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  Ira Einhorn Summary
Ira Samuel Einhorn (born May 15, 1940) was an activist in the 1960s and 1970s who is now serving a life sentence for the murder of Holly Maddux in 1977.
Einhorn's bail was set at $40,000.00 at the request of his attorney, Arlen Specter; Einhorn was released from custody in advance of his trial by paying 10% of the bond's value, or $4,000.00.
Ira Einhorn, Prelude to Intimacy, August 2005, "is Ira Einhorn's account of his life underground from the time he fled the United States in early January of 1981 until he met his Swedish wife, Annika, in November of 1987." ISBN 1-4116-4911-7.
www.bookrags.com /Ira_Einhorn   (1629 words)

  
  Ira Einhorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Einhorn's bail was set at $40,000.00 at the request of his attorney, Arlen Specter; Einhorn was released from custody in advance of his trial by paying 10% of the bond's value, or $4,000.00.
Ira Einhorn, Prelude to Intimacy, August 2005, "is Ira Einhorn's account of his life underground from the time he fled the United States in early January of 1981 until he met his Swedish wife, Annika, in November of 1987." ISBN 1-4116-4911-7.
Einhorn and his crime were the topic of a made for TV film in 1999.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ira_Einhorn   (1110 words)

  
 For Ira Einhorn, a fate worse than death - Salon
Ira Einhorn, the smart, smooth-talking icon of Philadelphia's counterculture in the late 1960s and early 1970s, finally got the murder trial he wanted: one with no death penalty.
Einhorn, who took the stand himself, came across as a profoundly egocentric and libidinous character with a history of battering girlfriends who wanted to leave him.
Einhorn, who rarely appeared agitated, read this and other damaging diary entries in a mellifluous voice, addressing the jurors directly, with the air of a patient university professor.
www.salon.com /news/feature/2002/10/18/einhorn   (833 words)

  
 FORWARD : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Einhorn, described by those who knew him as "the typical Jewish hippie," appeared reserved Monday when he was led into a Philadelphia courtroom to hear Judge D. Webster Keough order an unprecendented second trial for the 1977 slaying of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux.
Einhorn was granted a second trial after arguing that the special conditions established for his first trial had not been met.
Einhorn claims to be broke, and owes $907,000 in a wrongful death damage suit to the Maddux family.
www.forward.com /issues/2001/01.11.23/news7.html   (962 words)

  
 NBC10.com - Local News - Ira Einhorn To Spend His Life In Prison
Einhorn's attorney argued Wednesday that the discovery of the corpse of Einhorn's ex-girlfriend in their apartment was "just a piece of circumstantial evidence" that didn't prove the former hippie guru's guilt.
Einhorn, 62, jumped bail on the eve of his 1981 trial and spent two decades in hiding before he was found in France.
Einhorn testified that the CIA framed him for murder because he was researching Soviet psychic weaponry and fled prosecution because his lawyer told him he couldn't get a fair trial.
www.nbc10.com /news/1725567/detail.html   (666 words)

  
 CNN.com - Einhorn trial to begin this week - Sep. 30, 2002
Einhorn, 62, is accused of killing Helen "Holly" Maddux in 1977 in their West Philadelphia apartment.
Einhorn fled the country in 1981 just before he was scheduled to go to trial in Philadelphia.
Einhorn had a national, urban and international cast of friends and acquaintances and yes, many of those people are being invited to participate in the trial now as character witnesses," his attorney said.
www.cnn.com /2002/LAW/09/30/einhorn.trial/index.html   (580 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries: Wanted - Ira Einhorn
Ira Einhorn and Holly Maddux's 5- year relationship was stormy and marred by countless breakups.
On September 9, 1977, Ira Einhorn called Holly and was reportedly irate that Holly was involved with someone else.
Einhorn told police that while he was in the shower, Holly left his apartment, saying she was going to the store.
www.mindcontrolforums.com /hambone/einhorn1.html   (872 words)

  
 Powelton Village - Philadelphia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Einhorn, 61, was once a counterculture celebrity, almost a West Philadelphia version of Jane Fonda in her "Hanoi Jane" days.
Einhorn, who was raised in Mount Airy and who attended the University of Pennsylvania after graduating from Central High, organized be-ins and Sun Weeks.
Einhorn befriended George Fencl, the head of the civil-disobedience unit, and would frequently call him at home, informing the police of the whereabouts of protests.
www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/langlab/powelton/profiles/einhorn1.html   (825 words)

  
 CNN.com - Einhorn behind bars in Pennsylvania - July 20, 2001
Einhorn can file for a new trial under Pennsylvania law because he was tried in absentia and fled to a country that would not extradite him because of that trial.
Einhorn was released to U.S. authorities after the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, was given sufficient guarantees by Pennsylvania authorities that he would get a new trial and not face the death penalty.
Einhorn has maintained his innocence, saying the charges stemmed from a government conspiracy against him because of his opposition to the Vietnam War.
archives.cnn.com /2001/LAW/07/20/einhorn.trial   (936 words)

  
 Ira Einhorn - The famous Unicorn Killer - The Crime Library - The Crime library
Einhorn, a hulk of a man, a behemoth at 5' 10" and 230 pounds, wore a prophet's beard, went unbathed and carried a gut that stretched the belly of his undersized, tie-dyed T-shirts to the limit.
Ira was questioned, but, with a shrug, explained that she had gone out a couple of weeks previously to the neighborhood co-op to buy some tofu and sprouts.
Two Einhorn female associates stated that a couple days after Holly's disappearance the Unicorn had sought their help in disposing of a trunk that contained (what he referred to as) "secret documents." The friends never helped him and as far as they were concerned the trunk was probably still in Einhorn's possession.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/einhorn/index_1.html   (3777 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: The Weird Case of Ira Einhorn by Judy Warner
It was twenty-five years ago that Ira's girlfriend, Holly Maddux, disappeared, just as she was about to leave him for another man. Eighteen months later, at the instigation of a detective hired by Holly's family, Philadelphia police opened a trunk in Ira's apartment and found her mummified body, weighing 37 pounds.
Ira was the natural leader of these people because he gave them a voice that seemed to make these childish pretensions intellectually respectable.
Ira's fame and fortune grew in the next decade, as widening circles of people wanted to get in on the pleasures of the counterculture, or at least get a clue about what it all meant.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4239   (2115 words)

  
 For Ira Einhorn, a fate worse than death - Salon.com
Ira Einhorn, the smart, smooth-talking icon of Philadelphia's counterculture in the late 1960s and early 1970s, finally got the murder trial he wanted: one with no death penalty.
Einhorn, who took the stand himself, came across as a profoundly egocentric and libidinous character with a history of battering girlfriends who wanted to leave him.
Einhorn, who rarely appeared agitated, read this and other damaging diary entries in a mellifluous voice, addressing the jurors directly, with the air of a patient university professor.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2002/10/18/einhorn/index.html   (879 words)

  
 Ira Einhorn
On September 22, 1998, longtime fugitive guru Ira Einhorn was re-arrested in France under a new extradition warrant for the 1977 murder in Philadelphia of a Texas womany.
Allegedly Einhorn slept with her corpse stuffed in a trunk next to his bed.
It was not very pretty." Einhorn was found by French TV crew sitting in the kitchen with an open wound at the base of his neck and blood soaking his shirt.
www.meta-religion.com /New_religious_groups/crime_religion/New_age/ira_einhorn.htm   (518 words)

  
 CNN - U.S. fugitive out on bail after France agrees to extradition - February 18, 1999
He was later convicted in absentia and sentenced to life in prison for the beating death of his girlfriend Helen "Holly" Maddux, whose decomposing corpse was found stuffed in a trunk in a closet at his Philadelphia home 18 months after she vanished.
A court in Bordeaux, France, on Thursday granted a U.S. request to extradite Einhorn to the United States to face a retrial in Philadelphia.
Einhorn lived under assumed names throughout Europe for 16 years until he was found living in the rural Bordeaux region of southern France with longtime Swedish companion Anika Flodin 18 months ago.
www.cnn.com /US/9902/18/justice.einhorn   (630 words)

  
 Ira Einhorn's long, strange trip - Salon
But any doubt that this is Ira Einhorn, the famous '60s icon and infamous international fugitive, is put to rest immediately by the pink scar still visible above his collar, a reminder of his last night in France, when he cut his throat in front of reporters.
Part of their intensity is his well-known charisma: Einhorn is a famous leader of men and a seducer of women, casually laying claim to thousands of lovers, two or three a week for 20 years until meeting Annika Flodin, whom he would marry in 1987.
And now that he is back at home, Einhorn's murder trial next month will put these passions on stage in a way that threatens to overshadow the death of Holly Maddux, and opens the possibility that the long, strange trip of Ira Einhorn is not yet over.
www.salon.com /news/feature/2002/08/14/einhorn   (759 words)

  
 TIME.com Print Page: Nation-Politics -- TIME Archive: The Ira Einhorn Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
After Einhorn was arrested in 1997 in the Bordeaux region of France, Philadelphia prosecutors lost several attempts at extradition, foiled by a French claims that Einhorn’s human rights would be violated if he were forced to go to prison without a new trial.
Meg wants to see Einhorn in court because "I want him to look into my eyes and see what the future of Holly could have been." After the arrest, Elisabeth headed to the cemetery where her parents are buried on either side of Holly.
Ira Einhorn, wearing blue jeans and a tunic made by Flodin, strolled into the Bordeaux courtroom Sept. 2 as if there had never been a body in the trunk or a pack of hounds on his trail or 16 years on the lam.
www.time.com /time/nation/printout/0,8816,168382,00.html   (4887 words)

  
 StevenLevy.com » The Unicorn’s Secret
The harrowing tale of Ira Einhorn, who was Philadelphia’s leading 60’s hippie and 70’s New Age activist — supposedly a beacon for pacifism and good feelings.
Einhorn claimed frameup, and the powerful friends he had charmed over the years, politicians, scientists, businesspeople, and thinkers supported him.
In the fall of 1993, Ira Einhorn went on trial en absentia for the murder of Holly Maddux, and was convicted.
www.stevenlevy.com /index.php/other-books/unicorns-secret   (369 words)

  
 The Pennsylvania Gazette: Ira Einhorn, C'61
When Ira Einhorn, C'61, jumped bail in 1981 rather than stand trial for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend, Helen "Holly" Maddux, the presiding judge in Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas asked court officials why he had not been recaptured.
Einhorn has been convicted in absentia and sentenced to life in prison for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend, Helen "Holly" Maddux, whose remains were found in a trunk in his Powelton Village apartment in March of 1979.
Einhorn has already been convicted in absentia and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Maddux, whose remains were found in a trunk in his Powelton Village apartment in March of 1979, 18 months after she disappeared.
www.upenn.edu /gazette/1097/1097pro4.html   (366 words)

  
 Ira Einhorn's long, strange trip - Salon.com
But any doubt that this is Ira Einhorn, the famous '60s icon and infamous international fugitive, is put to rest immediately by the pink scar still visible above his collar, a reminder of his last night in France, when he cut his throat in front of reporters.
Part of their intensity is his well-known charisma: Einhorn is a famous leader of men and a seducer of women, casually laying claim to thousands of lovers, two or three a week for 20 years until meeting Annika Flodin, whom he would marry in 1987.
And now that he is back at home, Einhorn's murder trial next month will put these passions on stage in a way that threatens to overshadow the death of Holly Maddux, and opens the possibility that the long, strange trip of Ira Einhorn is not yet over.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2002/08/14/einhorn/index.html   (805 words)

  
 UNSOLVED MYSTERIES on LIFETIME TV
It was there, on Friday, June 13, 1997, that Einhorn was arrested after 16 years on the run.
When she applied for a French driver's license in 1994 under an assumed last name that Einhorn also used, Flodden cited her previous license issued in Sweden under her true name.
Although Einhorn had been convicted in absentia in 1993, he successfully fought extradition back to the United States for over four years.
www.unsolved.com /UD249-Einhorn.html   (948 words)

  
 Ira Einhorn's Declaration: Evidence of being framed for murder
The following document offers evidence that Ira Einhorn knew two months before the disappearance of Holly Maddux that he was in danger of being "set up" for something to discredit his work.
I am sure that Ira believed what he said, and I could without difficulty accept that it might be the case (that is, 'no alien life forms').
O'Brien: "...the defendant Ira Einhorn, would be tried under existing statutes today - the gentleman is correct - and that would be entirely within the discretion of the prosecutor, and the ultimate sentence would be a subject of the trial court, and if the death penalty were imposed, that would be by the jury."
www.angelfire.com /on/GEAR2000/declaration.html   (1896 words)

  
 TIME.com: TIME Archive: The Ira Einhorn Case -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
When Einhorn was first arrested in France in 1997, TIME magazine’s Steve Lopez explained the whole story, from Einhorn’s ascension in the hippie world as a student at the University of Pennsylvania to his arrest in the town of Champagne-Mouton:
In 1979, 18 months after the disappearance of Einhorn's blond and wispy, tragically beautiful 30-year-old lover, Philadelphia police climbed the stairs to his shabby second-floor apartment.
Einhorn, never at a loss to explain the mysteries of the universe, calmly assured his minions he had been framed and relished the chance to prove it at his murder trial.
www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,168382,00.html   (1708 words)

  
 Environmental Guru Has Friends in High Places
Convicted by a jury and sentenced to life in prison, Ira Einhorn skipped bail and fled overseas to Europe, where he eventually was tracked down by a doggedly persistent Philadelphia police detective, Richard DiBenedetto.
Einhorn was the hippie stooge they chose to be front man for the project.
Einhorn's sexual conquests were legion, even though, as Time magazine bluntly states, the filthy-bearded Unicorn man "considered himself too mythic to bathe regularly." Einhorn reportedly was too lazy to groom himself or brush his teeth, and from his dirty clothes often came the sulphurous smell of rank onions and spoiled sandwiches.
www.texemarrs.com /021998/unicorn.htm   (1526 words)

  
 COURTTV.COM INDEPTH
A self-professed founder of the Philadelphia's Earth Day and a one-time mayoral candidate, activist Ira Einhorn had a sterling reputation in the City of Brotherly Love - until the spring of 1979, when police found the withered corpse of his ex-girlfriend, Holly Maddux, decomposing in a steamer trunk in the radical's closet.
Later, as District Attorney, Abraham brought Einhorn to trial, in absentia in 1993, and was a key figure in bringing him back from France.
Joel Rosen: the prosecuting attorney in the 1993 in absentia trial of Ira Einhorn for the murder of Holly Maddux.
www.courttv.com /onair/shows/mugshots/indepth/einhorn   (760 words)

  
 Unicorn
Ira knew a great deal about government research using LSD and other chemical agents, research that was then secret but know has been confirmed.
Ira warned us that, because he “knew too much,” the day might come when he might be assassinated, or more likely, framed for something that would send him to be prison where his death would attract less attention.
Ira purportedly bashed Holly’s head in with some sort of blunt instrument, then stuffed her body into a steamer trunk until she and trunk were discovered over a year later on Ira’s porch!
iratheunicorn.blogspot.com   (11797 words)

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