empathetic Serial Killer (2014). ISBN 9781492890553.^[18]
• Annie (2014), with Anna M. Ferkuniak. ISBN 978-1-4929-7105-4.^[19]
• Transgressions (2014). ISBN 9781493512454.^[20]
• Slaves (2014). ISBN 9781492177180.^[21]