and all were dead ends. margarette eby s family, as well as nancy ludwig s, 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 didn t 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 designer footwear. wherever i go, the paparazzi capture my every move. yes, i am rich. that s why i drink the champagne of beers. rheumatoid arthritis like me. and you re talking to a rheumatologist about a biologic, this is humira.
featured gorton modeling women s 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 women s 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 re attracted to? mostly just the hose, i guess. do you still feel those strong fetish desires to this day? i mean, is that something that s yeah, i ve been seeing a psychiatrist for it for a little while while i was on my own. 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.
back in 1986, flint police could only compare the prints to 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-door neighbor. gorton lived just a short distance from margarette eby and owned a gold monte carlo automobile like the one a
witness saw in the hotel parking 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 easily explained why his fingerprint would have been found 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 fingerprint. it s not a reason to go to jail. you haven t done anything. you just left a bloody fingerprint. gorton s fingerprint was in the florida database because of numerous arrests for attacks on women. he actually had assaulted several of them by walking up behind them, knocking them physically to the ground, and
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 suggested, that jeffrey gorton had sexually assaulted and presumably killed nancy ludwig and margarette eby. prosecutors think gorton entered margarette eby s home through an unlocked door and waited for her. when she returned from a dinner