Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend

[WestVirginiaRebel]

MSNBC:

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.
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Styrofoam? That's not very environmentally correct...

[Casino67]

This was a huge story in Philly at the time. Even a book, whose title I have long forgotten, was written about it.

 

Einhorn was a real weirdo.

[nickydog]

She went out to buy tofu and sprouts and never returned. I'm sorry but that is just too funny. When we think the world is crazy now it is good to be reminded of those weird times.

[Geee]

Arlen Specter was his attorney as I remember.

[Evad]

Arlen Specter was his attorney as I remember.

Ole Snarlen Arlen..whatever happened to that RINO?

[Argyle58]

Arlen Specter was his attorney as I remember.

 

 

A fact that almost ruined Specter's Senate career before it even started. Specter, who had been the DA in Philly just a few years before, managed to use his influence with the judge in the case to lower Einhorn's bail from a million dollars to $40K......Einhorn paid the $4K required to a bondsman, and promptly skipped bail. The scandal almost ruined Specter's political career.

[Pepper]

Argyle, Evad, Casino, Geee

 

That piece of sl!me is currently serving time. If you wonder what a wack job looks like before and after, wait no more

 

[Pepper]

Yer' funny!

 

Nickydog

 

She went out to buy tofu and sprouts and never returned. I'm sorry but that is just too funny. When we think the world is crazy now it is good to be reminded of those weird times.

[Geee]

Arlen Specter was his attorney as I remember.

 

 

A fact that almost ruined Specter's Senate career before it even started. Specter, who had been the DA in Philly just a few years before, managed to use his influence with the judge in the case to lower Einhorn's bail from a million dollars to $40K......Einhorn paid the $4K required to a bondsman, and promptly skipped bail. The scandal almost ruined Specter's political career.

 

 

Almost was not near good enough!