1. Ira Einhorn took the stand in his own defense, claiming his ex-girlfriend had been killed by CIA agents who had framed him for the crime because he knew too much about the agency's paranormal military research.
21 Facts About Ira Einhorn
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Ira Einhorn was convicted of murdering Holly Maddux and served a life sentence until his death in prison on April 3,2020.
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Ira Einhorn was born in Philadelphia into a middle-class Jewish family.
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Ira Einhorn was a speaker at the first Earth Day event in Philadelphia in 1970 and later claimed to have been instrumental in creating and launching the event, but event organizers dispute his account.
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Ira Einhorn was a resident fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics during the autumn 1978 semester.
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Ira Einhorn had a five-year relationship with Holly Maddux, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College who was from Tyler, Texas.
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In 1977, Maddux broke up with Ira Einhorn and went to New York City, where she became involved with Saul Lapidus.
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On September 9,1977, Maddux returned to the Powelton Village apartment she had previously shared with Ira Einhorn to collect her belongings and was never seen again.
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Ira Einhorn claimed that Maddux had gone out to the neighborhood co-op to buy some tofu and sprouts, and never returned.
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In 1981, just days before his murder trial was to begin, Ira Einhorn skipped bail and fled to Europe.
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Ira Einhorn lived there for the next seventeen years and married a Swedish woman named Annika Flodin.
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In Pennsylvania, as Ira Einhorn had already been arraigned, the state convicted him in absentia of Maddux's murder in 1996.
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Ira Einhorn was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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In 1997, Ira Einhorn was arrested in Champagne-Mouton, France, where he had been living under the name "Eugene Mallon" and incarcerated for about six months at the local Gradignan jail before he was placed under a loose form of house arrest.
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Ira Einhorn then became the focus of intense surveillance by French police.
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Ira Einhorn then litigated against the decree before the Conseil d'Etat, which ruled against him; again, the Council declined to review the constitutionality of foreign law.
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Ira Einhorn then attempted to slit his own throat to avoid imprisonment and eventually litigated his case before the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled against him.
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On July 20,2001, Ira Einhorn was extradited to the United States.
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Ira Einhorn began serving his sentence at Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution Houtzdale.
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In November 2006, Ira Einhorn's sentence was unanimously affirmed by the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
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Ira Einhorn's death was reported to be of natural causes.