Eugene Teodor Gligor, 44, was arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Task Force in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday within the 2001 demise of Leslie Preer, the Montgomery County Department of Police stated in a news release. Gligor was charged with first-degree homicide and was being held on the D.C. Jail pending an extradition request from Maryland authorities.
On May 2, 2001, a colleague went to test on Preer after she failed to point out as much as work, in accordance with The Washington Post. The coworker discovered blood within the lobby of her Chevy Chase, Maryland, dwelling and known as police, who later discovered Preer’s physique in an upstairs bed room, the newspaper reported. Her demise was dominated a murder.
With no leads, Preer’s homicide case went chilly. In 2022, police supplied a $10,000 reward for anybody with data that may result in an arrest, CBS affiliate WUSA-TV reported.
Later that 12 months, DNA proof recovered from blood on the crime scene was submitted to a lab for forensic genetic genealogical evaluation. Detectives have been in the end capable of establish Gligor as a possible suspect.
On June 9, detectives collected DNA proof belonging to Gligor and in contrast it to the DNA recovered from the crime scene. Gligor’s DNA matched the crime scene DNA, police stated.
A warrant for Gligor’s arrest was obtained Saturday and he was taken into custody Tuesday.
Lauren Preer, the sufferer’s daughter, told WTTG-TV that Gligor was her ex-boyfriend, saying they lived in the identical neighborhood and commenced relationship when she was 15.
“It’s been a hell of a day,” she advised the station. “He was my ex-boyfriend.”
She advised the station that she even ran into Gligor at a restaurant in D.C. final 12 months.
“He did not appear bizarre and how one can look someone within the eye and realizing that he dedicated this crime and act like nothing occurred is fairly unreal,” she advised WTTG.
When requested if Gligor was ever thought-about an individual of curiosity by the household, Lauren Preer advised the station: “No, by no means.”
