Earth Day co-founder killed, ‘composted’ his ex-girlfriend

Michael Bastasch 1:15 PM 04/22/2013

The self-described founder of a Earth Day is a convicted murderer. Despite helping to found the environmental movement’s most important day of the year, environmental activist and self-proclaimed co-founder Earth Day Ira Einhorn had a dark side. NBC News recalls that Einhorn was found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend and stuffing her “composted” body inside a trunk.  After his girlfriend of five years, Helen “Holly” Maddux, broke up with him, Einhorn threatened to throw her belongings onto the street is she didn’t pick them up. She went to Einhorn’s apartment to retrieve them on Sept. 9, 1977 but was never seen again……Einhorn jumped bail and spent 23 years evading authorities and hiding out all over Europe. Finally he was caught and extradited to the U.S. from France, where he was put on trial and convicted of murder. He is currently serving a life sentence.  NBC News notes: “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.”…To Read More….

My Take – I followed this story for some time and one of the more interesting things about this story was his testimony claiming she was killed by the CIA.  He gave the impression that that he actually believed it.  There were those who knew him that said that was his great skill.  Making others believe anything he wanted them to believe. When he was finally captured prominent people declared:

"He is of good — excellent — character," exclaimed a corporate attorney with whom he had worked on a fundraising project. "He has the highest level of integrity," remarked an Ivy League lecturer, "a man who is compassionate and loving." A former Wall Street Journal economist described his reputation as "the finest". And an Episcopalian minister judged him as "a man of nonviolence."

The man they judged so highly buried his girlfriend alive in a trunk. 

And how was it possible that he managed to jump bail in the first place?  Good old Arlen Specter, former Senator from the state of Pennsylvania and the inventor of the "single-bullet theory" to explain how Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy as a member of the Warren Commission, managed to get his bail dropped down to $40,000 and Einhorn only had to post ten percent.  The Einhorn story is so full of fascinating twists and turns it makes you wonder how justice is ever accomplished.  If you would like to read the whole story please go here.