MD MD- Leslie Jennings Preer, 50, murdered @ home in 2001, DNA identified suspect as daughter's ex, Eugene Teodor Gligor, 44, Maryland, 2024

[bitesizedcrime]

07/29/2025

This email is to inform you that EUGENE GLIGOR, with case number C15CR24000870, has an upcoming court event.

A/An Sentencing Hearing has been scheduled for 08/28/2025 at the following time 09:00 AM.

This will take place in Montgomery County Circuit Court located at the following address: 50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD. This date may change, depending upon a number of factors. You may want to call the VINE service as the date gets near to find out if it has been changed.

Court hearings may be conducted in person or remotely. Please contact the court to find out if the hearing will be in person or remote. You can find a complete list of Maryland courts online at www.mdcourts.gov/courtsdirectory.

For more information, contact Montgomery County Circuit Court. The telephone number is (240) 777-9400. VINE information is also available at www.vinelink.com.

 

[Jbetty567]

It really makes you wonder how many one-off killers there are out there, who "turn over a new leaf" and walk among us. JMO.

The answer is... a lot. I've come across them time and again, finally being exposed by investigative genetic genealogy. I'd say in the 150 or so such cases I've covered, about 70% are one-and-dones in terms of murders. They've almost all done SOMETHING, though - just as Gligor had (the documents reveal that he was a petty criminal in high school, and he has a theft charge on his record).

 

[Jbetty567]

07/29/2025

This email is to inform you that EUGENE GLIGOR, with case number C15CR24000870, has an upcoming court event.

A/An Sentencing Hearing has been scheduled for 08/28/2025 at the following time 09:00 AM.

This will take place in Montgomery County Circuit Court located at the following address: 50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD. This date may change, depending upon a number of factors. You may want to call the VINE service as the date gets near to find out if it has been changed.

Court hearings may be conducted in person or remotely. Please contact the court to find out if the hearing will be in person or remote. You can find a complete list of Maryland courts online at www.mdcourts.gov/courtsdirectory.

For more information, contact Montgomery County Circuit Court. The telephone number is (240) 777-9400. VINE information is also available at www.vinelink.com.

The judge's assistant tells me there is NO remote broadcast of the hearing. Anyone who wants to attend, must do so in person.

 

[dotr]

Sorry, this is a horrible serious crime, but watching this whiny suspect's interrogation video, makes me want to giggle, he sounds and acts like Woody Allan, speculation, imo.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1948035738303443019

 

[Coppertop15]

The answer is... a lot. I've come across them time and again, finally being exposed by investigative genetic genealogy. I'd say in the 150 or so such cases I've covered, about 70% are one-and-dones in terms of murders. They've almost all done SOMETHING, though - just as Gligor had (the documents reveal that he was a petty criminal in high school, and he has a theft charge on his record).

An maybe that assault in 1995?

 

[dotr]

August 28, 2025

DC man sentenced to 22 years for 2001 murder of his then-girlfriend's mother

Eugene Gligor, 45, receives a prison sentence for a 2001 murder, solved by DNA from a discarded water bottle.

www.wusa9.com

'MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — A D.C. man will spend 22 years in prison, 24 years after strangling his ex-girlfriend's mother to death inside her Chevy Chase home.
Eugene Teodor Gligor, 45, was sentenced Thursday. In addition to the prison sentence, he will spend five years on probation.'

''The case file also revealed another lead: Roughly nine months after Preer’s murder, police had received a tip from a former neighbor of Gligor’s who thought he may be somehow related to the case. The tipster said Gligor’s home was “often visited by the police due to noise and nuisance complaints, underage drinking and drug use.” The Gligors had moved out of the neighborhood three or four months after Preer was killed.

''Police determined Gligor, who stilled lived in D.C., had previously been arrested for weapons possession, DUI and theft, and had been listed as a suspect in thefts from residences and burglary, but had never been arrested in a case where his DNA was obtained and entered into a national database.''

 

[dotr]

Lengthy article.

Getting Gligor: How detectives used genetic genealogy to crack open a 23-year-old cold case

Detectives Tara Augustin and Alyson Dupouy investigated the 2001 murder of Leslie Preer, who was killed in her home in a suburb of Washington, D.C.

abcnews.go.com

''In 2022, Augustin got her chance when she was transferred from robberies to the cold case unit, joining forces with another veteran officer, Detective Alyson Dupouy.

Augustin and Dupouy's full investigation is revealed in a new "20/20" episode, "First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder," airing Friday, Sept. 12, at 9 p.m. ET on ABC and streaming the next day on Hulu.

You can also get more behind-the-scenes of each week's episode by listening to "20/20: The After Show" weekly series right on your 20/20 podcast feed on Mondays, hosted by "20/20" co-anchor Deborah Roberts.

The pair were soon assigned to the 2001 murder of Leslie Preer, a 49-year-old mother and wife from the affluent Chevy Chase suburb of Washington, D.C., who had been killed in her home. The murder, which rocked the quiet neighborhood and haunted those who loved Leslie, remained unsolved for over two decades.''

Lauren Preer pictured with her mother, Leslie Preer.
Courtesy of Lauren Preer

 

[dotr]

Sep 13, 2025
When a wife and mother in an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., fails to show up for work, her boss and husband go to her home looking for her. However, upon arriving, they soon find a crime scene waiting for them. A 911 call prompts authorities to discover the body of Leslie Preer. While investigating the murder, authorities initially set their sights on Leslie’s husband as a suspect, but when DNA under Leslie’s fingernails points to an unknown male, the case goes cold — until nearly 25 years later, when DNA evidence is collected at a D.C.-area airport, leading authorities straight to a killer. Stream the latest 20/20 ‘First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder’ full episode on Hulu and Disney+ under Season 47, Episode 34

 

[Richard]

24 years passed from the crime to conviction.

How many other victims were there in the interim? Doubtful that he only killed once.

And what is the deal with "five years probation" following an unspecified length prison sentence?