Earth Day Story (reprinted from my original story from April 22, 2012)

      In honor of Earth Day, I am going to tell you my favorite Earth Day story.  It did not originate with me, but I have checked the dates and it is certainly true.  Earth Day began on April 22, 1970 in Philadelphia.  Though probably not the founder, Ira Einhorn, something of a 1960s hippie, counterculturist, and left wing radical, nonetheless claimed to be. Ira soon became a favorite of the limousine liberals in Philadelphia and called himself the "Unicorn"as Einhorn is German for one horn.  He managed to eke out a living through his connection to Earth Day as a consultant.  He was popular enough that Holly Maddox, a local model, moved in with him in 1972.  In 1977, having tired of Einhorn, Holly decided that her career was going nowhere in Philadelphia and decided to take up an offer and move to New York City, where there were many more opportunites.  Ira did not take kindly to this, but Ms Maddox left anyway. Having achieved some success in Gotham, Ms. Maddox returned to Philadelphia at Einhorn's request to pick up the remainder of her stuff.  While in Philadelphia, she disappeared.  The police investigated and Ira told them that she went to the drug store for some cigarettes and never returned.  He thought she had decided to go back to New York.  The investigation went nowhere until eighteen months later,  when Ira's neighbors reported a terrible odor emanating from his apartment.  That's when the police discovered her body in a steamer trunk in Ira's closet and arrested him.  He was then dubbed the "Unicorn Killer" in the local media.  Einhorn claimed the FBI stashed the body in his apartment.  Barbara Bronfman, a limousine liberal friend, posted the 10% of his forty thousand dollar bail that had been reduced from two million dollars and attorney and future Pennsylvania senator Arlen Spector represented him.  Before the trial, but after the arraignment,  Einhorn skipped bail and disappeared.  He was tried in absentia and convicted of a brutal murder in1992. Seventeen years after he disappeared he was found living in France and married to a Swedish woman.  He fought extradition for five years, but was eventually returned to Philadelphia, retried and convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.  Ironically the day of his arrest, March 28, 1979, coincides with the date of the worst nuclear disaster in American history less than one hundred miles away at Three Mile Island.

      How many people died at Three Mile Island? The answer is none.  How ironic, the man who claimed to have founded Earth Day killed more people than the worst nuclear disaster in American history.  By the way, I corrected Wikipedia on the date and gave them the reference to Three Mile Island confirmed by references in the Philadelphia Inquirer.