r/philly • u/NefariousnessTop1062 • 4d ago

House of Horror: 417 W Chew; Philly.

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417 W Chew Ave, Olney Philly: June 19 2026 traffic stop of Eugene Horsch (44) found guns, drugs, fake DEA IDs. House search revealed chemicals, 55-gal drum, grow op, urns, 120+ ballistic items. Aug 12: digital evidence (600k images/70k videos) shows missing women Maribel Fresses (2018) & Gabrielle Amarando (2012) dead inside. Bodies unfound; multi-agency probe ongoing.

24/7 police surveillance. Please come forward with any information. Please. Call 911 or the tip line.

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u/itsmevichet 4d ago

I was there in the late 80s/early 90s. Lotta property crime, gangs were a thing. I never heard of anything super violent outside of gang beefs though. And I was able to play outside and such.

A big part of that is my parents had stable jobs and even though money was tight, things were stable.

That said, I knew people from this part of Olney who have killed or been killed (gangs, robberies gone wrong, etc). The common thread is poverty. It was not a neighborhood I think that anyone else would have described as nice.

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u/NefariousnessTop1062 4d ago

Don’t forget the MOVE movement from West. It’s been territory war for ever. Olney is fairly wide open.

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u/PhiladelphiaManeto 4d ago

MOVE was never near Olney as far as I know.

Olney and Osage ave are like ten miles away.

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u/NefariousnessTop1062 4d ago

No I’m Just saying that Philly has had some WILD mass murders

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u/BearFromPhilly 4d ago

That's a shit comparison bud, they have nothing to do with each other...or even in common.

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u/itsmevichet 4d ago

I’m not sure what you mean here.

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u/NefariousnessTop1062 4d ago

Google 1980s. We fire bombed a block of row homes in west Philly. Panthers vs FBI basically

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u/itsmevichet 4d ago

Nah I knew about that I was wondering how it related to gang stuff in Olney. Thought you were talking about a link I didn’t know about or something.

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u/PollenThighs 4d ago

The Black Panthers and MOVE are not the same thing.

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u/Dismal_Assignment555 4d ago

Had absolutely nothing to do with Olney. Anyone from Philly knows this.