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Leslie Preer was viciously murdered in 2001, but her case went cold for more than two decades

After 23 years, detectives matched familial DNA to reveal that Eugene Gligor had killed her

Gligor had previously dated Leslie's daughter, Lauren Preer, years before the murder when they were in high school

For over two decades, Leslie Preer's brutal murder went unsolved.

After Leslie didn't show up for work on May 2, 2001, police searched her house and found her deceased in the shower of her upstairs bathroom, according to court documents obtained by Fox 5 DC .

The murder rocked the tight-knit community of Chevy Chase, Md., and led to mass speculation about who committed the heinous act. For several months after the murder, Leslie's husband, Carl "Sandy" Preer, was an unoff

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