Death By Champagne - EP 84 - Ira Einhorn Part 1

EP 84 - Ira Einhorn Part 1

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05/22/20 • 85 min

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Welcome back to Death by Champagne, the podcast here to keep you up at night! This week we bring you our next multi-part series. This one won’t be nearly as long as our last, we promise. In this episode we introduce our killer, Ira Einhorn, and he is a character. We dive into his life growing up a genius and end with his first attempt at graduate school. We also give you a brief history on the counterculture of the 60’s and 70’s, and how that environment gave Ira a platform to stand on. We also touch on his violent nature towards women, especially women who turn him down, that will become a pivotal point in our story in later episodes.
This episode contains foul language, discussions about misogyny, violence towards women, and a lot about the 60’s and 70’s. We’ll do our best to stay on track, but the bottles are popped!
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Sources The Unicorn’s Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius, Steven Levy, Jan 2, 1990 “Ira Einhorn’s Long Strange Trip”, Neil Gordon, Salon. Aug. 15, 2002“For Ira Einhorn, A Fate Worse Than Death”, David Lindorff, Salon. Oct. 19, 2002 “The Killer Who Spared My Mother”, Diana Whitney, Longreads, August 2018

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EP 83 - A Lot to be Mad About

Welcome back to Death by Champagne, the podcast here to keep you up at night! We have a lot for you this week. Liv starts us off with the murder of Laura Dickinson, history on the Clery Act and how Eastern Michigan University came to violate it. Mack takes us to Germany and brings us the terribly sad story of the abduction and murder of Ursula Herrmann. A case known as the German Madeleine Mccann.
This episode contains foul language, discussions about murder, rape, child abduction, child murder, and a lot of other things to be mad about. We’ll do our best to stay on track, but the bottles are popped!
Sources Laura Dickinson The Michigan Daily Listverse: 10 Horrific College Murders Wikipedia: Jeanne Clery Mlive Article by Dave Gershman LA Times Article by P.J. Huffstutter
Ursula Herrmann “The Girl in The Box: The Mysterious Crime That Shocked Germany”, Xan Rice, The Guardian Sept 24, 2019 “The Abduction and Murder of Ursula Herrmann”, Website by Michael Herrmann, brother of Ursula Herrmann Bernd Haider Website, Bavarian State Police Expert “No New Investigation in the Ursula Herrmann Case” Johann Osel, Suddeutsche Zeitung Aug 20 2019 Offene Wunde Julia Jüttner. (02. Mai 2020) SPIEGEL ONLINE.

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EP 85 - Ira Einhorn Part 2

Welcome back to Death by Champagne, the podcast here to keep you up at night! This week we bring you part two of our series covering America's Most Wanted, Ira Einhorn. We start off with a milestone in Ira’s guru life; Philadelphia’s Earth Day and follow him into the early 70’s. We then change course and dive into the life of Holly Maddux prior to her unfortunate chance encounter of meeting Ira. We end the episode pretty early into their tumultuous relationship, so much more to come on that later.
This episode contains foul language, discussions about misogyny, violence towards women, and a lot about the 60’s and 70’s. We’ll do our best to stay on track, but the bottles are popped!
Sources:
The Unicorn’s Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius, Steven Levy, Jan 2, 1990
“Ira Einhorn’s Long Strange Trip”, Neil Gordon, Salon. Aug. 15, 2002
“For Ira Einhorn, A Fate Worse Than Death”, David Lindorff, Salon. Oct. 19, 2002
“The Killer Who Spared My Mother”, Diana Whitney, Longreads, August 2018