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This file concerns the Philadelphia murder prosecution of Ira Einhorn in the death of Helen Holly Maddux. The FBI Laboratory received physical evidence from Philadelphia police in April 1979 for latent-print, hair, blood, body-fluid, and related forensic examinations. The records include a laboratory worksheet and police submission letter listing a trunk, its contents, samples from Einhorn and Maddux, and materials recovered from Einhorn's apartment, as well as January 1980 court paperwork seeking FBI laboratory agent William McGinnis's testimony and records. A 1999 permanent-top-serial notice warns that one or more FBI laboratory examiners in the investigation had been criticized in the Justice Department inspector general's 1997 laboratory review.

FBI file number: 66F-HQ-A1211968 | Documents span: 1979-1999 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Ira Einhorn, Helen Holly Maddux, William McGinnis, Robert L. Fischer, Paul Ribner
Subjects: murder investigation, FBI Laboratory, forensic evidence, Philadelphia, OIG laboratory review