A Missing Link: The Murders of Margarette Eby and Nancy Ludwig

About this episode

This episode explores the connection between the murders of Margarette Eby and Nancy Ludwig through family intuition and DNA evidence.

Two women. Two different lives. Two crime scenes five years apart that, at first, seemed completely unrelated. In 1986, Margarette Eby was murdered inside her secluded Flint, Michigan home. In 1991, Northwest Airlines flight attendant Nancy Ludwig was attacked and killed inside a hotel room near Detroit Metropolitan Airport. For years, the cases remained separate. That was until Margarette’s son, Marc Eby, noticed similarities that he could not ignore and reached out to Nancy’s husband, Art Ludwig. In this episode, we discuss how one family member’s gut instinct, years of unanswered questions, and eventually DNA evidence connected both murders to Jeffrey Wayne Gorton. This case raises a haunting question: how often does intuition see the truth before the evidence can prove it?

Topics covered

• true crime
• murder investigation
• DNA evidence
• intuition
• unsolved cases

Keywords

• Margarette Eby
• Nancy Ludwig
• Jeffrey Wayne Gorton
• murder
• DNA evidence
• intuition
• cold cases

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Flint, Michigan, Detroit Metropolitan Airport

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