missing person report<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n\n \u201cThere was talk about her possibly getting into a car, but that was never\u201d confirmed, Halloran-Koren said. \u201cIt was just rumors at that point.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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\n Police first notified relatives on Nicole\u2019s father\u2019s side, Halloran-Koren said. Then, on the morning of September 16, police came to him and his mother.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey advised both myself and my mother that Nicole was, in fact, a victim, that she had been strangled,\u201d Halloran-Koren said.\n <\/p>\n
\n He said he learned more graphic details only later that day, along with the public, at a police news conference.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt was a wide range of emotions of sadness and anger,\u201d he said. \u201c(It was) beyond infuriating.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Police said the metadata on the video of the apparent strangulation was dated 2017, the year before Nicole was last seen. Police have not publicly identified the woman in the video.\n <\/p>\n
\n Halloran-Koren said he decided to make his cousin\u2019s identity public in part so that the friends who helped his aunt search for Nicole would know what happened to her.\n <\/p>\n
\n At the same news conference, law enforcement officials reiterated that so far in the Olney house they\u2019d found unidentified chemicals, a \u201chomemade laboratory of some kind,\u201d five urns believed to contain human remains, and a trove of digital images and videos.\n <\/p>\n
\n In all, police said, five women appear dead in images found in the house: Maribel Fresses, 26, and Gabrielle Amarando, 27, whom police named; two women police identified but would not name at their families\u2019 request; and one woman police could not identify.\n <\/p>\n
\n FBI officials said by mid-September they\u2019d gotten through about 30% of more than 1 million digital pieces of evidence recovered from the home.\n <\/p>\n
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\n Two other missing women are also tied to the investigation: Blair Tonzelli, who was reported missing in 2023 and whose name, CNN has previously reported, was on the ID the woman in Eugene Horsch\u2019s car gave officers when he was detained in June, and Amy McHale, whose family says she was once married to the elder Horsch.\n <\/p>\n
\n Yet police have stressed the central problem in the case: There is still no physical evidence of a killing.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cLet\u2019s remember, he was making movies,\u201d Philadelphia Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore said in September. \u201cSome of his movies are there on this digital evidence. So, that\u2019s the part, where, you know, some of this is play acting, and some of it we believe could be real.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe need to corroborate what we see; we need to find evidence to prove what we think, and the FBI is here to help us,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n
\n However many questions surround what happened inside the house, how investigators got there is well documented.\n <\/p>\n
\n Around 8 a.m. on June 19, a federal park ranger noticed a black BMW parked without a police placard beside a fire hydrant near Sixth and Market streets, in Independence National Historical Park, according to a federal criminal complaint. As the ranger approached, he heard a woman in the back seat say, \u201cYou\u2019re going to hurt me!\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The driver was 44-year-old Eugene Horsch. Officers found a switchblade and a glass drug pipe in his pants pockets, according to the complaint. In the car, they found two loaded guns, suspected crack cocaine, a cattle prod, police handcuffs and, in the trunk, a second switchblade and DEA badges with ID cards bearing Eugene Horsch\u2019s photo and the name \u201cEugene Fredrick Steiner.\u201d Eugene Horsch \u201cis not employed by the DEA and never has been,\u201d the complaint says.\n <\/p>\n
\n The woman in the back seat gave officers an ID bearing her photo but the name of a missing Philadelphia woman, police said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Eugene Horsch, who has prior drug and assault convictions, was charged with illegally possessing a firearm as a felon and remains in federal custody.\n <\/p>\n
\n His attorney, Jerry Brown, did not immediately respond to CNN\u2019s request for comment. Brown previously told CNN he planned to enter pleas of not guilty.\n <\/p>\n
\n Police then searched his home on West Chew Avenue. That\u2019s when the case grew into something far larger. Investigators turned their attention to Eugene\u2019s late father, Raymond Horsch, and to missing women who might be connected to the home.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe scope of this investigation is significant,\u201d Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said at a news conference in September.\n <\/p>\n
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\n There has been some form of police presence at the Olney home since June, but local and federal law enforcement officials began a new effort this week.\n <\/p>\n
\n Philadelphia police have not released details about the renewed work. \u201cThe investigation remains active and ongoing,\u201d a police spokesperson told CNN in a statement. \u201cAdditional information will be released as it becomes available and is appropriate for public release.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The FBI\u2019s Evidence Response Team \u201ccontinues to assist the Philadelphia Police Department,\u201d a bureau spokesperson told CNN, referring further questions to police as \u201cthe leading investigative agency.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Still, the change in the neighborhood is clear.\n <\/p>\n
\n Crime scene tape is back up, and police signs bar parking on the blocks surrounding the home from October 5 to 16. Police officers and FBI agents have been seen by CNN and its affiliates going in and out of the house, removing everything from junk and debris to big-screen televisions and full plastic bags.\n <\/p>\n
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\n The sound of jackhammering in the Horsches\u2019 backyard pierced the otherwise quiet street Wednesday afternoon.\n <\/p>\n
\n The search for physical evidence of the missing women continues.\n <\/p>\n
\n Halloran-Koren hopes investigators keep pushing for any answers they can get, even as he understands the reality ahead.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019ll ever find remains that we can turn around and end up laying to rest,\u201d Halloran-Koren said.\n <\/p>\n
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