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ARRESTED. IRA EINHORN, counterculture guru and peripatetic fugitive; for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend in Philadelphia; in France. The former Harvard lecturer fled to Europe just before the start of his 1981 trial for killing Holly Maddux. He was convicted in absentia in 1993 and arrested last year. But a French court refused to allow his extradition, citing a lack of provisions in Pennsylvania state law--since added--that would grant him a new trial...
...After [June] I got nothing from my House or from Harvard--no e-mails, no phone calls," he says. After leaving messages in July asking what was going on, Harlow assumed House administrators worked the situation out themselves, arranging for his housing in absentia...
...time Oscar record, just as "Titanic"'s 14 nominations drew even with "All About Eve." So the movie broke no new ground, and neither did Cameron: "I'm the king of the world!" he screamed in acceptance -- stealing the line from his leading man in absentia, Leonardo DiCaprio...
Kachadorian was indicted in absentia in February, he said...
RELEASED. IRA EINHORN, 57, a.k.a. the Unicorn, elusive hippie guru convicted in absentia of a 1977 Philadelphia slaying; by a French court that rejected a U.S. extradition request; in Bordeaux. French police finally netted the Unicorn last June, but the three-judge panel set him free on a technicality: French law, unlike that of the U.S., automatically grants retrials to suspects convicted in absentia...