Earth Day & Ira Einhorn, the Unicorn Killer

On April 22, 1970 over 20 million people took to the streets over the lack of regulation of corporations’ pollution. Since then, Earth Day has been an annual chance to motivate citizens to do something good for the planet. Often people think that Ira Einhorn had something to do with the creation of Earth Day because of an iconic picture taken at a rally on that first day in April of 1970.

In the 1960s and early 70s, Ira Einhorn was known as an academic expert on the counterculture movement. However, he was hiding a dark side--one that abused the women that he was supposed to love. One woman, Holly Maddux, would not be able to escape him or his apartment, and 18 months after her disappearance, a Philadelphia detective would find her mummified remains shoved in a steamer trunk.

Join us this week as we go on a wild dumpster ride through from the 1970s to just this month as we talk about Ira Einhorn, the Unicorn Killer.

 

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