Maryland woman shocked after ex-boyfriend arrested for her mom’s 23-year-old cold case murder: Pretty Unreal [Video]

A Maryland family is reeling after DNA has linked a woman’s ex-boyfriend to her mother’s 2001 murder. 

“It’s been a hell of a day,” Lauren Preer, Leslie Preer’s daughter, told FOX 5 this week. “He was my ex-boyfriend.”

Preer told the station that she dated Eugene Gligor, now 44, when she was about 15 years old and their families knew each other.  

Leslie Preer was found dead in her home in Montgomery County’s affluent Chevy Chase neighborhood on the morning of May 2, 2001, after she didn’t show up for work that day, the Montgomery County Department of Police — Cold Case Section said in a release on Tuesday. 

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Police said that blood evidence from the scene was submitted to a lab for genetic genealogical DNA analysis and earlier this month Gligor was identified as a match.

“It’s forensic genealogy that …