Her Daughter's Ex Hid a Murder for 23 Years | The Leslie Preer Case

May 2, 2001. Leslie Preer, 49, is found dead in her home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She fought back, and under her fingernails investigators find the DNA of an unknown man. The case goes cold. In 2002, a tip names her daughter's former high school boyfriend. He is never interviewed. Twenty-three years later, Montgomery County cold case detectives trace the DNA through a family line in Romania, collect a water bottle at Dulles Airport, and sit Eugene Gligor down in an interview room. This documentary includes excerpts from the real police interview. Chapters 0:00 The interview room 1:25 Leslie 2:35 The morning 3:42 The evidence 4:24 The husband 5:21 The tip 6:17 The man who moved on 6:55 Fresh eyes 8:15 The bottle 8:52 The room 9:48 The final verdict In memory of Leslie Preer (died May 2, 2001). Eugene Gligor pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on May 7, 2025, and was sentenced in August 2025 to 30 years in prison with all but 22 suspended. Sandy Preer was never charged; his DNA did not match. Sources Montgomery County Police Department: press release, June 18, 2024; public appeal with photos of Leslie Preer Police interview recording, June 18, 2024, released by Montgomery County Police (July 2025), via FOX 5 DC ABC News / 20/20, "Getting Gligor"; CBS News; The Washington Post; WTOP; Montgomery Community Media; The MoCo Show (charging documents) Excerpts from the police interview are shown briefly, with subtitles, for documentary and news-reporting purposes. Other quotes are taken from published reporting and shown as text. Narration: AI voice. Research, script and editing by The Final Verdict. Photos marked "illustrative" show similar places or objects, not the originals. Photos of Leslie Preer and Eugene Gligor: Montgomery County Police Department. Photo credits (Wikimedia Commons): Thos. J. Fisher And Co.; Norris Peters Co. (Public domain) · Thos. J. Fisher And Co.; Schoepf, W. Kesley; Gray, Samuel M. (Samuel Merrill) (Public domain) · Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0 · G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0 · T. W. Kines (Public domain) · JohnInDC, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0 · Aude, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Eden, Janine and Jim, CC BY 2.0 · Illegitimate Barrister, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Montgomery County Police Department (Public domain) · Edward Kimmel, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Joe Ravi (Shutterstock iStock Dreamstime), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sdkb, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kykywinks, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Jelieta Walinski, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Dllu, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Deans Charbal, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sido uku, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ed Westcott (Public domain) · John Crawford (Photographer) (Public domain) · John Schmidt, CC BY-SA 3.0 · National Human Genome Research Institute (Public domain) Custom graphics (map, family tree, timeline, cards): The Final Verdict. #truecrime #coldcase #geneticgenealogy