Leslie Preer was found slain in her Chevy Chase home on May 2, 2001, Montgomery County Police said in a statement on Tuesday, June 18. Police responded to her residence when she did not show up for work.
Authorities initially collected DNA evidence from the 2001 crime scene, police said in their statement this week.
Decades later, in 2022, blood evidence was used as part of a genealogical DNA analysis that was eventually matched earlier this month to Eugene Teodor Gligor, whom police had developed as a potential suspect.
Preer’s daughter Lauren Preer now says the suspect was her boyfriend before her mother’s death, according to local TV station WTTG.
