Twenty-three years ago, Montgomery County Police went to a home in Chevy Chase and found a woman who had been murdered.
On Tuesday, with the help of DNA, Eugene Teodor Gligor was arrested and charged with the murder of Leslie Preer.
Police had gone to Preer’s home at 4800 block of Drummond Avenue when she didn’t show up for work. Upon arrival, police called the home a crime scene and ruled her death a homicide.
No one was arrested. but DNA evidence was recovered at the scene. In September of 2022, blood evidence from the scene was submitted to a lab for forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis.
On June 9, police collected DNA evidence from Gligor and compared it to what was recovered at the scene. It was a match, according to police.
Gligor, who is now 44, was arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Task Force in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. He has been charged with first-degree murder.
He is expected to be extradited to Montgomery County.
The Montgomery County Department of Police – Cold Case Section has closed a 23-year-old cold case homicide with the arrest of a suspect in the 2001 murder of Leslie Preer.https://t.co/HHjqw1PHfM#mcpnews #mcpd #arrest pic.twitter.com/zKe7b48oEZ
— Montgomery County Department of Police (@mcpnews) June 18, 2024
