As expected, Ira Einhorn testified at his murder trial today and denied killing his girlfriend Holly in 1977. Einhorn testfied for four hours and faces cross-examination tomorrow.

"Former hippie guru Ira Einhorn, who once described himself as a planetary enzyme, took the witness stand at his murder trial on Monday to deny killing his girlfriend Holly Maddux in a fit of rage 25 years ago."

"In a packed Philadelphia courtroom, a smiling but sometimes nervous-looking Einhorn told jurors that his stormy romance with the 30-year-old Bryn Mawr graduate never reached full flower because of his rampant appetite for other women.
"I think we loved each other very much. But we had a very difficult time creating the context in which our love could flower," said the counter-culture leader who helped launch the annual Earth Day observance in 1970."

A not-so-well-known fact: Ira's first defense attorney following his arrest in 1979 was Arlen Specter, who is currently a Republican Senator from Pennsylvania.