Milestones Jun. 30, 1997

ARRESTED. IRA EINHORN, 57, peace-spouting hippie guru who escaped to Europe 16 years ago after fatally beating his former girlfriend and stuffing her mummified remains in a trunk; at his home in Champagne-Mouton, France. A favorite of Philadelphia's intelligentsia in the 1970s, Einhorn was convicted of first-degree murder in absentia in 1993. He faces extradition.

SENTENCED. JESSE TIMMENDEQUAS, 36, child molester convicted of raping and killing seven-year-old Megan Kanka; to death by injection; in Trenton, N.J.

DIED. LAWRENCE PAYTON, 59, Motown master of harmony who sang with the indestructible Four Tops; of liver cancer; in Southfield, Mich. What began as a...

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