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>> by looking at the crime scene photographs, it was amazing. the body was positioned almost the same way, the wounds were almost the same. >> and security at her home was as lax as nancy ludwig's hotel. >> the gatehouse where she stayed at this beautiful estate had its own entrance that was 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, law...

Who that person was. that was our job, to find him. >> but it wouldn't be easy. margarette eby's 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 employee's boyfriend who owned the monte carlo had an alibi for the night of nancy ludwig's murder, and he was no longer considered a suspect. >> most of the times, killers are pretty stupid, and we catch them for some pretty stupid reason. he was very clever, v...

Evidence of sexual assault. but at the time, dna testing was still in its infancy. >> in 1986, we weren't even online. our state was not doing dna testing. although it was beginning to be done in other places, there were only a few select laboratories that did it, and it was a very, very expensive process. >> but by the time nancy ludwig was murdered, dna testing was routine. and to the surprise of investigators, dna testing proved what margarette eby's son knew instinctively, that the same man killed both women. >> i thought we had our case solved. and he said, well, the good news is we've ma...

A trophy. >> 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. >> i'm afraid of him. i'm glad he's locked up for the rest of his life. he is the absolutely most frightening person that i've ever encountered because he was random, because he was so secretive, because he was so ordinary. >> author tom henderson wrote about this case in "blood justice" and thinks there are o...

>> 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, there's no question that you're the person that's responsible. the question that needs to be answered is, why? and what can we do to help you? >> well, there is no why, 'cause i didn't do it. so -- i just need to see an attorney now. because i know i didn't do anything and i need to -- >> when gorton asked for a lawyer, the interview stopped, but not before they collected his dna sample. dna testing confirmed what the first test s...