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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 nancy's murder in the newspaper and said her death sounded strikingly similar to his own mother's 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 living in flint, michigan, about an hour's drive from detroit. she was found stabbed to death in ...

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, very clever and very t...

>> 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 other victim...

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 eby's bathroom. >> the crime lab was able to identify a small print on the faucet knob in the sink of that bathroom. the faucet knob was actually taken off, taken back to the crime lab, wher...

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, there's 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