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Girlfriend describes Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021008/ap_wo_en_po/us_einhorn_2 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021008/ap_wo_en_po/us_einhorn_2 Former Einhorn girlfriend describes 1966 attack Tue Oct 8, 6:04 PM ET By JOANN LOVIGLIO, Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA - One of Ira Einhorn's former girlfriends testified that he smashed her over the head with a bottle and nearly strangled her after she told him they were through. The testimony came Tuesday in the final day of the prosecution's case against Einhorn, a former hippie guru charged with bludgeoning his girlfriend, Holly Maddux, in September 1977 because she wanted to break up with him. Her mummified corpse was found in a steamer trunk in his closet 18 months after he said she went to the store and never returned. Judith Sabot was a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania when she met Einhorn in 1965. They fell in love and had an intense four-month relationship, which she then sought to end. "My feelings had started to change. I was feeling very silenced; I found Ira to be more domineering and manipulative," she testified, citing his efforts to have her sever ties with her family because he said "families were outmoded" and she was "doomed to a boring and ordinary life" if she did not. She testified he tried for months to win her back and she met him at a friend's apartment in March 1966 to tell him she would never change her mind about a reunion. As she returned from a corner store, Einhorn attacked her, Sabot said. "Ira came out from behind the door and smashed me over the head with a bottle; I was bleeding and I reeled across the room," she testified. "He came at me at least a couple more times. I was twisting to get out of the way. I fell to the floor. ... He then dropped the bottle and came at me with his hands and started to choke me with his thumbs over my windpipe." Sabot, who was 20 at the time and needed stitches to close her head wound, said she thought her life was over. "I felt and believed I was dying," she said, choking back tears. "I believed that this was it. But then he stopped and he was gone." Einhorn, 62, likely will take the stand Thursday and testify that the CIA (news - web sites) killed Maddux and framed him for the murder because of his research into "psychic warfare." Maddux suffered six crushing blows to the head. Einhorn fled on the eve of his 1981 trial and was tracked down in 1997 living in a French village. A French appeals court allowed his extradition after receiving assurances that Einhorn's 1993 conviction in absentia would be vacated. The 1970s counterculture figure was returned to the United States in July 2001. Defense attorney William Cannon said Sabot's testimony was "devastating" to his case. "I thought (the jurors) were deeply moved by it, and were wondering if what happened to her happened to Holly," Cannon said, but added that his client was a "changed man" by the time he met Maddux six years later. Also testifying Tuesday was Michael Hoffman, a retired English professor who knew Einhorn during their student days at the University of Pennsylvania and recounted what Einhorn told him about the assault on Sabot as well as a similar attack in 1962 when his then-girlfriend tried to end their relationship. He said he watched that woman's face change color as he choked her, Hoffman testified. Einhorn's views on violence included the belief that "in order to understand who we were, we had to confront the violence within ourselves," Hoffman testified. He also read one of Einhorn's diary entries that stated: "To kill what you love when you can't have it seems so natural." The defense starts its case Wednesday.

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