Einhorn Case To Hit National Tv Show

Posted: January 13, 1998

So far, the star of the show has not cooperated, but the shooting of a television documentary on convicted murderer Ira Einhorn will start in Philadelphia next week.

The Canadian film company MicroTainment is making an hourlong documentary on the sensational trunk murder for the Arts & Entertainment Channel program, ``Investigative Reports,'' hosted by Bill Kurtis.

A film crew has gone to Paris to shoot scenes of the Bordeaux region of France where the fugitive is living. There are hopes that he will participate in the project, documentary producer Stewart Samuels said.

Next Monday, the crew comes to Philadelphia for a week of interviews and filming. Among those to be interviewed and filmed are Michael Chitwood, the former city detective who led the investigation and Dr. Halbert Fillinger, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on the mummified remains of Einhorn's girlfriend Holly Maddux.

There will also be interviews with prosecutors in the City Hall courtroom where Einhorn was tried in absentia in 1993 and convicted of the bludgeon death of Maddux.

The film crew will be staying at the Holiday Inn Express Midtown, at 13th and Walnut streets. The producer would like to be contacted at the hotel by anyone with photos or film of Einhorn during his days as Philadelphia's most well-known hippie.

Einhorn was captured in France last June after 16 years on the lam. But a French court refused to return the self-described guru to America, and he was freed while prosecutors appeal.

Producer Samuels said the case became nationally famous after Einhorn's capture. ``We're going to give it a very in-depth treatment,'' he said.

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