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Subject: Clarification and CBS
Date: Monday, July 16, 2001 2:48 PM
A general thanks for the help and good wishes you six have sent my way in
the
recent past:
1. I certainly had suicide in mind, but that is not what I did.
2. I acted politically out of rage at learning about the fact -
impeccable source - that a fix was on and that I was being traded to the
UNITED STATES for commercial purposes: Credit Lyonaise affair to be
specific.
3. My wounds were not superficial - My neck has 26 grafts and 6
stitches and I cut myself over 30 times.
4. I lost pints of blood.
5. That I could walk around and do an interview still amazes
me,
my
wife, lawyer et. al. here.
6. A half hour after an emergency operation, surrounded by 40
gendarmes, I was still out of it, BUT I was told I was going to be put in
an
ambulance, taken to Roissy(Paris) wherein an airplane waited on the tarmac
and flown back to the USA.
7. Five minutes later, I was told the decree of extradition
was
suspended
8. My wife visited me and brought me up to date and left for
home.
9. It dawned on me I should be back to my old regime with the
suspension of the decree and it also dawned on the man in charge who when
asked told me I was free to go.
10. To make it easier, I hitched a ride with the police who
normally guard me.
11. At 11:00 that night I pounded on my door, surprising my
wife and neighbors who were there with her and helped man the ever ringing
phone, giving a number of interviews in French and English.
12. The present situation is very complicated and can't be
explained simply.
13. CBS spent the afternoon with me and 2-3 minutes should
result on the Tuesday night news.
14. Wednesday, my wife Annika is 50 and supporters and
friends
will gather around a gigantic table, seating 49, to celebrate and then
many
will camp out here in a ring of support.
15. Thursday at 3:00, Annika and I will give a press
conference with my lawyer, the International president of SOS RACISM who
is
a
member of the European parliament and others.
16. I am living in what only can be called an armed
camp,
surrounded by a ring of gendarmes, riot squads, Paris antiterrorist
police,
the intelligence service and a customs post, so that they can stop and
search
my wife for illegal cigarettes and tobacco(me) in a car the size of a
postage
stamp.
17.?
Ira
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/07/19/national/19EINHORN.htm
French police lead Ira Einhorn from his home in Champagne-Mouton,
France. He
is expected to be flown by U.S. officials to Philadelphia
tonight. (AFP/PATRICK
BERNARD)
By Andrea Gerlin
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
CHAMPAGNE-MOUTON, France - Twenty years after he fled the United States to
avoid
a murder trial in the killing of his girlfriend, Ira Einhorn today was
taken
into custody by French authorities and put aboard a plane to Philadelphia.
He was scheduled to arrive at Philadelphia International Airport around 2
a.m.
tomorrow. He was then to be driven under heavy guard to Graterford Prison
in
Montgomery County.
Einhorn, 61, a once-prominent counterculture and anti-war activist, lost
his
last bid for freedom when the European Court of Human Rights today refused
to
delay his extradition from France.
Shortly after 2 p.m. Philadelphia time today, French police escorted
Einhorn
from his stone house in this village in southwestern France and bundled
him
into a gray Peugeot for the four-hour drive to Charles de Gaulle airport
near
Paris, where U.S. authorities were waiting. The plane took off at 7:25
p.m.,
Philadelphia time. Einhorn's Swedish-born wife, Annika, his constant
companion
through 14 years in hiding, did not travel to the airport; she said
good-bye
to him through a car window and waved as the police convoy pulled away
from
the house.
The normally loquacious Einhorn was silent as he was led away. Asked if he
had
anything to say, he shook his head.
Earlier in the day, after the European court announced its decision,
Einhorn
had emerged from the house to again proclaim his innocence. "I will be
happy
to go to the U.S. if the court gives me a new trial," he said. He and his
lawyers
said they doubted he would get a new trial, and they denounced
Philadelphia
District Attorney Lynne Abraham as a "fanatic of the death penalty."
Einhorn is wanted for the murder of Holly Maddux, whose body was found in
a
steamer trunk in the couple's Powelton Village apartment in 1979. He was
convicted
in absentia of first-degree murder in 1993, but the Pennsylvania
legislature
passed a law permitting a new trial after France refused to extradite him
because
he had not been present at his trial.
Maddux's family and U.S. officials said they were encouraged by the
apparent
end of the 20-year effort to find Einhorn and bring him to the United
States.
"I'm more than cautiously optimistic, but I'm trying to keep from jumping
up
and down and high-fiving everyone I see," said Buffy Hall, one of Maddux's
sisters.
The three Maddux sisters, in Washington today to lobby for a change in
U.S.
law to make it easier to extradite American fugitives from foreign
countries,
were to arrive in Philadelphia today, prepared to celebrate the
long-awaited
return of Einhorn.
Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham said she was "happy that
the
government has taken him into custody."
"I'm pleased that Holly Maddux and her family will finally get their say
....
They must be feeling very, very satisfied at this moment."
Hours before Einhorn was taken away by French police last evening, he and
a
band of supporters held a press conference to denounce the ruling that
permitted
his immediate extradition. Fode Sylla, a French member of the European
Parliament
and president of the French group SOS Racisme, compared Einhorn's case to
that
of Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose death sentence for shooting Philadelphia police
officer
Daniel Faulkner has made him an international cause celebre.
"My government made a very, very big mistake and I really apologize for
that,"
Einhorn lawyer Dominique Tricaud said afterward. "It would have been a big
symbol
in the battle for human rights. In the best case, he will spend the rest
of
his life in prison."
Less than three hours later, four police vehicles arrived and four
gendarmes
approached the blue door of his house. They knocked several times but got
no
answer until Annika Einhorn appeared in a window above the door to ask
them
if she could talk to her husband for a few minutes.
They agreed and were joined by three additional officers. French riot
police
and a tactical unit stood outside the front gate near the grey Peugeot,
while
others watched each end of the property. Five minutes later, Einhorn's
wife
allowed three gendarmes, lawyer Dominique Tricaud, Sylla and an
unidentified
government official into the house.
Soon one of the gendarmes came out and passed a message to a colleague
waiting
outside. He gave a thumbs up signal to police waiting outside the
gate. Einhorn
was escorted out of the house by police nine minutes later, dressed in
faded
jeans and a loose-fitting light blue shirt. He walked freely and did not
bring
a suitcase.
Philadelphia defense attorney Norris E. Gelman, who represented Einhorn
during
his 1993 trial, talked with Einhorn today after the court issued its
decision.
"I'm disappointed. However, they did not completely reject the case
... they
may still hear it," he said.
Gelman said he does not believe a second trial is constitutional or that
the
Pennsylvania legislature had any authority to authorize it.
"I think we have a very sound legal position," Gelman said.
Gelman said he has not been formally retained by Einhorn for a second
trial,
but has maintained close contact with him.
"I'm not going to meet the plane when it lands. He'll go to a jail, and
I'll
go to the jail" to talk with Einhorn, Gelman said.
In Washington, Einhorn was the focus of attention as a bill was introduced
today
by Rep. Dan Miller (R., Fla.) to try to assure more cooperation from
foreign
countries that are home to U.S. fugitives. The bill would require the
president
to submit a list of "uncooperative" countries. It provides for yanking
foreign
aid to those countries, and would make it a crime for people to aid
fugitives
fighting extradition. High-ranking officials from "uncooperative" nations
could
also be denied visas, under Miller's bill.
"I know we'll all feel better when we see him (Einhorn) in handcuffs with
U.S.
marshals," Miller said. "However, I appeal to the American people and the
U.S.
Congress to stand up for other families like the Madduxes across the
country."
Also in Washington, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (R., Pa.), who 22 years ago
was
the lawyer who represented Einhorn at a bail hearing after he was charged
with
murder, said today, "I have said consistently when Einhorn became a
fugitive,
after I no longer had represented him ... that he ought to be brought back
to
the United States for trial. And it looks like that's going to happen, and
it'll
be quite a trial."
In Champagne-Mouton, the scene changed quickly after Einhorn was spirited
out
of town. Checkpoints were dismantled. Customs officers, who had been
checking
vehicles entering and leaving the area, relaxed over glasses of beer at
the
bar of the village's only hotel, while members of the tactical squad,
whose
skills were not put to the test, played billiards and broke into song.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Inquirer staff writers Jacqueline Soteropoulos, Peter Nicholas, Thomas J.
Gibbons
Jr.
Andrea Gerlin's email address is foreign@p...
Topic 19 of 96 [news]: Holly Maddux ... innocent victim of hippy madman
Response 17 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Sep 8, 2001 (10:52) * 31 lines
September 7, 2001
Einhorn Lawyer to Seek New Trial
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 7:01 p.m. ET
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A lawyer for convicted murderer Ira Einhorn said Friday he would file papers next week to seek a new trial, while the former fugitive engaged in a combative exchange with a prosecutor.
Einhorn appeared in an American courtroom for the first time in more than 20 years at a hearing to formally notify him of his right to petition for a new trial. He was convicted of murder in absentia in 1993 in the death of his live-in lover, Holly Maddux.
When prosecutor Joel Rosen asked Einhorn if he understood the hearing's purpose, Einhorn refused to answer and instead demanded of Rosen, ``I'd like to ask you a question.''
The prosecutor immediately turned to Judge Webster Keough, who had warned attorneys that the hearing was a formality, and was not being held to consider legal issues.
``I didn't need you to apprise me of my rights,'' Einhorn continued. ``I thought the ball was in my court; that's what your boss said,'' he said, referring to District Attorney Lynne Abraham, who had said it was up to Einhorn to petition for a new trial -- or serve out his life sentence.
Asked again whether he understood his rights and the deadlines, Einhorn said he would not answer questions from Rosen. Defense attorney Norris Gelman quickly said his client understood the prosecutor's stated deadline.
Einhorn has until Sept. 18 to decide -- 60 days since his extradition from France. Gelman said he planned to file the request Wednesday.
The attorney said later that he did not know what question Einhorn had wanted to ask. As for the exchange, Gelman said, ``It's Ira.''
Rosen said he did not want the case to be come a circus and was not affected by the exchange.
``This was just another homicide defendant; one in a million, that's all,'' he said.
Einhorn, 61, was charged with the 1977 bludgeoning death of Maddux but disappeared before trial in 1981. He was discovered living in the French countryside in 1997 and battled extradition for years.
He was returned to Philadelphia on July 20 after Pennsylvania officials promised France that Einhorn could have a new trial if he wanted one and would not face the death penalty if convicted.
Topic 19 of 96 [news]: Holly Maddux ... innocent victim of hippy madman
Response 18 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Sep 13, 2001 (15:13) * 25 lines
Einhorn Requests New Trial
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Convicted killer Ira Einhorn and his lawyer have made two legal moves that they believe will vindicate the former hippie guru who was on the lam for 20 years before being returned to the United States this summer.
Einhorn requested a new murder trial Wednesday, and his lawyer asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to determine whether the law granting him such a proceeding is constitutional.
His lawyer, Norris Gelman, said Einhorn wants a trial ``where he can be present, proffer a defense, (and) have his name cleared and vindicated.''
Einhorn, 61, was charged with the 1977 bludgeoning death of his former lover, Holly Maddux, whose mummified body was found stuffed in a trunk in the couple's apartment in 1979. Einhorn disappeared before a scheduled trial in 1981, and he was convicted in absentia 12 years later and sentenced to life in prison.
French officials did not want him to return to Pennsylvania because he had been convicted and sentenced in absentia; the law giving him a new trial was passed to get French authorities to cooperate.
Gelman said at that time that the law is unconstitutional because the Legislature may not grant someone a new trial; he said only the judiciary has that power.
``I want the Supreme Court to make the ruling because their ruling will be beyond challenge. We want a new trial that counts,'' Gelman said Wednesday.
Gelman admitted to some legal risk, noting that if the Supreme Court does take the case and rules the law invalid, Einhorn ``doesn't get a new trial (and) has to face that music.'' That would mean Einhorn's conviction and life sentence would stand.
A spokeswoman for District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham declined comment on the twin filings, saying the district attorney's office hadn't seen the paperwork.
On Friday, Einhorn appeared in an American courtroom for the first time in more than 20 years at a hearing to formally notify him of his right to petition for a new trial.
The former fugitive had a combative exchange with a prosecutor, saying at one point: ``I didn't need you to apprise me of my rights
Topic 19 of 96 [news]: Holly Maddux ... innocent victim of hippy madman
Response 19 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jul 18, 2002 (21:31) * 20 lines
Former Hippie Guru Laments U.S. Attitudes on Crime
Wed Jul 17,10:55 AM ET
By David Morgan
HOUTZDALE, Pa. (Reuters) - Ira Einhorn, the former hippie guru who in
September will be tried a second time in one of Philadelphia's most
infamous murder cases, is disappointed by the way Americans treat people
accused of serious crimes.
"We're overboard about the victim," Einhorn lamented in an interview at
the state prison where he is observing his first anniversary behind bars
after 20 years on the run in Europe.
The rest at
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020717/lf_nm/crime_einhorn_dc_1
Topic 19 of 96 [news]: Holly Maddux ... innocent victim of hippy madman
Response 20 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 7, 2002 (12:10) * 11 lines
Oct 7, 2002 9:33 am US/Eastern
(AP)-(Philadelphia)-The prosecution in the Ira Einhorn murder trial says it will wrap up its case by Tuesday or Wednesday and shortly thereafter, jurors will hear from Einhorn himself.
Prosecutor Joel Rosen plans two or perhaps three more days of testimony, mostly related to the recovery and analysis of the body of victim Holly Maddux.
The defense case could begin as early as Wednesday, and Einhorn is expected to take the stand not too long after that. Prosecutor Rosen is looking foward to the opportunity to cross-examine the one-time fugitive.
He says it will be a challenge.
Einhorn's attorney William Cannon says Einhorn's testimony is Einhorn's idea. Prosecutor Rosen knows this is the wildcard in what he believes is an otherwise solid case.
Topic 19 of 96 [news]: Holly Maddux ... innocent victim of hippy madman
Response 21 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 7, 2002 (12:14) * 40 lines
What a long strange trip it's been for Einhorn, witnesses
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - "Let me take you back to the 1970s ..."
As each witness for the prosecution took the stand last week in the long-awaited murder trial of former counterculture guru Ira Einhorn, those are the words with which the assistant district attorney began his questioning.
Phrases such as "We were dialoguing" and "It was too much negativity for me" likely haven't been taken down by a court stenographer with such frequency for quite some time.
Responses differed and memories varied in recalling those days of free love and free spirits in West Philadelphia's funky Powelton Village neighborhood in the '70s, when Einhorn was the city's head hippie and Holly Maddux was his delicately beautiful girlfriend who sold baked goods at the local food co-op and dabbled in art.
"It was a time when people were trying to be different and were trying different things," said Kathryn Keegan, who first met Einhorn in 1970 and worked with him on an event called "Sun Day" in 1978 to promote solar energy.
Some witnesses smiled wistfully as they recollected the community of artists, activists and eccentrics who worked and shopped in the Ecology Food Co-operative, lived in the Job Chillaway communal house and showed their art at Penelope and Sisters all-women's gallery on South Street, a college hangout of bars and T-shirt shops that was then a bohemian enclave.
Other witnesses were more matter-of-fact, recounting events as if recalling the life of another person, and still others remembered precious little from those heady days of expanded consciousness and the substances that often went along with it.
Einhorn hobnobbed with counterculture icons like Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, organized "be-ins," was involved in the city's first Earth Day in 1970, and ran for mayor as a "planetary enzyme - catalyst for change."
He also made friends of Philadelphia's business and civic leaders, many of whom were character witnesses at his bail hearing after Maddux's body was found in March 1979, 18 months after she disappeared, in a trunk in Einhorn's closet.
He fled on the eve of his 1981 trial, living throughout Europe under assumed names until he was tracked in 1997 to a French village where he was living in a country cottage with his Swedish wife. A French appeals court allowed the extradition in July 2001 after receiving assurances that Einhorn's 1993 conviction in absentia would be vacated.
Einhorn, 62, seems occasionally amused with the blast-from-the-past parade of former friends and neighbors. He puts on his glasses as witnesses enter the courtroom with a gesture of recognition or tiny grin at the sight of people he hasn't seen in 25 years or more.
"We were part of a peace movement, we were into nonviolent behavior, we were into civil rights and we were involved in the hippie lifestyle," said Barbara Kubiak, who with her husband George, were believed to be the last to see Maddux alive. The Kubiaks went to see the just-released "Star Wars" with the recently-separated couple on the evening before Maddux vanished.
"At that time, Ira and Holly were part of a counterculture. It was open sexually É they were not into a monogamous relationship. They would have relationships with other people but (it was) mostly Ira," she testified.
"She said she was trying to be free and open the way Ira wanted her to be," Keegan testified an upset Maddux told her after Einhorn left a party with another woman.
Most of Einhorn's old friends and neighbors have clearly assimilated into the mainstream, looking comfortable in jackets and ties - much more so than the defendant himself - while a few are clearly on the same long, strange trip they embarked upon 30 years ago.
One witness who sublet Einhorn's apartment in the mid-1970s had difficulty answering some of the questions posed by both sides, then scratched his head, turned to Judge William Mazzola and said, "Can I ask a question?"
The startled judge replied, "Whoa, whoa, whoa," to stop his question from continuing, which amused the courtroom audience and the witness, who chuckled and repeated, "Whoa, whoa, whoa."
Several witnesses remembered Maddux and her bruises all too well, though in 1977 - just four years after Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion - when feminism and women's rights were gathering steam.
"She was stoic when she talked about what happened to her," said Penny Jeannechild, who taught a women's assertiveness training class in which Maddux was briefly enrolled. "I told her she didn't have to take that from anyone."
Topic 19 of 96 [news]: Holly Maddux ... innocent victim of hippy madman
Response 22 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 7, 2002 (12:22) * 3 lines
In depth:
http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/mugshots/indepth/einhorn/
Topic 19 of 96 [news]: Holly Maddux ... innocent victim of hippy madman
Response 23 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Oct 9, 2002 (06:59) * 24 lines
http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/einhorn/index.html
http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/mugshots/indepth/einhorn/
Chitwood testifies in alleged killer's trial
Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 6:38 AM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The defense will begin presenting its case Wednesday in the
trial of Ira Einhorn, the counterculture guru charged with murdering his girlfriend
in Philadelphia 25 years ago.
Prosecutors wrapped up their case against Einhorn Tuesday by calling Portland
Police Chief Michael to the stand.
Chitwood was the final witness in the prosecution's case against Einhorn, who is
charged with bludgeoning Holly Maddux because she wanted to break up with him. The
trial is being held in Philadelphia.
Chitwood was a Philadelphia homicide detective when he found her corpse in a
steamer trunk in his closet 18 months after Einhorn said she went to the store and
never returned.
Topic 19 of 96 [news]: Holly Maddux ... innocent victim of hippy madman
Response 24 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 14, 2002 (16:36) * 7 lines
PHILADELPHIA -- Ira Einhorn, the former hippie guru on trial for allegedly killing his girlfriend in 1977, testified Monday that other people had access to the couple's apartment and that he was surprised when police found her body in his closet.
Police searched the apartment in 1979 and found the mummified remains of Holly Maddux in a steamer trunk.
"When I finally found out it was Holly, I broke up for days. It ripped me to pieces," the 62-year-old Einhorn told a packed courtroom.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-einhorn1014oct14,0,3950838.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
Topic 19 of 96 [news]: Holly Maddux ... innocent victim of hippy madman
Response 25 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 17, 2002 (09:48) * 32 lines
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A jury on Wednesday began deliberating the fate of Ira Einhorn, the former hippie guru accused of killing his girlfriend in 1979.
Einhorn's attorney said during his closing argument that the discovery of the mummified corpse in the apartment the couple once shared is "just a piece of circumstantial evidence" that doesn't prove his client's guilt.
"It doesn't mean at all that Ira Einhorn is responsible for her murder," William Cannon said.
Prosecutor Joel Rosen said the evidence of Einhorn's guilt is overwhelming.
Jurors deliberated more than an hour Wednesday before retiring for the day. They were to resume their work Thursday.
Einhorn, 62, is accused of killing Holly Maddux of Tyler, Texas, 25 years ago because she wanted to end their turbulent five-year relationship. Her remains were found in a steamer trunk in the closet of their Philadelphia apartment in 1979, 18 months after she disappeared.
He could get life in prison if convicted.
Cannon said that there is a lack of physical evidence tying Einhorn to the crime, and that Maddux's bludgeoning death would have left bloodstains in the apartment. The lack of blood suggests she was killed somewhere else and later placed in the trunk, Cannon said.
Einhorn has denied killing Maddux and maintains the body was put there to frame him. He has accused the CIA of setting him up because of his research into the agency's "psychic warfare" experiments.
"There were people who simply didn't like Ira Einhorn, people who were capable of doing something about it and, I suggest, did something about it," Cannon said.
Rosen called those allegations ridiculous.
"It is so laughable and so ludicrous, it is so outrageous, you should be offended," he said. "If a woman wasn't brutally murdered, you would almost laugh at it."
Prosecutors had Einhorn read to the jury from his poems and diary entries, in which he wrote "to kill what you love when you can't have it seems so natural" and "violence always marks the end of a relationship."
Prosecutors also called the former owner of a bookstore who said Einhorn once asked for a "how-to" book on mummification.
Einhorn jumped bail weeks before his trial was set to begin in 1981, and lived in Europe under assumed names until he was found in France in 1997. He was convicted in absentia in 1993, a verdict that was set aside to clear the way for his extradition in 2001.
Cannon said Einhorn fled the country because he believed he would not get a fair trial.
Topic 19 of 96 [news]: Holly Maddux ... innocent victim of hippy madman
Response 26 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 17, 2002 (17:39) * 21 lines
Guilty
Thursday, October 17, 2002
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Ira Einhorn, a 19'70s hippie guru who fled to Europe and lived like a country squire after being charged with murder, was convicted Thursday of killing his girlfriend and stuffing her corpse in his closet a quarter-century ago. The 62-year-old Einhorn showed no emotion upon hearing the first-degree murder verdict, which brought an automatic sentence of life without parole and smiles to the family of his victim, 30-year-old Holly Maddux.
After the verdict, the district attorney and the judge mocked Einhorn and his role as an Age of Aquarius wise man. Judge William Mazzola called him "an intellectual dilettante who preyed on the uninitiated, uninformed, unsuspecting and inexperienced people."
One juror, Tracy Garett, said he was angry Einhorn couldn't be given the death penalty.
"He had a warped mind," Garett said.
"Even on the stand, it was like he thought he was God."
Defence lawyer William Cannon said Einhorn would appeal.
The verdict, reached after 2½ hours of deliberations, capped a stunning fall for the counterculture figure who once held "be-in" events. After fleeing the country, Einhorn lived in the south of France for years, appearing on television shows as he fought extradition and posing naked in his garden for Esquire magazine.
Topic 19 of 96 [news]: Holly Maddux ... innocent victim of hippy madman
Response 27 of 27: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Oct 19, 2002 (16:28) * 9 lines
The best sum up is by Steven Levy, who obviously had a front row seat.
Oct. 18 — Twenty-five years and 37 days after Ira Einhorn crushed Holly Maddux’s skull and stuffed her in a trunk, the former hippie boulevardier, with his hair shorn now and decked in a clubby blue blazer, sat next to his lawyer to hear his fate. The suspense wasn’t exactly overwhelming. As his lawyer, William Cannon, later explained, it’s tough to defend a client when his former girlfriend is discovered in mummified form in his closet 18 months after her disappearance. That job is tougher still when the jury learns that your client almost murdered two other women under similar circumstances—they wanted to leave him, he didn’t want them to leave unharmed.
complete story at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/823085.asp
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