-Caveat Lector-

Well it was JFK's own men who lamented the fact they had themselves,
chanaged the route....but then who kept the original calendar all the
way?   JFK read his bible on way to Dallas - a very special bible that
disappeared after LBJ sworn in.....he was set up by not his own, but the
enemy within.

In The Unicorn's Secret you see how this guy got next to Tom Beardon, Lt
Col. an a Nobel Peace Award winner......and not to forget his
association with Shah of Iran who was member of Peacock Society  and
fled with a solid gold John in his .....



Saba


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Here is first chapter on Ira.....


Ira Einhorn: Psychedelic Unicorn of Death
by Joseph Geringer

Counterculture Killer

When the Philadelphia police came to the apartment building at 3411 Race
Street at 9 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, they weren't too sure
what they would find. The Powelton Village district of the city was not
a high-crime area; it was too collegiate for that, housing the
University of Pennsylvania within and emanating a scholastic aire. As
well, the person whose quarters they were just about to search was not,
by the farthest stretch of the imagination, the type of individual who
would commit the depth of crime for which he was suspected.
Stepping into the foyer as a group, the police – mixed of
plainclothesmen and uniformed officers – watched quietly as their
commander, Detective Michael Chitwood, pressed the caller button under
the name, EINHORN, stenciled above it. The cops paused a moment,
waiting, studying the dimness and age of the entranceway, before an
electronic buzzer sounded to open the security door to the stairwell.
When Chitwood, leading the entourage up the wooden steps, saw the fat
man with a grisly beard in a bath robe staring down at them from the
landing, his first thought was, "He doesn't look like an icon."

For a moment the detective's and Ira Einhorn's eyes caught. The former's
set of orbs communicated determination and probably cold determination;
the latter's seemed not fearful, as Chitwood might have expected, but
blankness. Maybe hollow. There was, however, a bit of a quizzical shape
to his lips.
But, there he was, looking half-asleep more than anything. The fat man
with the unkempt beard, the King of the Radicals, the Prince of Flower
Power, the Guru of Peace and Love. He called himself poetically,
"Unicorn," because the name Einhorn (a German-Jewish name) means "one
horn". But, this character was not a myth; he was very real and had
created from an innocent era a flip-side world of reefers and LSD and
free love. His was an innovation in the Age of Aquarius and he was the
Chief Acquarian in Philadelphia, at one time revered by the "new
generation" of the 1960s.
Now, as the detectives ascended the steps, this self-imposed media hype
considered as great as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, wore a bathrobe
stained with rust,; his dirty ankles and dirtier toenails protruded from
under. Coming yet closer, the detective chief thought he sensed a
scratch of worry in his eyeballs. Chitwood passed him a search warrant,
told him to read it, then sign it. The Unicorn, he noticed, had body
odor.
The favorite son of the psychedelic crowd seemed to be a wash-out.
Neighbors below Einhorn's flat had been complaining for some time that
that they were detecting a terrible stench coming through the
floorboards, accompanied by an occasional oozing of putrid brown matter
that stained their ceiling. They tried to paint it out and sanitize the
smell with disinfectants. But, the odor increased. And the oozing
continued. When the building foreman investigated the problem, Einhorn
refused to let the man check a closet from where the smell seemed to be
coming.
The city police got wind of this occurrence, they started wondering if
maybe – just maybe – it had something to do with a body they had
been unable to find for the last 18 months. That is, what might be left
of Holly Maddux, Einhorn's old flame, who had disappeared one day into
the ether.
Holly's disappearance hadn't made sense to her family in Tyler, Texas,
not from day one. She had been bright, beautiful and bouncy; and, while
not particularly overjoyed with the essentials of her life back in
September, 1997, she just didn't seem the kind of woman who would run
off to a deserted isle or join a left-wing group of dissidents as had
Patty Hearst. But, disappeared she had, Ira said back then. Gone to the
store to never returned.
The relationship between Einhorn and his live-in girlfriend had been, to
say the least, stormy over the five years they had been together. She
had been a fresh, blue-eyed former cheerleader-turned-Bryn Mawr
student-turned women's libber when they met in a college café. He,
being one of the politically vocal icons of the time, totally
overwhelmed her at first.
Physically, they were the odd couple. Einhorn, a hulk of a man, a
behemoth at 5' 10"and 230 pounds, wore a prophet's beard, went unbathed
and carried a gut that stretched the belly of his undersized, tie-dyed
T-shirts to beyond limit. She, in contrast, bore the carriage of a
ballerina, gliding as if on air, petite and whispy, of translucent skin
and tiny movements. Her sister later compared her to "a Michelle
Pfeiffer". Her smile glowed and brought a ray of sunshine that totally
drew attention away from the bear that shuffled beside her.
But, the Beauty found the Beast magnetic and his genius captivating. Her
ultra-conservative, church-going parents were aghast when she took up
with the paunchy, hairy liberal who defied the social standards, but
they cooly accepted it. She was already 25 years old when they decided
to share the Race Street apartment and beyond their control.
"Maddux had a younger brother and three younger sisters. When she
brought Ira home to Texas to meet the family, they were horrified,"
reports Time magazine, "Like a caveman, Ira began eating ravenously.
While the family said grace, he scratched and clawed at his poison ivy
blisters, and he treated Holly as if she were his personal maiden." Of
the visit, Holly's sister, Elisabeth recalls, "We concluded that he
basically came down there to try and promote a rift between Holly and my
father."
As the couples' lives together progressed, Holly slowly realized that he
was self-centered, abusive and even brutal. Strange for someone who
hated Vietnam for its violence and preached the essence of peace in man
and matter. Eventually, several months after the supper in Texas, Holly
confessed to Elisabeth that she wanted out of the mess.
"Ira had a dark side at odds with the values he professed," Newsweek
asserts. "It ranged from his overpowering ego to his domineering and
sometimes violent relationships with women. Yet he never paid a price
for this. During the live-and-let-live 1960s, Ira was almost never
called on to answer for his behavior. (Before he met Holly) there were
episodes in which he attacked women who had rejected him. He strangled
one of them until she fell unconscious. Several years later after
hitting a second woman over the head with a Coke bottle, he wrote in his
journal, 'Violence always marks the end of a relationship.'"
Maybe Holly remained with him so long because she was afraid to leave,
friends and family conjectured. He was known, after all, to have
threatened her. "Only slowly did Holly realize that she could overcome
Ira's dominating presence," Newsweek continues. "She decided to leave
him. But, Ira was in a frenzy at the idea of losing her."
Ira Einhorn (left) and Abbie Hoffman (Courtesy Philadelphia
Inquirer)Nevertheless, she left Philadelphia and moved to New York.
There, she began a romance with a man named Saul Lapidus who was kind
and gentle to her and represented every warm emotion that the Unicorn
lacked. Holly called Einhorn from Lapidus' apartment to sever their
relationship once and for all. When he heard this, and understood that
there would be no compromise this time, he raged. "Get over here now or
I'll throw your personal belongings onto the street!" he ranted. She
left for Philadelphia immediately. That was Sept. 9, 1977…
She was never seen again.
Not long afterwards, the Maddux family became apprehensive. Mrs.
Maddux's birthday had come and gone without a salutation from the
usually-considerate Holly. Not only was this was the first time she had
forgotten any relative's birthday, but she had never gone more than two
weeks without calling. When they called the Einhorn apartment to speak
to her, no one ever answered the phone. Finally, they notified the
Philadelphia police.
Ira was questioned, but, with a shrug, explained that she had gone out a
couple
of weeks previously to the neighborhood co-op to buy some tofu and
sprouts. "I never saw her again," he said, adding that they had been
having relationship problems and he assumed she had finally made good on
her promises to leave him. Most likely, because he was the Unicorn, cult
hero and activist, the police walked away, without a doubtful glance
backward.
Dissatisfied, the Madduxes hired two private detectives, former FBI
agents, to investigate their daughter's disappearance. They sought out
and interviewed dozens of people who knew both Holly and Einhorn, as
well as Einhorn himself, whom they found uncooperative. But, then they
uncovered a practical lead. Two Einhorn female associates stated that a
couple days after Holly's disappearance the Unicorn had sought their
help in disposing of a trunk that contained (what he referred to as)
"secret documents." The friends never helped him and as far as they were
concerned the trunk was probably still in Einhorn's possession. Now the
Philadelphia police grew interested.
In the meantime, the Unicorn had continued his normal existence, no
longer rallying crowds of bell bottoms and bandanas, but reworking his
1960s doctrines into the post-dissident climate. He accepted speaking
tours, taught alternative education classes and convinced the pinstriped
business world of the Fortune 500s.that their money could save the earth
through ecological awareness.
"(Einhorn) became a New-Age networker with CEOs…Sold them blueprints
of the future," exclaims Maralyn Lois Polak in the WorldNet Daily. "(He)
launched (Philadelphia's) Earth Day celebration. Ran for Mayor of
Philadelphia as a self-proclaimed Planetary Enzyme, a catalyst for
global change." Adds Newsweek, "His unmistakable wild laugh could often
be heard at his favorite restaurant, La Terrasse, near his alma mater,
the University of Pennsylvania, as he mesmerized some guy in a suit with
ideas from the edge – anything from quantum physics to New Age
management theories."
And, between it all, he won a semester-long fellowship to Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government.
But, on March 28, 1979, his world changed. Detectives put together the
strangely shaped little pieces of the Unicorn's puzzle: a missing
girlfriend who wanted out; a trunk with "secret documents" he needed to
get rid of; a lackluster team-playing effort with Maddux's private
investigators; unexplainable but rancid brown liquid seeping through his
floorboards; his refusal to let the janitor examine the source of the
smell.
Detective Chitwood and his men explored Einhorn's small apartment rather
hastily, going through general motions; but they were really building up
for what they all felt was the denouement: the closet. The closet. The
one he kept padlocked, and for which he lost a key to; the closet off
the screened-in porch that seemed to breed odd odors. As Chitwood
stepped before the door, he too now noticed the smell. A pungent smell.
A rotting smell.
While a photographer recorded each of his moves for legal purposes,
Chitwood snapped the lock with a crowbar. The closet wasn't deep. About
three feet deep. And the camera flashed again and again as the detective
yanked from the shelves one damaging piece of evidence after another.
Holly's suitcase, packed. Her purse, full, including her driver's
license and social security card. Boxes and bags of women's clothing and
effects. Then he saw what he came for.
"Michael Chitwood took off his suit jacket. He was now ready to open the
trunk," writes Steven Levy in The Unicorn's Secret. "The black steamer
trunk…was 4-1/2 feet long, 2-1/2 feet wide and 2-1/2 feet deep.
Chitwood opened the two side latches (then) the hasp-type latch in the
middle…He opened the trunk. The foul odor Chitwood noticed was now
much stronger…" He asked one of his men for a pair of rubber gloves.

Newspapers dating from September15, 1977, and earlier covered what was
underneath. A second layer consisted of packing styrofoam and plastic
Sears bags, crumpled up. "He slowly scooped the foam aside," Levy goes
on. "After three scoops, he saw something. At first he could not make
out what it was, because it was so wrinkled and tough. But then he saw
the shape of it – wrist, palm, and five fingers, curled and frozen in
their stillness…He dug just a little deeper, following the shriveled,
rawhide-like hand, down the wrist, saw an arm, still clothed in a
flannel shirt. And he had seen enough."

He turned to the Unicorn, whose expression was still blasé. "It looks
like we've found Holly's body," he said.

The Unicorn shrugged with an aire of indifference, as he did in the good
old days when the campus police caught him puffing on a joint. "You
found what you found."

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