Thanks to Debby Witt for the reminder that loathsome Earth Day co-founder, and longtime fugitive, Ira Einhorn composted his ex-girlfriend.

As it happens, in the fall of 1978 — just one year after his murder of Holly Maddux and some months before her body was discovered — Einhorn had the honor of being a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. I was a freshman at Harvard that same fall. My one memory of Einhorn comes from a Kennedy School event for Stansfield Turner, then the director of the CIA. In the Q&A session with the audience after Turner’s speech, Einhorn — who looked like a corpulent version of Charles Manson — asked some bizarre and unintelligible conspiracy-mongering question. Turner, with a very puzzled look on his face, was obviously wondering, “Who is this kook?” I’m guessing that Turner was surprised to encounter Einhorn at the after-event reception with the Institute of Politics fellows.

Addendum (4/23): Somehow I missed the fact that Einhorn (as his Wikipedia entry puts it) later claimed that Maddux “had been killed by CIA agents who framed him for the crime because he knew too much about the agency’s paranormal military research.”

(For more from National Review’s files on Einhorn, see this piece by John J. Miller on how — as the subheadline colorfully puts it — Arlen Specter “helped a murderer skip bail” and item 3 here from Jonah Goldberg on how Einhorn “became a hero in France because he was willing to badmouth the U.S.”)