* Kevin Tarr [Wed, 19/09/2001 at 13:02 -0400]
> This is even better, if not on topic:
>
>
http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2001/08/24/local/TOSS24C.
> htm
>
> It describes a protest where the people threw overripe tomatoes at
> pictures of Ira Einhorn. He killed his girlfriend a put her body in a
> trunk in a closet, where it was found 6 months later. He fled to
France
> and they wouldn't extradite him for 23 years.
>
> Kevin Tarr
I'm just adding my 0.02 EUR with info I recall from reading newspapers
(I'll dig for more for the sake of exactness if someone interested).
Einhorn fled 23 years ago but not to France : to Swede (?), Ireland, UK
and
then eventually recently to France, under false identities. Police only
detected him when his wife tried to get a French driving licence,
presenting the one she got in her country with her real name. I think it
was only a couple of years ago. Extradition procedure is pending AFAIK,
our
law preventing, I think, extrading people to states where they risk to
be
killed.
Sorry Kevin the � He fled to France and they wouldn't extradite him for
23
years � looked too simplistic to me.
Jean-Marc Chaton
Yeah you're right. How silly of me to make a killer and the French
justice system look so wrong.
The story: he put his girlfriend, alive, into a steamer trunk, then put
it into a closet for 18 months. He was right there when the police
opened the trunk.
The current Senator from PA Arlen Specter was his attorney, and got a
bail sentence of only $40,000 He needed to post only 10% of that to be
released. He didn't leave right away, but before the trail started he
fled.
He did go to Ireland, UK, the main continent, Sweden, then finally to
southern France. They had arrest warrents in Ireland and Sweden and just
missed him three times. He was arrested by the French in 1997. The US
had to have two trails and guarentee that he wouldn't face the death
pentatlty before the French would send him to the US four years later.
He is now in prison in central PA.
Kevin Tarr
