Philadelphia police have identified the suspect wanted for terrorizing people near City Hall last week while wearing a mask..
Police announced they are looking for 22-year-old Zymire Hughes. An arrest warrant has been issued.
Authorities believe Hughes may have fled Pennsylvania and has ties to California and Nevada.
Developing …
The urgent search for a masked man terrorizing people in Philadelphia has now made national news .. police have been searching and surveillance has caught his mask.. at this point public leads but several witnesses have described their run-ins with this character ..
.. however can we correct a record that the news has reported?
This is not a Chucky mask..more…
Philadelphia police have received a number of tips as they attempt to identify a masked man who is terrorizing people in Center City.
“This happened right outside of City Hall, so you think we’re not going to do our darndest to try and locate this individual?” Captain Jason Smith, with the Philadelphia Police Department, said.
https://6abc.com/post/police-receive-numerous-tips-attempt-identify-masked-man-terrorizing-people-center-city-philadelphia/19702202/
Something very disturbing is developing in Philadelphia, and this is a story we’re going to be following.
What started as an investigation into a bizarre house in the Olney section of Philadelphia is beginning to raise a much bigger question: Are investigators potentially uncovering the remains of a serial murder case?
We’re going to be careful with that question because, at this point, nobody has been charged with murder and police have not called Eugene Horsch a serial killer. But the details coming out of this investigation are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
And now police say material recovered from the home appears to depict two women who have been missing for years.. Maribel Fresses, missing since 2018, and Gabrielle Amarando, missing since 2012.. apparently deceased and visibly injured. Their bodies have not been recovered, and exactly what happened to them remains under investigation.
But perhaps one of the most concerning developments is what investigators are finding as they continue going through those hundreds of thousands of files.
Police say they have been attempting to identify people appearing in the images and videos. Some have been located and interviewed.
Others are still missing.
Investigators are now comparing information involving missing women and have not ruled out the possibility that additional victims could be discovered.
There are other disturbing elements surrounding the house as well. Investigators have reportedly discovered hidden compartments, chemical containers, a 55-gallon drum connected to water lines and what law enforcement sources previously described as a significant amount of blood inside the property.
Eugene Horsch’s father, Raymond “R.C.” Horsch, previously lived in the house and died in 2025, and investigators are examining activity at the property that predates Eugene’s time there. At least one missing woman, Amy McHale, was reportedly last known to have been at this same house in 2016 in connection with the elder Horsch.
So there are still a tremendous number of unanswered questions here, including who was responsible for what may have occurred inside this house.
For now, Tiktokers calling Eugene Horsch a serial killer would be getting far ahead of the evidence and making some assumptions..
But asking whether investigators may have stumbled into something much larger than the case they originally thought they were investigating?
It could be..
The house of horrors discovered in Olney could potentially be pointing toward something much more serious.
DEVELOPING…
UPDATE: TEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH MURDER
NBC News reported:
A 15-year-old dressed as a clown was taken into custody Monday night in connection with a homicide investigation in East St. Louis, Illinois, according to state police.
East St. Louis police received a report of a body in a roadway just after 10 p.m. Monday and identified the 15-year-old as a suspect after officers arrived. The teenager, who has not been identified, was detained, though it remains unclear whether he has been charged.
The victim was identified as John Wesley Allen Sr., 78, according to the St. Clair County Coroner’s Office. Allen died of multiple stab wounds, the coroner said.
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Harvey Weinstein’s third Manhattan sex crime trial ended today with yet another hung jury, as four women on the panel voted to clear him of raping actress Jessica Mann in 2013.
The deadlock reportedly happened just after 1:00 p.m. today, marking the second time a jury could not reach a unanimous decision in this situation. Reports indicate that 9 out of the 12 jurors were prepared to acquit Weinstein, including all of the female jurors. Three male jurors reportedly remained firmly committed to conviction, and neither side was willing to budge. With that, the former Miramax executive now faces another hung jury.
Jurors were reportedly upset that they could not come back with a verdict, with tensions and heated debates breaking out during deliberations. In many ways, it sounds exactly like 12 Angry Men… and in cases like this, perhaps it should. That is the way the justice system was designed to work. Debate, disagreement, and scrutiny are all part of the process. But in this particular case, an agreement simply could not be reached.
A Canadian tourist was killed and six others injured after a crazed gunman who opened fire atop a pyramid at the Teotihuacan ruins in Mexico Monday afternoon.
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Even the most ardent opponents of the death penalty are having trouble grappling with the murder trial of Tanner Horner.
Horner, a FedEx delivery driver, drove past the home of Athena Strand, a 7-year-old girl, and is accused of abducting her and killing her in a slow, brutal manner.
He ultimately pleaded guilty to killing Athena after making a delivery at her home.
His initial story, however, was far different. Horner claimed he accidentally struck the girl with his vehicle, then panicked. According to him, he placed her in his van to avoid telling her father what had happened. He said he tried to break her neck, and when that failed, he strangled her.
During the trial, jurors were forced to listen to a series of deeply disturbing audio recordings. These recordings reportedly captured Horner repeatedly abusing Athena before ultimately killing her. It was, by all accounts, a mentally exhausting and emotionally devastating presentation—one that underscored just how brutal this crime truly was.
On Thursday, April 16, 2026, jurors were shown surveillance footage and audio from inside Horner’s delivery truck, including portions capturing Athena’s final moments before her death..
Jurors watched video showing Horner pulling up to the girl’s home and walking back toward his truck with Athena following behind him, before lifting her inside and shutting the door.
They then heard audio from inside the truck in which Athena repeatedly asked, “Are you a kidnapper?” and “Where are you taking me?” as Horner warned her not to scream or he would hurt her. At one point, he told her, “You’re really pretty, you know that?” before ordering her to remove her shirt. She refused and asked for her mother.
The audio included crying, screaming and banging, prompting jurors to sob and appear visibly shaken. Some of Athena’s family members left the courtroom during the playback.
What makes it even more haunting is the detail that the package Horner delivered that day was meant for Athena herself—a set of “You Can Be Anything” Barbie dolls. That small, innocent detail only amplifies the cruelty of what followed.
Many true crime watchers have questioned why Horner was not charged with additional sex crimes, especially given indications that something more may have occurred. One possible explanation is strategic: prosecutors already secured a capital murder case, which carries a sentence of life without parole or the death penalty. Adding more charges may not have changed the ultimate outcome.
There are also growing questions surrounding FedEx and its hiring practices. Athena’s father has publicly criticized the company, suggesting that background check failures may have allowed Horner to be hired despite prior disqualifying information. Civil litigation could follow, potentially bringing additional details to light in another courtroom.
This is one of those cases that cuts through everything—legal arguments, moral debates, even long-held beliefs about punishment. The sheer brutality, the inhumanity of it, has shaken a lot of people.
Sentencing is next.
And in a case like this, there won’t be tears shed for Tanner Horner if the death penalty is the final outcome..
And thr FBI couldn’t figure out how..
More..
At 8:16 a.m. on August 10, 2019, an anonymous 4Chan user posted, “don’t ask me how I know, but Epstein died an hour ago from hanging, cardiac arrest. Screencap this.”
It was the first public indication that Epstein, awaiting trial for sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, died while in the custody of the Department of Justice, BuzzFeed News reported at the time.
It beat ABC News journalist Aaron Katersky’s post about Epstein’s death on Twitter, now known as X, by 38 minutes. A few minutes later, the ABC News website published the first article about Epstein’s apparent suicide in jail.
The newly released Epstein files show that the Justice Department tried to identify the 4Chan user behind the posts — but couldn’t figure it out.
The documents show the Justice Department subpoenaed 4Chan for the user’s IP addresses four days after the posts were made as part of the FBI’s investigation into Epstein’s death.
From there, the trail went cold.
All kinds of online how are breaking out about this one. An assistant to the US District Attorney New York apparently wrote an email late 2020 that the Epstein death was being investigated as a murder. This Revelation came in the documents about Jeffrey Epstein that have been released online, and it created a firestorm amongst many when it was discovered and shared..
From the email:
“I’m an AUSA in EDNY and am working on an investigation into the death of an inmate at the Brooklyn MDC,” the email reads, written by the individual – whose name was redacted – identifying themselves as a DOJ attorney, and to a recipient whose name was also redacted.
“The [Office of the Chief Medical Examiner] told me that it signed a confidentiality agreement in connection with the investigation into the murder of Jeffrey Epstein. We were hoping to extend a similar agreement and I wanted to see if you could share the agreement (or a boilerplate version of it). I’m happy to speak over the phone if that’s easier.”
Developing..
The FBI is increasing its reward to $100,000 for information leading to the location of Nancy Guthrie or an arrest. They described the suspect seen in doorbell footage as a 5’9” – 5’10” tall male with an average build.
• Multiple gloves found: Evidence recovered by investigators includes multiple gloves. It’s unclear whether authorities believe they were worn by the suspect.
• Day 12 of investigation: Guthrie’s Tucson neighbors have been asked to submit any footage from doorbell cameras that includes cars and people from about four weeks before the 84-year-old went missing. Meanwhile, “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie shared a home video of her mother, saying “we will never give up on her.”
Developing.