Word: dibenedetto
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...year Einhorn fled, DiBenedetto became a father, and it gave deeper meaning to his telephone conversations with Holly's parents. Moved by their grief, he became obsessed with the case. Especially after Ira's friend Harry Jay Katz baited him, "You'll never catch Ira. He's too smart...
...Working from a closet-size cubicle on the eighth floor of the D.A.'s office in downtown Philadelphia, the deceptively low-key DiBenedetto, now 49, gradually shrank behind a growing wall of cardboard boxes - his Einhorn files. He never had the luxury of devoting full attention to Einhorn, but it was always a priority. Although he sat at his desk, he worked from inside Einhorn's mind, having studied every word in the 63 different 150-page journals Einhorn left behind. Among the lines that stopped him, revealing the cold depths of Einhorn's darkness, were these: "Sadism - sounds nice...
...DiBenedetto dredged up the names of literally hundreds of Einhorn's international coterie of friends and true believers, and he went after every last one of them. The mere thought of the task was daunting, but DiBenedetto, an amateur sculptor and book collector, has no problem with long stories. He owns multiple copies of the Iliad - six or eight, he can't remember which. Einhorn didn't have some burned-out patronage stiff after him. The Unicorn was being tracked by a hard-boiled, law-and-order renaissance...
...phone and fax, DiBenedetto pursued leads through England, back to Ireland and then to Wales. It took four years for another break; again, it was from Weaire. He spotted Einhorn in the Trinity cafeteria. Confronted, Einhorn insisted his name was Ben Moore. Weaire ran for the phone and called DiBenedetto. An extradition treaty was in place by then, but by the time Irish police moved in, the Unicorn was gone. Again...
...like on TV, where you just pick up the phone, call Interpol, and they're there in two hours. With the red tape, it takes forever to make something happen," DiBenedetto says. So whenever Philadelphia cops went to Europe on vacation, DiBenedetto begged them to do some legwork for him. He even used his own vacation time to knock on doors. Hank Harrison, a Grateful Dead biographer and the father of Courtney Love, had lent Einhorn a few dollars in Britain. But neither Harrison nor British rock star Peter Gabriel, twice visited by Einhorn, knew he was an accused murderer...