On This Date in Minnesota History: February 17

February 17, 1991 – NWA “flight attendant Nancy Ludwig was bound, gagged, raped and her throat slashed in a room at the Hilton Airport Inn near Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, [Mich.].” Ludwig lived in Minnetonka, Minn., and “had worked for the airline since 1976.”¹

Jeffrey Wayne Gorton was convicted in 2002 of Ludwig’s murder. “He later pled no contest to charges that he raped and murdered a professor and provost of the University of Michigan-Flint, Margarette Eby, on November 9, 1986.

Gorton was tracked down through the matching of a semen sample taken from the Ludwig crime scene with a semen sample taken from the Eby crime scene. Gorton had left latent fingerprints at the Eby crime scene, and these fingerprints eventually were matched with Gorton, which enabled the Michigan State Police to learn the killer's identity.”<sup>2 

1</sup>http://www.airlinecrew.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?163459-NANCY-LUDWIG-murder-quot-suspect-quot-ARRESTED!

²http://www.serialkillercalendar.com/Brief-Bio-of-JEFFREY-GORTON.html

Jeffrey Wayne Gorton

http://www.murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gorton-jeffrey.htm

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