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this is a very creepy story here's a man
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who maybe got away with the murder
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tonight on mug shots Ira Einhorn the
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mystery behind the man they call the
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Unicorn the guy had a Charisma he had a
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force he's a murderer woman abuser and
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he's a coward when we found that he had
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skipped the country I don't think
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anybody was really surprised about
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it
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in March of 1979 a young woman Holly
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Maddox had been missing for a year and a
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half and the police suspected her
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boyfriend was involved looking for
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evidence they went to his
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house I rang the bell to 2C we were
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greeted at the door by Ira Einhorn who
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all he had on was a robe had the robe
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open and and I presented him with a copy
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of to search warant all of us then went
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inside his
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apartment we then went out into the
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porch area and there's a door that had a
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padlock on
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it I asked Einhorn did he have a key for
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that and he said no he didn't have a key
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I then told him that I was going to have
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to break it we had a warrant and he said
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do what you got to do I was able to take
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the hasp off
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of of the Locking portion without
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disturbing the locking mechanism
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itself the first thing I saw was a
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closet full of boxes and a suitcase had
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a tag on it and it was Holly maddox's
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name on the green
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suitcase I'm now in the closet and the
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only thing that is left in the closet
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after all the boxes and the suitcase has
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been removed is the steamer
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trunk and now the odor that I had
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smelled initially is even more
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profound and I want to open the
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trunk and there was a lock on the trunk
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so I turned to Einhorn once again and I
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said do you have a key for this lock and
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he said no he didn't have a key I then
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got a crowbar and I was able to remove
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the
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mechanism and when I opened the trunk I
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noticed laying right on the top were
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newspapers and then I noticed that the
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trunk was all layered with styrofoam
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this is the styrofoam that was in there
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I then proceeded to start moving
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everything to the left and the first
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thing I noticed was a hand and the hand
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was mummified the hand was looked as
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though somebody or Holly had tried to
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push the trunk
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open I then immediately stopped
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searching and said to Ein it looks like
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we found Holly Ein horn said you found
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what you
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found just to throw you in a trunk for
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your grave lie there and rot in your um
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Killer's
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apartment that is really too much for
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most people to comprehend and I went to
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teach that morning got into my car and I
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was driving on the school cool
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Expressway uh with the radio on it was
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about 12:30 I remember and I hear this
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this announcement Ira Einhorn arrested
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for murder his girlfriend was in the
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trunk and I just sort of shocked I said
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what and I had to pull over cuz I
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couldn't I said what you know like the
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radio say that again he was very cool he
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was very calm he was very Collective his
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demeanor was very very
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sto I remember I was sitting in my
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office and I get a phone call it's Ira
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calling from
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jail and he I said H know he starts to
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talk talk about Einstein with me starts
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to talk about what we had talked about a
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couple you know the movie we had seen as
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if nothing had happened what happened
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according to prosecutors was that Ira
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Einhorn murdered Holly Maddox by
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striking her multiple times in the head
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and then kept her body in a trunk in his
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apartment for 18 months we were becoming
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increasingly concerned because we we
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knew that Hollywood have been in touch
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within a year and a half I was living in
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Dallas at the time and Mom called me up
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one day and and all she said was um they
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found
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Holly and that
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was
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oh emotionally that was uh
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that that was the
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pet well we had a cat at the time it was
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very ill and my mom standing there
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crying again ringing her hand saying
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they found a Holly and your your dad's
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upset and he's at the funeral
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home and you know dots the cat is worse
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and I don't know what to do and I said
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Mom and I've got to pick up Mary at
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school and I said Mom I'll do it I got a
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phone call from
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Buffy and she said they found Holly and
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I said is she alive and she said no and
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I said I'll be right back take the cat
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to the vet the vet says I'm sorry we
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have you have to put your cat to sleep
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this was almost funny because it was so
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awful I can remember driving the 10
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minutes home and just wishing that
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everyone else was off the highway I even
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for brief time you know put on it was
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such a FAL gesture but I put on my
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emergency blinkers and I thought maybe
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I'll just run through all the lights
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well there were like a total of three
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but to me that was a lot so here I am
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working on paper towels by this time cuz
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I can't stop crying I'm driving a car
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you know the vet's probably thinking oh
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my God how you know I've never seen
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anybody do this over a cat so I walked
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in the house and Mom and Daddy were
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sitting at the table
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and I just said I'm really sorry and
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daddy said well your mother and I have
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grieved and now it's your turn to
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start and I
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thought oh my you know cuz I knew it
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wasn't true but what do you say to
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somebody when they've
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said intimate don't go there this is too
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painful that's one it really hit me two
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guys carrying out the trunk
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and yeah that was her
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coffin it was big news you know IA was a
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celebrity when I say a celebrity he was
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uh uh he was in that category of a known
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person where the Press was covering him
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Ira Einhorn was Philadelphia's most
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visible hippie a leader of the
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counterculture movement and its most
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outspoken pacifist here was Mr peace Mr
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you know Mr love the hippie Guru of
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Philadelphia and that's why there was
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shock and um disbelief I was one of the
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people initially who said you know let's
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wait and see let him defend himself he I
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at the at the Bale hearing I said he
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would not run away I didn't think he
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would because he told me he was innocent
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don't forget this is the period of
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conspiracy and paranoia and everybody
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felt that there you know that the CIA or
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all some was was doing all these
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clandestine activities so the first
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response was can't be that they're
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trying to set Ira on April 3rd 1979 the
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day after Holly's funeral Einhorn was
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brought to City Hall for a bail hearing
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he was represented by former district
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attorney and current four-term senator
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from Pennsylvania arand Spectre who
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lined up a lawyer a priest a reverend
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and a vice president from Bell Telephone
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to testify on einhorn's
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behalf everybody including myself would
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go up and testify to Ira being this
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gentle sweet loving intelligent person
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the judge was in he I'd never heard such
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glowing reports about somebody I he
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literally said that to my shock and even
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all these years later 20 some years
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later uh I still cannot believe that
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bail was set at
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$40,000 he walked away after a wealthy
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friend posted the $4,000 Bond Einhorn
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announced he was looking forward to a
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trial to clear his name it was at this
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point that Arlin Spectre stepped aside I
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had a meeting with Ira in ARL
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inspector's office and the man was
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passed from ARL inspector to me
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meanwhile in article after article
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reporters searched for something that
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would explain the gruesome murder the
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media was crucifying Ira uh Philadelphia
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magazine ran a story with fake blood uh
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on all the pages of the
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Articles uh the inquire was certainly
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none too friendly and the media was was
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poisoning the atmosphere for trial no no
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that's a total lie I mean look we have
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cases every day that are major cases all
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across America people get a fair trial
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in this country he came to me he said
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I'm going to stay and I'm going to face
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the music and I'm going to go in front
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of jury of my peers and I said to him
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Ira you're a overweight Jew with long
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hair with a beard wearing sandals with
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dirty toes who just allegedly killed a
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white Anglo-Saxon Protestant cheerleader
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Ira HJ
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K1 he said what I said HJ K1 he said
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what does that mean I said when you're
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in prison Ira making license plates and
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you see the request come in for license
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plate HJ K1 that's my way of saying
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hello Ira from Harry J cats then in mid
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January 1981 almost 2 years after Holly
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maddox's body was found and just as the
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trial was about to be scheduled Ira
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Einhorn disappeared he was living up in
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a mount ay section of Philadelphia we
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went up and there was no answer and we
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went inside the apartment and he was
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gone coming up a closer look at Ira
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Einhorn the man who took Center stage in
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Philadelphia's counterculture Revolution
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I think here was a guy and I don't think
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it's been said enough that he you know
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came out of uh an ordinary existence to
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really accomplish something and ruined
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it the neighborhood as far as we were
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concerned started right about
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here I was considered one of the tough
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kids Ira was also considered a tough kid
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because he went away one summer when he
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was 12 to camp and he did like a
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thousand push-ups a day and he he grew
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into this monster he grew about 4 in and
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he had this huge Barrel muscular chest
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on these very very spindly legs but
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after that no one ever picked on him
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again I mean he was he had a look about
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him that was um you know just said don't
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mess with me Einhorn grew up on this
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block in the West Oak Lane section of
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Philadelphia in the ' 50s it was a
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working class predominantly Jewish
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neighborhood we dated we hung out at
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places like Howard Johnson's we walked
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every place it was like Happy Days his
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friends recall a tight-knit family Ira's
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mother was a typical Jewish mother she
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loved Ira more than anything Ira was her
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her Pearl his father I really liked but
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he was kind of a wishy-washy guy his
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brother was kind of weird in
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that uh he always had problems he was
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sickly and I would protected him in 1957
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he graduated from one of the top high
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schools in the city and was moving on to
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the University of Pennsylvania from the
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safety of secret
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committees they talk about the danger of
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War a spin of a coin on a
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table could mean 10,000 men maybe more I
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was never a hippie no no Harry J cat
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started an underground paper that
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Einhorn wrote for he remembers him in
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college I was just a plain old English
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major and that was essentially it and
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Ira was like out there he was a very
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experimental kind of guy and I respected
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him for that and he was a man before his
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time Einhorn pledged a fraternity his
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freshman year and immediately left it he
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rarely attended classes but studied well
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beyond the requirements
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after graduating he traveled around the
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country to places that would later
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become the symbols of the counterculture
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Revolution becoming firmly engrossed in
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the movement's ideology he became sort
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of an icon of the counterculture here
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because he represented everything that
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was going on at that time from political
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activism to drugs and various other
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particular kinds of subjects that became
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the the core of the counterculture
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Rebellion Stuart Samuels was a professor
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at the University of Pennsylvania this
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is uh where the University of
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Pennsylvania really starts this is Ira's
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uh office you know he he he loved to be
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seen in public uh
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particularly talking to people who
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looked
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important and the University was like
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again his uh his
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home his public home this is the Student
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Union area where he would give his free
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University lectures or he would uh meet
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people you could not miss Ira because
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Ira the way he looked and way he smelled
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he
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smelled I mean it's really as simple as
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that Ira had terrible body odor the
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truth of the matter is that Ira spent
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about two to three hours every day
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bathing he would spend hours in the
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bathtub conduct business from the
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bathtub had a had a phone he was
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constantly he was he was absolutely
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pristine clean but he never cleaned his
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clothes and he would put on this mantle
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of a of garments that were almost like
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going out in the world he needed a scent
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that was other than his own it was a
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Persona Ira did things to shock people
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you know that was the way he drew
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attention to himself that once he got
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you and once he started talking to you
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it was almost mesmerizing the defense
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department has a contract out on the
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world and the FBI helps put through that
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contract and I'm not against the agents
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themselves because they're the victims
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as a lot of other people in the society
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are of a structural situation the FBI
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agents themselves have wives and
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children and I'm not against them
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personally
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between
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1962 and
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1978 this
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guy developed something in Philadelphia
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he was out there doing things for the
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city that were really positive in nature
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we're going to be selling full life siiz
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portraits of the FBI agents who've been
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infiltrating our neighborhood they've
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roughed off a couple people which uh is
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not exactly uh the way I would want our
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government agencies to comport
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themselves despite his anti-government
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protests Einhorn was becoming the
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connection between the establishment and
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the counterculture as Philadelphia's
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hippie Guru he worked with the
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university to Quil rioting students and
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with the city to negotiate a peace with
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other social activists including the
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radical group
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move he testified before Congress in
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support of space exploration offering a
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poem as his written
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testimony
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he even ran for mayor against Frank
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Rizzo the notorious former Chief of
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Police he was really a very eager
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maniacal person and as a result it was
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very powerful and very seductive and
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very compelling he was a performer on
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the on the stage of society and as a
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result you know that became his
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attraction previous reports credit
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Einhorn is one of the founders of the
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first Earth Day in 1970 former Earth Day
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committee members have angrily refuted
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this claim and point out that he
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monopolized the stage by refusing to
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relinquish the microphone for half an
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hour that could very well be true
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because Ira could take over a show I
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mean you know like he was he saw right
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through things no you got to do it this
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way this is the way we're doing it
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suddenly he would come in and he would
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like people would be following him he
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just had that kind of Charisma and
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Einhorn literally lived off that
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Charisma he didn't have a job his job
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was IRA and Ira in that context was to
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be in everything to be aware to be
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active to to talk to people to convince
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them about how important he was and how
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intelligent he was and as a result
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people responded and they thought he had
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value einhorn's visibility as the city's
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most prominent counterculture leader led
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to an unusual Alliance he became a
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consultant for large corporations acting
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as their liaison to the youth movement
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in Philadelphia on one hand people said
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oh my God this guy there's something
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about him this smell is too much but on
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the other hand dignitaries would sit
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through it and be fascinated by him I
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mean you know and and do things for him
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the president of AT&T would meet with
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this guy and he agreed to send out
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correspondents for Ira anything he
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wanted to anybody and you have to
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understand this in the context of the'
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70s the CEO said hey we've got to make
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ourselves aware of what's going on in
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this world world and Ira was the perfect
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conduit really it was a very easy deal
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we'll pay you your books your mail your
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telephone your xeroxing be our contact
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to that new Avant guard that was
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happening at the time intellectually
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culturally and socially and that's what
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he
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did this is the the the street that IA
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lived on you know all the time I knew
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him this was the this was the
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house
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and it's sort of nondescript now but uh
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it's got a history now we're in the back
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of uh the house uh where Ira lived he
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lived on the second floor that little
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extension there that wasn't very
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finished but that's where the trunk was
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it wasn't a place to hang out it wasn't
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very comfortable you know there was no
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place to sit IA wanted that because he
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wanted his privacy the only the only
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people he really brought home with him
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were
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women well we're going to to uh where IA
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really hung out and was sort of the
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center of his meetings with the CEOs and
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his various seductions place called
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laas and this was the place where IA
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used to be uh King of the Hill what he
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used to do is basically sit and the
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center table and U have all the people
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surround him and then everybody would
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come over to him and pay
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homage
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in October 1972 Holly Maddox walked into
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laras her journey from a small town in
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Texas to einhorn's World in Philadelphia
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would end in tragedy next on
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Mugshots growing up in Tyler Texas was
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in a word conservative Holly Maddox was
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the oldest of five children her father
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was an infantryman in world War II and
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an engineer for the Texas Highway
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Department he raised his family with a
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caring but authoritarian
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hand all of us were brought up pretty
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strictly we always knew what the
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standards were what the curfews were we
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knew the rules but I think Holly had a
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way of charming them and daddy wouldn't
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quite melt but he certainly he would
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voice some approval she taught me to
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swim took us trick-or-treating she would
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teach us girls the words to The Beatles
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songs because you know everybody was
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nuts for the Beatles this is Through The
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Eyes of a child those are the only eyes
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I got to see her with she was perfect
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come Christmas time we would all hop in
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the car like Holly and mag Buffy and I
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and we drive around look at
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lights they just don't build houses with
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any personality and like this
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anymore we had a long Hall the way our
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house was set up and there was John's
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room and then there was Mom and Daddy's
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room and then there was Holly's room
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she'd go by his room when he was in
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there and in her loving way
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go and then take off and run down one
00:21:49
day he decided okay fine I'll fix her so
00:21:51
he put a little baby buggy out in front
00:21:52
of his doorway with bricks in it and no
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all of her heavy toys and blocks and
00:21:57
when she took took off she wiped out
00:22:00
over it as a teenager Holly's life held
00:22:03
nothing but promise she was strikingly
00:22:06
beautiful excelled at school in dance
00:22:08
voted most likely to succeed and even
00:22:11
made the cheerleading team but Holly had
00:22:13
some unexpected difficulty in high
00:22:15
school Holly didn't have his necessarily
00:22:18
a wonderful time in high school dating
00:22:21
in the ' 50s women were supposed to be
00:22:22
beautiful or smart but not both she
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wanted to to spread her wing
00:22:29
Holly left Tyler in 1965 to attend
00:22:31
brinmore college an all girl school just
00:22:34
outside Philadelphia a short time after
00:22:37
graduation she made her way to the city
00:22:39
and to the center of einhorn's world
00:22:42
laas he saw her and here was this fat
00:22:45
bearded belly Jewish kid from
00:22:48
Philadelphia and here is this beautiful
00:22:51
blonde etheral person walked in and Ira
00:22:54
was just in love and what Ira did was he
00:22:57
want when he wanted something he just
00:22:58
went over and did
00:23:01
it within two weeks Holly and Einhorn
00:23:04
were living together Einhorn called
00:23:06
himself the Unicorn Einhorn meaning one
00:23:09
horn in German but the reference has a
00:23:11
poignant message the unicorn of fable
00:23:14
has a dual personality an exceptionally
00:23:16
gentle character but fiercely violent
00:23:18
when cornered in the fall of 1973 Holly
00:23:22
brought Einhorn home to meet the family
00:23:25
in the first place you should never
00:23:27
preface a visit by saying I'm bringing
00:23:30
someone home and I know you're not going
00:23:32
to like him daddy what I didn't reckon
00:23:35
for was an attitude and this attitude
00:23:39
was so Punky he helped himself to
00:23:42
seconds before we'd even all had a plate
00:23:46
then when he was through with his second
00:23:47
plate he leaned his chair back on two
00:23:49
legs put his feet on the table that's
00:23:52
universally known as almost a hanging
00:23:54
offense in Texas what Disturbed the
00:23:57
family most was his attitude towards
00:23:59
Holly I had a pretty thorough glimpse of
00:24:01
their relationship from his point of
00:24:03
view it was uh a master in pet it wasn't
00:24:08
the same Holly she was very subdued and
00:24:11
very subservient everyone knew Holly and
00:24:14
Einhorn had a stormy relationship they
00:24:16
split up several times and dated other
00:24:18
people but they were always drawn back
00:24:20
together we spent so much time together
00:24:22
I never ever saw Ira do anything that
00:24:27
was vient
00:24:29
later the police would recover Holly's
00:24:31
diary from einhorn's
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apartment in the summer of 1977 Holly
00:24:51
and Einhorn took a trip to Europe where
00:24:53
she decided to leave him for good she
00:24:55
said when they got back to Philadelphia
00:24:57
she was leaving IRA cuz she was tired of
00:24:59
his bull Holly returned to the states
00:25:01
alone and finished the summer in Fire
00:25:03
Island New York where she met a man cut
00:25:05
her hair and made plans to move into her
00:25:08
own apartment in Philadelphia at 30
00:25:10
Holly was reclaiming her independence
00:25:13
Ted Fink's wife was with her on Fire
00:25:15
Island she had said to Ruth like she
00:25:18
knew it was going to be difficult trying
00:25:20
to get away from Iron the only way to do
00:25:22
it was to cut
00:25:25
it but Einhorn had other plans
00:25:28
after returning to the states he tracked
00:25:31
her down and insisted she'd come back
00:25:33
and talk to him or he would toss her
00:25:34
personal effects on the street from Fire
00:25:37
Island Holly called four people to try
00:25:39
and retrieve her belongings for her no
00:25:42
one was available reluctantly on Friday
00:25:45
September 9th 1977 Holly returned to
00:25:48
Philadelphia to try and calm Ira
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down comes October nothing
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comes November there's
00:26:01
Thanksgiving nothing after Christmas Mom
00:26:04
and Daddy were convinced something was
00:26:05
wrong I had a telephone call from Mr
00:26:09
Maddox who asked me told me who he was
00:26:13
and told me their concern over their
00:26:17
daughter and wanted to know if I could
00:26:19
help them Robert Stevens was a retired
00:26:22
FBI agent in Tyler at the time one of
00:26:25
the things that bothered me was he had
00:26:27
told the
00:26:28
family on two occasions that she had
00:26:32
merely walked out of the house that
00:26:34
morning while he was in the shower and
00:26:36
had never come back never heard from her
00:26:39
again and when the police detective in
00:26:41
Philadelphia talked to him he said that
00:26:44
yes she had uh called him about 2 days
00:26:47
later and said that she would call him
00:26:50
weekly this wouldn't make sense unless
00:26:52
he has something he's hiding you know we
00:26:55
all sort of uh at that look back back
00:26:58
and said you know why didn't we think
00:27:00
about Holly's disappearance you know
00:27:03
well you know here's somebody who'd been
00:27:04
part of our Circle and all of a sudden
00:27:06
she
00:27:07
disappeared and in the context of that
00:27:09
time it was understandable the
00:27:11
explanation Ira says well she went off
00:27:14
and living her own life and we're
00:27:15
finished and I'm going on with mine and
00:27:18
we bought it we wanted to make Ira feel
00:27:22
comfortable even though he knew we were
00:27:25
making inquiries we were making
00:27:27
inquiries concerning learning who could
00:27:28
she have possibly gone off
00:27:30
with rather than in what grave she might
00:27:33
be
00:27:35
in Stevens and his partner gathered
00:27:38
enough information for the Philadelphia
00:27:40
police to obtain a search
00:27:43
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00:27:45
warrant I remember in my house in
00:27:48
Woodstock this is after the baale and so
00:27:51
forth and that weekend happened Jerry
00:27:54
ruin was up Peter Coyote myself bunch of
00:27:58
friends all around and Ira was there he
00:28:01
came in the door all we were talking
00:28:03
about him and all of a sudden he
00:28:04
appeared literally just from nowhere and
00:28:07
we confronted him at that time we all
00:28:09
asked him we you know we pounded him
00:28:11
with how you know mitt what's going on
00:28:14
be you know be you know be a man be
00:28:16
somebody who sort of you know this is
00:28:18
this you know it's a horrible thing it's
00:28:20
okay maybe you get off on manslaughter
00:28:21
maybe you know you can do all you know
00:28:23
you can claim some kind of thing he
00:28:25
would laugh he would just laugh no show
00:28:29
no
00:28:29
emotion no
00:28:32
fear
00:28:34
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00:28:37
nothing when we come back Ira Einhorn
00:28:40
leads investigators on a Manhunt through
00:28:43
Europe in 1979 when hary's body was
00:28:47
found we thought that would be you know
00:28:50
only only a year or two would have to
00:28:53
would have to pass
00:28:54
before uh he was brought to Justice
00:28:59
and it appears we were slightly
00:29:03
mistaken a lot of people were
00:29:06
disappointed because they felt that he
00:29:07
had left him down by leaving you know by
00:29:11
not proving his innocence once he
00:29:14
split uh you know everybody said he's
00:29:16
guilty in January 1981 Ira Einhorn
00:29:20
experimenter thinker and celebrated
00:29:23
advocate of non-violence was now a
00:29:24
fugitive running from the charge of
00:29:26
bludgeoning his girlfriend friend the
00:29:29
extraditions officer for the
00:29:30
Philadelphia district attorney got his
00:29:32
first break only 4 months after Einhorn
00:29:35
disappeared in April of
00:29:38
1981 we get
00:29:41
word uh that he had been living with an
00:29:44
Irish
00:29:53
couple Ira came to my door uh on a wet
00:29:57
and windy Winter's
00:29:59
evening and uh he was looking for a
00:30:02
place to
00:30:04
stay uh apparently had knocked on the
00:30:06
wrong
00:30:07
[Music]
00:30:09
door I felt very sorry for him and so I
00:30:13
asked him if he would be interested in
00:30:15
uh using our granny flat for just a few
00:30:18
months Dennis Weir was a physics
00:30:20
professor and was impressed with
00:30:21
einhorn's knowledge of the subject but
00:30:23
there was something about einhorn's
00:30:25
behavior that concerned him his manner
00:30:27
was unsettling to me Ira dominated a lot
00:30:31
of people and I suppose that's how he
00:30:34
did
00:30:34
it in an intangible way through eye
00:30:38
contact you can't describe these things
00:30:40
that particular kind of Charisma but I
00:30:43
think I sense some of his
00:30:46
power several weeks after Einhorn moved
00:30:49
in the we announced they were taking a
00:30:51
trip to the United States Ira became a
00:30:54
little bit agitated about it and even
00:30:57
said explicitly that we were not to talk
00:31:00
about him in the United States that he
00:31:02
might get
00:31:03
extradited and uh this
00:31:07
uh really had the opposite effect to
00:31:10
what was intended because it made us
00:31:12
very curious they came to visit some
00:31:14
relatives in Chicago they called the
00:31:17
local newspapers here in Philadelphia
00:31:18
the inquire and kind of got the story
00:31:21
from them that the guy was W for murder
00:31:23
it made us very upset indeed and uh very
00:31:27
puzzled as to what to do there was
00:31:29
little they could do since Ireland did
00:31:31
not have an extradition treaty with the
00:31:33
United States so we had to improvise a
00:31:36
solution one way or another and what we
00:31:38
did was we turned up at the house I said
00:31:40
Ira I'm giving you 20 minutes to leave
00:31:43
this house and I'm not prepared to
00:31:46
discuss anything I think you know why
00:31:49
I'm I'm doing
00:31:53
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00:31:55
this and Einhorn was again on the run
00:31:58
for 5 years de benedetto meticulously
00:32:01
worked the case I never consciously sat
00:32:04
back and said to myself oh I'm going to
00:32:05
profile this guy I mean I was just using
00:32:07
common sense you know but I I had known
00:32:09
a lot about the guy the guy's mind and
00:32:12
character and I almost had developed
00:32:14
like a sick sense about the guy the next
00:32:16
break came from a familiar but
00:32:18
unexpected Source it was in May of ' 86
00:32:21
as I recall Mr Weir calls me you know
00:32:23
and he and he's all excited and he says
00:32:26
you know you're not going to believe
00:32:27
this but I I just ran into the IR
00:32:29
Einhorn he uh quite literally bumped
00:32:32
into me Weir had transferred
00:32:34
universities and was now at Trinity
00:32:36
College Einhorn had changed his name to
00:32:39
Ben Moore and was visiting friends on
00:32:41
the campus we tried to get through the
00:32:43
same door at the same time from opposite
00:32:45
sides and that was a rather dramatic
00:32:48
moment and he tried to argue with with
00:32:52
me he said uh uh why don't you leave me
00:32:55
alone I said why don't you leave me
00:32:57
alone this is my place of work and you
00:32:59
have come here by this time an
00:33:01
extradition treaty between the United
00:33:03
States and Ireland was in effect so
00:33:05
armed with this treaty and the name Ben
00:33:07
Moore de benedetto contacted the Irish
00:33:09
police through interpole but by the time
00:33:11
they show up Einhorn is nowhere to be
00:33:13
found that was very frustrating but
00:33:16
usually what happens with me is you know
00:33:18
I get these setbacks but in a couple
00:33:20
days you know kind of things blow over
00:33:22
and you get yourself together Einhorn
00:33:24
had dropped out of sight and the DA's
00:33:26
office was getting restless some guy
00:33:28
walked up into my office with about five
00:33:29
box loads full of stuff and I had a
00:33:32
detective assigned to me we went through
00:33:33
it and pretty quickly we found we still
00:33:35
had a case it was about 13 years since
00:33:37
Ira had fled and I was at my desk and I
00:33:40
got a phone call and I believe it was
00:33:43
Joel Rosen who said to me we're going to
00:33:45
try IRA and Absentia and I said you're
00:33:48
going to do what when somebody fails to
00:33:50
appear for their trial 2 3 4 years go by
00:33:53
and then we catch them and then we bring
00:33:55
them to trial what happens is we lose
00:33:57
those cases quite often because we can't
00:33:59
find the witnesses because the witnesses
00:34:01
don't remember what happened so for us
00:34:05
the ability to try defend it in absent
00:34:07
is very important in September 1993 Ira
00:34:10
Einhorn went on trial for the murder of
00:34:12
Holly Maddox I thought the whole thing
00:34:14
was quite unfair but uh the judge
00:34:16
ordered an Absentia trial over my
00:34:19
objection Gilman did not focus on the C
00:34:22
conspiracy defense instead he challenged
00:34:24
the validity of the forensic tests but
00:34:27
the evidence was was overwhelmingly
00:34:28
stacked against him evidence that the
00:34:30
downstairs neighbor heard a woman scream
00:34:33
around the time of the murder evidence
00:34:35
that a brown gooey substance leaked into
00:34:37
the downstairs apartment that
00:34:39
prosecutors identified as body fluids
00:34:42
evidence that Einhorn tried to persuade
00:34:44
two young women to help him get rid of a
00:34:45
steamer trunk that he told them
00:34:47
contained secret Russian documents but
00:34:50
when they opened the trunk in the
00:34:51
courtroom it was a frightening
00:34:52
frightening
00:34:54
moment even though everybody knew there
00:34:56
was nothing in it everybody was kind of
00:34:58
like looking to see almost with
00:35:00
shortness of breath of what was going to
00:35:01
be in the trunk when they open the trunk
00:35:02
it was frightening on September 29th
00:35:05
1993 after only 2 hours of deliberations
00:35:09
the jury returned a verdict Ira Einhorn
00:35:12
was found guilty of murder and sentenced
00:35:14
to life in
00:35:16
prison but Einhorn was still out there
00:35:18
somewhere always a step ahead of
00:35:22
investigators I always felt that I would
00:35:25
find him someday at one point I said to
00:35:28
him uh I said you're not smart enough to
00:35:33
catch Ira coming up Einhorn 16-year
00:35:36
flight comes to an end but Justice would
00:35:38
not be swift the District Attorney's
00:35:40
office is haunted by an earlier decision
00:35:43
I think it's almost like a Greek tragedy
00:35:47
those people who advocated the Absentia
00:35:50
trial turned out to have given him
00:35:53
exactly what they did not want to give
00:35:55
him perhaps
00:35:56
freedom
00:35:59
in Philadelphia Ira Einhorn was now a
00:36:02
convicted murderer but in Europe The
00:36:05
elusive hippie Guru was still a free man
00:36:08
he's getting older now he's been on a
00:36:10
run for a long time and he and he's
00:36:13
dependent on somebody to take care of
00:36:15
him de benedetto had received a tip in
00:36:17
1988 from Barbara bronfman the same
00:36:20
woman who posted einhorn's Bond a decade
00:36:22
earlier she told him that Einhorn was
00:36:25
living in Sweden with a woman named
00:36:26
anuka Flo
00:36:28
when authorities arrived at her house in
00:36:30
Stockholm Einhorn was already gone soon
00:36:33
after floen herself disappeared so the
00:36:36
key thing here is you know to us to find
00:36:38
anuka you know running on the assumption
00:36:41
that they might be back together then in
00:36:44
1997 interpole tells to benedetto that
00:36:47
anuka flodin had applied for a French
00:36:49
driver's license using the address from
00:36:52
the application French police disguised
00:36:54
as fishermen and tourists staked out the
00:36:57
house a converted Mill outside the town
00:36:59
of champan muton we get word from him
00:37:02
that hey it looks like you're
00:37:08
guy IRA Einhorn was arrested on Friday
00:37:11
the 13th of June Buffy Hall was in a
00:37:14
supermarket parking lot when her
00:37:16
babysitter Tina gave her the message
00:37:18
Tina says oh by the way you got a really
00:37:22
weird phone call today I said okay who
00:37:25
is it from some guy named
00:37:28
Joel from Philadelphia he said to tell
00:37:31
you they caught
00:37:33
him I almost went to my knees in the
00:37:36
parking lot I thought Hallelujah this is
00:37:39
over this is we're going to have closure
00:37:43
well well go ahead and give me the naive
00:37:47
prize of the year at the extradition
00:37:49
Hearing in November 1997 the US
00:37:52
government ran into an unexpected
00:37:54
obstacle that would frustrate them for
00:37:56
years we caught when there was a problem
00:37:59
that the French did not like our system
00:38:00
of Trials and Absentia and there was
00:38:02
going to be a problem with the
00:38:03
extradition and in France unlike the
00:38:05
United States and unlike the law in
00:38:07
Pennsylvania if a person is tried In
00:38:10
Absentia and they're later convicted and
00:38:13
subsequently apprehended they are
00:38:15
guaranteed a new trial on the mere
00:38:18
asking while Pennsylvania law does
00:38:21
provide room for a person to appeal
00:38:23
their conviction the time limit for
00:38:24
Einhorn to do that had run out without
00:38:26
the guarantee of a new trial French law
00:38:29
required that the extradition be denied
00:38:31
Ira Einhorn was a free man again I am
00:38:34
very happy to be going hey
00:38:36
yeah I got a call at 4 in the morning
00:38:40
from a reporter in France he said hi I
00:38:42
just like to know your reaction on the
00:38:44
fact that Ira Einhorn was set free today
00:38:46
and I
00:38:47
thought I said excuse me I didn't get
00:38:50
out of bed for two
00:38:53
days I was you know I was
00:38:56
completely
00:38:58
total I could not believe that we'd been
00:39:01
done that way twice but the Philadelphia
00:39:04
da was determined to get Einhorn back
00:39:06
and went to the Pennsylvania legislature
00:39:08
to try and get Einhorn a new trial he
00:39:11
shouldn't be able to benefit from the
00:39:12
fact that he deliberately avoided going
00:39:14
to trial and then complain about it
00:39:16
while he's safely ins sconed on his
00:39:18
wife's money in France the legislature
00:39:20
passed a law entitling Einhorn to a new
00:39:23
trial upon his return with this
00:39:25
provision a second extradition hearing
00:39:27
was granted a year later now on first
00:39:30
blush it would seem that this has cured
00:39:32
the problem Simon a defense attorney
00:39:34
with an expertise in extradition law
00:39:37
argues that this new provision is
00:39:39
unconstitutional and therefore
00:39:41
unenforcable the Supreme Court of
00:39:43
Pensylvania goes on to say the
00:39:45
legislature cannot by an act of assembly
00:39:49
overrule a Judicial decision it cannot
00:39:54
Grant a new trial it cannot not direct a
00:39:58
new trial this law is a Roose in my mind
00:40:02
it's a snare and uh Einhorn by no means
00:40:05
is guaranteed a new trial so he really
00:40:07
doesn't want to be tried I mean that's
00:40:09
the bottom line he wants to literally
00:40:11
and figuratively get away with murder
00:40:13
that's what he wants I'm not going to
00:40:16
let him in February 1999 the request for
00:40:19
extradition was granted with the
00:40:21
provision that Einhorn get a new trial
00:40:23
upon his return in December 2000 Einhorn
00:40:26
appealed to the highest administrative
00:40:28
body in France the Council of state if
00:40:31
his appeal is denied Einhorn has
00:40:33
suggested that he will take his case to
00:40:35
the European Court of Human Rights we
00:40:37
will fight them wherever they go because
00:40:40
we must we must do this for our
00:40:42
principal and so that right has a chance
00:40:44
to Prevail coming up 24 years after the
00:40:47
murder of Holly Maddox the fight for
00:40:49
justice
00:40:53
continues for 4 years Ira Einhorn
00:40:56
avoided extr ition but on July 12th 2001
00:41:00
einhorn's Last Chance appeal in France
00:41:02
was denied as dozens of Riot police
00:41:05
surrounded his home Einhorn tried one
00:41:07
last
00:41:11
tactic he slit his throat with a dull
00:41:14
knife in an unsuccessful attempt to
00:41:16
commit suicide refusing medical
00:41:18
attention he asked to speak to reporters
00:41:21
I have something to say very directly to
00:41:23
Mr
00:41:25
Jan he is responsible
00:41:27
he is the prime minister he's
00:41:29
responsible for all the people Einhorn
00:41:32
was in the hospital his lawyers
00:41:34
requested that the European Court of
00:41:36
Human Rights hear his case and the
00:41:38
extradition was once again stalled it
00:41:40
may require 25 more years to bring him
00:41:43
to justice but if that's necessary then
00:41:46
we'll do it I have vowed to be at the
00:41:48
airport when he's brought in in leg
00:41:50
irons and chains I want to see that I
00:41:52
want to live long enough to see that one
00:41:54
week later on July 19th the Europe
00:41:57
European Court announced that since
00:41:58
Einhorn was not eligible for the death
00:42:00
penalty they would not further delay his
00:42:02
extradition after 20 years Ira einor
00:42:06
came back to Philadelphia one small step
00:42:08
for justice one giant leap for law
00:42:12
enforcement and the rule of law it's a
00:42:14
measure of of satisfaction that uh hard
00:42:17
work has paid off I'm going to have a
00:42:19
barbecue at my place for my friends who
00:42:22
have listened to this and kept me
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together through all of this oh you in
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1988 the maddox's ailing father
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committed suicide 2 years later their
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mother died from empyema Holly's brother
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and sisters took over the fight and in
00:42:37
1999 they sued Einhorn to prevent him
00:42:40
from financially benefiting from his
00:42:42
life story they also maintain a website
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in memory of Holly where they help raise
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money for victims of domestic violence
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if we can help one person we know that
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we've done something for Holly so she
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didn't die for nothing meanwhile
00:42:59
einhorn's friends are still trying to
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come to terms with the fact that he
00:43:02
could have committed such a brutal
00:43:03
murder we came up with a frightening
00:43:06
scenario and the scenario was there were
00:43:09
only three
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explanations and they were all horrible
00:43:13
the first explanation was that IA did it
00:43:17
he was totally out there and said I
00:43:20
didn't do it so he was like the greatest
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actor you could imagine the second
00:43:24
theory we said was a conspiracy theory
00:43:26
and
00:43:27
that was even more horrendous that would
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mean that the CIA the FBI the KGB was
00:43:33
singling Ira out the third element was
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that Ira did it but that he actually
00:43:38
used his mind to turn off the fact that
00:43:41
he did this that it was a moment of you
00:43:44
know of losing control and that he
00:43:47
really wasn't Ira at that moment it
00:43:49
didn't happen that's the classic
00:43:50
psychotic breakdown there's no other
00:43:53
solution there's no other explanation
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what is there
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almost a quarter of a century after the
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murder of Holly Maddox Philadelphia's
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most famous hippie is now serving a life
00:44:06
sentence at howdale prison in the remote
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Appalachian Mountains of
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