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The Parts Left Out of Ira Einhorn¹s Trial (will be appearing in the
January 03 issue of HIGH TIMES magazine)
by Paul Krassner
As I write this, the trial of Ira Einhorn for the murder of his
girlfriend, Holly Maddux, is scheduled to begin. I have no doubt that he
did it, but whatever the verdict, here are several facts, most of which
will not be revealed in the courtroom.
Einhorn claimed that the CIA framed him because he knew too much about
mind-control technology, top-secret weapons and unidentified flying
objects. Yet they didn¹t assassinate *him.* Instead, they bludgeoned
*her* to death, stuffing her body into a padlocked steamer trunk in a
locked closet.
Downstairs neighbors complained that "bodily fluids" were seeping down
through their ceiling and staining their kitchen wall. Einhorn never
investigated the godawful smell in his own apartment during the 18 months
before he was apprehended. But why bother? He already knew that the
stench was caused by her decomposing remains. One witness heard noisy
thumps and a scream around the time Maddux disappeared. Another was asked
by Einhorn to help him dump the trunk, explaining that it contained "top
secret" documents.
Einhorn had a reputation for being violent toward women. I was tripping
on acid the day I met him, and he reeked with vibes of manipulation.
Later on, I dated one of his former girlfriends, and she verified for me
what an egomaniacal control freak he had been.
The media reported that he founded Earth Day and was the master of
ceremonies at their event in Philadelphia. In reality, his mission there
was to seize the microphone and proceed to hog it for half an hour. This
so-called hippie guru was really an opportunistic scam artist. He became
the New Age advisor to the mainstream powermongers, consulting with
corporations and politicians alike.
His $40,000 bail money, which he jumped on the eve of his first pre-trial
hearing, was put up and sacrificed by Seagram heiress Barbara Bronfman.
She sent him thousands more while he was on the lam, and alerted him when
authorities were closing in. She was not charged with aiding and abetting
a fugitive. Einhorn claimed that the reason he fled the United States was
because he would not have received a fair hearing since he had once
organized demonstrations against the Vietnam war.
When the way was cleared for his extradition from France, he slashed his
neck with a dull bread-knife. There were superficial cuts but heavy
bleeding. He was in and out of the emergency room, his wound considered
not life-threatening. Coincidentally, a psychiatrist on *The Sopranos*
described such an act as a "suicidal *gesture* as opposed to a suicidal
*attempt*--Œsmall cutting¹ is the clinical term."
After Einhorn was back behind bars, the *Philadelphia Daily News*
published an article: "Right about now, those prized Jersey beefsteak
tomatoes are maturing into plump, succulent fruits ripe for the picking.
We recommend you leave them on the vine just a little bit longer...when
they will be finished growing. And ready for throwing. By then, they
should be overripe, thin-skinned, seedy, worm-ravaged, and perhaps even a
little smelly, just like some ex-fugitive-murderer we all know: Ira ŒThe
Blade¹ Einhorn. You can still take a shot at a reasonable facsimile of
his smug mug laid out on a giant billboard. That¹s right, the second
annual Ira Einhorn ŒKiller Tomato¹ contest is less than two weeks
away....Owner of the homegrown tomato that best exhibits the
characteristics of the killer--thin-skinned, ripe-smelling and
seedy--wins a trip to Alcatraz. Others presenting tomatoes get a chance
to toss their fruit at the billboard."
In response to a column in the *News,* local radio host Bob Rowell wrote:
"Einhorn got a brief taste of the media limelight during the first Earth
Day event, but was anything but a Œcounterculture hero¹ or Œdarling of
the left.¹ Even before the murder, he was widely perceived to be
insincere, phony and a con. The column was obviously a cheap shot at a
subculture that the writer clearly despises. Einhorn and Manson were two
murderers who were never embraced by the counterculture. Actually, they
had much more in common with the *contras* and homicidal elements of some
law enforcement entities."
*Time* magazine published a photo of Einhorn with Abbie Hoffman,
proclaiming them to be friends. Not true. They met only once, at a 1968
conference of college newspaper editors in Washington. However, Einhorn
cultivated a friendly relationship with Hoffman¹s co-founder of the
Yippies, Jerry Rubin. Anita Hoffman, the keeper of Abbie¹s image, wrote a
letter of >complaint to *Time.*
An episode of *South Park* included a character that was openly a parody
of Einhorn, repeatedly warning that "Republicans are ruining the world,"
and using brainwashing techniques to force children into celebrating
Earth Day. Later, he chops a young child to pieces. Yes, the bastard
killed Kenny!
Among David Letterman¹s Top 10 Reasons to Flee was this one: "If your new
roommate says, ŒNo matter what you hear, don¹t open this trunk.¹"
While teaching an alternative education course in the 1960s at the
University of Pennsylvania, Einhorn once stripped naked and danced in the
classroom after passing around marijuana to the students.
And finally, his ironic and irrelevant position on the drug war: "SWAT
teams are not the solution to soft drugs. Compassion must rule wherein
medical marijuana is concerned. Hemp should flourish, along with free
energy and the UFO information that would allow people to create it."
>http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-crime-einhorn.html
>
>Ex - Hippie Guru Einhorn Denies Hand in 1977 Murder
>
>By REUTERS
>
>October 14, 2002
>
>Filed at 6:53 p.m. ET
>
>PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Former hippie guru Ira Einhorn, who once described
>himself as a planetary enzyme, took the witness stand at his murder trial on
>Monday to deny killing his girlfriend Holly Maddux in a fit of rage 25 years
>ago.
>
>In a packed Philadelphia courtroom, a smiling but sometimes nervous-looking
>Einhorn told jurors that his stormy romance with the 30-year-old Bryn Mawr
>graduate never reached full flower because of his rampant appetite for other
>women.
>
>``I think we loved each other very much. But we had a very difficult time
>creating the context in which our love could flower,'' said the
>counter-culture leader who helped launch the annual Earth Day observance in
>1970.
>
>``She got increasingly dissatisfied with the fact that I was sleeping with
>other women,'' he said, during four hours of direct testimony. ``She had
>increasing difficulty with that.''
>
>When Einhorn's lawyer William Cannon asked if he was responsible for
>Maddux's death, the radical who was once known as ``the Unicorn'' turned to
>the jury, and without hesitation, said: ``No, I did not kill Holly Maddux.''
>
>The grisly story of the Maddux murder has already been told in the
>true-crime book, ``The Unicorn's Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius,''
>and on numerous television programs including an NBC mini-series.
>
>Maddux, a blond Texas cheerleader who lived with Einhorn for five years in a
>West Philadelphia apartment, disappeared on Sept. 11, 1977, after trying to
>break off her relationship with the radical luminary whose friends and
>associates included yippies Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman.
>
>Police discovered her mummified remains 18 months later in a steamer trunk
>stored in his closet, and charged Einhorn with bludgeoning Maddux to death
>so savagely that fragments of her skull were later found in her brain.
>
>``When I finally found out it was Holly, I broke up for days. It ripped me
>to pieces,'' said Einhorn, who maintains that Maddux walked out of his
>apartment and never came back but phoned a few days later and made a promise
>to stay in touch. ``She never lived up to it,'' he said.
>
>``Having Holly's name cross his lips, that really did anger me,'' Maddux's
>sister Meg Wakeman of Seattle later told reporters outside the city
>courthouse, which remained open during the Columbus Day holiday solely for
>the Einhorn trial.
>
>After his arrest in 1979, wealthy patrons rallied around Einhorn. His first
>defense lawyer was Arlen Specter, a former Philadelphia district attorney
>who now serves as a Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
>
>EINHORN JUMPED BAIL
>
>But Einhorn jumped bail in 1981 and spent 20 years on the run in Europe.
>Meanwhile, a 1993 jury convicted him in absentia of Maddux's slaying and
>sentenced him to life. The Maddux family also won a wrongful death verdict
>to stop him from selling his story to a publisher or Hollywood studio.
>
>Einhorn was discovered living in France with his Swedish wife, Annika, who
>has avoided his three-week trial for fear of arrest. He was finally
>extradited to the United States on July 20, 2001, after the Pennsylvania
>General Assembly passed a law granting him a new trial and U.S. authorities
>promised he would not face the death penalty.
>
>With his white hair and mustache neatly trimmed and sporting a tie and
>jacket, Einhorn treated the six men and nine women of the jury to four hours
>of direct testimony.
>
>He traced his life from Philadelphia childhood to his career as guru to an
>elite group of more than 300 people who he said included an Iranian prince,
>a member of Europe's Rothschild family and executives of the former Bell
>Telephone.
>
>Einhorn and his lawyer side-stepped his longstanding claim that the CIA
>framed him because of his Cold War research into the Soviet Union's use of
>psychic phenomena as weaponry.
>
>But he did admit to having violent encounters with two women in the 1960s,
>one of whom claims he struck her with a bottle and tried to choke her. He
>told jurors he later underwent therapy with the then-experimental drug,
>Ecstasy.
>
>``I felt as if the demon was under control,'' he said. ``The energy exists
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