A Drexel student who lived in the apartment below Einhorn's recalled a "blood-curdling scream" and heavy banging one night in the fall of 1977. In a neighborhood of frat houses and party hounds, the student downstairs thought nothing of it. But the odor that followed within weeks was impossible to ignore, as was the putrid, dark-brown liquid that oozed down through the ceiling from Einhorn's apartment. The tenant and his roommate tried unsuccessfully to clean it away, then called the landlord, who called plumbers. Einhorn stubbornly refused to let the workers into a padlocked closet just off his bedroom.
The private detectives turned it all over to police, and on March 28, 1979, at 9 a.m., homicide detective Chitwood knocked on Einhorn's door. Once inside, he headed straight for the locked closet. He pried it open with a crowbar and immediately smelled a "faint decaying smell, like a dead animal." Next he sprang the lock on the steamer trunk. The newspapers inside were dated August and September 1977. Under them was Styrofoam packing material. Chitwood scooped through it until he came to something he couldn't identify at first, and then it was clear. A hand. A human hand. He scooped some more, and as he did, Holly Maddux slowly emerged. Einhorn stood by, impassive.
Democrat Arlen Specter's role:
Einhorn was a celebrated leftist and is credited with helping found Earth Day. He also had strong ties to Philadelphia elites — a group of people Specter was cultivating for his prospective Senate campaign when he agreed to become Einhorn's lawyer.
At an arraignment, the government demanded a $100,000 bail for Einhorn. Before Judge William Marutani, Specter called this "excessively excessive" and insisted on a reduced figure. Marutani wondered if Einhorn might "split for parts unknown." He mentioned Norway as a possible destination. "I have to disagree with your last statement," replied Specter. "Anybody is as likely to go to Norway as anybody else." Through the future senator's efforts, Einhorn's bail was dropped to $40,000. The accused man only had to put out ten percent of it in cash to secure his release.
As things turned out, Specter was proven correct: Einhorn didn't flee for Norway. He went to Sweden instead, slipping out of the United States shortly before his murder trial was scheduled to begin. Einhorn remained a fugitive until 1997, when police found him living in France under a phony name with his Swedish wife. He was eventually extradited to the United States. In 2002, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
twokats wins, McMahon is still the dumb partisan he was when I quit reading him last time. See ya.
Posted by: FirstnameLast Name | 05/12/2009 at 09:45 AM
I'm just saying that he is the same person with the same history, but, as far as I can tell, this particular story didn't matter until he changed parties.
Posted by: twokats | 05/01/2009 at 09:19 AM
Dave is being sarcastic, by the way, just in case someone couldn't figure it out :)
Posted by: Maven | 04/30/2009 at 11:31 PM
Of course not! Conservative bloggers have NEVER been critical of Arlen Specter in the past!
Posted by: Dave M | 04/30/2009 at 06:00 PM
If Arlen Specter had remained a Republican, I probably would have done a post about Phil Spector instead.
Posted by: Tom McMahon | 04/30/2009 at 01:07 PM
Does it really matter, twokats? Specter is a self-serving whore who matters not what's best for the public but instead what's best for himself.
Posted by: DoonMan | 04/30/2009 at 11:32 AM
Would you have posted this if he were still a Republican?
Posted by: twokats | 04/30/2009 at 08:41 AM