Holly Maddux, a smart, sensitive young lady from small-town Tyler, Texas, got caught up in the social movements of the 1970s. She met a self-appointed guru, Ira Einhorn, who "learned the appealing buzz-words but who deluded himself with his own mystic." She ended up dead in a trunk in his closet, he was just found after 14 years on the run hiding out in France with his Swedish girlfiend, Anika Floden. In one of the most bizarre trials of the century, France has denied extradition and Ira Einhorn spends his time in a sleepy French village, surfing the net, sipping the regions fine wines and thumbing his nose at the American legal system. Our own Steven Levy wrote a book about it, now out of print. And now an "internet posse" is tracking Einhorn, determined to keep track of Einhorn the next time he breaks loose and goes on the run. Arlen Spector has been called to task by Holly's family for vouching for Einhorn when he was bailed out of the Philadelphia jail years ago. Spector, Einhorn's defense attorney, is now in total denial and evasion. There are many more facets that you can find from Levy's book (if you can find it) and from this website: http://www.amgot.org/holly.htm which is the source of the above quotation. This was all brought to light a couple of days ago on Dateline NBC. Hippie murder mystery. The Holly Maddux/Ira Einhorn ongoing saga <!-- To quote ces: I'm in Philadelphia, and I'd say just about everyone here is rightously furious about the French decision not to return Ira. The state has passed a new law saying Einhorn can be retried. That might convince a French appeals court to order him shipped back to the states. If/when that happens, it's gonna be the biggest news story of the year here. end ces quote From the Philly News site, which has a huge stash of material on this case: Internet buff had cyber cops on hunt for fugitive The Ira Einhorn mystery intrigued at least one computer nerd, who urged on the Internet the creation of a ``cyberposse'' to find the fugitive. The nerd said he was inspired to anger by Steven Levy's book, ``The Unicorn's Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius.'' ``The effect this book had upon me was sadness and anger,'' the unidentified man said. ``Sadness that a woman like Holly Maddux had her skull smashed into pieces against the floor for merely wanting to live her life. Anger that a hypocritical and phony `radical leader of the '60s, cum '70s New-Age Voice,' could brutally beat to death a woman who finally chose to not let him dominate her life, and with the help of others, walk away, fully capable of continuing his violence upon others. ``If the federals cannot or will not apprehend him, it seemed to me that it should be possible to utilize the resources of the 'net to locate him and see that he is held responsible for his crimes. ``The posse needs you. Time to git outta the bunkhouse and saddle up. Let's figure out how to do it together.'' Local man-about-town Harry Jay Katz, a friend of Einhorn's, recalled in a 1984 Daily News interview what he said to his pal before to his trial: ``Ira, picture this, you're an aging hippie with body odor, no socks, still wearing a dashiki, and you're supposed to go before a jury of your peers and tell them you didn't kill a little gentile cheerleader from Texas.' ``Ira was motivated to flee by one basic word -- fear.''

Weird that people can go THAT nuts.

Sounds like a sad tale. He's not the guy waiting for us in the justice conference, is he?

Nope, we haven't found him/her yet. What about poor Flodin? She's so disullusioned by this guy. Maybe she wants to be a victim or an enabler. What do you think?

Co-dependent big time.

NBC is doing a minseries on this, part two is tomorrow night. They had the first two hours tonight detailing the events up to the murder, and tomorrow night is the discovery of the body and Einhorn's flight. Someone on the WELL got email that was copied to Ira Einhorn in France, so his email address is known: Cecilia (hex@well.com) Mon May 3 '99 (09:22) 4 lines In an e-mail from Jack Sarfatti, an Ira Einhorn is copied (among MANY others). Is this the same guy, you think? Ira Einhorn I see Steve Levy is listed in the credits as a consultant.

France To Return Counterculture Guru Einhorn To U.S. By Thierry Leveque PARIS (Reuters) - France's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that U.S. counterculture guru Ira Einhorn should be sent back to the United States to stand trial for the murder of his girlfriend in Philadelphia 22 years ago. The decision left one final hurdle before Einhorn is extradited -- the approval of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, which is expected to be granted as a matter of routine. Einhorn, 58, jumped bail and went into hiding 17 years ago, just before he was to be tried in connection with the murder of Helen ``Holly'' Maddux, whose decomposed body was found in a trunk in his Philadelphia apartment in 1979, some 18 months after she disappeared. He was captured in France in 1997, living with his Swedish-born wife Annika under the assumed name of Mallon in the southwestern village of Champagne-Mouton. A student anti-war activist and leftist leader in the 1960s, Einhorn has insisted he was framed and did not murder Maddux. But a Philadelphia court convicted him in absentia and sentenced him to life imprisonment in 1993. Asked by U.S. law enforcement authorities to send Einhorn back to Philadelphia, a Bordeaux court rejected the request in December 1997 on the grounds that he would not get a new trial. Under French law, anyone convicted in absentia is entitled to a retrial. The Pennsylvania General Assembly passed special legislation granting him a new trial, and U.S. officials pledged he would not face execution -- another potential stumbling block in France, where there is no capital punishment. The Bordeaux court then reversed itself, saying the extradition request could go forward. Thursday's Supreme Court decision upheld the lower court's ruling. There was no written decision. The long legal struggle has been painful for Maddux's family and for Pennsylvania authorities, who worked for years to track Einhorn down and bring him home to face justice.

Wow.

Ira's leash is getting tighter. Will he run again?

where's he gonna go with all the HUGE publicity internationally?

From Sarfatti@well.com Thu Jun 3 13:53:55 1999 Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 23:43:05 -0700 From: Jack To: "newphysics@mail.msr-wetware.com" , Ira Einhorn , "los.angeles@fbi.gov" , Not See Nick , Stephen Schwartz , etc. (I cut out a bunch of addresses) Subject: Re: [newphysics] 3 self-duping Jews - Stop Posting this stuff to Newphysics For the record note: Nick Herbert wrote: "Saul-Paul Sirag is a True Scientist. Altho I find many of Max Weiss's views despicable, I count Weiss also among the few authentic seekers of Truth. I am honored to be called "friend" by both these courageous souls." Note especially Nick Herbert's words "I count Weiss also among the few authentic seekers of Truth. I am honored to be called "friend" by both these courageous souls." True Nick also wrote "And in this next post I explicitly distance my views from Max's." But given the whole pattern it does not ring true. Nick also forwarded the following from an alleged friend of Weiss's. Why? Nick you really do seem, from the hate-crime literacture reproduced below, to have become a Jew-hating Nazi tool of the Serbian Secret Police as Stephen Schwartz, reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, now in Bosnia, strongly suspects. What the hell is going on here? Please explain. Why are you doing this? Why are you attacking your old friend Ira Einhorn. You also say you are in contact with alien extra-terrestrials that you have sex with. Are you testing The First Ammendment a la Lenny Bruce? Is your real purpose only childish mischief as you lapse into senility in your sixties, or, is it, as Schwartz thinks, more sinister since Ira Einhorn was deeply involved in counter-intelligence having to do with the Yugoslavs in the period 1977 to 1979 because of Andrija Puharich? nick herbert wrote: > > forwarded to me by Max Weiss>>>> > > The FBI is not the only American law-enforcement agency which is > frustrated by the unwillingness of Bill Clinton to say "no" to the > Israelis. Israel continues to be the hideout of choice for Jewish > criminals of all sorts fleeing from justice. A Jew commits a murder or a > rape or some other serious crime in the United States, and if he's > worried about being caught and punished he simply catches the next > flight to Israel. That country has a custom of refusing to extradite any > Jewish criminal wanted for an offense against non-Jews in another > country. Once a Jewish criminal reaches Israel, he is safe from > prosecution and can thumb his nose at the world, no matter how heinous > his crime. > > A recent example of this is the case of Maryland Jew Samuel Sheinbein. > In September 1997 Sheinbein and another Jew, Aaron Needle, killed a > non-Jewish teenaged neighbor, Alfredo Tello, in an argument over drugs. > After the two Jews had bludgeoned, stabbed, and strangled Tello, they > slashed his throat. Then they cut Tello's body up with a power saw, and > burned some of the parts. When the Maryland police came looking for him, > Sheinbein got some money from his wealthy parents and hopped the next > flight to Israel. He's been there ever since. The Israelis consider it > immoral to turn a Jew over to Gentiles to be punished, and they have > refused all requests by Maryland authorities for his extradition. Just > over two weeks ago, on February 25, the Supreme Court of Israel handed > down a final ruling against efforts to extradite Sheinbein. The Israelis > say they will put Sheinbein on trial in Israel for the murder of Alfredo > Tello. So far they haven't gotten around to it. And if they ever do, > don't bet on a conviction. > > Another recent case of this sort of thing is that of Dror Goldberg, a > Jew who committed an especially vicious murder in Houston, Texas. On > November 27 of last year the 20-year-old Goldberg walked into a wig shop > near his Houston apartment, pulled out a knife, and began stabbing and > slashing the two owners and a clerk. The owners survived the attack, but > the 54-year-old clerk died of her wounds. Police familiar with > Goldberg's past activities suspect that it was a thrill killing: he > simply wanted to kill someone with a knife to see what it felt like. > Goldberg was arrested, but, like Sheinbein, he has wealthy parents. His > parents put up bail to get him out of jail, and now Houston police say > they have reason to believe that Goldberg has fled to Israel to escape > prosecution. > > Now, let me tell you, if it were any country but Israel the U.S. > government wouldn't tolerate this sheltering of criminals who have > murdered U.S. citizens. At the very least diplomatic relations would be > cut off and economic sanctions would be imposed. But of course, Israel > gets special treatment. Israel can do no wrong, not only in the eyes of > the Clinton government, but in the eyes of virtually every government > the United States has had in the last 50 years. When Jews in the United > States collaborated in the theft of nuclear materials from a U.S. > nuclear fuel processing plant and the smuggling of the material to > Israel in 1962, President John Kennedy and the media here were > interested only in covering it up, not in holding Israel and its > collaborators to account. > > When the Israelis deliberately attacked and tried to sink a U.S. Navy > vessel, the U.S.S. Liberty, in the Mediterranean in 1967, killing 35 > U.S. citizens in the process, President Lyndon Johnson and the > controlled news media in the United States didn't give a thought to > punishing or even criticizing Israel for the murderous attack. Their > entire concern was to keep the affair covered up, to keep the American > public in the dark about it, and to protect Israel from any blame. The > Liberty sent out an emergency call for assistance while it was under > attack by the Israelis, and the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean > sent jet aircraft speeding to the rescue. As soon as Lyndon Johnson > learned that it was the Israelis who were trying to sink the Liberty, > however, he ordered the U.S. jets recalled and left the Liberty on its > own. He was terrified of the potential political reprisals against him > if Israelis were killed by U.S. jets. Better to let the Israelis sink > the Liberty and kill her entire crew. Even today the government's > official story is that the attack on the Liberty was a "mistake," and > beyond that, "no comment." > > And as it was with Lyndon Johnson in 1967 and with other U.S. Presidents > both before and since then, so it is with Bill Clinton today. U.S. > government policy is that Jews can do no wrong; Israel can do no wrong. > This policy is excused on the basis that Israel is our gallant, little, > democratic ally in the Middle East, and that's why we give her special > consideration in all things. But really, that's no excuse. Israel is no > ally; Israel is and always has been nothing but an enormous liability > for America. > > And it's not just Israel which gets special treatment. It's Jews > generally, whether they run to Israel for protection or not. I'll give > you an example of the special treatment reserved for Jews which has > gotten a very slight coverage in the news recently, and has been noticed > by those of us who notice such things: that's the case of Ira Einhorn. > Einhorn was a Philadelphia-area leader of the so-called "counter-culture > revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s, a revolution which Jews like to brag > turned America upside down and changed young people's values. Bill > Clinton was part of that revolution as a cheerleader for the Viet Cong > and Ho Chi Minh and as an enthusiastic user of illegal drugs. > > Ira Einhorn was a smart, fast-talking Jewish con man, who moved in the > same circles as other Jews of his ilk in that era: Jerry Rubin, Abbie > Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg. Einhorn was much more than just a cheerleader > for the Viet Cong. He was a full-fledged New Age guru. He managed to > promote himself successfully as a spokesman for everything that was > trendy: the marvelous effects of LSD and other psychedelic drugs, > pyramid power, various oriental religious cults, transcendental > meditation, UFOs and extraterrestrials, CIA conspiracies: you name it; > Einhorn was able to pass himself off as an authority on it. He also was > a drug dealer. > > But mostly he was a very wordy and very self-confident Jew-boy, who was > able to mesmerize Gentiles young and old and bring them under his sway > -- especially Gentile women. He managed to convince them that whatever > nonsense he spewed on any subject was profound wisdom. This was the case > despite the fact that he was fat, hairy, greasy looking, and otherwise > singularly unattractive: almost a stereotype of the Jew for whom the > name "kike" was coined. Of course, the Jewish media and Jews in the > Philadelphia establishment helped Einhorn maintain his "guru" image by > taking him seriously and giving him good press. > > One of the young Gentile women Einhorn mesmerized was a beautiful, > blonde girl from the little East Texas town of Tyler, Holly Maddux. > Holly was not only beautiful, she was very bright and personable. She > was a cheerleader in her high school and graduated as salutatorian. Then > in 1965 she went off to Bryn Mawr University in Philadelphia. Bryn Mawr > had been founded by Quakers, and in the 1960s it was a hotbed of > everything liberal, trendy, and destructive of the old-fashioned values > Holly had learned in Texas. Holly began sleeping with Jews while she was > at Bryn Mawr. She was fascinated by their wordiness and their > self-assurance, which she mistook for genuine intellectual qualities, as > many another naive Gentile girl has done. > > Eventually she met Ira Einhorn, who had risen to become the head Jewish > hippie of Philadelphia, and she fell under his spell. Einhorn persuaded > Holly to move into his apartment, and she lived with him for five years, > cooking and cleaning for him and sexually "servicing" him and letting > herself be humiliated as he showed off his blonde shiksa slave to his > Jewish friends. Then Einhorn murdered Holly and stuffed her corpse into > a trunk on an enclosed back porch attached to his apartment. The odor > finally attracted the police, who obtained a search warrant and > discovered the girl's decomposing body. Einhorn was arrested and charged > with Holly's murder in March 1979. Einhorn hired Philadelphia Jewish > lawyer Arlen Specter, now a Republican U.S. senator, to get his bail > reduced from $500,000 to $40,000. Einhorn put up the required $4000 cash > and split. He went to Canada and then to Europe in order to avoid > prosecution for the murder of Holly Maddux. In Europe he continued his > role of New Age guru, and he continued attracting and using Gentile > women. Well . . . Jewish women too: his biggest financial supporter has > been Barbara Bronfman, of the infamous Bronfman liquor-merchant and > media family, which has been much in the news recently with demands for > billions of dollars in reparations from the rest of the world because we > haven't been treating Jews right. And for 20 years, this Jewish hippie > guru has been living high in Europe, being supported by various women, > and no one seems willing to hold him accountable for the murder of Holly > Maddux. The French government finally decided a few weeks ago that he > should be deported, but they have given him two years to appeal their > decision. I have a suspicion that two years from now Ira Einhorn will be > in Israel. Subject: [newphysics] Schwartz �ber Tatsachen Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:52:25 -0800 From: nick herbert Reply-To: newphysics@mail.msr-wetware.com To: newphysics@mail.msr-wetware.com Eat bread and Salt And speak the truth --Russian Proverb jack-- I am a very simple person, not as convoluted and twisted as you seem to need to make me. I do not have the time to review the entire Weiss/Schwartz exchange so the following exerpts must suffice: on 11/20/98 in the midst of the Schwartz/Weiss bout (initiated by Schwartz as you recall) I sent you the following post: jack-- <> And in this next post I explicitly distance my views from Max's. on 11/26/98 the following: > In addition, anyone who knows me even the slightest realizes I have neither the interest nor the ability to discourse so knowledgably as Max on the minutea of European and Soviet History. And in all the time that you have known me, Jack, have you ever known me to express the slightest antagonism toward the jews? I do not really care about your tribal squabbles. Leave me out. I have always identified myself primarily with scientists, whose interests transcend mere nationalisms and tribalisms. So contrary to your claim that I "was coy" and refused to identify Max Weiss, in fact, at least six months ago, I explicitly denied that I was Weiss as well as explicitly distancing myself from his "despicable" views. This is fact--in the record. If you claim ignorance of these facts, they are still facts. The fact that you take Stephen Schwartz's groundless speculations more seriously than my unambiguous declarations suggests that you possess a pathological dependence on credentialed AUTHORITY rather than common sense and the evidence of your own experience. For as you say (3/22/99): > I would not wish to argue you out of your pathology. I consider a prime prerequisite for doing good science the ability to tolerate divergent viewpoints even those I find despicable so I am not threatened by your need for a strong father figure to provide you with the Truth. I can learn something even from fascists. Nor do I object to your forwarding that third-hand hate piece about Ira to various news media. It was clearly labeled, as you may verify for yourself, not as my own work, but as a work forwarded to me by Max Weiss. And as far as I am concerned I would not hinder you or anyone else in distributing any literature from any source as you see fit to any medium you can reach. (You and your friends, on the other hand, seem to possess strong instinctive objections to the free flow of any information that is the least bit offensive to their sensitivities. It must be extremely uncomfortable for them to live in a country like America that values free expression of ideas.) What I do object to is your supposition that I seem to be a "Jew-hating Nazi" and the forwarding of THIS SUPPOSITION to various news media. In this case your pathological avoidance of simple truth leads you not just to a deepening of your own confusion but to spreading gratuitous & libelous falsehoods about myself. I do not accept your arguement that my forwarding that post to your small mailgroup implies that I am a "Jew-hating Nazi" any more than your forwarding it to NBC, the Chronicle, Examiner et al makes you a hate-criminal for attempting to distribute anti-semitic literature to a mass audience. You can forward anything you want: it is still a free country, but what you distribute in your own name is yours alone. So although I do hold you blameless for forwarding Weiss's post I am holding you responsible for defaming my good name by ignorantly braying to those same media that in your opinion Nick Herbert seems to be a "Jew-hating Nazi". Nick -->

From today's Philadelphia Daily News: To avoid justice, Ira goes for the throat Lame suicide attempt delays return to face murder rap By THERESA CONROY conroyt@phillynews.com OF ALL THE YELLOW-BELLIED, attention-seeking, flamboyant antics. Instead of boarding a waiting plane to Philadelphia yesterday to face justice for killing his girlfriend Holly Maddux, fugitive Ira Einhorn took a knife to his neck, cut a superficial slit in his throat, then - in classic Einhorn style - held a rambling press conference as blood trickled from the wound. More on website: http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2001/07/13/local/iraa13c.htm

Einhorn is back in US custody on US soil. And being interviewed on 20/20 in about 20 minutes.

Friday August 10 5:08 PM ET Einhorn Threatens Fast Over U.S. Jail Diet By David Morgan PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Ira Einhorn, the former hippie guru recently jailed for murder in the United States after spending 20 years on the lam in Europe, says he will fast behind bars to protest what he calls an unhealthy prison diet. In a one-page handwritten statement received by Reuters on Friday, Einhorn, 61, described himself as ``subclinically both diabetic and hypoglycemic,'' saying he cannot maintain his health on sugar-rich foods given to inmates at Pennsylvania's Graterford prison near Philadelphia. ``I will not eat food that I know makes me sick. I would rather die,'' he said in the August 8 dated statement. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010810/ts/crime_einhorn_dc_1.html Some people would rather that he die.

posted on the yahoo boards, someone who got Ira Einhorn's "last email" Looks like this will be the last email I get from Ira Einhorn for at least "a while". If he really gets a new trial it will be quite an affair, I'm sure. From: To: , Cc: , , , Subject: Clarification and CBS Date: Monday, July 16, 2001 2:48 PM A general thanks for the help and good wishes you six have sent my way in the recent past: 1. I certainly had suicide in mind, but that is not what I did. 2. I acted politically out of rage at learning about the fact - impeccable source - that a fix was on and that I was being traded to the UNITED STATES for commercial purposes: Credit Lyonaise affair to be specific. 3. My wounds were not superficial - My neck has 26 grafts and 6 stitches and I cut myself over 30 times. 4. I lost pints of blood. 5. That I could walk around and do an interview still amazes me, my wife, lawyer et. al. here. 6. A half hour after an emergency operation, surrounded by 40 gendarmes, I was still out of it, BUT I was told I was going to be put in an ambulance, taken to Roissy(Paris) wherein an airplane waited on the tarmac and flown back to the USA. 7. Five minutes later, I was told the decree of extradition was suspended 8. My wife visited me and brought me up to date and left for home. 9. It dawned on me I should be back to my old regime with the suspension of the decree and it also dawned on the man in charge who when asked told me I was free to go. 10. To make it easier, I hitched a ride with the police who normally guard me. 11. At 11:00 that night I pounded on my door, surprising my wife and neighbors who were there with her and helped man the ever ringing phone, giving a number of interviews in French and English. 12. The present situation is very complicated and can't be explained simply. 13. CBS spent the afternoon with me and 2-3 minutes should result on the Tuesday night news. 14. Wednesday, my wife Annika is 50 and supporters and friends will gather around a gigantic table, seating 49, to celebrate and then many will camp out here in a ring of support. 15. Thursday at 3:00, Annika and I will give a press conference with my lawyer, the International president of SOS RACISM who is a member of the European parliament and others. 16. I am living in what only can be called an armed camp, surrounded by a ring of gendarmes, riot squads, Paris antiterrorist police, the intelligence service and a customs post, so that they can stop and search my wife for illegal cigarettes and tobacco(me) in a car the size of a postage stamp. 17.? Ira http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/07/19/national/19EINHORN.htm French police lead Ira Einhorn from his home in Champagne-Mouton, France. He is expected to be flown by U.S. officials to Philadelphia tonight. (AFP/PATRICK BERNARD) By Andrea Gerlin INQUIRER STAFF WRITER CHAMPAGNE-MOUTON, France - Twenty years after he fled the United States to avoid a murder trial in the killing of his girlfriend, Ira Einhorn today was taken into custody by French authorities and put aboard a plane to Philadelphia. He was scheduled to arrive at Philadelphia International Airport around 2 a.m. tomorrow. He was then to be driven under heavy guard to Graterford Prison in Montgomery County. Einhorn, 61, a once-prominent counterculture and anti-war activist, lost his last bid for freedom when the European Court of Human Rights today refused to delay his extradition from France. Shortly after 2 p.m. Philadelphia time today, French police escorted Einhorn from his stone house in this village in southwestern France and bundled him into a gray Peugeot for the four-hour drive to Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris, where U.S. authorities were waiting. The plane took off at 7:25 p.m., Philadelphia time. Einhorn's Swedish-born wife, Annika, his constant companion through 14 years in hiding, did not travel to the airport; she said good-bye to him through a car window and waved as the police convoy pulled away from the house. The normally loquacious Einhorn was silent as he was led away. Asked if he had anything to say, he shook his head. Earlier in the day, after the European court announced its decision, Einhorn had emerged from the house to again proclaim his innocence. "I will be happy to go to the U.S. if the court gives me a new trial," he said. He and his lawyers said they doubted he would get a new trial, and they denounced Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham as a "fanatic of the death penalty." Einhorn is wanted for the murder of Holly Maddux, whose body was found in a steamer trunk in the couple's Powelton Village apartment in 1979. He was convicted in absentia of first-degree murder in 1993, but the Pennsylvania legislature passed a law permitting a new trial after France refused to extradite him because he had not been present at his trial. Maddux's family and U.S. officials said they were encouraged by the apparent end of the 20-year effort to find Einhorn and bring him to the United States. "I'm more than cautiously optimistic, but I'm trying to keep from jumping up and down and high-fiving everyone I see," said Buffy Hall, one of Maddux's sisters. The three Maddux sisters, in Washington today to lobby for a change in U.S. law to make it easier to extradite American fugitives from foreign countries, were to arrive in Philadelphia today, prepared to celebrate the long-awaited return of Einhorn. Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham said she was "happy that the government has taken him into custody." "I'm pleased that Holly Maddux and her family will finally get their say .... They must be feeling very, very satisfied at this moment." Hours before Einhorn was taken away by French police last evening, he and a band of supporters held a press conference to denounce the ruling that permitted his immediate extradition. Fode Sylla, a French member of the European Parliament and president of the French group SOS Racisme, compared Einhorn's case to that of Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose death sentence for shooting Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner has made him an international cause celebre. "My government made a very, very big mistake and I really apologize for that," Einhorn lawyer Dominique Tricaud said afterward. "It would have been a big symbol in the battle for human rights. In the best case, he will spend the rest of his life in prison." Less than three hours later, four police vehicles arrived and four gendarmes approached the blue door of his house. They knocked several times but got no answer until Annika Einhorn appeared in a window above the door to ask them if she could talk to her husband for a few minutes. They agreed and were joined by three additional officers. French riot police and a tactical unit stood outside the front gate near the grey Peugeot, while others watched each end of the property. Five minutes later, Einhorn's wife allowed three gendarmes, lawyer Dominique Tricaud, Sylla and an unidentified government official into the house. Soon one of the gendarmes came out and passed a message to a colleague waiting outside. He gave a thumbs up signal to police waiting outside the gate. Einhorn was escorted out of the house by police nine minutes later, dressed in faded jeans and a loose-fitting light blue shirt. He walked freely and did not bring a suitcase. Philadelphia defense attorney Norris E. Gelman, who represented Einhorn during his 1993 trial, talked with Einhorn today after the court issued its decision. "I'm disappointed. However, they did not completely reject the case ... they may still hear it," he said. Gelman said he does not believe a second trial is constitutional or that the Pennsylvania legislature had any authority to authorize it. "I think we have a very sound legal position," Gelman said. Gelman said he has not been formally retained by Einhorn for a second trial, but has maintained close contact with him. "I'm not going to meet the plane when it lands. He'll go to a jail, and I'll go to the jail" to talk with Einhorn, Gelman said. In Washington, Einhorn was the focus of attention as a bill was introduced today by Rep. Dan Miller (R., Fla.) to try to assure more cooperation from foreign countries that are home to U.S. fugitives. The bill would require the president to submit a list of "uncooperative" countries. It provides for yanking foreign aid to those countries, and would make it a crime for people to aid fugitives fighting extradition. High-ranking officials from "uncooperative" nations could also be denied visas, under Miller's bill. "I know we'll all feel better when we see him (Einhorn) in handcuffs with U.S. marshals," Miller said. "However, I appeal to the American people and the U.S. Congress to stand up for other families like the Madduxes across the country." Also in Washington, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (R., Pa.), who 22 years ago was the lawyer who represented Einhorn at a bail hearing after he was charged with murder, said today, "I have said consistently when Einhorn became a fugitive, after I no longer had represented him ... that he ought to be brought back to the United States for trial. And it looks like that's going to happen, and it'll be quite a trial." In Champagne-Mouton, the scene changed quickly after Einhorn was spirited out of town. Checkpoints were dismantled. Customs officers, who had been checking vehicles entering and leaving the area, relaxed over glasses of beer at the bar of the village's only hotel, while members of the tactical squad, whose skills were not put to the test, played billiards and broke into song. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inquirer staff writers Jacqueline Soteropoulos, Peter Nicholas, Thomas J. Gibbons Jr. Andrea Gerlin's email address is foreign@p...

September 7, 2001 Einhorn Lawyer to Seek New Trial By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 7:01 p.m. ET PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A lawyer for convicted murderer Ira Einhorn said Friday he would file papers next week to seek a new trial, while the former fugitive engaged in a combative exchange with a prosecutor. Einhorn appeared in an American courtroom for the first time in more than 20 years at a hearing to formally notify him of his right to petition for a new trial. He was convicted of murder in absentia in 1993 in the death of his live-in lover, Holly Maddux. When prosecutor Joel Rosen asked Einhorn if he understood the hearing's purpose, Einhorn refused to answer and instead demanded of Rosen, ``I'd like to ask you a question.'' The prosecutor immediately turned to Judge Webster Keough, who had warned attorneys that the hearing was a formality, and was not being held to consider legal issues. ``I didn't need you to apprise me of my rights,'' Einhorn continued. ``I thought the ball was in my court; that's what your boss said,'' he said, referring to District Attorney Lynne Abraham, who had said it was up to Einhorn to petition for a new trial -- or serve out his life sentence. Asked again whether he understood his rights and the deadlines, Einhorn said he would not answer questions from Rosen. Defense attorney Norris Gelman quickly said his client understood the prosecutor's stated deadline. Einhorn has until Sept. 18 to decide -- 60 days since his extradition from France. Gelman said he planned to file the request Wednesday. The attorney said later that he did not know what question Einhorn had wanted to ask. As for the exchange, Gelman said, ``It's Ira.'' Rosen said he did not want the case to be come a circus and was not affected by the exchange. ``This was just another homicide defendant; one in a million, that's all,'' he said. Einhorn, 61, was charged with the 1977 bludgeoning death of Maddux but disappeared before trial in 1981. He was discovered living in the French countryside in 1997 and battled extradition for years. He was returned to Philadelphia on July 20 after Pennsylvania officials promised France that Einhorn could have a new trial if he wanted one and would not face the death penalty if convicted.

Einhorn Requests New Trial By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Convicted killer Ira Einhorn and his lawyer have made two legal moves that they believe will vindicate the former hippie guru who was on the lam for 20 years before being returned to the United States this summer. Einhorn requested a new murder trial Wednesday, and his lawyer asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to determine whether the law granting him such a proceeding is constitutional. His lawyer, Norris Gelman, said Einhorn wants a trial ``where he can be present, proffer a defense, (and) have his name cleared and vindicated.'' Einhorn, 61, was charged with the 1977 bludgeoning death of his former lover, Holly Maddux, whose mummified body was found stuffed in a trunk in the couple's apartment in 1979. Einhorn disappeared before a scheduled trial in 1981, and he was convicted in absentia 12 years later and sentenced to life in prison. French officials did not want him to return to Pennsylvania because he had been convicted and sentenced in absentia; the law giving him a new trial was passed to get French authorities to cooperate. Gelman said at that time that the law is unconstitutional because the Legislature may not grant someone a new trial; he said only the judiciary has that power. ``I want the Supreme Court to make the ruling because their ruling will be beyond challenge. We want a new trial that counts,'' Gelman said Wednesday. Gelman admitted to some legal risk, noting that if the Supreme Court does take the case and rules the law invalid, Einhorn ``doesn't get a new trial (and) has to face that music.'' That would mean Einhorn's conviction and life sentence would stand. A spokeswoman for District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham declined comment on the twin filings, saying the district attorney's office hadn't seen the paperwork. On Friday, Einhorn appeared in an American courtroom for the first time in more than 20 years at a hearing to formally notify him of his right to petition for a new trial. The former fugitive had a combative exchange with a prosecutor, saying at one point: ``I didn't need you to apprise me of my rights

Former Hippie Guru Laments U.S. Attitudes on Crime Wed Jul 17,10:55 AM ET By David Morgan HOUTZDALE, Pa. (Reuters) - Ira Einhorn, the former hippie guru who in September will be tried a second time in one of Philadelphia's most infamous murder cases, is disappointed by the way Americans treat people accused of serious crimes. "We're overboard about the victim," Einhorn lamented in an interview at the state prison where he is observing his first anniversary behind bars after 20 years on the run in Europe. The rest at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020717/lf_nm/crime_einhorn_dc_1

Oct 7, 2002 9:33 am US/Eastern (AP)-(Philadelphia)-The prosecution in the Ira Einhorn murder trial says it will wrap up its case by Tuesday or Wednesday and shortly thereafter, jurors will hear from Einhorn himself. Prosecutor Joel Rosen plans two or perhaps three more days of testimony, mostly related to the recovery and analysis of the body of victim Holly Maddux. The defense case could begin as early as Wednesday, and Einhorn is expected to take the stand not too long after that. Prosecutor Rosen is looking foward to the opportunity to cross-examine the one-time fugitive. He says it will be a challenge. Einhorn's attorney William Cannon says Einhorn's testimony is Einhorn's idea. Prosecutor Rosen knows this is the wildcard in what he believes is an otherwise solid case.

What a long strange trip it's been for Einhorn, witnesses PHILADELPHIA (AP) - "Let me take you back to the 1970s ..." As each witness for the prosecution took the stand last week in the long-awaited murder trial of former counterculture guru Ira Einhorn, those are the words with which the assistant district attorney began his questioning. Phrases such as "We were dialoguing" and "It was too much negativity for me" likely haven't been taken down by a court stenographer with such frequency for quite some time. Responses differed and memories varied in recalling those days of free love and free spirits in West Philadelphia's funky Powelton Village neighborhood in the '70s, when Einhorn was the city's head hippie and Holly Maddux was his delicately beautiful girlfriend who sold baked goods at the local food co-op and dabbled in art. "It was a time when people were trying to be different and were trying different things," said Kathryn Keegan, who first met Einhorn in 1970 and worked with him on an event called "Sun Day" in 1978 to promote solar energy. Some witnesses smiled wistfully as they recollected the community of artists, activists and eccentrics who worked and shopped in the Ecology Food Co-operative, lived in the Job Chillaway communal house and showed their art at Penelope and Sisters all-women's gallery on South Street, a college hangout of bars and T-shirt shops that was then a bohemian enclave. Other witnesses were more matter-of-fact, recounting events as if recalling the life of another person, and still others remembered precious little from those heady days of expanded consciousness and the substances that often went along with it. Einhorn hobnobbed with counterculture icons like Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, organized "be-ins," was involved in the city's first Earth Day in 1970, and ran for mayor as a "planetary enzyme - catalyst for change." He also made friends of Philadelphia's business and civic leaders, many of whom were character witnesses at his bail hearing after Maddux's body was found in March 1979, 18 months after she disappeared, in a trunk in Einhorn's closet. He fled on the eve of his 1981 trial, living throughout Europe under assumed names until he was tracked in 1997 to a French village where he was living in a country cottage with his Swedish wife. A French appeals court allowed the extradition in July 2001 after receiving assurances that Einhorn's 1993 conviction in absentia would be vacated. Einhorn, 62, seems occasionally amused with the blast-from-the-past parade of former friends and neighbors. He puts on his glasses as witnesses enter the courtroom with a gesture of recognition or tiny grin at the sight of people he hasn't seen in 25 years or more. "We were part of a peace movement, we were into nonviolent behavior, we were into civil rights and we were involved in the hippie lifestyle," said Barbara Kubiak, who with her husband George, were believed to be the last to see Maddux alive. The Kubiaks went to see the just-released "Star Wars" with the recently-separated couple on the evening before Maddux vanished. "At that time, Ira and Holly were part of a counterculture. It was open sexually � they were not into a monogamous relationship. They would have relationships with other people but (it was) mostly Ira," she testified. "She said she was trying to be free and open the way Ira wanted her to be," Keegan testified an upset Maddux told her after Einhorn left a party with another woman. Most of Einhorn's old friends and neighbors have clearly assimilated into the mainstream, looking comfortable in jackets and ties - much more so than the defendant himself - while a few are clearly on the same long, strange trip they embarked upon 30 years ago. One witness who sublet Einhorn's apartment in the mid-1970s had difficulty answering some of the questions posed by both sides, then scratched his head, turned to Judge William Mazzola and said, "Can I ask a question?" The startled judge replied, "Whoa, whoa, whoa," to stop his question from continuing, which amused the courtroom audience and the witness, who chuckled and repeated, "Whoa, whoa, whoa." Several witnesses remembered Maddux and her bruises all too well, though in 1977 - just four years after Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion - when feminism and women's rights were gathering steam. "She was stoic when she talked about what happened to her," said Penny Jeannechild, who taught a women's assertiveness training class in which Maddux was briefly enrolled. "I told her she didn't have to take that from anyone."

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http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/einhorn/index.html http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/mugshots/indepth/einhorn/ Chitwood testifies in alleged killer's trial Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 6:38 AM PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The defense will begin presenting its case Wednesday in the trial of Ira Einhorn, the counterculture guru charged with murdering his girlfriend in Philadelphia 25 years ago. Prosecutors wrapped up their case against Einhorn Tuesday by calling Portland Police Chief Michael to the stand. Chitwood was the final witness in the prosecution's case against Einhorn, who is charged with bludgeoning Holly Maddux because she wanted to break up with him. The trial is being held in Philadelphia. Chitwood was a Philadelphia homicide detective when he found her corpse in a steamer trunk in his closet 18 months after Einhorn said she went to the store and never returned.

PHILADELPHIA -- Ira Einhorn, the former hippie guru on trial for allegedly killing his girlfriend in 1977, testified Monday that other people had access to the couple's apartment and that he was surprised when police found her body in his closet. Police searched the apartment in 1979 and found the mummified remains of Holly Maddux in a steamer trunk. "When I finally found out it was Holly, I broke up for days. It ripped me to pieces," the 62-year-old Einhorn told a packed courtroom. http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-einhorn1014oct14,0,3950838.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A jury on Wednesday began deliberating the fate of Ira Einhorn, the former hippie guru accused of killing his girlfriend in 1979. Einhorn's attorney said during his closing argument that the discovery of the mummified corpse in the apartment the couple once shared is "just a piece of circumstantial evidence" that doesn't prove his client's guilt. "It doesn't mean at all that Ira Einhorn is responsible for her murder," William Cannon said. Prosecutor Joel Rosen said the evidence of Einhorn's guilt is overwhelming. Jurors deliberated more than an hour Wednesday before retiring for the day. They were to resume their work Thursday. Einhorn, 62, is accused of killing Holly Maddux of Tyler, Texas, 25 years ago because she wanted to end their turbulent five-year relationship. Her remains were found in a steamer trunk in the closet of their Philadelphia apartment in 1979, 18 months after she disappeared. He could get life in prison if convicted. Cannon said that there is a lack of physical evidence tying Einhorn to the crime, and that Maddux's bludgeoning death would have left bloodstains in the apartment. The lack of blood suggests she was killed somewhere else and later placed in the trunk, Cannon said. Einhorn has denied killing Maddux and maintains the body was put there to frame him. He has accused the CIA of setting him up because of his research into the agency's "psychic warfare" experiments. "There were people who simply didn't like Ira Einhorn, people who were capable of doing something about it and, I suggest, did something about it," Cannon said. Rosen called those allegations ridiculous. "It is so laughable and so ludicrous, it is so outrageous, you should be offended," he said. "If a woman wasn't brutally murdered, you would almost laugh at it." Prosecutors had Einhorn read to the jury from his poems and diary entries, in which he wrote "to kill what you love when you can't have it seems so natural" and "violence always marks the end of a relationship." Prosecutors also called the former owner of a bookstore who said Einhorn once asked for a "how-to" book on mummification. Einhorn jumped bail weeks before his trial was set to begin in 1981, and lived in Europe under assumed names until he was found in France in 1997. He was convicted in absentia in 1993, a verdict that was set aside to clear the way for his extradition in 2001. Cannon said Einhorn fled the country because he believed he would not get a fair trial.

Guilty Thursday, October 17, 2002 ADVERTISEMENT PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Ira Einhorn, a 19'70s hippie guru who fled to Europe and lived like a country squire after being charged with murder, was convicted Thursday of killing his girlfriend and stuffing her corpse in his closet a quarter-century ago. The 62-year-old Einhorn showed no emotion upon hearing the first-degree murder verdict, which brought an automatic sentence of life without parole and smiles to the family of his victim, 30-year-old Holly Maddux. After the verdict, the district attorney and the judge mocked Einhorn and his role as an Age of Aquarius wise man. Judge William Mazzola called him "an intellectual dilettante who preyed on the uninitiated, uninformed, unsuspecting and inexperienced people." One juror, Tracy Garett, said he was angry Einhorn couldn't be given the death penalty. "He had a warped mind," Garett said. "Even on the stand, it was like he thought he was God." Defence lawyer William Cannon said Einhorn would appeal. The verdict, reached after 2� hours of deliberations, capped a stunning fall for the counterculture figure who once held "be-in" events. After fleeing the country, Einhorn lived in the south of France for years, appearing on television shows as he fought extradition and posing naked in his garden for Esquire magazine.

The best sum up is by Steven Levy, who obviously had a front row seat. Oct. 18 � Twenty-five years and 37 days after Ira Einhorn crushed Holly Maddux�s skull and stuffed her in a trunk, the former hippie boulevardier, with his hair shorn now and decked in a clubby blue blazer, sat next to his lawyer to hear his fate. The suspense wasn�t exactly overwhelming. As his lawyer, William Cannon, later explained, it�s tough to defend a client when his former girlfriend is discovered in mummified form in his closet 18 months after her disappearance. That job is tougher still when the jury learns that your client almost murdered two other women under similar circumstances�they wanted to leave him, he didn�t want them to leave unharmed. complete story at http://www.msnbc.com/news/823085.asp