Philadelphia Daily News

	THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS	Local Tuesday, June 17, 1997

An Ira Einhorn timeline

Late 60s and early 70s - Charismatic pony-tailed hippie guru and New Age philospher Ira Einhorn develops eclectic following in Philadelphia and even abroad.

1972 - Einhorn, a Mount-Airy- bred Penn grad known as a freethinker, free lover and free luncher, begins longterm, dominating and reputedly abusive relationship with shy, waifish, honey blond Bryn Mawr graduate and former Texas cheerleader Helen ``Holly'' Maddux.

Sept. 10, 1977 - Maddux meets new lover at Fire Island Labor Day weekend. Says she wants to leave Einhorn and their Powelton Village apartment, but has to return to Philadelphia to calm down Ira, who's going ``bananas.'' Lover never hears from her again.

Late 1977 - Einhorn tells friends Maddux went out to shop at a nearby food co-op and never returned. Family contacts police, hires private detective.

March 28, 1979 - Police, acting on information from private detective, search Powelton Village apartment. Break open locked trunk and find Maddux's partially mummified body inside. Her skull is shattered.

April 3, 1979 - Arlen Specter, former DA and now a U.S. Senator, briefly represents Einhorn at bail hearing, along with impressive array of character witnesses, from playwright to businessmen. Bail is set at $40,000, using Einhorn's mother's house as security.

Later 1979 - Einhorn claims the CIA killed Maddux, ``in order to destroy me because of my work'' in psychic phenomena, parapsychology and physical sciences.

January 14, 1981 - Bench warrant is issued when Einhorn fails to appaer for pre-trial hearing.

October, 1981 - District Attorney's office reveals Einhorn has turned up in Dublin, Ireland, with a new girlfriend, Janne Marie Morrison, quiet redhead whom he also dominates. They live for a time at an apartment in the home of a physics professor who later learns of his background, notifies authorities, and throws him out. No arrest is made.

1984 - Morrison leaves Einhorn, still living in Ireland and tells authorities, according to an Einhorn biographer, Einhorn has been receiving money from a wealthy source.

1986 - Einhorn's old landlord spots him again at Trinity College in Dublin. Einhorn flees.

December, 1988 - Police in Stockholm, Sweden, miss Einhorn by 24 hours at apartment he is sharing with latest girlfriend, Anika Flodin, a Swede. He's believed to have arrived in Sweden as early as spring, 1987, after traveling through several European countries.

September, 1993 - Saying its case is dwindling with the passing years, Philadelphia district attorney's office tries Einhorn in absentia. He is convicted Sept. 30, of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

May 31, 1997 - Einhorn is the subject of the teleivsion program ``Unsolved Mysteries.''

June 13, 1997 - Einhorn is arrested at a converted windmill in the rurual Bordeaux region of southern France where he is believed to have lived as a recluse for seven years, raising his own vegetables. Flodin is still with him and it is her applicaton for a French driver's license and tips that followed the TV program that lead, at last, to the elusive Einhorn.