A 44-year-old man was charged Tuesday in the 2001 killing of a Montgomery County, Md., woman after police said they identified him through genetic genealogy research.
Montgomery County, Md., police said in a statement that a murder charge in the 2001 killing of Leslie J. Preer emerged after blood was submitted in September 2022 to a lab for DNA analysis. A 44-year-old man was charged with murder Tuesday in the 2001 killing of a Maryland woman after investigators used DNA evidence from the long-ago crime scene and more recent genealogical research to identify the man and obtain a warrant for his arrest, Montgomery County police said.
The man now charged with killing her, Eugene T. Gligor, was arrested in D.C. by the U.S. Marshals Service’s fugitive task force and was being held pending an extradition hearing, Montgomery police said in a statement. He was 21 when the killing occurred, public records show. DNA from a crime scene can be compared to millions of DNA samples submitted by customers of some of the private genealogical companies that have become popular among people exploring their lineage or looking for distant relatives. Genealogists can sometimes find people from the same family tree as the unidentified suspect, if those relatives, even distant ones, have given DNA to a company.
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