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...blond and wispy, tragically beautiful 30-year-old lover, Philadelphia police climbed the stairs to his shabby second-floor apartment. In a steamer trunk no more than a few feet from the bed where Einhorn slept, homicide detective Michael Chitwood found the mummified body of his girlfriend. Holly Maddux's skull had been fractured in six or more places under the angry force of a blunt object. Chitwood, now the police chief in Portland, Maine, remembers the dialogue to this day: "I turned to Einhorn and said, 'It looks like we found Holly.' And he said to me, 'You found...
...Helen (Holly) Maddux in 1972 at La Terrasse, the bistro where he held court but never picked up the tab. Maddux was described as a woman of such mesmerizing elegance, everything around her would fall away. "Michelle Pfeiffer has the same kind of fragile beauty," says Holly's sister Mary, 34. (Years later, the comparisons to his wife Annika would seem chilling - both she and Holly were described as delicate and ethereal. Both dancers, both seamstresses, both Earth Mothers...
...middle of the antiwar movement, Maddux had left Tyler, Texas, and a home ruled by a proud and disciplined World War II veteran to attend Bryn Mawr College, a select Main Line liberal arts school for women. By some accounts, she never recovered from the shock and drifted like a windblown leaf through relationships and jobs after graduation. Within days of their meeting, the Unicorn carried this wounded deer back to his lair, a squalid apartment near Penn...
...just a modified fast ball, but by putting pressure on the inside half of the ball, right-handed pitchers can aim at a left-handed hitter's body and still make it break over the plate, opposite from the movement of a curve or slider. The Atlanta Braves' Greg Maddux is the high priest of the pitch, but Reynolds estimates 30 or more hurlers are using it--with great success. "It's really deceptive," he says. "It's scaring hitters...
...Kevin Brown, Dodgers: Won with little run support last year; that should get better this time around 2. Randy Johnson, Diamondbacks: There's a bird-in-the-hand joke here somewhere, but we're not going to stoop so low 3. Greg Maddux, Braves: Injuries might cost him, but still capable of dominating the league...