Ira Einhorn was on stage hosting the first Earth Day event at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. Seven years later, police raided his closet and found the “composted” body of his ex-girlfriend inside a trunk.
A self-proclaimed environmental activist, Einhorn made a name for himself among ecological groups during the 1960s and ’70s by taking on the role of a tie-dye-wearing ecological guru and Philadelphia’s head hippie. With his long beard and gap-toothed smile, Einhorn — who nicknamed himself “Unicorn” because his German-Jewish last name translates to “one horn” —advocated flower power, peace and free love to his fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania. He also claimed to have helped found Earth Day.
But the charismatic spokesman who helped bring awareness to environmental issues and preached against the Vietnam War — and any violence — had a secret dark side. When his girlfriend of five years, Helen “Holly” Maddux, moved to New York and broke up with him, Einhorn threatened that he would throw her left-behind personal belongings onto the street if she didn’t come back to pick them up.
And so on Sept. 9, 1977, Maddux went back to the apartment that she and Einhorn had shared in Philadelphia to collect her things, and was never seen again. When Philadelphia police questioned Einhorn about her mysterious disappearance several weeks later, he claimed that she had gone out to the neighborhood co-op to buy some tofu and sprouts and never returned.
It wasn’t until 18 months later that investigators searched Einhorn’s apartment after one of his neighbors complained that a reddish-brown, foul-smelling liquid was leaking from the ceiling directly below Einhorn’s bedroom closet. Inside the closet, police found Maddux’s beaten and partially mummified body stuffed into a trunk that had also been packed with Styrofoam, air fresheners and newspapers.
After his arrest, Einhorn jumped bail and spent decades evading authorities by hiding out in Ireland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and France. After 23 years, he was finally extradited to the United States from France and put on trial. Taking the stand in his own defense, Einhorn claimed that his ex-girlfriend had been killed by CIA agents who framed him for the crime because he knew too much about the agency’s paranormal military research.
He was convicted of murdering Maddux and is currently serving a life sentence.
Although Einhorn was only the master of ceremonies at the first Earth Day event, he maintains that Earth Day was his idea and that he’s responsible for launching it. Understandably, Earth Day’s organizers have distanced themselves from his name, citing Gaylord Nelson, an environmental activist and former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator who died in 2005, as Earth Day’s official founder and organizer.
THANKS SO MUCH,, IT MEANS THE WORLD TO US IN THESE DIFFICULT TIME
I'm not commenting if he was one of the moderner local boys who came to me for mesivta, but Einhorn did grow up Modern Orthodox!
ReplyDeleteThis tayera guy actually specially outfitted the trunk to do composting on the victim.
When police found her & it got on the news, his father Joe Einhorn dropped dead from a heart attack when hearing it on the radio. But his mother Bea (Nissenson) Einhorn was in total denial until she died in 2006 at 95 that he was guilty of anything. She was also oblivious to his boasts of having been with 2000 women which ergo it won't be long until the Me Too campaign wakes up to him & starts pursuing his yerusha.
https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/e/i/n/Jeffrey-Einhorn-Ga/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0001.html
His alter Kiever zayde Gilbert Einhorn moved to Philly & opened a fruit stand & grocery store.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/168751499/
The zayde was arrested in 1912 for violating the Federal Pure Food Act which was enacted partially in response to the expose on hazards from food fraud & poisoning by Upton Sinclair in his book "The Jungle". This work was grada cited several times against Rubashkin's unsanitary practices which the OU falsely proclaimed in their staged press conference that the place was "spotless". But don't tell Pinny Lipschutz that I deviated from the party line to tell the truth for a change!
Time Magazine reported at the time that the 1st wife of billionaire Charles Bronfman was an Ira Einhorn groupie who gave him $40,000 before he absconded as a fugitive. Bronfman divorced her after that.
Ira Einhorn had a circle of menuvoldik yedidim like pedophile Allen Ginsberg, koifer Isaac Asimov, Uri Geller and anarchist meshugoyim Abbie Hoffman & Jerry Rubin.
http://murderpedia.org/male.E/e/einhorn-ira-photos.htm
Some pictures of note:
His parents shown here with him lived in Philly but went to the bungalow in Jersey
As leader of the Earth Day meshugass.
After 22 years on the run being apprehended by Inspecteur Clouseau of the French Federal Gendarmes.
Are any of Einhorn's chevra looking for a PR rep to burnish their image among inzerra?
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