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Lot on the night of nancy ludwig's murder. and there was another surprise. gorton worked for a water sprinkler company that serviced the sprinkler system in margarette eby's yard. >> that same company had been to margarette eby's residence several days before her death in order for them to blow out the sprinkler lines for the season. >> but that could have been easily explained why his fingerprint would have been inside eby's home. >> you're working with metal sprinkler equipment and maybe there's a sharp edge and you slice your finger. you come in, you wash your hands, you leave a bloody fing...

Known criminal offenders in the national database. >> the dna match didn't tell us 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 p...

Others in michigan and the search turned up no matches. but improvements in computer technology led to the creation of an automated fingerprint identification system that compares thousands of fingerprints in seconds. when the print from the water faucet was placed into the new nationwide fingerprint database, the computer identified a matching print in florida. it matched the right thumbprint of 39-year-old jeffrey gorton, who was now living in a suburb of flint, michigan. >> he was a married man, wife and children, would appear from all the outward signs to be perfectly normal, your next-doo...

>> gorton denied he was ever inside margarette eby's 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, 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 because i didn't do it. i just need to see an attorney now, because i know i didn't...

Feet. i was screaming, i mean, blood-curdling screams. he ripped my slip off and he started running. >> after that assault, police found hundreds of pieces of women's underwear in his home. >> this is a dangerous guy. he's knocking women down, he's dragging them into bushes, he's stealing their clothes, he's breaking into their houses. this is someone who's pretty much out of control. >> gorton served some prison time for these assaults in florida before moving back to michigan. since both murder victims had been sexually assaulted and investigators had dna of the killer, they wanted to know w...