‘Graphic' videos at Olney house show 2 missing women believed dead, police say

NBC Philly ^ | 8/12/26

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Videos found at a "mystery house" in Philadelphia's Olney neighborhood show two missing women who are believed to be dead, investigators revealed Wednesday.

Philadelphia Police Inspector Raymond Evers shared new details during an afternoon press conference on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026.

Evers broke down what started this extensive investigation and what detectives have found so far

This all began on June 19, 2026, when a park ranger stopped a BMW on the 600 block of Market Street near Independence Mall that had a male driver and female passenger inside, Evers said.

The driver was identified as 44-year-old Eugene Horsch, officials said. The woman with him provided fake identification with the name Blair Tonzelli. Tonzelli disappeared in 2023, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUS).

Inside the car, the park ranger reported finding two handguns and $8,000 in illegal drugs.

During the investigation, detectives said they learned that Tonzelli will "never be seen again," according to Evers.

A search warrant was issued later that same day at a house on the 400 block of West Chew Avenue where the DEA and the Philadelphia Police Department said they found at least one more illegal gun, a marijuana grow operation, another fake FBI badge and five urns filled with cremated remains.

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Then, in the beginning of August, a computer forensic lab began reviewing the digital evidence from the house, Evers said. They looked at 600,000 images, 70,000 videos and over 10,000 pages of drawings and writings, which is just 5% of the digital evidence, Evers said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: computersinternet; pornography; satanic

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Within the digital evidence, detectives reported finding videos depicting two women inside the house, Evers explained. Some videos show them alive and then other videos show them appearing to be dead.

"I'm not gonna get into exactly what I saw, it's dark. It's real dark. But what we saw is these two girls alive. There was a period of time and what appears to us that they're deceased. There's pieces of the video that we don't have yet," Evers said during Wednesday's press conference.

The women are identified as Maribel Fresses and Gabriella Amarando who were both born in 1990, Evers said. Fressess was reported missing in February 2018 and Anarando has been missing since September of 2012.

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This is one of the scariest and horrifying articles I've read lately. What horrors those two women, and many others, must have went through!