THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS	Local Friday, June 20, 1997

Even sleeping for nine years with bearded loudmouth Ira Einhorn, a man whose warped idea of love means violence, domination, kinky sex.

And murder.

Einhorn's woman -- Annika Karin Eva Flodin, 46 -- still wants her man.

``Her only objective,'' said this town's mayor, Jack Jouaron, ``is to meet [ Einhorn ] one more time.''

How could a woman sleep with a man who had slaughtered his previous girlfriend?

Many in this village, about 240 miles southwest of Paris, assumed Flodin, known here as Annie Mallon, was unaware of Einhorn's criminal record.

``She didn't talk about the facts, but just talked a little bit,'' said Jouaron, who visited Flodin four days after Einhorn's arrest.

During that short conversation, Jouaron said, he sensed that Flodin was shocked that police were after her husband.

She wasn't.

Flodin had known for at least nine years that Einhorn was being hunted by police.

She was a Swedish store clerk when she met Einhorn in England in 1988. After Einhorn's benefactor, Canadian Barbara Bronfman, stopped sending money that he used to fund his escape from the law, Einhorn moved in with Flodin.

Little is known about the couple's relationship during that time, but police eventually tracked down Einhorn in Flodin's house in 1988.

Einhorn -- already tipped that police were preparing to capture him -- fled Flodin's home just one day before authorities arrived.

Interpol questioned Flodin at that time and told her the details of Einhorn's grisly past -- about how, in 1977, he beat his girlfriend, Helen ``Holly'' Maddux, to death, then stuffed her corpse into a steamer trunk, where it oozed for two years.

Perhaps Einhorn himself had told her what he told all of Philadelphia in a magazine article many years earlier -- that he was fond of group sex.

Einhorn, 57, fled Philadelphia in 1981, just before he was to go on trial for murder. He was tried and convicted in his absence in 1993.

Flodin and her fugitive lover, who used the name Eugene Mallon, ended up in this village in January 1993. They bought a $90,900 cottage on a secluded road, and, according to what they told village officials and friends, were married in England just before moving in.

Flodin set up house in this former windmill by planting a vegetable garden, potting flowers in every available spot, hanging lace curtains and adopting a dog and a cat.

She learned to speak French, a language Einhorn could not master, and used it sparingly while shopping in the village center.

She embraced the life of a traditional housewife; she baked her own bread, doted over the organic meals she prepared for her husband and, some in town suspect, sewed the unusual hippie tunics that Einhorn favored.

``We had conversations about the rain, about flowers,'' said Claudette Racaud, owner of the town's tobacco and newspaper store. ``She tried to communicate. She tried to speak.

``She had long hair, she's very tall,'' Racaud said. ``They say she was a top model -- tall, thin, typical Swedish model.''

In fact, she was never a model, but she looked like one.
After local police finally caught up to Einhorn here last Friday, villagers assumed Flodin was unaware of Einhorn's criminal record.

``She didn't talk about the facts, but just talked a little bit,'' said Jouaron, who visited Flodin four days after Einhorn's arrest. During that short conversation, Jouaron said, he sensed that Flodin was shocked that police were after her husband.

No one interviewed here has ever seen Flodin exhibiting any of the physical or emotional signs of abuse.

Flodin never appeared frightened, anxious or depressed, they said.

Until now.

Those who have spoken to Flodin since Einhorn's arrest said she seems sad and in shock, but has been displaying a strong, proud demeanor.

``She came in Monday for a newspaper,'' said Racaud, the tobacconist. ``She looked sad, but she smiled.''

Flodin has not spoken to reporters since Einhorn's arrest.

The couple's red Fiat, which was parked outside their home Tuesday, has not been seen in recent days. She does not answer her phone.

And now, Flodin is prohibited from speaking with Einhorn in jail.

A friend named Maria Das recalled the couple's last days together, before authorities closed in on the fugitive.

``The last time we saw them for dinner,'' Das said, ``he was caressing her hair.''

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