Catherine Rusoff
A man has been arrested 23 years after a woman was found dead in her suburban D.C. home, authorities announced Tuesday — and in an unexpected twist, the victim’s daughter revealed she once dated the suspect.
Eugene Teodor Gligor, 44, was arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Task Force in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday in the 2001 death of Leslie Preer, the Montgomery County Police Department said in a statement. Press release. Gligor was charged with first-degree murder and was being held in the D.C. jail pending an extradition request from Maryland authorities.
On May 2, 2001, a colleague went to check on Preer after she failed to show up for work, according to The Washington Post. The co-worker found blood in the foyer of her home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and called police, who later found Preer’s body in an upstairs bedroom, the newspaper reported. His death was ruled a homicide.
With no leads, Preer’s murder case went cold. In 2022, police offered a $10,000 reward to anyone with information leading to an arrest, CBS affiliate WUSA-TV reported. reported.
Later that year, DNA evidence recovered from blood at the crime scene was submitted to a laboratory for forensic genetic genealogical analysis. Detectives were able to identify Gligor as a potential suspect.
On June 9, detectives collected DNA evidence belonging to Gligor and compared it to DNA recovered from the crime scene. Gligor’s DNA matched DNA from the crime scene, police said.
An arrest warrant for Gligor was obtained on Saturday and he was taken into custody on Tuesday.
Lauren Preer, daughter of the victim, told WTTG-TV that Gligor was her ex-boyfriend, saying that they lived in the same neighborhood and started dating when she was 15 years old.
“It was quite a day,” she told the station. “He was my ex-boyfriend.”
She told the outlet that she even ran into Gligor at a D.C. restaurant last year.
“He didn’t seem strange and how you can look someone in the eye and know that they committed this crime and act like nothing happened is quite unrealistic,” she told WTTG.
When asked if Gligor was ever considered a person of interest to the family, Lauren Preer told the outlet, “No, not at all.”
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