Court records reveal details behind reduced sentence for Raymond Horsch as questions remain

Reaction to the newly unsealed court documents in the Allene home investigation. The documents reveal the information the late R.C. Horsch gave to federal agents as part of a plea deal. Horsch's home on West 2 Avenue is at the center of an investigation into several missing or unidentified women. Action News reporter Brianna Gallagher live in the neighborhood with more. Brianna, you were able to speak with a family member of one of those missing women today. Yeah, that's right, Maggie and Sarah. While police and federal investigators have wrapped up their latest efforts here at the home in Albany, gathering any bits of useful forensic evidence that they can find, there's still a lot of questions surrounding this home. And today we spoke with a cousin of Nicole Fasaro. She is one of the missing women tied to this home as court documents were just unsealed involving Raymond Horsch. He could have been in jail and not done any of this. But They gave him a plea deal. A possible 20 years behind bars, slashed to four and a half. Raymond Horsch, who died last year, had his time significantly reduced after getting a drug manufacturing charge dropped for cooperating with federal authorities and pleading guilty to other charges. That was a very big mistake on their part, if we're looking now at what he has done. Back in 2009, federal prosecutors on Horsch's drug and weapons case said he provided information about cocaine and marijuana trafficking, child prostitution. And fraud. It was that cooperation that led to a reduced sentence in the case. What they did in giving him such a light sentence on information that had no prosecutory value. It was absolutely insane. Prosecutors called Horsch credible, but court documents revealed due to his guarded contact with the targets in the alleged child sex crimes, investigators said they couldn't identify the targets to further the investigation. Prosecutors revealed there was no evidence Horsch engaged in crimes against minors. He said one area was used by law enforcement for a pending case. At the time of the arrest at his Chalfont home in 2009, three guns were recovered, including two sawed-off shotguns. Horsch had to forfeit that house. Horsch's Chew Avenue home is at the center of an investigation into several missing or unidentified women. If they gave him the 9 to 11 years that the prosecutors had recommended to the judge to give, he would have been in jail until 2020, 2021. There's no question. We just covered the entire area of a large part of what he has done that we know of. No, and I spoke with the former police chief of New Britain Township back in September. He arrested Raymond for the marijuana growing operation. He told me that he felt that Raymond always appeared to receive shorter sentences, and at that point he never understood why. We're live here in Albany this evening. Brianna Gallagher, Channel 6, Action News. Sarah. Brianna, thank you.