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Interrogating a cold-case killer: ‘Honey, your DNA was in the crime scene’

Police videos show Eugene Gligor being arrested and questioned for the 2001 murder of Leslie Preer in Chevy Chase, Md.

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Eugene Gligor hid in plain sight for 23 years before his interrogation last year for a brutal murder in Chevy Chase, Md. (Video: Obtained by The Washington Post)
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Eugene Gligor tried to deflect.

“It’s guilty until proven innocent. I get it,” he told the detectives.

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They were accusing him of killing his ex-girlfriend’s mother, a crime that went unsolved for two decades. Gligor had never been questioned in the case. And now, inside a small, gray interrogation room, he didn’t budge as the detectives bored in.

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Dan Morse covers courts and crime in Montgomery County. He arrived at the paper in 2005, after reporting stops at the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun and Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is the author of "The Yoga Store Murder."@morsedan
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