A Maryland circle of relatives is reeling after DNA has related a lady’s ex-boyfriend to her mom’s 2001 homicide.
“It’s been a hell of an afternoon,” Lauren Preer, Leslie Preer’s daughter, informed FOX 5 this week. “He used to be my ex-boyfriend.”
Preer informed the station that she dated Eugene Gligor, now 44, when she used to be about 15 years outdated and their households knew each and every different.
Leslie Preer used to be discovered lifeless in her house in Bernard Law Montgomery County’s prosperous Chevy Chase group at the morning of Might 2, 2001, after she didn’t display up for paintings that day, the Bernard Law Montgomery County Division of Police — Chilly Case Segment stated in a free up on Tuesday.
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Eugene Gligor used to be arrested within the 2001 homicide of Leslie Preer. Gligor dated Preer’s daughter, Lauren, when she used to be a teen. (Bernard Law Montgomery County )
Police stated that blood proof from the scene used to be submitted to a lab for genetic genealogical DNA research and previous this month Gligor used to be known as a fit.
“It’s forensic family tree that helped us get a reputation or DNA relation to hyperlink that to the sufferer,” Assistant Leader Nicholas Augustine with the Bernard Law Montgomery County Police Division informed FOX 5.
“We will be able to cross a few years, whether or not it is 20 or 40 years, to determine the solutions and hang other people in charge of violent incidents that took place up to now,” he added.
Lauren Preer informed FOX 5 she by no means suspected her ex of her mother’s homicide. (FOX 5)
Gligor used to be arrested via the United States Marshal’s Job Drive in Washington, D.C., on June 18, and has been charged with first-degree homicide.
Preer stated she had by no means suspected him in her mother’s homicide.
Leslie Preer used to be discovered murdered in her house in 2001. (FOX 5)
“Under no circumstances,” she informed FOX 5, including that she had run into him within the closing 12 months. “I’ve spoken to him. He didn’t appear bizarre and the way you have to glance somebody within the eye and know that you simply dedicated this crime and act like not anything took place is beautiful unreal.”
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Gligor is these days waiting for extradition from Washington, D.C., to Maryland.
Police have now not given a reason for Preer’s homicide.
