EARTH DAY

It is a shame, but when I think of Earth Day I think of Holly Maddux and Ira Einhorn, self named The Unicorn.

He claims to be the father of Earth Day.

The Philly P. D. call him a murderer.

Holly Maddux was a young, beautiful, intelligent and on the brink of a great life unfortunately she met and was mesmerised by Einhorn.

On March 28, 1979 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 indifference, as he did in the good old days when the campus police caught him puffing on a joint. "You found what you found."

The cat and mouse game was on. After much wrangling, maneuvering and good old fashioned police work Einhorn was captured in Southern France.

The evidence against Einhorn was just too strong and he knew it. So did the jury, who found him guilty of first-degree murder in December 2002.

He was sentenced to life in prison with out the possibility of parole. His new home in Houtzdale Prison in Clearfield County, PA.

Happy Earth Day Holly.

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You may wonder why I followed this story so closely and for so long. I had a lot in common with Holly. She was just a little older than me, southern and trusting because she had been brought up in a Christian home with lots of love and support.

I was lucky and escaped from my own version of the Unicorn.

Happy Earth Day Holly.