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Your excellent article "The Search for the Unicorn" [AMERICAN SCENE, Sept. 29] told the public what the infamous hippie Ira Einhorn did to my sister Holly and how he has been on the run since 1981, hiding and laughing at the rest of us. Our father parachuted into Normandy on June 6, 1944, and was one of the first Americans to help liberate France from Nazi tyranny. Our mother was stationed in France with the Red Cross. Do the French now repay these real debts by releasing my sister's murderer? The spirits of Holly and my parents...
JUSTICE DELAYED. For IRA EINHORN, 57, hippie guru and convicted murderer who was run to ground last June after a 16-year manhunt (TIME, Sept. 29, 1997); by a French appeals court, which said it would rule on the U.S.'s extradition request on Nov. 4; in Bordeaux, France...
...Einhorn, wearing blue jeans and a tunic made by Flodin, strolled into the Bordeaux courtroom Sept. 2 as if there had never been a body in the trunk or a pack of hounds on his trail or 16 years on the lam. He looked healthy, untroubled, his face ruddy. He played with a silver goatee and casually acknowledged Flodin, who smiled from the back of the courtroom, wearing a bright layered get-up that looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech...
Tricaud argued that sending Einhorn home to America would violate his civil liberties. The French have trials in absentia, but someone so convicted in France gets a new trial once captured. Extradite Einhorn, and he could be put to death with no chance to defend himself, Tricaud wrongly told the judges. (Einhorn's sentence was life in prison, not death.) In a later interview, an adamant Tricaud described the case as an opportunity for the French to "give the United States a lesson in human rights...
STEVE LOPEZ traveled to France to follow the trail of hippie murderer Ira Einhorn. But the story begins in Philadelphia, scene of the crime and home to both its writer and D.A. Richard DiBenedetto, who spent 16 years tracking down his man. Lopez's dozen conversations with DiBenedetto yield a mesmerizing story that takes you inside the mind of the hunter and the hunted. The author of The Sunday Macaroni Club, a fiercely funny crime novel that features a similarly crusading attorney, Lopez pursued his own quest. It took him to Einhorn's lawyers in Paris, the murderer's former...