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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Quiet Chevy Chase, Maryland, is shaken when wife and mother Leslie Preer is found murdered in her shower. The case goes cold until a surprising lead unmasks the killer. Blayne Alexander reports.

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.0	She was my very best friend.
0:04.3	She was my person.
0:06.7	My dad, he goes, I'm so sorry.
0:09.6	Your mom is no longer with this.
0:12.3	It was awful.
0:14.8	I found the victim inside the shower.
0:18.3	This was clearly not a stranger.
0:20.6	This is someone who knew the family.
0:22.8	When did you first realize that police were eyeing your dad as a suspect? Day one.
0:27.7	I'm not just telling one thing you got. The wrong guy. Everything pointed to the husband's involvement.
0:33.2	You were her boss? Correct. They just asked you point blank. Did you kill Leslie?
0:37.4	It was very direct.
0:38.3	I couldn't believe they were asking.
0:40.3	You were just grasping at straws.
0:41.3	It was just this big mystery.
0:44.3	I felt a lot of a connection to this case.
0:47.3	You're a mom.
0:48.3	And this is about a mother who was killed, taken away from her family.
0:52.3	I said, I'm going to solve this.
0:53.3	We were determined to finish this.
0:56.0	She yells from the back of the room.
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