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Room 354: Jeffrey Gorton Day 2: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

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Flanderson Media, LLC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to day 2 of The 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

Fifty-five-year-old Margarette Eby lived a rich and full life as a music professor at the University of Michigan. Margarette was well-liked by her students and coworkers and had several grown children of her own. Around 4:30 in the afternoon on November 9th, 1986, some of Margarette’s students arrived at the cottage to take her to a concert. When the students knocked on the door, they were met with silence. Finally, one of them tried the doorknob, and it was unlocked. They entered the cottage and found a grisly scene.

Margarette Eby was Flint, Michigan’s 56th homicide that year.

Five years later, in hotel room 354 in Romulus, Michigan, the wake-up calls from the front desk went unanswered. A 41-year-old flight attendant, Nancy Jean Ludwig Lud wig, from Minnetonka, Minnesota, had checked into room 354 around 9 P.M. the night before. Nancy had been a flight attendant for Northwest Airlines since 1976 and enjoyed her job quite a bit. It was about 12:50 in the afternoon when the housekeeper opened the door to a pitch-black room. The housekeeper walked over to the window and, upon opening the curtains, turned and discovered Nancy Jean Ludwig. She had been stabbed to death.

Both cases went cold until 2002 when new technology helped investigators find their killer, Jeffrey Wayne Gorton.

Join Cam and Jen as they discuss "Room 354: Jeffrey Gorton"

Thank you to our team:
Written and researched by Lauretta Allen
Listener Discretion by Edward October from https://www.youtube.com/c/octoberpodhomevideo
Executive Producer Nico Vitesse of https://theinkypawprint.com

Sources:
https://mdocweb.state.mi.us/otis2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumber=428571
https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gorton-jeffrey.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Gorton
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B017VDEE7I/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s2 (S2E8 of Your Worst Nightmare on ID “Fight or Flight”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTRvWZIpw-I It is also featured on the Forensics Files episode "Silk Stalkings." S2E25
https://thecinemaholic.com/nancy-ludwig-and-margarette-eby-murders-where-is-jeffrey-wayne-gorton-now/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/99449048/
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http://www.mycitymag.com/flint-crime-files-the-murder-of-margarette-ebydeath-in-the-gatehouse/
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Man-charged-in-1986-Flint-rape-murder-suspect-in-7049983.php
https://www.newspapers.com/image/361782412/?terms=Gorton&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/212380660/?terms=Gorton&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/270261770/?terms=Gorton&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/99874563/?terms=Nancy%20Ludwig&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/100242239/?terms=Nancy%20Ludwig&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/100220280/?terms=Nancy%20Ludwig&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/178818252/?terms=Nancy%20Ludwig&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/361750332/terms=Jeffrey%20Gorton%20murder&match=1


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Edward October, host of October Pod on YouTube.

0:05.0

Hear that jingle, jingle?

0:07.0

It could be Chris Kringle.

0:10.0

Or a home invader looking for an open window, a jilted lover looking for revenge, or a disgruntled

0:16.2

co-worker hoping to spike your eggnog with arsenic.

0:20.4

The girls of our true crime podcast are always on Santa's nice list, but the crimes they discuss are very naughty indeed.

0:29.0

The listener discretion is advised. Hey, Kim, how are you?

0:43.0

I'm good.

0:44.0

I'm doing.

0:45.0

I'm doing.

0:47.0

Hey Jen.

0:51.0

Hey Kim, how are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm doing great. It's the second day of Christmas.

0:57.0

Day two day two day day two.

1:00.0

Second day of nightmare before Christmas.

1:02.9

There you go.

1:03.5

Yeah, there you go.

1:04.5

I know.

1:05.5

I can't believe it's happening already.

1:06.2

It's just unreal.

1:08.4

10 days out, give or take for the big holiday.

1:11.8

For the big day when Sandy Closs comes down our chimneys.

1:15.0

Sanity Closs comes down the chimney. I'll tell you what. Well I'm excited, let's go.

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