Article from 2002 ReTrial

Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:23:04 -0700
By Michael A. Fletcher

"If Einhorn has changed with the times, so too, has his defense. His prominent friends have long abandoned him, and nobody seems to be buying the idea of a government conspiracy against him.

In Einhorn's new trial, Cannon plans to focus on the holes he sees in the state's case, which, he acknowledges, is substantial. "The victim's body was found in the defendant's apartment. It is the major hurdle," Cannon said. "There is circumstantial evidence of major dimension."

Still, Cannon promises to present three witnesses -- including a former Philadelphia police officer -- who will testify that they saw the 30-year-old Maddux alive after September 1977, when prosecutors allege Einhorn killed her. He also plans to point out that Einhorn's fingerprints were not found on several boxes piled on top of the trunk in which Maddux's body was found. Cannon adds that no traces of Maddux's decomposing body were found in a rug and floorboards below the trunk in two of the three rounds of laboratory tests ordered by prosecutors."

And now for the toughest part of the story. Read below and insert theory as Fletcher does:

"Maddux left Einhorn in Europe and returned to the United States. Eventually, she met a new beau. When Einhorn returned home, he called her repeatedly. Finally, prosecutors say, Maddux told Einhorn that she wanted to end their relationship. He demanded that she come back to the apartment, prosecutors say, threatening to throw her belongings into the street. When she returned, she and Einhorn went to the movies. After that, she disappeared. "