Amy McHale

Amy McHale was the third wife of the Philadelphia pornographer and filmmaker R.C. Horsch, from 2004 to 2008, and appeared in his films. She was last heard from at the Horsch house at 417 West Chew Avenue in the Olney section of Philadelphia on June 14, 2016, in her mid-forties, and remains missing. Her disappearance is part of the Olney House Investigation.¹²³

Horsch

She met Horsch in Kensington while struggling with mental illness and with drug and alcohol addiction, and, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, came to see him as her savior; "He was like her savior," her mother, Gloria McHale, said. She costarred with him in a pornographic film and appeared on his website and in his films and music videos. She was thirty years younger than Horsch. They married in September 2004, holding the reception beside a greenhouse in the backyard of his house in Chalfont. They divorced in 2008, but she continued to visit him after he moved to the house on Chew Avenue with his son, Eugene Horsch. "A long time ago, before she even married him, she told me if anything ever happens to her, that he was the one," her mother said.¹⁴⁵

Disappearance

On June 13, 2016, she telephoned her mother from the Chew Avenue house, sounding drunk, and was told to stay there. Early the next morning she left her daughter, Amanda Stofer, a voicemail saying that she was at "Ray's" and was all right, and she was not heard from again. Her daughter said she had been using heroin and receiving methadone treatment. Horsch told the family and detectives that she had been at the house and was gone when he woke in the morning. "When she would disappear before, Raymond would always keep calling me. Did you hear from her? And after this I never heard from him," her mother said. "I put signs up all over Kensington." Eugene Horsch was in prison at the time and was released a month later.¹²³⁵⁶

Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore said in September 2026 that Horsch had been interviewed shortly after the missing-person report: "When family reported them missing, they were talked to. It was just, nothing was apparent at that point that anything was wrong other than they were missing and they were last seen with him." Detectives were suspicious of Horsch, the Inquirer reported, but lacked probable cause for a search warrant.¹⁷

The 2026 Investigation

When police searched the Chew Avenue house in June 2026 after Blair Tonzelli's identification card turned up during a traffic stop of Eugene Horsch, Stofer said: "I immediately thought they had found my mom." Her daughter told NBC10 in July 2026: "In my heart, I think that she is deceased. I don't know where, but she wouldn't have gone away for this long." The Inquirer reported that her DNA was not found on the items tested. Police have not said that she appears in the images recovered from the house.¹²³⁵