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I came across this guy, its just a fragment of the whole story, http://murderpedia.org/male.E/e/einhorn-ira.htm well known person, killed his former girlfriend in 1977, when she returned after leaving him, to pick up her belongings, was violent against her and other girlfriends before and what about the trunk story....foam, newspapers....hmmm. He was from German descent and fled to France and married again. I didn't have time to dig out, the complete time line...could Beth Doe have run into him...while his girlfriend (for 5 years) had left him and stayed in New York. Maybe we could investigate the name Ben Moore, or his real name.....or his French name...and find any connection with Beth? Just a brainwave.... Still no explanation for cutting of nose, ears and breasts...
Peace, Love and Murder: The Ira EinhornStory
By Juan Hann Ng -CrimeandInvestigation.co.uk
For two decades, guru Ira Einhorn was onthe run as a fugitive. Nicknamed 'The Unicorn', he brutally murdered his loverHolly Maddux.
Ira Samuel Einhorn, nicknamed theUnicorn as his surname translates to one horn in German, spent 16 years onthe run after murdering his girlfriend Helen Holly Maddux in 1977 inPhiladelphia, America. Einhorns case is unique in that while his crime was agrisly one, it is often overshadowed by the events leading up to hisimprisonment, and is regularly cited as an example of the conceptualdifferences between the American and continental European legal systems. TheAmerican murderer became a cause celebre for human rights in France where hewas initially arrested.
Profile
Einhorn was born into a middle-classJewish family but developed into a bona fide left wing radical by thetime he was in his twenties. He was a symbol and a prominent figurehead of theyouth-driven movement in the sixties that stood in opposition to Americasinvolvement in the Vietnam War. Instantly recognisable as Philadelphias headhippie, he was a large burly man with electric blue eyes and an unkempt beard,and he seldom washed or bathed.
However, he was a master of rhetoric andhe had networking skills that drew many important and famous people to thecause of freedom and peace that he preached. The self-styled Prince of FlowerPower and Guru of Peace and Love was revered and admired by many of theleading intellectuals of Philadelphia and America. A brilliant student at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, he counted as friends many of the authors of theBeat generation, such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; he hobnobbed withcelebrities including Isaac Asimov, Peter Gabriel and Uri Geller; and hung outwith the Yippie (Youth International Party) crowd, including their foundersAbbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Pot-smoking, LSD-popping, free-loving Einhornwas the toast of Philadelphia.
Strangely, he also endeared himself to thecorporate set, who were entranced by his convincing predictions of futuretrends of anything from computer science to quantum physics to New Agemanagement. He was intelligent, a voracious reader and his ability to influencepeople was magnetic. He sold blueprints of the future to Fortune 500 companyCEOs, convincing them that their money could save the world through ecologicalawareness. He was a speaker at the inaugural 1970 Earth Day rally in Philadelphiaand was reportedly its creator, although its organisers disputed this claim. In1977, he even held a fellowship at Harvards Kennedy School of Government.
Einhorn had been going out with HollyMaddux, his beautiful and gracefully delicate girlfriend, for five years whenshe disappeared in 1977. Originally from Tyler, Texas, Maddux was a blue-eyedformer cheerleader, had been a brilliant student at Bryn Mawr College and hadthen turned her energies to the womens liberation movement. She was drawn to Einhornas one of the political icons of their day. However, although an advocate of peace andnon-violence, the hulking Einhorn treated her poorly, as he had with previousgirlfriends. His behaviour extended to physical abuse, smashing a soft drinkbottle on one girlfriends head and even attempting to strangle another.
Tiring of his violence, Maddux moved toNew York where she began a relationship with a kind and gentle man named SaulLapidus. She called Einhorn from New York to sever their relationship. He flewinto a temper and commanded her to return to Philadelphia to collect herbelongings, which he threatened to throw out into the street. Maddux left forPhiladelphia on 9th September 1977 and was never seen alive again.
The crimes
It is speculated that Maddux was murdered on or around the9th or 10th of September 1977, when she returned to the apartment sheshared with Einhorn on Race Street. No one except her family noticed Madduxsabsence and they became apprehensive at her continued silence. Her mothersbirthday had come and gone without a call from Maddux, who was normally aconsiderate and attentive daughter.
The family notified the police. Einhornwas cursorily questioned but upon his claims of ignorance, was left alone.Dissatisfied with the polices efforts, the Maddux family hired two privatedetectives to investigate the girls disappearance. In the meantime, Einhorncontinued with his life, embarking on speaking tours and taking a semester-longfellowship at Harvards Kennedy School of Government.
However by 1979, the private investigatorshad pieced together enough circumstantial evidence to give the police enoughprobable cause to obtain a search warrant for Einhorns apartment. The evidenceincluded the fact that Einhorn had requested help from friends to dispose of atrunk containing what he said were secret documents; there had been Einhornsnon-cooperation with police investigators; and a putrid and rancid brown liquidhad been leaking through Einhorns floorboards into the kitchen of theneighbours below.
The arrest
Detective Mike Chitwood led the search ofEinhorns apartment on 28th March 1979, almost 20 months after Maddux had gonemissing. In a wardrobe, Chitwood found Madduxs suitcase, handbag, driverslicence and social security card. In the same wardrobe, he also found Madduxs body in a trunk, packedin styrofoam, air fresheners and newspapers. Her decomposing body waspartially mummified and the remains weighed only 37 pounds.
A post-mortem revealed that Maddux hadsuffered trauma to the head and her skull was smashed in several places as aresult. However, the position of the body and size of the trunk meant that shehad actually been alive and semi-conscious when placed in the trunk and haddied trying to claw her way out. Upon his arrest, Einhorn reportedly shruggedindifferently and said, You found what you found. He was charged with murder,as Pennsylvania has no degrees of murder
Einhorn was represented by the notoriousdefence attorney Arlen Specter. Later a Senator, he served on the infamousWarren Commission and was the author of the single assassin/crazy bullettheory used to explain the assassination of John F Kennedy. Specter arguedsuccessfully at the bail hearing on 3rd April 1979 for bail to be set at the strangelylow sum of $40 000, of which only 10% had to be paid in cash to secure therelease of the bailor.
The bail hearing in itself was abnormal,as it was unheard of for bail to be granted in murder cases. While Einhornsfriends in high places might not have influenced the bail hearing or the amountof bail itself, they certainly did put up the money for his release. BarbaraBronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into a wealthy distilleryfamily, paid Einhorns bail.
Still vociferously protesting hisinnocence, Einhorn was released onto the streets. He told anyone and everyonethat he would clear his name, claiming it was a conspiracy by the CIA or FBI,who wanted to discredit him and halt his political activities. Then, on 21stJanuary 1981, Einhorn skipped bail on the eve of the pre-trial hearing anddisappeared, probably to Europe. Thus began the most determined internationalpursuit of a fugitive since the Israeli Mossads hunt, capture and cross-borderkidnapping of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
Conducting the manhunt was AssistantDistrict Attorney Richard DiBenedetto, who, through Einhorns 60 handwrittenjournals, knew his prey better than anyone else. In 1985, Einhorn was traced toDublin, Ireland, where he was living under the name of Ben Moore. However,there were no extradition papers in effect and Einhorn fled Dublin after thealert. From there, he probably travelled throughout the United Kingdom,crossing the English Channel at some point, to enter continental Europe. In1993, the unprecedented step, in Philadelphia at least, was taken to tryEinhorn in absentia, a hugely significant development that would laterbe exploited by Einhorn. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to lifeimprisonment.
Circa 1994, DiBenedetto learned thatEinhorns benefactor, Barbara Bronfman, had been financing his flight from hishunters. However she had a change of heart, to one in the belief in Einhornsguilt, and she provided DiBenedetto with the Stockholm address where Einhornwas residing. The address turned up one Annika Flodin, who disclaimed allknowledge of Einhorn, saying that she knew him as Ben Moore, and that she hadno idea where he was. When Flodin subsequently disappeared, investigators ranher name through Interpol and found that she had relocated to France andmarried Einhorn, who was then known under the moniker of Eugene Mallon.
On 13th June 1997, DiBenedetto and his menarrested Einhorn in a converted millhouse outside Champagne-Mouton, a beautifulvillage in the French countryside near Cognac.
Peace, Love and Murder: The Ira EinhornStory
By Juan Hann Ng -CrimeandInvestigation.co.uk
For two decades, guru Ira Einhorn was onthe run as a fugitive. Nicknamed 'The Unicorn', he brutally murdered his loverHolly Maddux.
Ira Samuel Einhorn, nicknamed theUnicorn as his surname translates to one horn in German, spent 16 years onthe run after murdering his girlfriend Helen Holly Maddux in 1977 inPhiladelphia, America. Einhorns case is unique in that while his crime was agrisly one, it is often overshadowed by the events leading up to hisimprisonment, and is regularly cited as an example of the conceptualdifferences between the American and continental European legal systems. TheAmerican murderer became a cause celebre for human rights in France where hewas initially arrested.
Profile
Einhorn was born into a middle-classJewish family but developed into a bona fide left wing radical by thetime he was in his twenties. He was a symbol and a prominent figurehead of theyouth-driven movement in the sixties that stood in opposition to Americasinvolvement in the Vietnam War. Instantly recognisable as Philadelphias headhippie, he was a large burly man with electric blue eyes and an unkempt beard,and he seldom washed or bathed.
However, he was a master of rhetoric andhe had networking skills that drew many important and famous people to thecause of freedom and peace that he preached. The self-styled Prince of FlowerPower and Guru of Peace and Love was revered and admired by many of theleading intellectuals of Philadelphia and America. A brilliant student at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, he counted as friends many of the authors of theBeat generation, such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; he hobnobbed withcelebrities including Isaac Asimov, Peter Gabriel and Uri Geller; and hung outwith the Yippie (Youth International Party) crowd, including their foundersAbbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Pot-smoking, LSD-popping, free-loving Einhornwas the toast of Philadelphia.
Strangely, he also endeared himself to thecorporate set, who were entranced by his convincing predictions of futuretrends of anything from computer science to quantum physics to New Agemanagement. He was intelligent, a voracious reader and his ability to influencepeople was magnetic. He sold blueprints of the future to Fortune 500 companyCEOs, convincing them that their money could save the world through ecologicalawareness. He was a speaker at the inaugural 1970 Earth Day rally in Philadelphiaand was reportedly its creator, although its organisers disputed this claim. In1977, he even held a fellowship at Harvards Kennedy School of Government.
Einhorn had been going out with HollyMaddux, his beautiful and gracefully delicate girlfriend, for five years whenshe disappeared in 1977. Originally from Tyler, Texas, Maddux was a blue-eyedformer cheerleader, had been a brilliant student at Bryn Mawr College and hadthen turned her energies to the womens liberation movement. She was drawn to Einhornas one of the political icons of their day. However, although an advocate of peace andnon-violence, the hulking Einhorn treated her poorly, as he had with previousgirlfriends. His behaviour extended to physical abuse, smashing a soft drinkbottle on one girlfriends head and even attempting to strangle another.
Tiring of his violence, Maddux moved toNew York where she began a relationship with a kind and gentle man named SaulLapidus. She called Einhorn from New York to sever their relationship. He flewinto a temper and commanded her to return to Philadelphia to collect herbelongings, which he threatened to throw out into the street. Maddux left forPhiladelphia on 9th September 1977 and was never seen alive again.
The crimes
It is speculated that Maddux was murdered on or around the9th or 10th of September 1977, when she returned to the apartment sheshared with Einhorn on Race Street. No one except her family noticed Madduxsabsence and they became apprehensive at her continued silence. Her mothersbirthday had come and gone without a call from Maddux, who was normally aconsiderate and attentive daughter.
The family notified the police. Einhornwas cursorily questioned but upon his claims of ignorance, was left alone.Dissatisfied with the polices efforts, the Maddux family hired two privatedetectives to investigate the girls disappearance. In the meantime, Einhorncontinued with his life, embarking on speaking tours and taking a semester-longfellowship at Harvards Kennedy School of Government.
However by 1979, the private investigatorshad pieced together enough circumstantial evidence to give the police enoughprobable cause to obtain a search warrant for Einhorns apartment. The evidenceincluded the fact that Einhorn had requested help from friends to dispose of atrunk containing what he said were secret documents; there had been Einhornsnon-cooperation with police investigators; and a putrid and rancid brown liquidhad been leaking through Einhorns floorboards into the kitchen of theneighbours below.
The arrest
Detective Mike Chitwood led the search ofEinhorns apartment on 28th March 1979, almost 20 months after Maddux had gonemissing. In a wardrobe, Chitwood found Madduxs suitcase, handbag, driverslicence and social security card. In the same wardrobe, he also found Madduxs body in a trunk, packedin styrofoam, air fresheners and newspapers. Her decomposing body waspartially mummified and the remains weighed only 37 pounds.
A post-mortem revealed that Maddux hadsuffered trauma to the head and her skull was smashed in several places as aresult. However, the position of the body and size of the trunk meant that shehad actually been alive and semi-conscious when placed in the trunk and haddied trying to claw her way out. Upon his arrest, Einhorn reportedly shruggedindifferently and said, You found what you found. He was charged with murder,as Pennsylvania has no degrees of murder
Einhorn was represented by the notoriousdefence attorney Arlen Specter. Later a Senator, he served on the infamousWarren Commission and was the author of the single assassin/crazy bullettheory used to explain the assassination of John F Kennedy. Specter arguedsuccessfully at the bail hearing on 3rd April 1979 for bail to be set at the strangelylow sum of $40 000, of which only 10% had to be paid in cash to secure therelease of the bailor.
The bail hearing in itself was abnormal,as it was unheard of for bail to be granted in murder cases. While Einhornsfriends in high places might not have influenced the bail hearing or the amountof bail itself, they certainly did put up the money for his release. BarbaraBronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into a wealthy distilleryfamily, paid Einhorns bail.
Still vociferously protesting hisinnocence, Einhorn was released onto the streets. He told anyone and everyonethat he would clear his name, claiming it was a conspiracy by the CIA or FBI,who wanted to discredit him and halt his political activities. Then, on 21stJanuary 1981, Einhorn skipped bail on the eve of the pre-trial hearing anddisappeared, probably to Europe. Thus began the most determined internationalpursuit of a fugitive since the Israeli Mossads hunt, capture and cross-borderkidnapping of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
Conducting the manhunt was AssistantDistrict Attorney Richard DiBenedetto, who, through Einhorns 60 handwrittenjournals, knew his prey better than anyone else. In 1985, Einhorn was traced toDublin, Ireland, where he was living under the name of Ben Moore. However,there were no extradition papers in effect and Einhorn fled Dublin after thealert. From there, he probably travelled throughout the United Kingdom,crossing the English Channel at some point, to enter continental Europe. In1993, the unprecedented step, in Philadelphia at least, was taken to tryEinhorn in absentia, a hugely significant development that would laterbe exploited by Einhorn. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to lifeimprisonment.
Circa 1994, DiBenedetto learned thatEinhorns benefactor, Barbara Bronfman, had been financing his flight from hishunters. However she had a change of heart, to one in the belief in Einhornsguilt, and she provided DiBenedetto with the Stockholm address where Einhornwas residing. The address turned up one Annika Flodin, who disclaimed allknowledge of Einhorn, saying that she knew him as Ben Moore, and that she hadno idea where he was. When Flodin subsequently disappeared, investigators ranher name through Interpol and found that she had relocated to France andmarried Einhorn, who was then known under the moniker of Eugene Mallon.
On 13th June 1997, DiBenedetto and his menarrested Einhorn in a converted millhouse outside Champagne-Mouton, a beautifulvillage in the French countryside near Cognac.
