THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS	Local Wednesday, September 3, 1997

Ira Einhorn's Swedish wife said she believes the convicted murderer was framed.

``We've lived together for nearly 10 years,'' she said in an interview in French last weekend. ``I knew from the beginning what they accuse him of and I know that it is false. He never killed his first woman. He is the opposite of a violent man. He's a pacifist.''

She believes Einhorn was set up for the murder of Helen ``Holly'' Maddux, because of his ideas, his network of friends that extended all the way to the Soviet Union, his anti-nuclear meetings and his work with the paranormal and telepathic.

``He preferred to leave the United States because since the first day he was presented as guilty by hysterical media coverage,'' she said.

Speaking in a whispery voice, the timid Flodin said she had complete confidence that the Bordeaux judges at Einhorn's extradition hearing yesterday would not send him back to the U.S.

``They will be sending him to prison for life when he never had the right of a fair trial,'' she said.

Flodin, 46, a former store clerk, met Einhorn in England in 1988. He moved in with her in a Stockholm apartment.

Police eventually tracked him down there in 1988, but Einhorn -- already tipped that he was about to be captured -- fled just one day before authorities arrived. Interpol questioned Flodin at that time and told her the details of her lover's grisly past.

In 1993, the couple bought a converted windmill in the village of Champagne-Mouton, in the South of France. Einhorn portrayed himself as a British writer named Eugene Mallon.

They lived quietly there. Flodin grew vegetables in the garden, shopped in the village market, learned French and sewed Einhorn's shirts. Einhorn, neighbors said, spent hours on the Internet, played bridge and read dozens of books.

``We were very happy here,'' she said.

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