A Maryland man identified for his Zen-like calm has shockingly confessed to beating and choking to demise the mom of his then-childhood sweetheart — after which hiding in plain sight for practically 25 years.
Eugene Gligor, 45, pleaded responsible final week to the homicide of Leslie Preer, a 50-year-old married mother who was discovered lifeless in her blood-spattered house in Chevy Chase on Could 2, 2001.
The murder investigation went chilly till investigators matched DNA from underneath her fingernails to a distant relative of Gligor residing in Romania.
The killer was lastly arrested exterior of his Washington, DC house final June — stunning the lifeless girl’s daughter, Lauren Preer, who had dated Gligor once they have been each 15.
The daughter stated she even bumped into her ex at a DC-area restaurant a yr earlier than he was arrested, leaving her now-chilled at how he acted like nothing ever occurred.
“He didn’t appear bizarre and the way you might look somebody within the eye and know that you just dedicated this crime and act like nothing occurred is fairly unreal,” she advised Fox 5 final yr.
After the killing, Gligor had remained within the DC space for 23 years working at an actual property agency. His colleagues described him as “Zen” and pleasant after his arrest, in keeping with The Washington Publish.
Gligor’s motive for the homicide stays unclear.
He has no legal document, and there’s no signal the homicide was “premeditated,” Montgomery County State’s Legal professional John McCarthy stated.
Gligor was charged with first-degree homicide, however pleaded responsible to a lesser cost of second-degree homicide. He faces as much as 30 years in jail when he’s sentenced on Aug. 2.
“Lauren, her household, and associates have waited 24 years to lastly get closure and justice for this horrific crime that tore her household aside,” household lawyer Benjamin Kurtz advised Fox Information.
“The truth that it turned out to be somebody they allowed of their house with open arms, simply makes it that a lot tougher to know,” he added.
