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A Philadelphia woman who narrowly escaped the clutches of 'house of horrors killer' Raymond 'RC' Horsch when she was just nine years old broke her silence in a chilling account of her creepy encounter.
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Ashley Rivera, now 26, learned that the man who tried to pick her from the street in 2009 was the perpetual pornographer linked to several missing women.
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Rivera remembered entering a 7-Eleven across the street of her Kensington home on a Friday night, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
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She was wearing pajamas but within eyesight of her stepfather who sat on the front porch of their home, smoking cigarettes, with crutches at his side.
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When Rivera exited the convenience store, she couldn't help but notice a man in his 60s with long greasy hair, who was slowly circling the block in a green Jeep.
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At first, she did not pay attention to him but could feel his eyes on her, before he pulled up.
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The creep rolled down his window, asked her to get into his car and called her sexy.
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Ashley moved away but, suddenly, the man jumped out and gripped her arm.
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She screamed for help as he dragged her toward his Jeep.
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Creepy pervert Raymond 'RC' Horsch, who died last year at the age of 82, is linked to at least seven cases of missing women
Investigators have combed through more than a million digital images and videos from a Philadelphia home depicting women in various poses
Even 17 years later, she remembers his eyes: 'He looked very evil.'
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In a scene that sounds like straight out of a horror movie, Rivera said she only escaped his clutches because of her stepfather, who had heard her scream.
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He reportedly hobbled off the front porch and hit the back window of Horsch's Jeep with one of his crutches to get Ashley out of the car.
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Horsch sped off.
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Rivera ran inside, crying to her mother, Sasha, who called 911.
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Sasha Rivera told the Inquirer that she ran outside and could see Horsch circling their block.
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'I chased him with a baseball bat,' swinging it at the Jeep as he drove by, she said.
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'I thought he was going to kill her.
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If he had taken her, I may never have found my daughter.'
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Police arrived and arrested Horsch.
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Officers found high-powered binoculars, a digital camera, a telephoto lens, an eye patch and a condom inside his Jeep.
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When police asked Ashley and her mother if this was the man who had tried to lure her into his car, Ashley said she 'couldn't forget that face.
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Horsch was charged with luring a child into a motor vehicle and corrupting the morals of a minor, the Inquirer reported.
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Rivera was stunned to learn this week that this man was Horsch, the creepy pervert linked to at least seven missing women.
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Horsch's Olney home and its disturbing past have been at the center of extensive investigations since June which uncovered a trove of disturbing digital evidence suggesting he may have killed women he lured off the streets of Kensington.
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In August, investigators announced that video evidence collected from a hard drive in Horsch's home led police to believe Gabrielle Amarando (left), who disappeared in 2021 at age 22, and Maribel Fresses (right), who vanished in 2018 at age 27, are dead
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Other footage collected from the house reportedly showed Horsch strangling Nicole Fusaro, who disappeared in 2018 at the age of 27
Horsch died in 2025 at 82.
Rivera's account is the first known instance of the sex pest laying his dirty hands on a child.
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It also offers new insight into how Horsch evaded consequences.
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'I really do feel like I escaped something big,' Rivera said.
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'He could have kidnapped me.
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He could have done the same thing to me that he did to those women.
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He could have raped me, killed me.
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Months later, in January 2010, Rivera testified against Horsch in court.
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Rivera was shaking as she walked to the stand to testify, Horsch and his lawyers sat just feet away.
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She remembered him glaring at her, with one eye looking straight ahead and the other bulging out.
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'I was so scared, and he just kept staring at me.
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I just broke down crying,' she said.
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'I felt like I was looking at a killer.'
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Rivera said her testimony had to be cut short.
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'They made me get off the stand because I was crying so much,' she told the Inquirer.
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Common Pleas Court Judge Roger Gordon convicted Horsch of both counts and sentenced him to two and a half to five years in prison.
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…and 16 more, not listed.
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