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The Murder Book: A True Crime Podcast
Each week, The Murder Book will present unsolved cases, missing persons, notorious crimes, controversial cases, and serial killers, exploring details of the crime scenes and the murderer's childhood. Some episodes are translated into Spanish as well. The podcast is produced and hosted by Kiara Coyle.
The Murder Book: A True Crime Podcast
Jeffrey Gordon's Deadly Secret: The Final Chapter of a Murderer's Trial
The chilling final chapter of Jeffrey Gordon's murder trial unfolds through the eyes of an unlikely hero—a former flight attendant turned law student who helps bring justice to her slain colleague. In a courtroom run by women, a monster's mask finally slips.
When Cori Reyes, an intern with the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, volunteered to assist with the Nancy Ludwig murder case, she brought a unique perspective. Having worked as a flight attendant for years, Reyes had been trained using Ludwig's murder as a cautionary tale—"there's someone out there preying on flight attendants." Now she had a chance to help catch that predator.
The scientific evidence presented by forensic expert Link Helton was devastating: DNA matching Gordon to the crime scene with odds of 97 quadrillion to one. As she testified, Helton kept stealing glances at Gordon, her eyes sending a silent message: the DNA doesn't lie. The graphic autopsy details brought jurors to tears as the medical examiner described 45 separate wounds inflicted on Ludwig—evidence of a frenzied, prolonged attack that contradicted Gordon's story of innocence.
But the most shocking moment came behind the scenes. When defense attorney Tank confronted his client about inconsistencies in his story, Gordon underwent a terrifying transformation. According to Tank, Gordon "went crazy," ranting about the women in the courtroom and confessing to killing both Ludwig and another victim. "He would kill all these kinds of women, just like he had killed these two," Tank later revealed. The mountain man persona Gordon had maintained crumbled, revealing the monster beneath.
The jury took less than two hours to find Gordon guilty on all counts. Evidence later emerged suggesting Gordon kept coded souvenirs from his victims, including underwear labeled "Nel North"—likely referring to Nancy Ludwig from Northwest Airlines. Though now serving life without parole, Gordon's shadow still looms large over those who encountered him. Prosecutor Elizabeth Walker admits, "He's the only man I've ever been afraid of. To this day when I go home, I pull my shades. I never used to."
What drives someone to such calculated brutality? And how many other victims might be out there, their cases still unsolved? Listen now to understand how justice finally caught up with a predator who thought he was untouchable.
Welcome to the Murder Book. I'm your host, kiara, and this is the last episode of Jeffrey Gordon's Deadly Secrets. Let's begin. So now Jeffrey is finally getting his day in court, and in this courtroom was filled and run by women, which is what you will later say drove Gordon nuts. There was one who had a vested interest in seeing that Ludwig's killer was brought to justice, and it was. Her name was Cori Reyes. Cori Reyes was an intern with the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. She was a third year law student, set to graduate from Wayne State the following spring and take her bar exam nearly a year after the start of Gordon's trial. Reyes was also a former flight attendant and, after being hired at both of her airline jobs, first with the Detroit North Hills Carrier Spirit Airlines, and then with American Airlines she will be trained in security measures and classes that used the murder of Nancy Ludwig as the prime example and, according to Reyes, nancy's murder was something that affected the entire airline industry. She said that they told them there's someone out there preying on flight attendants, and he's on the loose.
Speaker 1:Reyes had been a University of Michigan grad, majoring in comparative literature, who decided she wanted to see the world for a few years before she got serious about her adulthood. After flying for four years, she took a leave of absence from American to start law school. She was interning at the prosecutor's office in February of 2002 when a buzz went around that there was going to be a big press conference that the state police had caught Ludwig's murderer. Reyes didn't know Walker, but when she found out that she would be assigned the case, she introduced herself and said that as a formal flight attendant, perhaps she could be of assistance. Walker said great and she immediately began grilling her on procedures and precautions attendants are trained to take. Reyes did research on case law. Walker wanted to get details of the Ebi killing into evidence and was able to do so thanks to a precedent that Reyes researched, known as People versus Vandervliet, and grant work like making photocopies and help organize exhibits.
Speaker 1:If Gordon felt the eyes of various women boring his way, he wasn't imagining it, especially in Regis's case. During during selection on Monday particularly, she kept an eye on him. She thought it interesting that each time a slender, dark hair, attractive woman was questioned there were three of them in all he had a physical reaction. His lip curled up. He looked like he was ready to jump out of his seat. There was just a totally different reaction to them from the other women or men. It was like a metamorphosizing scene from a movie. He looked so normal and then suddenly he didn't look normal at all On Wednesday night. Defense attorney Tank would later claim to have seen a similar metamorphosis and say that he had momentous impact on the trial.
Speaker 1:Walker, to Ray's surprise, let her participate in the prosecution herself and she handled Wednesday afternoon's examination of Mike San André, the Romulus undercover cop who had played the key role of snatching Gordon's cup from the roller rink. Until then, reyes had only worked some for future hearings, where the worst thing that could happen, from her point of view, was that the judge would let a defendant get his car back. Months after the trial, regis took her bar exam and Walker was her sponsor for admission into the state bar. Feeling nervous but acting cool, regis led San Andre through his history as a cop, the night at the ring and the capture of the cop. He was a kid in witness, obviously, ray said prepare herself for the big moment by rehearsing any number of possible objections Tank could make, so she would have a response ready. To her surprise, tank had none. Surely, though, he would have a vigorous cross-examination and she would need to be ready to counter with redirect to undo whatever damage Tank might inflict. There have been a big crowd at the rink, lots of kids drinking lots of pop, lots of people at Gordon's table in the course of the night. Surely there will be questions trying to shake Andres' testimony that he had grabbed the right cup or had handled it properly. After he grabbed it the cup had passed through a lot of hands in a brief period. When Reyes took the court, mr Drake said Mr Tank, he said I have no further questions. And so Drake said can I just hold on a second? And then to Reyes' further surprise, further surprise. I have nothing, your Honor. So Ray's spotlight of course, was over and she had done the best she could to fulfill one of the goals of hers, since she had heard there was going to be a press conference announcing an arrest in Ludwig's murder. She wanted Art Ludwig to be able to tell the world that a former flight attendant helped put his wife's killer away Once.
Speaker 1:There was another busy, fast-paced day in the trial of Jeffrey Gordon. To begin that morning Mike Larson took the stand. He went over some of the same ground Kilbourne cover and told of personally giving Gordon the oral swab the night of his arrest Tank did cross-examine Larson, finally starting to set up his you know clipping or defense. And he asked him you know, officers, your testimony today that you investigated over 100 people in reference to what took place and his answer was yes, he said most of them by way of mouth swaps, correct. He said most of them, some were interviews and he said okay, and when you did this, one of the ways that you did it, you based some of it on geographic location in relationship to the scene of Romulus, correct? And he said I'm not sure I understand the question. He said, well, you found out where the people lived and worked and that gave you a way to get started with respect to suspects, didn't it reports? When we started this investigation, he said okay, so the geographic location of where these people resided and worked give you a start, didn't it? If someone lived close to the scene at Romulus or someone lived close to the scene in Flint and they have a violent history, you started looking at them, didn't you? And he said no, not necessarily. He said okay.
Speaker 1:So you remember, officer, don't you getting a DNA swab from a James Kleppinger. He said yes. He said okay. He said well, I personally didn't. I sent a request out to a detective sergeant by the name of Mike Morey at the state police post in Ionia. He said and you did that for a very specific reason, didn't you? He said yes, and the reason that you did it was that you were aware of Mr Kleppinger's background, weren't you? He said yes, so you were aware of the fact that he murdered a woman in Ann Arbor, weren't you?
Speaker 1:And then Tank wrapped up by asking Larson if he was aware of the original crime scene composites that Kleppinger's height of 5'10", the weight of 150, fit into the description of the stranger hanging around the Hilton and that he once lived 1.1 miles from the airport. So now Walker, on cross-examination, was able to elicit that Kleppinger's fingerprints did not match the Ebi crime scene prints, that his DNA did not match the DNA at the Ebi scene or the Ludwig scene. It would be Tang's one and only relatively vigorous cross-examination of the trial. He had not helped that Kleppinger had not been linked to either seen by DNA or fingerprints, but he had established that the state police had been interested in him as a suspect, that he matched the description of the eyewitnesses in Ludwig that he was a convicted murderer and that he had once lived near the airport. All in all, he had accomplished what he would set out to accomplish.
Speaker 1:Tank had rubbed Larson the wrong way at the preliminary hearing months earlier and he said quote, we thought he was a big shot the way he was passing out business cards, end quote. Tank had instilled, well, not fear, but the sense they would be in for a good battle. Well, not fear, but the sense they would be in for a good battle. At trial Larson made it 3-for-3, another homicide cop. Surprised by how inept Tank seemed to be, like Gafford, he thought Wayne County had not seen its last trial of Jeff Gordon and they said that at the time. Betty Walker will be retrying that one. And he too could not recall seeing Tank take any notes during the trial. If there was a better prosecution witness than Link Helton, elizabeth Walker has yet to find one.
Speaker 1:Helton took the stand at 10.25. She was seething with a rage. She would kept bottled up, since working the lot with crime scene, but her calm demeanor could keep that rage well hidden. She would do everything in her power, including describing the horror of the crime scene. So there could be no doubt about the enormity of what had happened in room 354. She has developed a style over the years of keeping science jargon to a minimum and imagining the jurors are friends she's sitting with at a table in her kitchen having coffee and she admits that she wants to come across as the girl next door.
Speaker 1:Before she was done, one of the jurors was crying and that has never happened before, and she would acknowledge later. Quote the violence at the scene shouted at you and I wanted the jury to appreciate it. End quote. She didn't want the jury to see her glaring at Gordon, nothing as obvious as that. But she kept sneaking, peeks at him, trying to make eye contact. She said that she wanted her eyes to tell his eyes that she knew the DNA doesn't lie. It doesn't matter what his story is, just briefly. Their eyes met and Gordon quickly adverted his. But there was satisfaction for her in that.
Speaker 1:Second. She described the wounds to Ludwig in stark, graphic detail About the wounds to her face, the jagged gap and slashes to her neck with a serrated knife, the controlling pinprick wounds that have been part of a murderer's play. The symbol cutting to her breast will be fight back. So she did this describing everything. So she did this describing everything in an almost detached manner. She talked also about the semen evidence of acts of sex both before and after her death and she told the jury, in plain, understandably in the language, the science behind DNA evidence and where he pointed clearly and unmistakably, with ratios like 97 quadrillion to one, to Jeffrey Gordon.
Speaker 1:Helton was on the stand for two hours and 10 minutes, sandwiched around a recess and a lunch hour. Helton's last bit of testimony was quote the DNA profiles belonging to the semen donor on all three of the evidence samples match exactly the DNA profile provided to me as being from Jeffrey Gordon. Mr Tang's cross-examination lasted about two minutes. He asked nine questions about the math behind getting to 97 quadrillion to one. There was 13 factors in matching DNA samples. Matching one factor had a certain probability. Matching a second had another, a third another. Multiply the probability of each separate factor by the probability of each other factor and you get the final answer. Walker couldn't have let Houghton thought the process any better. If she had tried, there could be no doubt in the jury's mind this wasn't voodoo, it was simple multiplication.
Speaker 1:Jeff Nye was next and he recounted for the jury how he would work. With the napkins and cup taken from the roller rink, which provided enough of a link to Gordon to get search warrants and arrest him, tank had nothing to ask him. Corey Reyes took over for Walker. She walked Mike St André through the night. They had followed Gordon into the rink and snatched his napkins and cup and obviously an important event in the long chain of events and a kid witness, and again Tank had nothing to ask him.
Speaker 1:Then was Young Chung with the forensic pathologist in Wayne County, the medical examiner's office, and he was the last witness of the day and he was the one who did an autopsy on Nancy Lewick's body and described in clinical, almost detached manner and the jury having to strain to understand him at times through his you know his accent the injuries he found when he did his examination on February 19, 1991. And he said, quote she had lots of scratches and superficial cuts almost to her entire face. Her neck was sliced deep enough to cut the airway and both sides of major blood vessels. There were several stab wounds to the left parietal scalp and also left forehead. There were some slicing wounds on the right palm. That indicated she had a struggle for this incident In a lot of vibrations and puncture mark on the left upper chest area. The left eye was blue swelling.
Speaker 1:He then described all the various wounds in detail the length and depth of her defensive wounds, the severing of the windpipe and carotid artery, the cutting deep into the esophagus which he said was very elastic, very tough, very hard to cut, the many unburied puncture wounds with the tip of the knife to her head and chest. Wounds of this nature were unlikely sustained by one slice there, probably over and over many times. To make this, and also the edge of the neck would the wound would indicate there as many times knife back and forth. Graphic photos were passed around to the jury. Some of them looked close to being ill. When he was done Tank said I have no questions your honor.
Speaker 1:Months later Tank would say Chunk's testimony was a turning point in the trial, that hearing Chunk recount in detail one wound after another and the effort expended to make it make him doubt his client's version of events that he had consensual sex with Ludwig and that Kleppinger, in a rage while he was in the shower, had killed her. Both Ludwig and the Kleppinger in a rage while he was in the shower had killed her. Tank would say later that Chunk's testimony made him realize he needed to ask his client some tough, pointed questions. And those questions and the terrifying response would change the course of the trial. The three rows of spectator pews in Judge Drake's courtroom are arranged like the bottom three segments of an octagon. By sitting at the far left, as he had throughout the trial, arthur Ludwig could get a good look at Gordon. He stared at him throughout, hoping to catch eye contact. That never came.
Speaker 1:Thursday morning he took the stand and recounted the last set days of his marriage. He had nothing to add really to the facts at issue, but he certainly put another face on the tragedy for the jury. Tank had no cross-examination At 10.04,. Tank said he had some matters to discuss outside the jury's presence and they were let out. He then asked the judge to dismiss or charge a so-called directed verdict and Drake said well, clearly, your motion for directed verdict is denied. Counsel. Tank's original plan, or so he said, was to put Gordon on the stand and instead he had Gordon stand and tell the court that he understood his right to testify but wanted to waive it. And then Tank rested his case, or tried to, but the judge said Mr Tank, remember that you must rest in front of the jury when they come back. So they were brought back. He rested again. He had not made an opening argument. He had not cross-examined most of the prosecution witnesses. He had not caught a single witness.
Speaker 1:Walker presented her closing argument. She briefly walked the jury through the testimony and concluded ladies and gentlemen, the proofs in this case are really quite overwhelming. There can't be any serious doubt as to the identity of Nancy Loewis attacker, rapist and murderer. His name then and now is Jeffrey Wayne Gordon. Here again he said quote before I get started, I want to take a moment to thank each of every one of you for the time that you spent over the last four days and that you sat as jurors, the way that you conducted yourself and the time that you spent. It was obvious how attentive you were with respect to what took place. End, quote jury box and say you need to shut that phone off now and he apologized. And then, of course, tank was able to continue his closing argument and he said I want to thank you in advance for that.
Speaker 1:But above that, there are some people, specific things that I want to talk about, some specific things that are going to relate to the jury instructions that the judge is going to give. That I ask you that you take into consideration when you begin your deliberations. He said you will be asked to take the facts that have been elicited at trial, to take them, to put them up next to the instructions that have been set forth and to compare whether or not each element has been met and whether or not it's been met beyond a reasonable doubt. The judge will instruct you on the meaning of reasonable doubt and the fact that each element has to be in fact be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. You will see and hear instructions and that reasonable doubt can be attached to. In referencing that, I want to take a few specific moments to talk about some specific elements associated with each of one of the offenses. The judge will instruct you first on the offense and will instruct you at some point in time on the offense of felony murder.
Speaker 1:Felony murder is that pertains to a larceny. When you begin to talk about the larceny, one of the things that has to be established by the prosecutor's office is that items were in fact taken, that the goods and property were taken by another. I submit to you that there has not been evidence in terms of what's been taken at this point in time. In addition to that, we talk about credit cards, money, things along those lines. There is no evidence of those things being used in the future.
Speaker 1:In addition to that, and I want to have or put some particular emphasis on with respect to the criminal sexual misconduct count as it relates to the felony murder is, again we see a situation there where, although there was trauma that that was described at the scene in Flint of vaginal trauma, there is no trauma that has been described at the scene at the Romulus Airport. Again, it's something that you can attach doubt to and there's a reason that's obviously there for, over and above that, when we begin to look at the crime scene and that's what's associated with it, when you think of it in terms of the way that a crime scene should be thought of, there is some very significant questions that need to be thought about with respect to premeditation. When you talk about and once you hear about what's being involved in terms of those things happening, there are issues with respect to premeditation. When you take all those things, when you take them and put them together in the jewelry room and apply them, they're clearly, appropriately there, as the judge will instruct you. Again, I would like to thank you for the time that you spend, how patient you have been with me. Thank you, and the courtroom observers said stunned the jury appears stunned as well.
Speaker 1:Everyone thought they were hearing a rambling, nearly incoherent introduction to what would become the closing arguments. But that had been the closing arguments themselves, if you strip away Tank's preamble thanking the jury and his talking about what the judge would or wouldn't do. Later the actual arguments on behalf of Gordon amounted to four paragraphs of what what argument had been made. Tank four times mentioned the word specific in reference to what he was about to say. But what specifically had he said? What was there for a juror to take back to the jury room and ponder? Walker's closing arguments had lasted for 42 minutes. Tank's lasted for 42 minutes. Tank's lasted for three Tax closing arguments, or lack thereof, would later form the heart of an appeal for a new trial, claiming an incompetent defense.
Speaker 1:A neophyte had been handed a case he couldn't handle. Philip Bouvard, gordon's attorney on the Eby case, would later set about the appeal in the Lewis case. He said quote Ebi case. Who later said about the appeal in the Lewis case? He said quote the most amazing thing to me is the closing argument is just three pages of the transcript Three and even reading it I don't know what in the hell he was trying to say. I've tried some cases where I have some pretty bad counsel for co-defendants, but I've never seen anything as bad as this. I tell everyone my 15-year-old son could have done a better job. It was funny. Jeff thought Tank walked on water. Jeff thought Tank would perform miracles for him because he told him he worked miracles. Performed miracles for him because he told him he worked miracles.
Speaker 1:The jury went to lunch and heard lengthy instructions from the judge about the five counts of criminal sexual assault and premeditated murder. What was required to prove then In 2.25, the jury went into deliberations. While they were out, gordon read some false memory by Dean Coons and when a bailiff asked him what it was about, he replied self-hatred. Tank told one court official loudly enough so anyone in the courtroom could hear him said this is my last trial, I'm going to do tax evasion work and I anticipated testimony. I didn't get from him, he just shut down on me. I was left in the lurch. Gordon didn't have long to read. The jury came back at four. He was guilty on all counts, sentencing mandatory under Michigan law of life in prison without possibility of parole, and that was set for September 19.
Speaker 1:On May 16, 2003, bouvet, motioned for a new trial because of an inadequate defense, brought Gordon back before Judge Drake for another day in court. At the hearing Gordon was finally allowed to testify. He said he and James Kleppinger had gone to the Hilton to pick up women. He said I used to have a good pickup line when I was younger. He met Lovewick and we kept talking. He said it took a while to get her to agree to have sex. We have consensual sex but I wasn't there when she was killed. Kleppinger called up to the room looking for him and came knocking on the door while Gordon was in the shower. When he came out, loewig was dead. I started freaking out, said Gordon. I suggested calling an ambulance, but Kleppinger said it was too late. So they made it look like a robbery gone bad. Instead, as expected, drake denied the motion Based on the overwhelming evidence. Even if he had F Lee Bailey, he couldn't have avoided the outcome.
Speaker 1:Once the motion was heard, tank was no longer bound by rules of attorney-client privilege. He and Gordon were officially adversaries. Three weeks after the hearing, over lunch in the Big Boy restaurant, just off the airport grounds and around the corner from the former Hilton, tank told his side of the story. It was a tale he said he would ultimately lead to Gordon's death by execution in a place like Ohio, florida, some state where he had killed other women that had the death penalty. Tank said Gordon had told him before the trial that Kleppinger had done the killing and Tang said he believed the story. A lot of it was corroborated by the facts, such as Kleppinger's criminal history, his proximity to the airport. He said he believed Gordon's story well into the trial and still thought he had a good chance of selling it to the jury but that Chunk's testimony about the autopsy convinced him his client must have had an active part.
Speaker 1:Chang admitted that. He said quote I'm kind of dumb. I didn't actually read the medical examiner's report Hearing Chunk's detail. According to the wounds. Chang said that he said to himself you gotta be kidding me, it was overkill. It was different from my theory that he said to himself you got to be kidding me, it was overkill. It was different from my theory that he was in the shower. 45 wounds would take too long. End quote.
Speaker 1:Wednesday night Tank went to the county jail to talk to his client and when he pressed him on the contradictions between the testimony and his story, gordon blew up. He said, quote, he went crazy. I pressed him on the amount of damage to her. What you described to me is in checking out with the testimony. So he flipped out and went into a diatribe. He was pissed off at the older women in the court he was going on that that these women were not going to take him down. He would kill all the kinds of women, just like he had killed these two. He told me he had done the killing. End quote.
Speaker 1:Tang says the mountain man of Jeffrey Gordon he had come to know had a transformation in front of him that he feared for his life. He said, quote. End quote. Tank says that before Gordon was through ranting he told him that he would kill women in Ohio and Florida and that he would make up codenames for the underwear he had stolen from his murderous victims. No one had ever found any of the Nancy Ludwig clothing. Gordon had some, though. He said that he labeled Nell North, the N and L of Nell standing for Nancy Ludwig and North for Northwest Airlines, ending for Nancy Ludwig and North for Northwest Airlines.
Speaker 1:Later Mark Lyson could go through his master list of names apart from the boxes and bags of underwear hauled out of the Gordon house and he found male North listed corresponding to a purple pair of underpants that was on the computer printout. He then went to the handwritten originals and sure enough there was now North. The N had been transcribed as an M by mistake. The underpants were tested for DNA but the results were inconclusive. Tank said he wanted nothing more than to get out of that cell and away from Gordon. He called for the guard he hurried out of the jail and to Clinton Street. He was so upset he leaned over and vomited the next day as an officer of the court ethics prevented him from putting Gordon on the stand and committed perjury. He knew that the case was lost. He would have to wrap things up without calling a witness.
Speaker 1:Today, says Tank, he still believes some of the Gordon's tales that it wasn't a planned killing, that he had in fact picked up Ludwig and had consensual sex before the two men went wild. Remarkably enough, he said he still thinks he might have gotten his client off had they not had their jailhouse confrontation. It would have been interesting to see how this would have turned out If I could have argued it. It would have been a wild one. I wonder what would have happened if I had not gone the extra mile and hired a jewelry consultant who had me load the jewelry up with women. If they had not happened, he might not have had his mouth down, his meltdown. I'm still pissed I didn't get to try it. I would have been a hell of a trial.
Speaker 1:The press got on him pretty soon before Gordon trial under the Gordon trial, but don't feel sorry for him. He says he's rolling on dough now representing drug dealers and four higher killers who can afford his fees instead of the $36,400 he was pulling down at the public defender's office. He wears expensive tailor suits, he has bought a condo in Mount Clemens, drives a Jaguar and a Toyota for a runner. He said it is believed that the FBI will crack the codes on Gordon's cache of clothing and eventually link him to unsolved crimes in Ohio and Florida and that his former client would eventually be executed. But Tank says he will refuse to cooperate with police if he can avoid it. He said quote I don't have any moral obligations, my duties as a defense attorney supersede any moral obligations or any moral issues. I don't believe in the death penalty. I'm very liberal. I don't want to see Jeff get it. At the end of 2003, jeffrey Gordon's conviction in Wayne County was under appeal by Beauvau to the Michigan Court of Appeals. The attorney had no hope of ultimately setting his client free for those crimes, but he does want to hold Tang's feet to the fire.
Speaker 1:Dave King continues to teach young cops. He's good, you know, he's a good cop. F for Larsen. Cuban Cops will know good from bad, or respect king. It was his misfortune to have made major mistakes on the biggest case of his career, compounded by the arrogance of the pseudoscientists at the FBI and the coincidence of an old childhood friend turning out to be the chief suspect, and a very good one at that.
Speaker 1:And 11 of the 17 command officers of the Romulus Police Department were forced into retirement two weeks after Gordon's sentencing. Their choice was to take a demotion which would affect their pension or to take a buyout and retire. For 10 of them, the last day of work was Friday, september 27, the end of the pay period. Melianak being. Melianak came in on Monday, the 30th to officially finish out the month he put in his stay, went over to a local park, drank a beer with the guys. They went down to downtown Detroit to a casino. It wasn't much of an end to a career, it was anticlimactic. Then Snyder bought a fifth wheel trailer and a truck to pull it in a new house closer to his grandkids and he has been enjoying his first retirement. And he and his wife spent part of their summer vacation of that year visiting Art Ludwig up at the Voyageurs National Park in the Boundary Waters region of northern Minnesota.
Speaker 1:The Gordon case had had a lasting effect on Walker. He's the only man he has ever been afraid of. She says To this day now when I go home I pull my shades. I never used to. I figure I catch you peeping too bad for you, but no more. Now as soon as I come home the shades get pulled. Greg Kilbourne remains an investigator for the state's gaming commission doing background checks on suppliers and contractors for the gaming industry in Michigan. So Gordon is still in prison, nothing has changed, and he's going to be there for the rest of his life for the murder of these two women. Thank you for listening to the Murder Book. Have a great week.
