July 20, 1996: Ex-hippie guru Einhorn in prison after extradition

1996 — After 20 years as a fugitive in Europe, ex-hippie guru Ira Einhorn returned to the United States in handcuffs and entered a prison cell where the convicted murderer will await a new trial for the 1977 bludgeoning death of his girlfriend Holly Maddux. The goateed 61-year-old radical, who once hobnobbed with 1960s luminaries including Abbie Hoffman, stepped uneasily down the gangway of a US government chartered jet shortly at Philadelphia International Airport. He walked tensely to a waiting US Marshal Service squad car wearing a blue bullet-proof vest. He was taken to Graterford state prison, a maximum security facility 40 km from Philadelphia in the farmlands of southeastern Pennsylvania. Einhorn, who claims he was framed by the CIA because of his anti-war activities, disappeared just before he was scheduled to go to trial in 1981. He was discovered living in France with his Swedish-born wife, Annika, only four years ago.

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