Friend Says Eugene Horsch Kept 20-30 Barrels at Childhood Home as Missing Women Probe Widens
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Updated · WPVI-TV · Sep 19
Friend Says Eugene Horsch Kept 20-30 Barrels at Childhood Home as Missing Women Probe Widens
2 articles · Updated · WPVI-TV · Sep 19
Summary
Jeremy Perry, a childhood friend of Eugene Horsch, said he saw blue 55-gallon drums at the Bucks County home for years, including 20 to 30 barrels in a backyard shed.
Perry also said the house burned down before Horsch's 2009 marijuana-growing arrest and was rebuilt with a basement area that included a big steel door.
Those details add to investigators' focus after Horsch's June arrest, when detectives found another 55-gallon drum at his Chew Avenue home and sent substances to a Chicago lab for testing.
Horsch previously pleaded guilty after a 2013 drug raid that seized nearly $2 million in marijuana, 95,000 grams of pot, 190 plants and 20 pounds of packaged product.
Authorities said at their latest press conference they have not yet searched the former Chalfont home, leaving Perry's account as new context in the investigation into multiple missing women.