Mugshots: Ira Einhorn - The Unicorn | Forensic Files

this is a very creepy story here's a man who maybe got away with the murder tonight on mug shots Ira Einhorn the
mystery behind the man they call the Unicorn the guy had a Charisma he had a force he's a murderer woman abuser and
he's a coward when we found that he had skipped the country I don't think anybody was really surprised about
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Maddox had been missing for a year and a half and the police suspected her boyfriend was involved looking for
evidence they went to his house I rang the bell to 2C we were greeted at the door by Ira Einhorn who
all he had on was a robe had the robe open and and I presented him with a copy of to search warant all of us then went
inside his apartment we then went out into the porch area and there's a door that had a
padlock on it I asked Einhorn did he have a key for that and he said no he didn't have a key
I then told him that I was going to have to break it we had a warrant and he said
do what you got to do I was able to take the hasp off of of the Locking portion without
disturbing the locking mechanism itself the first thing I saw was a closet full of boxes and a suitcase had
a tag on it and it was Holly maddox's name on the green suitcase I'm now in the closet and the
only thing that is left in the closet after all the boxes and the suitcase has been removed is the steamer
trunk and now the odor that I had smelled initially is even more profound and I want to open the
trunk and there was a lock on the trunk so I turned to Einhorn once again and I said do you have a key for this lock and
he said no he didn't have a key I then got a crowbar and I was able to remove the
mechanism and when I opened the trunk I noticed laying right on the top were newspapers and then I noticed that the
trunk was all layered with styrofoam this is the styrofoam that was in there I then proceeded to start moving
everything to the left and the first thing I noticed was a hand and the hand was mummified the hand was looked as
though somebody or Holly had tried to push the trunk open I then immediately stopped
searching and said to Ein it looks like we found Holly Ein horn said you found what you
found just to throw you in a trunk for your grave lie there and rot in your um Killer's
apartment that is really too much for most people to comprehend and I went to teach that morning got into my car and I
was driving on the school cool Expressway uh with the radio on it was about 12:30 I remember and I hear this
this announcement Ira Einhorn arrested for murder his girlfriend was in the trunk and I just sort of shocked I said
what and I had to pull over cuz I couldn't I said what you know like the radio say that again he was very cool he
was very calm he was very Collective his demeanor was very very sto I remember I was sitting in my
office and I get a phone call it's Ira calling from jail and he I said H know he starts to
talk talk about Einstein with me starts to talk about what we had talked about a
couple you know the movie we had seen as if nothing had happened what happened according to prosecutors was that Ira
Einhorn murdered Holly Maddox by striking her multiple times in the head and then kept her body in a trunk in his
apartment for 18 months we were becoming increasingly concerned because we we knew that Hollywood have been in touch
within a year and a half I was living in Dallas at the time and Mom called me up
one day and and all she said was um they found [Music] Holly and that was oh emotionally that was uh
that that was the pet well we had a cat at the time it was very ill and my mom standing there
crying again ringing her hand saying they found a Holly and your your dad's upset and he's at the funeral
home and you know dots the cat is worse and I don't know what to do and I said Mom and I've got to pick up Mary at
school and I said Mom I'll do it I got a phone call from Buffy and she said they found Holly and
I said is she alive and she said no and I said I'll be right back take the cat to the vet the vet says I'm sorry we
have you have to put your cat to sleep this was almost funny because it was so awful I can remember driving the 10
minutes home and just wishing that everyone else was off the highway I even for brief time you know put on it was
such a FAL gesture but I put on my emergency blinkers and I thought maybe I'll just run through all the lights
well there were like a total of three but to me that was a lot so here I am working on paper towels by this time cuz
I can't stop crying I'm driving a car you know the vet's probably thinking oh my God how you know I've never seen
anybody do this over a cat so I walked in the house and Mom and Daddy were sitting at the table
and I just said I'm really sorry and daddy said well your mother and I have grieved and now it's your turn to
start and I thought oh my you know cuz I knew it wasn't true but what do you say to
somebody when they've said intimate don't go there this is too [Music] painful that's one it really hit me two
guys carrying out the trunk and yeah that was her coffin it was big news you know IA was a
celebrity when I say a celebrity he was uh uh he was in that category of a known
person where the Press was covering him Ira Einhorn was Philadelphia's most visible hippie a leader of the
counterculture movement and its most outspoken pacifist here was Mr peace Mr you know Mr love the hippie Guru of
Philadelphia and that's why there was shock and um disbelief I was one of the people initially who said you know let's
wait and see let him defend himself he I at the at the Bale hearing I said he would not run away I didn't think he
would because he told me he was innocent don't forget this is the period of conspiracy and paranoia and everybody
felt that there you know that the CIA or all some was was doing all these clandestine activities so the first
response was can't be that they're trying to set Ira on April 3rd 1979 the day after Holly's funeral Einhorn was
brought to City Hall for a bail hearing he was represented by former district attorney and current four-term senator
from Pennsylvania arand Spectre who lined up a lawyer a priest a reverend and a vice president from Bell Telephone
to testify on einhorn's behalf everybody including myself would go up and testify to Ira being this
gentle sweet loving intelligent person the judge was in he I'd never heard such glowing reports about somebody I he
literally said that to my shock and even all these years later 20 some years later uh I still cannot believe that
bail was set at $40,000 he walked away after a wealthy friend posted the $4,000 Bond Einhorn
announced he was looking forward to a trial to clear his name it was at this point that Arlin Spectre stepped aside I
had a meeting with Ira in ARL inspector's office and the man was passed from ARL inspector to me
meanwhile in article after article reporters searched for something that would explain the gruesome murder the
media was crucifying Ira uh Philadelphia magazine ran a story with fake blood uh
on all the pages of the Articles uh the inquire was certainly none too friendly and the media was was
poisoning the atmosphere for trial no no that's a total lie I mean look we have cases every day that are major cases all
across America people get a fair trial in this country he came to me he said I'm going to stay and I'm going to face
the music and I'm going to go in front of jury of my peers and I said to him Ira you're a overweight Jew with long
hair with a beard wearing sandals with dirty toes who just allegedly killed a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant cheerleader
Ira HJ K1 he said what I said HJ K1 he said what does that mean I said when you're
in prison Ira making license plates and you see the request come in for license plate HJ K1 that's my way of saying
hello Ira from Harry J cats then in mid January 1981 almost 2 years after Holly maddox's body was found and just as the
trial was about to be scheduled Ira Einhorn disappeared he was living up in a mount ay section of Philadelphia we
went up and there was no answer and we went inside the apartment and he was gone coming up a closer look at Ira
Einhorn the man who took Center stage in Philadelphia's counterculture Revolution
I think here was a guy and I don't think it's been said enough that he you know came out of uh an ordinary existence to
really accomplish something and ruined [Music] it the neighborhood as far as we were
concerned started right about here I was considered one of the tough kids Ira was also considered a tough kid
because he went away one summer when he was 12 to camp and he did like a thousand push-ups a day and he he grew
into this monster he grew about 4 in and he had this huge Barrel muscular chest on these very very spindly legs but
after that no one ever picked on him again I mean he was he had a look about him that was um you know just said don't
mess with me Einhorn grew up on this block in the West Oak Lane section of Philadelphia in the ' 50s it was a
working class predominantly Jewish neighborhood we dated we hung out at places like Howard Johnson's we walked
every place it was like Happy Days his friends recall a tight-knit family Ira's mother was a typical Jewish mother she
loved Ira more than anything Ira was her her Pearl his father I really liked but
he was kind of a wishy-washy guy his brother was kind of weird in that uh he always had problems he was
sickly and I would protected him in 1957 he graduated from one of the top high schools in the city and was moving on to
the University of Pennsylvania from the safety of secret committees they talk about the danger of
War a spin of a coin on a table could mean 10,000 men maybe more I was never a hippie no no Harry J cat
started an underground paper that Einhorn wrote for he remembers him in college I was just a plain old English
major and that was essentially it and Ira was like out there he was a very experimental kind of guy and I respected
him for that and he was a man before his time Einhorn pledged a fraternity his freshman year and immediately left it he
rarely attended classes but studied well beyond the requirements after graduating he traveled around the
country to places that would later become the symbols of the counterculture Revolution becoming firmly engrossed in
the movement's ideology he became sort of an icon of the counterculture here because he represented everything that
was going on at that time from political activism to drugs and various other particular kinds of subjects that became
the the core of the counterculture Rebellion Stuart Samuels was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania this
is uh where the University of Pennsylvania really starts this is Ira's uh office you know he he he loved to be
seen in public uh particularly talking to people who looked important and the University was like
again his uh his home his public home this is the Student Union area where he would give his free
University lectures or he would uh meet people you could not miss Ira because Ira the way he looked and way he smelled
he smelled I mean it's really as simple as that Ira had terrible body odor the truth of the matter is that Ira spent
about two to three hours every day bathing he would spend hours in the bathtub conduct business from the
bathtub had a had a phone he was constantly he was he was absolutely pristine clean but he never cleaned his
clothes and he would put on this mantle of a of garments that were almost like going out in the world he needed a scent
that was other than his own it was a Persona Ira did things to shock people you know that was the way he drew
attention to himself that once he got you and once he started talking to you it was almost mesmerizing the defense
department has a contract out on the world and the FBI helps put through that contract and I'm not against the agents
themselves because they're the victims as a lot of other people in the society are of a structural situation the FBI
agents themselves have wives and children and I'm not against them personally between
1962 and 1978 this guy developed something in Philadelphia he was out there doing things for the
city that were really positive in nature we're going to be selling full life siiz
portraits of the FBI agents who've been infiltrating our neighborhood they've roughed off a couple people which uh is
not exactly uh the way I would want our government agencies to comport themselves despite his anti-government
protests Einhorn was becoming the connection between the establishment and the counterculture as Philadelphia's
hippie Guru he worked with the university to Quil rioting students and with the city to negotiate a peace with
other social activists including the radical group move he testified before Congress in
support of space exploration offering a poem as his written testimony he even ran for mayor against Frank
Rizzo the notorious former Chief of Police he was really a very eager maniacal person and as a result it was
very powerful and very seductive and very compelling he was a performer on the on the stage of society and as a
result you know that became his attraction previous reports credit Einhorn is one of the founders of the
first Earth Day in 1970 former Earth Day committee members have angrily refuted this claim and point out that he
monopolized the stage by refusing to relinquish the microphone for half an hour that could very well be true
because Ira could take over a show I mean you know like he was he saw right through things no you got to do it this
way this is the way we're doing it suddenly he would come in and he would like people would be following him he
just had that kind of Charisma and Einhorn literally lived off that Charisma he didn't have a job his job
was IRA and Ira in that context was to be in everything to be aware to be active to to talk to people to convince
them about how important he was and how intelligent he was and as a result people responded and they thought he had
value einhorn's visibility as the city's most prominent counterculture leader led
to an unusual Alliance he became a consultant for large corporations acting as their liaison to the youth movement
in Philadelphia on one hand people said oh my God this guy there's something about him this smell is too much but on
the other hand dignitaries would sit through it and be fascinated by him I mean you know and and do things for him
the president of AT&T would meet with this guy and he agreed to send out correspondents for Ira anything he
wanted to anybody and you have to understand this in the context of the' 70s the CEO said hey we've got to make
ourselves aware of what's going on in this world world and Ira was the perfect conduit really it was a very easy deal
we'll pay you your books your mail your telephone your xeroxing be our contact to that new Avant guard that was
happening at the time intellectually culturally and socially and that's what he [Music]
did this is the the the street that IA lived on you know all the time I knew him this was the this was the
house and it's sort of nondescript now but uh it's got a history now we're in the back
of uh the house uh where Ira lived he lived on the second floor that little extension there that wasn't very
finished but that's where the trunk was it wasn't a place to hang out it wasn't very comfortable you know there was no
place to sit IA wanted that because he wanted his privacy the only the only people he really brought home with him
were women well we're going to to uh where IA really hung out and was sort of the
center of his meetings with the CEOs and his various seductions place called laas and this was the place where IA
used to be uh King of the Hill what he used to do is basically sit and the center table and U have all the people
surround him and then everybody would come over to him and pay homage in October 1972 Holly Maddox walked into
laras her journey from a small town in Texas to einhorn's World in Philadelphia would end in tragedy next on
Mugshots growing up in Tyler Texas was in a word conservative Holly Maddox was the oldest of five children her father
was an infantryman in world War II and an engineer for the Texas Highway Department he raised his family with a
caring but authoritarian hand all of us were brought up pretty strictly we always knew what the
standards were what the curfews were we knew the rules but I think Holly had a way of charming them and daddy wouldn't
quite melt but he certainly he would voice some approval she taught me to swim took us trick-or-treating she would
teach us girls the words to The Beatles songs because you know everybody was nuts for the Beatles this is Through The
Eyes of a child those are the only eyes I got to see her with she was perfect come Christmas time we would all hop in
the car like Holly and mag Buffy and I and we drive around look at [Music] lights they just don't build houses with
any personality and like this anymore we had a long Hall the way our house was set up and there was John's
room and then there was Mom and Daddy's room and then there was Holly's room she'd go by his room when he was in
there and in her loving way go and then take off and run down one day he decided okay fine I'll fix her so
he put a little baby buggy out in front of his doorway with bricks in it and no all of her heavy toys and blocks and
when she took took off she wiped out over it as a teenager Holly's life held nothing but promise she was strikingly
beautiful excelled at school in dance voted most likely to succeed and even made the cheerleading team but Holly had
some unexpected difficulty in high school Holly didn't have his necessarily a wonderful time in high school dating
in the ' 50s women were supposed to be beautiful or smart but not both she wanted to to spread her wing
Holly left Tyler in 1965 to attend brinmore college an all girl school just outside Philadelphia a short time after
graduation she made her way to the city and to the center of einhorn's world laas he saw her and here was this fat
bearded belly Jewish kid from Philadelphia and here is this beautiful blonde etheral person walked in and Ira
was just in love and what Ira did was he want when he wanted something he just went over and did
it within two weeks Holly and Einhorn were living together Einhorn called himself the Unicorn Einhorn meaning one
horn in German but the reference has a poignant message the unicorn of fable has a dual personality an exceptionally
gentle character but fiercely violent when cornered in the fall of 1973 Holly brought Einhorn home to meet the family
in the first place you should never preface a visit by saying I'm bringing someone home and I know you're not going
to like him daddy what I didn't reckon for was an attitude and this attitude was so Punky he helped himself to
seconds before we'd even all had a plate then when he was through with his second
plate he leaned his chair back on two legs put his feet on the table that's universally known as almost a hanging
offense in Texas what Disturbed the family most was his attitude towards Holly I had a pretty thorough glimpse of
their relationship from his point of view it was uh a master in pet it wasn't the same Holly she was very subdued and
very subservient everyone knew Holly and Einhorn had a stormy relationship they split up several times and dated other
people but they were always drawn back together we spent so much time together I never ever saw Ira do anything that
was vient later the police would recover Holly's diary from einhorn's [Music] apartment in the summer of 1977 Holly
and Einhorn took a trip to Europe where she decided to leave him for good she said when they got back to Philadelphia
she was leaving IRA cuz she was tired of his bull Holly returned to the states alone and finished the summer in Fire
Island New York where she met a man cut her hair and made plans to move into her
own apartment in Philadelphia at 30 Holly was reclaiming her independence Ted Fink's wife was with her on Fire
Island she had said to Ruth like she knew it was going to be difficult trying to get away from Iron the only way to do
it was to cut it but Einhorn had other plans after returning to the states he tracked
her down and insisted she'd come back and talk to him or he would toss her personal effects on the street from Fire
Island Holly called four people to try and retrieve her belongings for her no one was available reluctantly on Friday
September 9th 1977 Holly returned to Philadelphia to try and calm Ira [Music] down comes October nothing
comes November there's Thanksgiving nothing after Christmas Mom and Daddy were convinced something was
wrong I had a telephone call from Mr Maddox who asked me told me who he was and told me their concern over their
daughter and wanted to know if I could help them Robert Stevens was a retired FBI agent in Tyler at the time one of
the things that bothered me was he had told the family on two occasions that she had
merely walked out of the house that morning while he was in the shower and had never come back never heard from her
again and when the police detective in Philadelphia talked to him he said that yes she had uh called him about 2 days
later and said that she would call him weekly this wouldn't make sense unless he has something he's hiding you know we
all sort of uh at that look back back and said you know why didn't we think about Holly's disappearance you know
well you know here's somebody who'd been part of our Circle and all of a sudden she
disappeared and in the context of that time it was understandable the explanation Ira says well she went off
and living her own life and we're finished and I'm going on with mine and we bought it we wanted to make Ira feel
comfortable even though he knew we were making inquiries we were making inquiries concerning learning who could
she have possibly gone off with rather than in what grave she might be in Stevens and his partner gathered
enough information for the Philadelphia police to obtain a search [Music] warrant I remember in my house in
Woodstock this is after the baale and so forth and that weekend happened Jerry ruin was up Peter Coyote myself bunch of
friends all around and Ira was there he came in the door all we were talking about him and all of a sudden he
appeared literally just from nowhere and we confronted him at that time we all asked him we you know we pounded him
with how you know mitt what's going on be you know be you know be a man be somebody who sort of you know this is
this you know it's a horrible thing it's okay maybe you get off on manslaughter maybe you know you can do all you know
you can claim some kind of thing he would laugh he would just laugh no show no emotion no
fear [Music] nothing when we come back Ira Einhorn leads investigators on a Manhunt through
Europe in 1979 when hary's body was found we thought that would be you know only only a year or two would have to
would have to pass before uh he was brought to Justice and it appears we were slightly
mistaken a lot of people were disappointed because they felt that he had left him down by leaving you know by
not proving his innocence once he split uh you know everybody said he's guilty in January 1981 Ira Einhorn
experimenter thinker and celebrated advocate of non-violence was now a fugitive running from the charge of
bludgeoning his girlfriend friend the extraditions officer for the Philadelphia district attorney got his
first break only 4 months after Einhorn disappeared in April of 1981 we get word uh that he had been living with an
Irish couple Ira came to my door uh on a wet and windy Winter's evening and uh he was looking for a
place to stay uh apparently had knocked on the wrong [Music] door I felt very sorry for him and so I
asked him if he would be interested in uh using our granny flat for just a few months Dennis Weir was a physics
professor and was impressed with einhorn's knowledge of the subject but there was something about einhorn's
behavior that concerned him his manner was unsettling to me Ira dominated a lot of people and I suppose that's how he
did it in an intangible way through eye contact you can't describe these things that particular kind of Charisma but I
think I sense some of his power several weeks after Einhorn moved in the we announced they were taking a
trip to the United States Ira became a little bit agitated about it and even said explicitly that we were not to talk
about him in the United States that he might get extradited and uh this uh really had the opposite effect to
what was intended because it made us very curious they came to visit some relatives in Chicago they called the
local newspapers here in Philadelphia the inquire and kind of got the story from them that the guy was W for murder
it made us very upset indeed and uh very puzzled as to what to do there was little they could do since Ireland did
not have an extradition treaty with the United States so we had to improvise a solution one way or another and what we
did was we turned up at the house I said Ira I'm giving you 20 minutes to leave this house and I'm not prepared to
discuss anything I think you know why I'm I'm doing [Music] this and Einhorn was again on the run
for 5 years de benedetto meticulously worked the case I never consciously sat back and said to myself oh I'm going to
profile this guy I mean I was just using common sense you know but I I had known
a lot about the guy the guy's mind and character and I almost had developed like a sick sense about the guy the next
break came from a familiar but unexpected Source it was in May of ' 86 as I recall Mr Weir calls me you know
and he and he's all excited and he says you know you're not going to believe this but I I just ran into the IR
Einhorn he uh quite literally bumped into me Weir had transferred universities and was now at Trinity
College Einhorn had changed his name to Ben Moore and was visiting friends on the campus we tried to get through the
same door at the same time from opposite sides and that was a rather dramatic moment and he tried to argue with with
me he said uh uh why don't you leave me alone I said why don't you leave me alone this is my place of work and you
have come here by this time an extradition treaty between the United States and Ireland was in effect so
armed with this treaty and the name Ben Moore de benedetto contacted the Irish police through interpole but by the time
they show up Einhorn is nowhere to be found that was very frustrating but usually what happens with me is you know
I get these setbacks but in a couple days you know kind of things blow over and you get yourself together Einhorn
had dropped out of sight and the DA's office was getting restless some guy walked up into my office with about five
box loads full of stuff and I had a detective assigned to me we went through it and pretty quickly we found we still
had a case it was about 13 years since Ira had fled and I was at my desk and I got a phone call and I believe it was
Joel Rosen who said to me we're going to try IRA and Absentia and I said you're going to do what when somebody fails to
appear for their trial 2 3 4 years go by and then we catch them and then we bring
them to trial what happens is we lose those cases quite often because we can't find the witnesses because the witnesses
don't remember what happened so for us the ability to try defend it in absent is very important in September 1993 Ira
Einhorn went on trial for the murder of Holly Maddox I thought the whole thing was quite unfair but uh the judge
ordered an Absentia trial over my objection Gilman did not focus on the C conspiracy defense instead he challenged
the validity of the forensic tests but the evidence was was overwhelmingly stacked against him evidence that the
downstairs neighbor heard a woman scream around the time of the murder evidence that a brown gooey substance leaked into
the downstairs apartment that prosecutors identified as body fluids evidence that Einhorn tried to persuade
two young women to help him get rid of a steamer trunk that he told them contained secret Russian documents but
when they opened the trunk in the courtroom it was a frightening frightening moment even though everybody knew there
was nothing in it everybody was kind of like looking to see almost with shortness of breath of what was going to
be in the trunk when they open the trunk it was frightening on September 29th 1993 after only 2 hours of deliberations
the jury returned a verdict Ira Einhorn was found guilty of murder and sentenced
to life in prison but Einhorn was still out there somewhere always a step ahead of
investigators I always felt that I would find him someday at one point I said to
him uh I said you're not smart enough to catch Ira coming up Einhorn 16-year flight comes to an end but Justice would
not be swift the District Attorney's office is haunted by an earlier decision I think it's almost like a Greek tragedy
those people who advocated the Absentia trial turned out to have given him exactly what they did not want to give
him perhaps freedom in Philadelphia Ira Einhorn was now a convicted murderer but in Europe The
elusive hippie Guru was still a free man he's getting older now he's been on a run for a long time and he and he's
dependent on somebody to take care of him de benedetto had received a tip in 1988 from Barbara bronfman the same
woman who posted einhorn's Bond a decade earlier she told him that Einhorn was living in Sweden with a woman named
anuka Flo when authorities arrived at her house in Stockholm Einhorn was already gone soon
after floen herself disappeared so the key thing here is you know to us to find anuka you know running on the assumption
that they might be back together then in 1997 interpole tells to benedetto that anuka flodin had applied for a French
driver's license using the address from the application French police disguised as fishermen and tourists staked out the
house a converted Mill outside the town of champan muton we get word from him that hey it looks like you're
guy IRA Einhorn was arrested on Friday the 13th of June Buffy Hall was in a supermarket parking lot when her
babysitter Tina gave her the message Tina says oh by the way you got a really weird phone call today I said okay who
is it from some guy named Joel from Philadelphia he said to tell you they caught
him I almost went to my knees in the parking lot I thought Hallelujah this is over this is we're going to have closure
well well go ahead and give me the naive prize of the year at the extradition Hearing in November 1997 the US
government ran into an unexpected obstacle that would frustrate them for years we caught when there was a problem
that the French did not like our system of Trials and Absentia and there was going to be a problem with the
extradition and in France unlike the United States and unlike the law in Pennsylvania if a person is tried In
Absentia and they're later convicted and subsequently apprehended they are guaranteed a new trial on the mere
asking while Pennsylvania law does provide room for a person to appeal their conviction the time limit for
Einhorn to do that had run out without the guarantee of a new trial French law required that the extradition be denied
Ira Einhorn was a free man again I am very happy to be going hey yeah I got a call at 4 in the morning
from a reporter in France he said hi I just like to know your reaction on the fact that Ira Einhorn was set free today
and I thought I said excuse me I didn't get out of bed for two days I was you know I was
completely total I could not believe that we'd been done that way twice but the Philadelphia
da was determined to get Einhorn back and went to the Pennsylvania legislature to try and get Einhorn a new trial he
shouldn't be able to benefit from the fact that he deliberately avoided going to trial and then complain about it
while he's safely ins sconed on his wife's money in France the legislature passed a law entitling Einhorn to a new
trial upon his return with this provision a second extradition hearing was granted a year later now on first
blush it would seem that this has cured the problem Simon a defense attorney with an expertise in extradition law
argues that this new provision is unconstitutional and therefore unenforcable the Supreme Court of
Pensylvania goes on to say the legislature cannot by an act of assembly overrule a Judicial decision it cannot
Grant a new trial it cannot not direct a new trial this law is a Roose in my mind
it's a snare and uh Einhorn by no means is guaranteed a new trial so he really doesn't want to be tried I mean that's
the bottom line he wants to literally and figuratively get away with murder that's what he wants I'm not going to
let him in February 1999 the request for extradition was granted with the provision that Einhorn get a new trial
upon his return in December 2000 Einhorn appealed to the highest administrative body in France the Council of state if
his appeal is denied Einhorn has suggested that he will take his case to the European Court of Human Rights we
will fight them wherever they go because we must we must do this for our principal and so that right has a chance
to Prevail coming up 24 years after the murder of Holly Maddox the fight for justice
continues for 4 years Ira Einhorn avoided extr ition but on July 12th 2001 einhorn's Last Chance appeal in France
was denied as dozens of Riot police surrounded his home Einhorn tried one last tactic he slit his throat with a dull
knife in an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide refusing medical attention he asked to speak to reporters
I have something to say very directly to Mr Jan he is responsible he is the prime minister he's
responsible for all the people Einhorn was in the hospital his lawyers requested that the European Court of
Human Rights hear his case and the extradition was once again stalled it may require 25 more years to bring him
to justice but if that's necessary then we'll do it I have vowed to be at the airport when he's brought in in leg
irons and chains I want to see that I want to live long enough to see that one week later on July 19th the Europe
European Court announced that since Einhorn was not eligible for the death penalty they would not further delay his
extradition after 20 years Ira einor came back to Philadelphia one small step for justice one giant leap for law
enforcement and the rule of law it's a measure of of satisfaction that uh hard work has paid off I'm going to have a
barbecue at my place for my friends who have listened to this and kept me together through all of this oh you in
1988 the maddox's ailing father committed suicide 2 years later their mother died from empyema Holly's brother
and sisters took over the fight and in 1999 they sued Einhorn to prevent him from financially benefiting from his
life story they also maintain a website in memory of Holly where they help raise
money for victims of domestic violence if we can help one person we know that we've done something for Holly so she
didn't die for nothing meanwhile einhorn's friends are still trying to come to terms with the fact that he
could have committed such a brutal murder we came up with a frightening scenario and the scenario was there were
only three explanations and they were all horrible the first explanation was that IA did it
he was totally out there and said I didn't do it so he was like the greatest actor you could imagine the second
theory we said was a conspiracy theory and that was even more horrendous that would
mean that the CIA the FBI the KGB was singling Ira out the third element was that Ira did it but that he actually
used his mind to turn off the fact that he did this that it was a moment of you know of losing control and that he
really wasn't Ira at that moment it didn't happen that's the classic psychotic breakdown there's no other
solution there's no other explanation what is there almost a quarter of a century after the
murder of Holly Maddox Philadelphia's most famous hippie is now serving a life sentence at howdale prison in the remote
Appalachian Mountains of [Music] [Music] [Music] Pennsylvania [Music] [Music] oh

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Brief Summary

Ira Einhorn's murder of Holly Maddox and his subsequent flight from justice are detailed in this episode.

Key points

The Discovery of Holly Maddox. Police discover Holly's remains in a trunk, leading to Ira Einhorn's arrest.
Ira Einhorn's Arrest. Ira Einhorn is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, shocking the community.
Ira's Charismatic Persona. Ira Einhorn, known as Philadelphia's hippie guru, captivated many with his charm.
Holly's Independence. Holly decides to leave Ira for good, reclaiming her life.
Einhorn's Arrest. Ira Einhorn is finally arrested in 1997 after years on the run.
Justice Delayed. Einhorn's extradition faces legal hurdles, prolonging the fight for justice.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It looks like we found Holly.

Discovery of Holly's remains in the trunk.

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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