A Maryland man known for his Zen-like calm has shockingly confessed to beating and choking to death the mother of his then-childhood sweetheart — and then hiding in plain sight for nearly 25 years.
Eugene Gligor, 45, pleaded guilty last week to the murder of Leslie Preer, a 50-year-old married mom who was found dead in her blood-spattered home in Chevy Chase on May 2, 2001.
The homicide investigation went cold until investigators matched DNA from under her fingernails to a distant relative of Gligor living in Romania.
The killer was finally arrested outside of his Washington, DC apartment last June — shocking the dead woman’s daughter, Lauren Preer, who had dated Gligor when they were both 15.