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Two days later, she was gone and pat was dead. >> she stripped sunday night, danced sunday night at the outer limits and then she and her boyfriend leave town. >> police issued an all points bulletin for laura england. in the meantime, at the crime scene, investigators made some important discoveries. first, there were bloody boot prints throughout the house and they had been made at two different times and several hours apart. >> you could see that someone had exited the house and then, apparen...

After several years, the cold case unit of the michigan state police decided to take a second look at the murders of margarette eby and nancy ludwig. they thought that perhaps the original investigators might have missed something. dna testing revealed the same man killed both women, but they had no idea to whom the dna belonged. so they concentrated on the partial fingerprint from the faucet in margarette ebys bathroom. >> the crime lab was able to identify a small print on the faucet knob in t...

>> gorton denied he was ever inside margarette ebys home. when he did, investigators confronted him with fingerprint evidence. >> do you know where that fingerprint came from? >> no. >> it came from the bathroom in the upstairs bedroom where margarette eby was found. >> mm-hmm. >> the house that you said you had never been in. so, right now, jeff, theres no question that youre the person thats responsible. the question that needs to be answered is why and what can we do to help you? >> well, the...

Conduct in the first degree. >> jeffrey gorton was tried and convicted for the first-degree murder of both nancy ludwig and margarette eby. he will spend the rest of his life in prison. >> im afraid of him. im glad hes locked up for the rest of his life. he is the absolutely most frightening person that ive ever encountered because he was random, because he was so secretive, because he was so ordinary. >> walter tom henderson wrote about this case in "blood justice" and thinks there are other vi...

Supposed to be gated, but the gate was usually open. no guard there. >> there were no signs of forced entry, and no valuables were missing. margarette eby had a habit of leaving her doors unlocked and had no curtains on her windows. >> the estate had a number of people who came on regularly to do work, lawn care people, electricians, painters. >> after her murder, investigators found a partial fingerprint on her bathroom faucet, but it didnt match any known criminal offenders in the michigan dat...

>> today eddie and amanda are trying to make up for lost time. >> there you go. good. >> but theres no way to get back 30 lost years or even to put a value on something so priceless. still, a civil suit filed after lowerys exoneration attempts to right the wrong. after dna testing links daniel brewer to the rape of the 74-year-old victim, a bombshell that reveals the extent of the police departments grave error. riley county, kansas, settles with lowery for $7.5 million. >> this money has helped...

Home. three years passed. then an inmate at the local jail contacted police about his former roommate, bob johnson. >> someone who came forward and claimed that their roommate at that time in 86, johnson, had come home bloodied and said that he had killed somebody. >> johnsons mugshot looked remarkably like the composite drawing of the suspect. he didnt fit the fbi profile, but his background made him a likely suspect. >> his ex-wife told the investigators that mr. johnson had a significant drug...

>> in 1981 when the victim was raped, semen samples were taken from her body, clothing, and bed sheets. if those old samples can be found and if they havent been ravaged by time, scientists can perform dna testing. since lowery is out of prison, he cant demand a test. he must ask for permission from the current riley county prosecutor bill kennedy. >> i remember distinctly were out on the front steps of the courthouse having a five-minute conversation, and his response to my request was, if you ...

>> the hairs were dyed brown. the physical characteristics of the dye and the hairs themselves were consistent with hairs collected from ginger hayes. >> the hairs recovered from the tire rim exhibited the same microscopic characteristics as the known head hair samples coming from the victim. >> during police questioning, investigators noticed some dark brown stains on edwards shoes and clothing. those stains were blood, and the dna profile of that blood was compared to the blood found on the ti...

Independent lab for dna testing. this time, his dna did not match the biological evidence from the victims. >> i couldnt believe that we had the wrong person and that all the testing we had done had been wrong, and i wanted to, if it wasnt him, lets get him out of jail no matter what i thought of him. >> but what went wrong? investigators were determined to find out.