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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

How distant relatives, DNA markers and a water bottle helped sentence a cold case killer to 22 years in prison

More than two decades after Leslie Preer was found dead inside her Maryland home, the man responsible for her brutal killing has learned his fate.

Eugene Gligor, 45, appeared in a Montgomery County courtroom on Thursday where the judge sentenced him to 22 years in prison for the second-degree murder charge.

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