One video showed the elder Horsch with an unidentified woman, both not wearing clothing. During the recording, the woman used narcotics and was given money by Horsch before being handcuffed to a bed. The video appears to show the woman becoming unconscious after a zip tie is placed around her neck.
“I’ve got to caution you and emphasize we did never recover a body here,” Vanore said. “Mr. Horsch is deceased at this time, and we still need to find evidence to corroborate what appears to have occurred in this video.”
Authorities have identified at least 58 people in the videos reviewed so far. Vanore said four “appear to be lifeless,” while 10 later died of overdoses at different locations in Philadelphia. Investigators have also interviewed 16 people seen in the videos, though Vanore said they were not very cooperative.
“There’s 25 people that we know are now alive that we’re scheduling interviews with,” Vanore said. “But again, they were seen in various states, and we’re just not sure what they were doing when they were in there.”
Wayne Jacobs, an FBI Philadelphia special agent, said the “scale of evidence is significant” and that only 30% of what’s been gathered so far has been reviewed.
“This is simply not a matter of moving through a queue,” Jacobs said. “There are multiple layers that make up the review process. We have a significant number of FBI personnel examining items one at a time for potential evidentiary or investigative value.”
Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel urged the public to have patience during the investigation, saying, “We’re going to dictate the pace.”
“We have to get this right,” Bethel said. “We’re going to walk through methodically. It may not move at the pace that folks want. Folks want to get to the finish line before we actually go through.”