Genetic Genealogy Solves Mother's Mysterious Murder | Crime Alert 05.28.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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New technology helps investigators identify a mother's killer two decades after her death. Prison janitor arrested for aiding inmates in breakout.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. When Leslie J. Prier, 50, a married mother of two, |
| 0:11.7 | doesn't show up for work, a coworker calls husband Carl Prier and the Maryland police. |
| 0:17.9 | Officers find dried blood, a knocked over table, and a moved rug in the foyer. |
| 0:24.8 | Leslie's strangled body found in a shower on the second floor of the home. |
| 0:29.4 | Detectives find DNA evidence at the home, but it doesn't match the husband or anyone in their |
| 0:34.9 | system. Nancy, the case went cold for more than two decades before new analysis tools |
| 0:40.4 | finally gave detectives a clue as to the identity of the killer. |
| 0:44.5 | Leslie's daughter Lauren's high school boyfriend, Eugene Gleegor. |
| 0:48.8 | The teens were broken up at the time of the murder, |
| 0:51.3 | but Lauren was surprised Gleegor didn't attend her mom's funeral |
| 0:54.6 | since they dated for five years. She says never in a million years did she imagine he would |
| 0:59.7 | hurt her mother. Gleegor's DNA was found in multiple locations throughout the home, but the most |
| 1:05.2 | damning under Leslie's fingernails. Cops arrest Gleegor, who admits to the brutal murder. |
| 1:11.5 | He faces a max of 30 years behind bars on murder two. |
| 1:15.6 | Sentencing sec, August 28. |
| 1:18.5 | More crime and justice news after this. |
| 1:22.8 | Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, |
| 1:25.8 | Prime Online's John Limley. |
| 1:27.2 | In New Orleans, a jail maintenance worker is under arrest, accused Now with the latest crime injustice breaking news, Prime Online's John Limley. |
| 1:33.3 | In New Orleans, a jail maintenance worker is under arrest, accused of helping 10 inmates escape after allegedly being threatened at knife point. |
| 1:37.2 | 22-year-old Nicholas Grigsby told investigators he shot off water to a jail cell toilet, |
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