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And all were dead ends. margarette ebys family, as well as nancy ludwigs, were losing faith in the idea that the killer would be apprehended. >> after ten years, i guess i thought we had done just about everything we could. to this day, it remains a mystery to me why -- why it didnt work. new ich. on the grounds of my estate, i hob nob with the glitterati and play equestrian sports. out on the veranda, we enjoy finger sandwiches and other assorted dainties. i wear nothing less than the finest de...

Featured gorton modeling womens underwear, as well as footage he took of women without their knowledge. >> he was just very strange. very strange. you kind of wonder what went wrong with him that made him behave like that. >> when police brought gorton in for questioning, they asked him about his interest in stealing womens underwear. >> is there one particular item of clothing that you were fond of? is it -- be it hose or bras or panties? um, sleepwear? is there any one particular item that you...

Witness saw in the hotel parking lot on the night of nancy ludwigs murder. and there was another surprise. gorton worked for a water sprinkler company that serviced the sprinkler system in margarette ebys yard. >> that same company had been to margarette ebys residence several days before her death in order for them to blow out the sprinkler lines for the season. >> but that could have easily explained why his fingerprint would have been found inside ebys home. >> youre working with metal sprink...

Margarette ebys family, as well as nancy ludwigs, were losing faith in the idea that the killer would be apprehended. >> after ten years, i guess i thought we had done just about everything we could. to this day, it remains a mystery to me why -- why it didnt work. ♪

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...

Shortly after his wife was brutally murdered in a detroit hotel room, art ludwig received a curious letter. it was from a man who had read about nancys murder in the newspaper and said her death sounded strikingly similar to his own mothers murder five years earlier. >> and i read the letter, and yes, it did seem like there were some similarities. insofar they were both women about the same size, same appearance, so on and so forth. >> the victim was 55-year-old margarette eby, a music professor...

That was our job, to find him. >> but it wouldnt be easy. margarette ebys murder took place many years earlier, and nancy ludwig was murdered in detroit, over 75 miles away from flint. but investigators suspected that the killer drove a monte carlo automobile and had access to twine used by landscapers. the hotel employees boyfriend who owned the monte carlo had an alibi for the night of nancy ludwigs murder, and he was no longer considered a suspect. >> most of the times, killers are pretty stu...

>> count i you did while in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of criminal sexual 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. >>...

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...

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 degrade dna a little bit faster is a fair amount of heat. >> there were more than enough epithelial cells on the cup for testing, but this caused