On this day, March 28, in 1979, Philadelphia police discovered the corpse of Holly Maddux in the home of hippie guru Ira Einhorn, later dubbed the Unicorn Killer.
Einhorn, a man who hung out with rich benefactors and 1960s radicals like Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, hired future U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter as his defense attorney and insisted he was framed by the CIA because of his knowledge of mind-control experiments.
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The counterculture leader could not explain why his ex-girlfriend’s body was in his closet 18 months after her disappearance, but vowed to unmask the “real killer” at trial. But before it began, he fled to Europe.
In 2001, Einhorn was extradited to the United States. He was sentenced to life.
— Scott McCabe
