Episode 14- The Unicorn Killer

Join us as we talk about Ira Einhorn, the Unicorn Killer (he's self-named, ok?) and his two murder trials and escape from the law. 

Today we made a super fun cocktail, Unicorn on the Run-- it's made with cotton candy! Recipe below:

UNICORN ON THE RUN

Frosting and sprinkles
Cotton candy
1 1/2 oz. vodka
2 oz. cranberry juice
1/2 oz. sweet vermouth
1/2 oz. lemon juice

Rim glass with frosting and sprinkles. Let sit for 30 minutes. Fill martini glasses with cotton candy. Combine all liquid ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and strain over cotton candy.  Garnish with popcorn and more cotton candy.

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Transcript

Philadelphia Inquirer

Book: The Unicorns secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius Originally published in 1990

An article from  Conspiracies and Secret Societies.

Really good documentary on the ID channel called the Unicorn

Dailykos.com 

Ira Samuel Einhorn was born May 15, 1940 to a middle-class Jewish family. 

His mother doted on him and taught him to read almost as soon as he could walk. She thought he was brilliant and nurtured that in him.  He started playing contract bridge on an adult level before he hit junior high pretty much proving to everyone he was a mini genius. Apparently Bridge is probably the hardest of the common games to learn to play so //And thus started his life getting away with pretty much anything he wanted. everyone who met the little Ira was convinced that he was not only intelligent, but so transcendent  that the normal rules of behavior shouldn’t apply to him.

The high school administration let him attend the prom in a flannel shirt and jeans…college professors 

who excused absence after absence as long as Ira produced a decent term paper at the end of the semester…the mentor who gave him a key to his home and bounced groundbreaking academic theories off him even though he was barely in his 20’s…
one of  his high school teachers said: “I ought to wring that boy’s neck, but I cannot deny the world Ira,” it’s truly like he bewitched people. 

He went to college at the University of Pennsylvania  in the 1960s at the start of the free love movement and he really found his niche.  He was a big man, scruffy, with a beard and wild hair. He had what some people called “hypnotic” blue eyes. He was really into writing poetry and contemplating his navel and all that.. He was an environmental activist, who advocated for flower power, peace and free love to his fellow students at the University. Apparently he also smelled because you know bathing was so 1950s. He also claimed to have been instrumental in creating Earth Day in 1970, and participated in the Earth Day rally in Philadelphia that year other organizers of Earth Day dispute his account And this may be an unpopular opinion with some people out there, but free love was just a stupid way of getting into more people’s pants. I am all about being liberated sexually, but this no holds barred stuff was really exploited by a lot of people and a lot of people got hurt. From 1964 through 1968, the rates of syphilis and gonorrhea in California rose 165 percent.. And of course a lot of this was fueled by drug use. For the Flower Children of the 1960s, the Age of Aquarius meant a time of free love, drugs, and war protests.

Einhorn pretty much represented everything about the counterculture movement of the 1960s and he was charismatic AF. He actually nicknamed HIMSELF The Unicorn because Einhorn means “one Horn” in German. And he LOVED that because he really saw himself as mysterious and magical. He graduated in 1961, but he remained an active member of the Penn and Philadelphoa communities throughout the 60s and 70s. At age 25 he founded the Free University, which was a movement that offered an alternative to formal education with courses like “Third World Liberation” and “Tantric Sex.” Einhorn had a large and diverse following, he was chummy with very prominent people like Allen Ginsberg and if you don;t know who Allen Ginsberg was he was a writer and poet, and also part of the Beat Generation with Jack Kerorac. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied aspects of the counterculture with his views on drugs and hostility to bureaucracy, Right up Einhorn’s dirty little alley. He was also chummy with Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia and radical activist Abbie Hoffman- so he was definitely running with the in crowd at that time.  People have described Einhorn as magnetic and charming. Penn history professor Michael Zuckerman was a friend and classmate of Einhorn's in high school and college, and later they were colleagues at the University, he said that Einhorn had a streak that was "clearly powerful, violent, experimental and keen to experience feelings and emotions," He also said that "Einhorn wanted to experience life at its most intense, and this included violence," He was constantly pushing the limits. There are countless stories of Einhorn putting his hand in fire and betting people how long he could keep it in there. There were also episodes of allegedly attacking girlfriends, which Zuckerman says were not a pattern of behavior to Einhorn, but rather "an experiment."

Einhorn ran for mayor in 1971 and  taught at the university for a time.  Some of the city’s leading companies actually paid him for what he called his ‘'far-watcher' thoughts. Like I am so brilliant and all knowing I can provide insight to you. Fuck off Ira. But the establishment loved him and were fascinated by him. Also it was popular to have a hippie around in the seventies to have it look like you have your finger on the pulse so to speak. He never really had money, but others just picked up the tab all the time and he was literally being paid to be himself. Which was very influencer of him before his time really.  he wrote a truly bizarre book in 1972 called #78-187880. On dailykos a blogger by the name of Ellid wrote an interesting review about this book. It’s worth a read- she shows pics from the book too- I enjoyed reading her other reviews too she chooses a lot of obscure books. 

So anyway This book, Ira wanted it and it published with no title. Ira, felt that the mix of wild graphics, unique font designed to emulate Ira’s printing, and free associative poetry/rant/rap/philosophizing didn’t need a title. Readers would either get it or not.

But Anchor Books’ sales staff pointed out that they needed something to put on order forms or no one would be able to order the book. Ira grudgingly agreed to let it be known by its Library of Congress number: 
A Library of Congress catalog control number is a unique identification number that the Library of Congress assigns to the catalog record created for each book in its cataloged collections.

It’s full of pictures that make no sense like a beheaded Barbie and his ramblings: the first page says: I am the product of all the impressions received since I began recording, and my essence which is in the process of purification- thus my “I‘s”  Thank those who touched me and left an impression - MEMEMORY- whose use I need to go beyond in questing after essence. To which work in this book is dedicated”

 He was living the high life and had generous gifts from wealthy benefactors—and even from members of influential corporate structures who believed that the all knowing and brilliant Ira, God of the flower children had secrets that they could exploit into big bucks. 

Einhorn apparently had a gabillionty girlfriends but in October 1972 he met Helen “Holly” Maddux: and he is such a fucking schmuck: She was having coffee and he went up to her and commented on the book she was reading saying “you must have a beautiful mind,” Then said oh I didn;t realize how becausetul you were nevaise I I’m already in love with your mind. Puke

Holly was born May 26, 1947 to Fred and Liz Maddux. She was raised in an conservative household and her father was a world war II veteran.. She was the oldest of five siblings and grew up in Tyler, Texas. Her siblings described her as the ideal big sister. She included them when she was her friends, and taught her sister how to swim. Holly was the all-American girl: a cheerleader in her Texas high school and class salutatorian. She was voted Most Likely to Succeed in HS  and she was also a talented dancer. And like most teenagers she was not always in agreement with her parents values, and she disagreed with the ultra conservative atmosphere and wanted to spread her wings and experience new things. She was a free spirit, wanted something more than what her small town in texas offered and wanted adventure in her life. 

After graduating HS she attended the prestigious Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia, graduating with an English degree in 1971. Einhorn introduced her to an exciting new life filled with travel, rallies and parties. She was fully charmed by him and within a few days they were living together. Einhorn was a lecturer at Harvard and was a famous philadelphian. He also had a very strong personality- Holly was shy and sweet, and I think Einhorn’s personality just engulfed her- it was like she was caught up in this Einhorn wave and it just carried her wherever he wanted it to carry her. Living together was not the business especially for her conservative father- so they were not speaking. But she did correspond with her mother through letters. 

Over the next five years their relationship was stormy and abusive. Her family did not like Einhorn at all: her sister Elisabeth Hall said that When he did come down and spend time in their home he was rude. He was overbearing to Holly, and ordered her around. Holly and her friend Andrea Boyce worked together at a local co-op. Andrea later stated that she remembers a morning when they were stocking the store together she noticed a mark on Holly’s neck. She asked Holly about it and she told her that Ira had put the marks there. 

Also during this relationship Einhorn was 100% not faithful because you know he was just so magnetic and free love and all that shit. They broke up multiple times over the years. But Einhorn always managed to get her to go back to him. 

In the summer of 1977 Holly went  to her friend JOyce Petschek’s beach house on fire island. Fire island is a remote, secluded island which is off the south coast of long NY. You gotta have moola to have a house here- and Joyce was a mutual friend of Holly;s and Ira’s. While on this little getaway she meets Saul Lapidus. Saul is tall, clean cut, well dressed, and put together. The literal opposite of Einhorn. And they hit it off very quickly and made plans to keep seeing eachother. 

In September 1977 Holly, who is now 30, had had enough and told him she was leaving his ass. And I am sure meeting Saul was the last little nudge that she needed. And then Holly just disappears. In September 1977 her family files a missing persons report. 

Months went by and no one heard from her. Her mothers bday came and went with no call from Holly and they knew something was terribly wrong because she would never not call or speak to her mother on her bday. Einhorn had told Holly’s mother and the police, that she broke up with him and he never saw her again. 

For eighteen months Holly’s parents, three sisters, and brother in Texas were desperate. They felt certain that Einhorn had played a major role in her disappearance, so Holly’s family reaches out to a retired FBI agent turned private investigator who lived in Texas named Bob Stevens. He begins an investigation with another retired FBI agent from Philly named JR pearce. Pearce’s first stop was the apartment of Ira fucking Einhorn. Ira was like geez guys I have no idea where Holly went. Bummer you can’t find her. I mean I am  involved in so many really important humanitarian projects for the city of Philadelphia that I literally do not even have time for this. The same song and dance he fed Hollys’s mother and the police previously. But this time he added another little tidbit to his story. Oh Holly probably went to a commune in India. Pearce and Stevens were like Hmmmmm- so they start interviewing every person who had any contact with Holly around that time. They speak with a friend of hers by the name of Genie Berman. Genie had an apartment that was available for rent and HOlly had agreed to rent it. She had even given Holly keys and she was upset because she thought that Holly had just stiffed her skipped town. Genie also tells them that Holly had been spending time on fire island with Joyce petscheck. When they speak with Joyce she says oh yes she was here what a sad sad thing no one can find her---but I recently contacted a medium who told me that she went to a commune in India. Oh well in light of this information case closed. We are done here. BUt she does tell them about Saul who Holly was seeing who not only had a place on Fire Island but also an apartment in Manhattan. Pearce goes to Manhattan to speak with Saul. Saul says they had a whirlwind romance over the course of what he called “a few magical weeks.” He said he last saw her on his boat when Holly got a phone call from Ira. This is the 1970s no one is calling on cell phones=somehow Ira got Sauls Boat number. Holly speaks with Ira and it is a loud and volatile conversation. She tells Saul that Ira is pissed off and threatened to throw her clothes, her driver's license, and her bank statements out the window. so she told Saul she would go to get her things. He was concerned and asked her if she was sure she should go, but she was adamant and left. But at this point it’s like is Saul lying, is he telling the truth? So he was definitely a suspect at this point. BUt they need more answers so they return to Philadelphia to continue gathering info. In March 1979 They end up speaking to a group of Drexel students who used to rent the apartment directly below Einhorn;s/ They say that there had been a terrible odor coming from the upstairs apartment above their closet area. It was so bad they thought maybe an animal had crawled into the walls and died. Also, a sickening brown stain appeared on their ceiling and a strange fluid began leaking down. They also remember vividly Ira and Holly arguing and one night a very loud thud on the ceiling of their apartment. Private detective Pearce decided it was time to speak to the Police because he was certain he had found the information that was needed in the case. Saul ened up taking a polygraph which he passed, so now they are looking solely at the fucking Unicorn. 

On wednesday march 28, 1979 at approximately 8:50 in the morning, investigating officers, including Detective Micheal Chitwood, arrived at Einhorn’s apartment and rang the buzzer. And this jerk just nonchalantly answered the door naked. Like hey guys what's up? Chitwood gave him the search warrant. and told him they were there to search for any evidence related to the disappearance of Holly Maddux. Ira told them he had not seen her since September 1977, she went out to do some shopping at the nearby food coop and never came back.

Police showed up with crowbars and other tools and were ready to rip up the floors if needed. He offered no resistance as the officers began to search for the source of the offensive odor and the mysterious brown stain. Detective Chitwood went directly to the bedroom closet based on the information provided by the downstairs neighbors. And there was a padlock on it. SO he asks Einhorn do you have the keys? Einhorn is like Nah I don’t have the keys. Ok. So they break the lock with cutters. The closet is packed with boxes, stacked one on top of the other. (you can see an actual police video of this on the ID episode) They start removing the boxes one at a time. After a few boxes they find a womans purse . It was Hollys’s- it had her drivers license in it all her personal items- you know all the important things you would actually NEED if you were traveling to fucking India or anywhere. They keep removing items and found a large steamer trunk. As they are pulling out this trunk they find a bunch of newspapers dated September 1977. Oh wow what a coincidence. 

Inside the trunk was the mummified body of a woman whose skull had been crushed. The odor and the brownish fluid were coming from her decomposing corpse. The body was obviously that of the missing Holly Maddux and she had been bludgeoned to death.Wow guys I have no idea how that got there! That smell? I don;t even smell anything. This is so crazy how did that get there? Chitwood said “it looks like we found Holly” and Einhorn said “You found who you found”. So deep you piece of shit. 

The medical examiner stated that Holly’s skull had been crushed and she had been beaten with a blunt object. Her autopsy report read “blunt impacts to head (six plus) Comminuted depressed skull fractures contusions to scalp and face. Comminuted means broken into 3 or more sections. The outline of one fracture resembled the mark that would be left by a 2-by-4 board. It was a brutal attack

On the day of his bail hearing a multitude of high-profile character witnesses appeared in court to vouch for him. Einhorn’s attorney, future senator Arlen Specter, and former DA of Philadephia, managed to get a bail set that required only $4,000 cash. I mean its pretty common for someone who has been arrested for 1st degree murder to be held w/o bail. But not the Unicorn- After all, a high priest of peace, love, and harmony could be trusted to remain in Philadelphia so that he might clear things up at his trial right? Its absolutely mind blowing how all these high powered and prominent people assisted him. All these people, bank managers, ministers, lawyers, all came to testify at his bail hearing as character witnesses and all said that he was such an amazing upstanding person. Reverend David Gracie, an Episcopal minister and once the urban missioner for the episopal diocese of pennsylvania, described Einhorn’s character as “excellent. He’s a man of non-violence.” The DA’s office argued that he was a serious flight risk and had connections in other countries and he should be held without bail. 

Einhorn had plenty to say to his supporters and to the media to “clear things up”: According to one of his stories, he didn’t know Holly’s body was decomposing there in the steamer trunk in his bedroom closet. He hadn’t seen her after she had told him their relationship was over and had left him. She had obviously been murdered by agents of a secret government conspiracy and her body brought to his apartment and hidden there to frame him. 

And then there was another story: He had returned to the apartment one day and found her murdered. She had been killed by either the FBI or the CIA and left there to frame him. Fearing that no one could believe him and accepting the sad fact that it was too late to help Holly, he hid her body in the trunk. During the investigation, investigators found diaries he has written that went back years- and it really showcased the dark side he had: one entry stated “to beat a woman, what joy flows through your body, to commit an act of violence to kill the one you love,” They also found diaries from Holly that solidified the belief that she was abused- he was sexually aggressive and he was violent  

Einhorn also told his supporters that the Feds considered him a threat and that they were still furious with him for his participation in the antiwar movement and his communications with peaceniks behind the iron curtain. He claimed that they also wanted him out of the way because of his pioneering work on the Internet and his desire to make it international in scope, beyond the control of the federal government.And he was on the verge of discovering the government's mind controlling weaponry. So they had to set him up you know. 

The judge was definitely swayed by all the character witness statement and when they set bail people were clapping in the courtroom they were all just SO happy, Einhorn was smiling ear to ear. detective Chitwood  knew that Einhorn would skip the country: He said “I told the other homicide detectives, this guy will never come to trial, he’ll take off.” Chitwood was right. Two months before his trial was to begin in January 1981, Einhorn fled the country to avoid trial. Color me surprised. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest and an international manhunt was launched.  A few months later a man visiting the US from Ireland told investigators that he thought there was a guy living in his home in Ireland that they were looking for. He was just nonchalantly telling his family about this nice young man who was staying with him in DUblin and he says his name is Ira Einhorn. And his family was like dude this guy is a murderer. The FBI showed him a photo and he affirmed that was the guy living in his house. Ireland at this time did not have an extradition treaty, They basically said there is nothing we can do. And the hubris on this guy. He realizes the police are on to him and he leaves Ireland and is on the move again. And during this time Holly’s family has to live with the fact that they not only lost their daughter and sister but this shitbag is living it up in Europe somewhere and he can’t be found. 7 Years later in 1988, Holly’s father Fred completed suicide, Hhis daughter, Holly;s sister,  Buffy Hall said that he had a long illness and he was in a lot of pain. Then 2 years later in 1990 her mother also passed away. She said that for all intents and purposes both her parents died when Holly died. They were never the same. She was 17 when Holly was murdered and she said that she basically became an orphan because she lost her parents when they lost her. 

In the early 90s pennsylvania law changed to allow the state to try a defendant in absentia. If you could prove that the defendant purposely fled to avoid trial. In absentia, Meaning they do not need to be present at their own trial. In 1993, 12 years after Einhorn's fled the country, Philadelphia D.A. Lynne Abraham decided to bring him to trial in his absence, a rare legal procedure and the only in-absentia murder trial ever conducted in Philadelphia. Einhorn was represented by Norris Gelman, his lawyer at the time of his flight, who was obliged by the court to conduct the defense at his own expense. During a week in court, the leaking liquid, the smell of putrefaction, the scream, and other strong circumstantial evidence was put on trial. Gelman was able to demonstrate that the forensic evidence on which the prosecution hung its case was inconclusive; the prosecution was unable to prove that the putrefying liquid contained human protein, and therefore it was possible, at least in theory, that Holly's body was planted in Einhorn's closet. The jury nevertheless took only two hours to convict him of first degree murder and sentence him to life imprisonment. The idea of having an absentia trial is that if you are found, you do not have a new trial and you go directly to jail under that sentencing. DO not pass go and do not get your $200 fucker. 

Now would it be any surprise to you that Ira has had a wealthy friend assisting him over the years? It seems pretty obvious- now I think it would be more difficult to skip the country but even back then it wasn;t an easy feat. YOu needed connections. Investigators discover that a women by the name of Barbara Bronfman, a wealthy friend of Einhorn’s had been assisting him with money.She was divorced from Edgar Bronfman who owned Seagrams 7. She lived in Canada and she is very wealthy. She did come and speak with investigators and admitted that she had been funneling finds to Ira- she said that she did believe in him in the past- but she has since changed her tune. She said she read a book released about Einhorn and has seen the light so to speak and realizes what he really is. A murderer. She tells them that Ira is with a woman by the name of Annika Flodin. Now Annika Flodin has money- big surprise. She was an heiress to a retail empire in Sweden. DO we really think Ira would be hanging around poor people? With this knowledge they start the search for Annika Flodin. The FBI called the Swedish police directly and asked them to look in her file for anything that may be helpful. In her file there was a letter asking for a copy of her swedish drivers license to be sent to an address in Champagne-Mouton France- so she could get a french driver's license. This is legit the first solid lead the FBI had had in years. On May 15, 1997—Einhorn’s fifty-seventh birthday-the address was secured. 

Champagne-Mouton, is a small and sleepy village in the wine country of southwestern france. The FBI contacted the french national police and they conducted some surveillance and concluded pretty quickly that it was indeed Ira Einhorn living with Annika Flodin. It had been 20 years since Holly;s murder, and 16 years since Ira had been on the run. In June, French police went to Annika Flodin;s home and they went upstairs and Ira is just lying in bed naked. And they took him into custody. 

Claudette Racaud, who runs the village tobacconists. Said 'His name was supposed to be Mallon, Eugene Mallon,' 'We understood he was a writer from England. We didn't see him much. He or his wife would come in twice a week for their special order of the Herald Tribune. He was nice, always smiling, but he couldn't speak much French. His wife was friendly, though.

The US had a treaty of extradition with France, seemed cut and dried and the FBI was ready for him to rerun to America and serve his time. Einhorn was taken before 3 magistrates in france and the magistrates thought extradition was a violation of his human rights because the state of pennsylvania was not going to retry him. Basically, the fact that the state had tried and convicted Einhorn in absentia literally became the reason France would not allow the extradition. France has a law which firmly states that defendants tried in absentia must receive a new trial when they appear so that they can speak in their own defense. The state of Pennsylvania has no such law.in December 1997, a French court denied the request to extradite Einhorn.So basically he is now being protected by French law. 

Holly;s family spent the next several months calling congressman and working to get the laws around absentia trials changed. In 1998 the Pennsylvania legislature passed a law  which grants courts the power to offer new trials in special cases such as Einhorn’s..Holly;s family also made the decision to go to France which really put a face to her story. Holly was a person who was deeply loved and this was about HER not him. 

At last authorities in France agreed to extradition for Einhorn with the proviso—also following French law—that he not be given the death penalty. He appealed the extradition decision for another 3 years but in July 2001 he was finally ordered to be extradited. When the french police showed up to take him into custody he took a razor ried to cut his throat in front of reporters. But they bandaged up his stupid neck and he was taken and then flown back to the US to become Prisoner No. ES6859. 

Once he returned to pennsylvania a new trial began. A former girlfriend he dated at Pen uni testified at his trial about their relationship. Judith Sabot was a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania when she met Einhorn in 1965. They had an intense four-month relationship and during that time he became increasingly “domineering and manipulative.” Judith was a beautiful smart, redhead, Ira was drawn to redheads: (in fact Annika Flodin was also a redhead) He once said to a friend “the attribute … has the same effect on me as marijuana — delicious ecstasy,” Einhorn had urged Judith to break ties with her “bourgeois” family in Connecticut; he believed her parents and siblings were “sentimental shackles” holding her back from true liberation. She knew this relationship was going nowhere good and she tried to pull away, so of course he grew more obsessed with her. He wrote in his journal in NOvember 1965: “The violence that flowed through my being tonight … still awaits further dark confirmation of its existence which could result in the murder of that which I seem to love so deeply. There is a good chance that I will attempt to kill Judy tomorrow — the rational awareness of this fact brings stark terror into my heart but it must be faced if I wish to go on.” He also wrote: “Violence creeps over my body as I reach toward the destruction of Judy, a hopeless victim in this infernal entanglement which seems to be draining the life’s blood out of both of us,” “We hang in perilous balance, threatened to destroy or be destroyed in an instant of reckless action. We must come together or die.”

In March 1966, during Spring Break, Einhorn stopped by Judith’s Father’s apartment where she was staying. He wanted to talk about reviving their relationship. She offered to make coffee, but there was no milk so she went out to the corner store. While she was gone, he hid behind the door. She returned to what appeared to be an empty room, then Einhorn jumped her from behind and smashed her over the head with a Coke bottle — She fell and cut her arm on the jagged glass- then he had his hands around her neck choking her. “She begged him to stop.She couldn’t breathe and she thought she was dying. Then he just left. She had no idea why he left her there or why he let her live. 

Judith decided not to tell the police about the assault because in 1966 people did not really trust the police and honestly women were used to being questioned and were often accused of provoking their attackers. The campus security officers who drove her to the hospital and the medical resident who stitched up her head-wounds never questioned the cause of her injuries.

11 years later he would murder Holly Maddux, After attacking Judith and leaving her alone in the apartment, Einhorn walked home and penned a poem in his journal:

Suddenly it happens

Bottle in hand I strike

Away at the head …

In such violence there may be freedom.

Einhorn’s journals — which were more than 10,000 pages, — were crucial to the prosecution’s case. Assistant district attorney Joel Rosen read the bottle poem, entitled “An Act of Violence,” to the jury during opening arguments in 2002. In 1962 he wrote: “To kill what you love when you can’t have it seems so natural that strangling Rita last night seemed so right,” referring to a previous girlfriend he’d assaulted at Bennington College, also after she had broken up with him. He had a violent pattern of abuse going back years- but he was a sociopath and he hid it well from the outside world. Judith Sabots adult daughter, Diana Whitney, wrote a beautiful article inn 2018 about her mother and how she found out about this trauma her mother endured. It’s called the Killer who spared my mother. Judith never talked about it, and didn’t speak about it until Ira was returned to the US and the trial began. Diana was 29 before she even heard the story. In her article she says, “I was thinking about generational patterns of female silence; about my trouble saying no to men; about my date rape at Dartmouth, that infamous enclave of Ivy League privilege where lacrosse players bared their perfect white grins in Animal House basements; about the male sexual entitlement that’s alive and well, disputed but not gone in the era of #MeToo. In a phone interview with therapist Mark Wolynn, he called this repetition an “ancestral alarm clock” and urged me to break the cycle before my daughters grew up.” 

On October 17, 2002, twenty-five years after he was accused of the crime, Ira Einhorn, sixty-two, received an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole on the first-degree murder charge.He still maintained his innocence and his accusations of secret government agencies’ having committed the murder of Holly Maddux. 

The fucking Unicorn. He really thought himself to be so deep and poetic but his poems suck shit. He was so cliche and over the top.

In 2010 reporter for the Philadelphia inquirer, Ronnie Polaneczky interviewed Einhorn at the Houtzdale State Correctional Institution, in Clearfield County . He was 70 at the time. He sent the Inquirer a letter asking to talk about the flawed justice system. During the interview he mostly complained about how all the letters he has written to politicians and important public figures have gone unanswered. He said I am a pariah, Once you're in prison, it's as if you no longer exist! WHich must have burned him because being irrelevant must have cut deep for someone as narcissistic as Einhorn. 

He also told Polaneczky, "I had a lot of lovers when I was younger, anywhere from 1,500 to 1,800. I had a lot of erotic energy,"though not "Wilt Chamberlain's erotic energy. But from the moment I met my wife, I was monogamous." While in prison He would rise at 5 a.m., work on a series of "erotic short stories" hewas writing and composed a journal entry every mornjng, as he did everyday since the early '60s. He said that his journals comprised over 30,000 pages. He also said he would like his journals archived in a university, after his death, for study.

Ha! He also apparently wrote a book called Prelude to Intamacy published in 2005 which is just a long ramble of how difficult it was for him being on the lam in Europe and all the stupid shit he did while he was there- which was basically read, write and have sex. I refused to buy it but I did read a sample and it is nauseating. He was talking about a woman he dated while in Dublin by the name of Jean-Marie and he wrote “I made the same mistake with Jean  marie that I made with the woman I am accused of murdering Holly Maddux. In both instances I allowed my first impression of an attractive woman to rule my behavior. Both women were essentially overwhelmed by my energy and after an initial long sexual encounter both began to live with me. BOth women were essentially servicing me sexually and neither of them ever had orgamsms during sex with me. That was one of the main reasons I had so many lovers while living with both Holly and Jean-Marie.” Sure dude whatever. Maybe you just suck 

It’s also supposed to prove his innocence so ya. 

He also had a blog while he was in prison and had a few people who kept it up abd posted for him-it’s basically a free ira thing I’m innocent blah blah. He wrote about the smell that helped get him convicted saying there was never any smell he had people over no one ever smelled anything. Just reinforcing he was set up.  

When you Google Ira einhorn name it says Peace Activist then you scroll down it says criminal charge murder. Get it together Google 

On 3 April 2020, Einhorn, aged 79, died in the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution Laurel Highlands. His death was reported to be of natural causes and not related to COVID. 

And that is the story of the Murder of Holly Maddux and the Murderous Unicorn.