Suspected serial killer Raymond Horsch put himself in "great degree of danger" as informant, court papers say
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In a newly unsealed 2012 document, a lawyer for Raymond "R.C." Horsch wrote to the court that Horsch had exposed himself to a "great degree of danger" while cooperating with the federal government as an informant.Judge Paul Diamond last week granted a motion filed by the Philadelphia Inquirer to lift the seal on previously secret judicial documents in Horsch's drug trafficking case from 14 years ago.Horsch, who died last year, is being investigated as a suspected serial killer, according to numerous law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the case.Amy McHale was nervous taking the stand. She was testifying in a sentencing hearing for her estranged husband, the late Raymond "R.C." Horsch."When I met Ray, I was at a really low point in my life," McHale is quoted as telling the court, according to a transcript of the June 2012 hearing unsealed Tuesday.Horsch was incarcerated in the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia's Chinatown neighborhood. He had been locked up on drug tr