Echoes of Justice: The 23-Year Search for Leslie's Killer

In 2001, Leslie Preer was found brutally murdered in her Chevy Chase home, but the investigation stalled for decades after unidentified DNA evidence cleared the primary suspects, her husband and her boss. The case was finally cracked in 2022 when investigators utilized genetic genealogy to link the crime scene DNA to Eugene Gligor, the daughter's high school ex-boyfriend who had been a frequent guest in the Preer household. Gligor pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2025 and was sentenced to 22 years in prison, providing long-awaited justice for Leslie's daughter even though her father had passed away years before the killer was identified.