The body sat in a trunk, in his
bedroom, for 18 months.
Holly Maddux Was A Naive
Girl Who Fell Under Einhorn's Spell
Just An Innocent Wide-Eyed
Child
Holly Maddox Was From Tyler,
Texas
Walking With A Vampire
Holly Maddox leaves Texas and attends Bryn Mawr College,
a liberal arts school for women. She was an innocent fawn. She drifted
like a wind-blown leaf through relationships and jobs after graduation.
Within days of their meeting, the Ira Einhorn, aka the Unicorn Killer,
carried this wounded deer back to his lair, a squalid apartment near
Penn University.
Ira Samuel Einhorn
Ira Einhorn was born in 1940, in New Jersey, to an Othodox Jewish
family. Einhorn attended the University of Pennsylvania, but dropped
out. There were some alleged drug and sex accusations, but there were
no charges.
Ira Drifted Until 1965
Ira Einhorn was just another un-washed druggie until he got
involved in the Vietnam War protests. An anti-war activist and
draft dodger, he laughed at Vietnam Vets.
Drugs And Free Love
It was 1968 and Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Isador
Ginsberg, were all center stage. It's here where Einhorn
begins to shine. Einhorn was the 'Rave' as a corporate guru-consultant, and had a
number of wealthy benefactors.
Einhorn Was A Professor At Harvard
Einhorn won a teaching fellowship at Harvard in the '70s. In
the '60s he had taught an alternative-education class at Penn, his
alma mater, and once reportedly broke out the joints, stripped
naked and danced in the classroom.
The Murder
Einhorn met Holly Maddox in 1972. In the winter of
1977, after Holly told him she intended to leave him, Einhorn brutally
beat her, giving her seven head fractures, then strangled young Holly to
death. Holly's body remained in the trunk in the bedroom closet for 18
months.
As her body was in the
trunk, Einhorn romped with other "Counter-Culture" radicals in the
apartment.
Holly Introduces Ira To Her Family
She brought Ira home to Texas to meet her Christian family, and they
were horrified at the creature. Like a caveman, Einhorn began eating
ravenously. While the family said grace, he scratched and clawed at his
canker blisters.
He never bathed in the two days he spent in Texas.
The Murder
In the winter of 1977, after Holly told him she
intended to leave him. Einhorn told her to get her belongings because
he was throwing them into the street, she raced over. When she entered
his lair, Einhorn brutally beat her, giving her seven head fractures,
then strangled young Holly to death. Holly's body remained in the
trunk in the bedroom closet for 18 months.
As her body was in the
trunk, Einhorn romped with other "Counter-Culture" radicals in the
apartment.
The Body Decays
After Einhorn killed her, he puts the body in a steamer
trunk in his closet, and as the body decomposed, the fluids leaked through
the floor, on to the tenant's ceiling below.
Detectives Discover The Remains
On March 28, 1979, at 9 a.m., homicide detective Chitwood knocked on
Einhorn's door. Once inside, he headed straight for the locked closet. He
pried it open with a crowbar and immediately smelled a "faint decaying
smell, like a dead animal." Next he sprang the lock on the steamer trunk.
The newspapers inside were dated August and September 1977. Under them was
Styrofoam packing material. Chitwood scooped through it until he came to
something he couldn't identify at first, and then it was clear. A hand. A
human hand. He scooped some more, and as he did, Holly Maddux slowly
emerged.
Einhorn stood by, impassive.
Police Find Decomposed Body In Trunk
Ira Einhorn And Jerry Rubin
Even when he was shown to be a drug dealer, and murderer, many of
his supporters stayed with him. At his 1979 hearing, after Maddux's body was found, the courtroom
was packed with professors, lawyers, civic leaders, and other
prominent Philadelphians who wanted to testify about his good
character.
But the evidence against him mounted. Testimony from two Jewish
friends who were asked by Einhorn to help him dispose of the trunk.
Arlen Specter Is His Lawyer
Specter convinced a Judge to set
Einhorn's bail at $ 40,000, only $4,000 of it needed to walk free.
Normally, alleged murders don't get bail.
Barbara Bronfman
Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had
married into the Seagram distillery family, was said to be 'fascinated' by Einhorn. With help from her Zionist Jewish contacts, he fled to Europe.
Bronfman supported Einhorn until 1988, when she discovered he was
bedding another woman. She turned him in to a private detective named DiBenedetto.
Einhorn Hides In
Europe
He lived in England, Ireland, and Sweden before he was
apprehended in 1997 in Champagne Mouton, France, where he lived with his
Swedish-born wife.
But, the Bordeaux court
refused to extradite him for years.
Einhorn Is In France
Einhorn aka Eugene Mallon lived like a sun king in the south of
France, sharing a tile-roofed farmhouse with his strawberry-blond
Swedish wife. He read books, put idle thoughts to paper and played in
a bridge club every Friday. She baked bread, tended garden and
strolled into the nearby village of Champagne-Mouton on market day,
tall and delicate, a sight so fair the mayor's tired old heart would
stir.
It was paradise, until June 13. A small army of French national
police crept in before sunrise and surrounded the house. Three of
them, 9-mm Berettas drawn, went to the door and knocked firmly as the
others hid in the fields.
French Zionists Fought Extradition
French Zionists didn't want another
Leo Frank, so they sought to delay,
and possibly bury, the case. He was finally returned to the United States in
July of 2001.
Einhorn Is Finally Extradited After 22 Years
He arrives in New York to the screams of fellow Zionists.
Einhorn's Trial
The evidence against Einhorn was just too strong, and he knew it. So
did the jury, who found him guilty of first-degree murder in December of
2002.
When testimony revealed that Einhorn tried to mummify the body as a
trophy, that was the final straw.
A Friendly Judge
Ira Einhorn is sentenced to a Country Club prison, where he can
have daily conjugal visits.
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