Raymond Evers

Raymond Evers is an inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department. On August 12, 2026, in the Olney House Investigation, he identified Gabrielle Amarando and Maribel Fresses as two women shown alive and then apparently dead in the material recovered from the house of R.C. Horsch. He had earlier headed the department's Narcotics Bureau, where an Internal Affairs investigation found in 2018 that he had abused his authority.¹²

Narcotics Bureau

In May 2017 Evers, then an inspector in charge of the Narcotics Bureau, and Chief Inspector Anthony Boyle called the bureau's staff to a mandatory meeting in a police conference room in Germantown. Evers later described it as a "pep talk" to "get better-quality investigations." An Internal Affairs report of August 2018 found that what he had outlined amounted to a practice of turning low-level arrestees into informants off the books, which developed into the falsification of paperwork and the withholding of information from the District Attorney's Office. The report "sustained allegations Evers abused his authority, failed to supervise subordinates, and then lied during the course of the investigation about it," and sustained charges against Boyle for failure to supervise and against two officers for false paperwork. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that hundreds of cases might be challenged as a result.¹

The Olney House

At the police briefing of August 12, 2026, Evers said that two of the women connected to the Chew Avenue house, Amarando and Fresses, were shown in recovered images alive and then apparently dead. Police said in September that five women shown in the material appeared to be dead.²³