Ira Einhorn
Ira Einhorn (full name Ira Samuel Einhorn, born 1940) was a famous pacifist and ecologist in the 1960s.He helped create Earth Day in 1970.
He studied in Pennsylvania and had a relationship with Holly Maddux, which turned out to be a tragedy.
After five years together, Maddux promised to leave Einhorn's apartment to take a trip with her new mate, Saul Lapidus. When Einhorn found out about this, he angrily called Maddux to come back to Philadelphia.
On September 11, 1977, she disappeared. When questioned, Einhorn stated to police that she left to make a call and never came back. Eighteen months later, Maddux was found dead in Einhorn's apartment.
Einhorn ran away to Europe, where he married Annika Flodin. It was a long hunt for him, who went from country to country, finishing his runaway in Champagne-Mouton, France.
The defenders of "the Unicorn" (a somewhat esoteric translation, from German, of the name "Einhorn") says Maddux was murdered by CIA agents due to Einhorn investigations on Cold War and psychotronics.
In 1993 he was convicted in absentia of the murder of Maddux and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On July 20, 2001, he was extradited to the United States after French authorities were promised that he would receive another trial and would not face the death penalty under any circumstances. The extradition was delayed because Einhorn's supporters alleged that Einhorn had been unfairly treated by American criminal justice and that he would perhaps not receive a fair trial; the French Green Party, in particular, complained that Einhorn should not have been extradited until the matters concerning his trials were fully settled.
On October 17, 2002, his conviction was affirmed, and he is currently incarcerated in the state prison at Houtzdale, in central Pennsylvania.