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Watch out. All right, turn around.
This is 44-year-old Eugene Glagour. He was returning home from work when police arrested him, completely unaware the cold case unit had been tracking him for months in connection with a brutal murder case 22 years ago.
"I didn't do anything that you're talking about."
"There's no tears coming out of your face." In 2002, 50-year-old Leslie Prier was found murdered in her own bathroom. There was no murder weapon, no witnesses, and no clear leads. With nowhere else to turn, detectives focused their suspicions on her closest circle.
"I'm not going to go any further. I did not do this."
"If he if he committed this murder at some point, I mean, I could I mean, I could not relate, but I could understand how he got pushed to that point." As days turned into months and months stretched into more than two decades, investigators slowly came to a chilling realization. The person responsible was someone no one had ever suspected.
It was 11:47 a.m. on May 2nd, 2001, when police in affluent Chevy Chase, Maryland, received a 911 call that would kickstart a two-decade-long mystery.
"911, which emergency? Um, I'm at uh 4824 Drummond, Debbie Chase."
"Uh, we uh I I work for a company and we didn't hear have a call from um an employee. We just walked in the door, her husband and I, and there's blood in the in the um in the foyer."
"and looks like something possibly happened."
"Okay."
"You have just heard the voice of Leslie Prier's boss, Brett Ry. On the morning of May 2nd, Leslie, who was notoriously on time to her 10 a.m. shift as an administrative assistant, never arrived. Concerned, Brett called Leslie's husband, Carl Sandy Pri. Immediately concerned, Sandy raced to his home where Brett waited for him so that they could check on the welfare of Leslie. But the second that they stepped inside, they knew that something bad had happened. Blood was smeared across the walls of the entryway with droplets scattered across the stairs and the baseboards of the hall. Panicked, Sandy began to run room to room, desperately trying to find his wife. After not spotting her, he checked with the neighbors and began calling local hospitals. He thought, given the location of the blood, that Leslie may have fallen down the stairs and injured herself. The reality was much, much worse. When the police arrived, they asked Sandy if he had checked everywhere. He said that he had, except for the master bathroom. In their report, they noted this as quote unquote suspicious. Moments after being told where Sandy had and hadn't searched, they discovered the body of Leslie Prier curled up in the fetal position in the shower, having died of several blunt force trauma wounds."
"And then the cops showed up. We went then we went back outside and the cops cops showed up."
"and we told them at that point well we didn't say much actually. I don't remember. We just said can't find her. So they went in."
"Mhm."
"And as I'm outside Sandy goes oh I you know the only thing I did I said Sandy did you check everywhere? And he says oh you know Brad I didn't check the bathroom. I said all right well you know whatever. And about 5 minutes later, the officer comes out and his face just said everything. He walked up to Sandy. He said, "Your wife is dead." And um that's about it. I mean,"
"okay. When uh when he went upstairs, how long was he upstairs?"
"Very quick."
"Quicker than basement or about the same amount?"
"About the same amount of time. I mean, it was a he was calling her name. It was a very quick twominute cursory. Leslie, Leslie ran out downstairs, ran upstairs."
"Okay. Did were you with him throughout like his search on the first floor? How about the first floor?"
"Uh on the first floor. Yeah. And and I forgot to mention one thing. We did go to the back door. The kitchen back door. I forgot about that."
"And there was blood on the kitchen door also."
When the police wandered downstairs to tell Sandy the news, he was utterly devastated. But when the police looked at Sandy, they didn't see a husband in mourning. They saw a man with a motive. Immediately, he was questioned about his involvement in the murder. But after learning that he's being seen as possibly the culprit behind his wife's death, he shut down after 2 hours of incessant questioning, saying that he wanted to speak to an attorney. Unfortunately for us, the audio for this interrogation is compromised after years of wasting away. A few weeks later, however, he agreed to come to the police department. And this interrogation gives a very good perspective on why he asked for an attorney.
"You guys, I don't mean to show any disrespect, but I've been cooperating with you since day one, and I think I've answered enough questions."
"Just about the answer machine."
"I don't understand. My uh my attorney said not to answer any more questions. And again, I don't mean to show any disrespect to you guys at all."
"Who is your attorney?"
"Howard Schiller."
"Where where is his office?"
"He's in Fort Washington."
"Okay. So, in PG County. Well, we wanted to some of the u information that we came back with as a result of the investigation has now come in and we wanted to talk to you about that. So, I guess it's in your ballpark if you want to discuss it with us."
"Uh based on what my attorney says, I don't think so."
"Okay."
"And again, I don't mean to show any disrespect to you guys at all. When's it going to end, Sandy?"
"When's it going?"
"Again, Detective Drew, I'm not answering any more questions. based on on what my attorney said."
"Well, I can't tell you what to do. Okay. I can suggest some things though. You got to live with yourself. as soon as I can have to."
"And sometimes folks, even if they're attorneys, can't tell you how to live with yourself."
"I can live with myself."
"Can't tell you how to do the right thing. Can't tell you how to put closure to some things. and to allow other people maybe to get closure specifically more. Like I said before, we all do the things that we sometimes regret. Doesn't make you a bad person. just means sometimes you just lost it for them. And I'm not trying to sit here in judgment. Neither is Mike. But there's some things that you got to try to do to set things straight, especially corrupt because we all know what happened. And I think it'd be a travesty for Lauren for her to go through the rest of her dog all night trying to figure out just what the hell happened. It's bad enough for her to deal with the grief and the loss of her mother, but I think also she's a forgiven person."
"I would love to respond to these questions."
"Well, you can,"
"but my attorney said not to. But it happened and can't walk away from you. You should walk away from it. You won't. Trust me."
"Okay. And I'll just tell you one thing. You got the wrong guy."
Detectives at this point are so convinced that Sandy was involved in the murder that he had already taken a lie detector test, one which he failed, only adding fuel to the fire. All the while, as the rumors ran rampant, Lauren, the Prier's daughter, was mourning the loss of her mother and potentially her father.
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"I examined your wife's body. All those years of examining body after body after body, all those deaths. teach me when I look at someone dead, I can get a pretty good feel right off of that when they die because the body goes through irrefutable physiological changes that you don't know about because unless you're a pathologist or unless you've got 20 years of homicide experience, none of which you have. This information is going to come forward. I've got it right here. It's time to step up and say, "Okay, if we were trying to, we'd be fools to try to trick you because you're not stupid and we understand that. But we're not stupid either. And don't insult our intelligence either. I know you don't mean to, but it's frustrating for us when all this evidence points to one person and it's not a serial killer out there wandering the neighborhoods waiting to pray on people. Good to respond to that. Things like rider voice, things like voice things like contents, digests, all those things tell us things and they told us things like this case irrefutable. If she's killed in the morning, why aren't there bloody dog prints all over the place? The dog is free to roam the house. Dogs are inevitable by their very nature because regardless of being domestic, they are still animals. They are attracted to blood. They go, they lick it, they sniff it. The dog wasn't on the crime scene because there's no dog prints. Remember the OJ Simpson case? They found the two people, the dog tracked in and out of the walkway, sniffing yard Simpson. No dog prints dog was put somewhere else during the cleanup. How do you explain that to to a group of people unbiased and that respond common sense? How do you respond and convince people that blood dries in less than a couple hours to the point where paper is stuck to it here too?"
"The evidence that the police have presented here is in fact not based on any science but in personal opinion. The officer who arrived believed that due to the state of Leslie's body, she must have died when Sandy was still home, not after he left. However, rigor mortis cannot be used as an exact estimate for the time of death. Depending upon factors like temperature, humidity, and even muscle mass, the progression of rigor mortis can be altered. In other words, the detectives have no way to scientifically prove that she was dead before Sandy left the house. But the questioning continues for nearly an hour and a half regardless. Finally, Sandy calls his attorney to see if he can come in to be beside him during questioning."
"Uh, am I being detained?"
"No."
"No, I'm not."
"No. Can the attorney come in at another time?"
"Sure."
"Uh, the thing is though that like I mean"
"S if you want to talk if you want to tell us what happened. Okay. then have your attorney here. Yes."
"Yes. Well, okay. I didn't know that. Okay. Yes. Oh, that's okay. I think I did."
"See if you can raise your hand through holding your hands."
"Okay. Uh I think they they said I could go. Yeah. Okay. We'll do. All right. if they want to come in now, okay, and be with you while you tell us what happened. I say fine, bro. Come on now. Let's do it, man."
"I'm not going to go any further. I did not do this."
"And he knows. Okay. So, come on. Please don't do that. Please don't do that. Am I allowed to go?"
"Absolutely. Man, I thought you said you stay here all night long and listen to us. The door is right there. Okay. But if you want to listen to us, I mean, I think I know you want to do the right thing. I know you do, man."
"Let me ask you this. Am I allowed to walk out that door right now?"
"Absolutely. Okay, then I can get out of here."
"Anything else I need to take?"
"We can't give you some of the other stuff yet."
"All right. Well, you said one time. I hope one day we'll be able to sit down and have a drink together."
"I hope so. It's not looking good right now. But um"
From the detective's point of view, Sandy still looked like their best lead, even though they had nothing concrete to prove it. So they brought in Lauren, Sandy, and Leslie's daughter to hear what she knew and how she was processing everything. And her perspective only adds more uncertainty to where this case is really heading.
"I don't know. your dad, you know, we felt like talking with your dad, he just seemed, you know, he was obviously was traumatized by this,"
"but he also just seemed like he was just holding back"
"really"
"and not coming forward. I mean, it was just"
"But isn't that I'm not I'm not"
"You can be the devil's advocate. I understand you as"
"No, and I'm not trying to do that. at this point. I mean, I don't nothing would surprise nothing but I'm at the point where, you know, if my father did it, then I'm ready to deal with that. And that's okay. Not okay, but I already deal with it. But I'm saying, isn't it like really, and these are just general questions I have for disregarding my father because he's somebody I know or whatever. I mean, if they're running that situation, like isn't it really hard for somebody to work through or like fake and not crap under the kind of pressure that you protected?"
"It is. It takes a lot of self-isipline."
"Yeah."
"A lot of intelligence generally. People who are I think less intelligent don't do as well under interrogation. Um, your father's certainly not unintelligent and he's, you know, is is one I think he's got substantial amount of"
"selfdisipline. You know, historically he's gotten angry and yelled and so forth, but there haven't been any knockown dragouts that we know of between the mother and your dad. And certainly uh what you've told us, what some of her friends have told us, what Sandy has told us,"
"she certainly put him on the edge a number of times where a lot of people would just"
"freed out. Yeah."
"Yeah. And and just swing out in anger, you know. Uh, but he does have that and and generally u so his response I mean we just I mean when we talked to him at one time we felt like he just it just looked like he wanted to say something but he just it was almost like he just shut everything down and pulled back and just said no you know I'm just and he has just basically maintained that despite the the things that we Um, you know,"
"what thoughts do you have as far as like what happened?"
"I'm perplexed. I honestly truly to God, I mean, of course, I'm not stupid. I'm 24. I've got you know seen I've heard stories like we were talking about that people can just snap you know and then the time frame the situation in the house like so those kind of things don't make me think don't put me at ease of saying I know for a fact my dad's innocent not because um I think he did it because no matter who it was if it was like my friend's boyfriend you know what I mean the relation I just I put my dad like my my relationship to the side and I look at it just the situation saying that that person isn't 100% innocent and then there's other side that are things that couldn't be or whatever you know you know I mean okay and then the other side is like it's my father and I've seen him you know my whole entire life I've seen him interact my mom seen him deal with her I've seen I mean it's not it was nothing new and my dad was never a violent person ever he was so into like our animals and he always seen and reinfor totes in the backyard like made it like grace for them. Like"
"he had such a warm heart and so many like a he wasn't even though when I was younger he did have like a yelling streak and that's because he was just so overworked and he didn't do that my whole entire like junior high school he never ever ever ever physically harms an animal. He never hit me. He never hit my mom ever. at her worst. I mean, seriously. And I mean, she put him in the worst position. And I was just It's hard for me to just imagine him like, first of all, kill her by the front door, which doesn't make any sense. Second of all, just snap that one night. He's not that type of person. Like, I mean, he's never done anything. He would just usually just be like, "Fuck off, whatever, and I'm leaving." and he would get in the car and go stay at a house like you know just he wouldn't my mother never could get my dad to the point to where she was so mad like he wanted to like physically touch her ever been in police situations where I've lost my temple with people"
"and just literally wanted to pound them to death"
"right"
"and I was able to I had people around I was able to control myself but we all get positions in our lifetime and you will you're 24 years of age now. There will come times in your life especially if you have children and I can both speak of that. I mean there are times when your kids get you so angry"
"that you just want to grab them,"
"right?"
"And you're and you have the self-control pull back and move away. That's why we have so many child abuses and so many kids beaten and because people snap. And I spent some years in the youth division before I came to homicide. And I talked to parents who were just like me, middle class, college educated, good people. They just smacked their kids across the room."
"Just lost it for that many seconds."
"And if they could take it back, they would take it back. But they couldn't. It didn't mean they were terrible parents. They were bad. They reached the point where at one point in their time they just lost control and they got it right back but it was too late."
"Right?"
"And that's what I think if your dad and I'm saying it, your dad was responsible. That's what happened here. Your dad was a strong man capable of putting up with a lot of [ __ ] Obviously his job was was all over him. He was having difficulties with Leslie and her drinking and it was concerning. He told back to us that he was just at his end with her. Didn't know what to do. Didn't know whether to get or committed"
"or what, you know, he was and he was just he had a lot of weight on his shoulders"
"if he if he committed this murder at some point. I mean, I could I mean, I could not relate, but I could understand how he got pushed to that point."
"Did you forget?"
"Of course. No matter what. I mean, what's the word? Um, I just like slipped in my head. The word. It's like you unconditional love. My father no matter what."
"Exactly."
But in reality, they didn't have any evidence against Sandy. In fact, they had evidence that exonerated him. Detectives were able to take DNA samples from underneath Leslie's fingernails. When tested against the DNA of Sandy Prior, they were not a match. Police also tested several of Leslie's male co-workers, friends, and family members, but no one was a match. For years, the police were at a loss. The public largely still believed that the perpetrator was Sandy, who raised his daughter under the suspicious eyes of others. That is until 22 years later when police submitted the DNA to Aram, a genetic genealogy corporation who were able to test DNA against samples that were admitted to the family tree DNA's open data personal genomics database. This told them that the person whose DNA was under Leslie's fingernails at the time of her death was descended from the Gleeor family, which was the final piece of the puzzle for the detectives because that last name was familiar. Leslie's daughter, Lauren, dated a boy named Eugene Gleiggor as a teenager. Eugene not only knew Leslie, but he was in the Priier family home often. And when the detectives looked into Eugene, his background immediately raised some eyebrows. He had a history of burglaries, drug use, and run-ins with the police when he was younger. Nothing that proved guilt, but enough to make investigators want a closer look. Since he had spent time in the Preer home while dating Lauren, the detectives felt that it was important to rule him out properly. So, they set out to obtain his DNA. Rather than approach him directly, they waited for an opportunity to collect it discreetly. That chance came when Eugene finished drinking from a water bottle and threw it away. The detectives retrieved it, sent it off for testing, and waited. When the results came back, they confirmed what investigators had begun to suspect. The DNA found under Leslie's fingernails belonged to Eugene Glee. On June 18th, 2024, detectives moved in to arrest Eugene Gleigor for the murder of Leslie Prier, 23 years after her death.
"All right, we'll adjust it. We'll adjust it."
"Hold on."
"They're not made for comfort, but we'll make it."
"I get it."
"Yeah, we'll make it. We'll use it up on No problem. Make it on personal."
"Do you go to the office or what do you do?"
"No, I work from home."
"Okay. What were you doing out here? Just chilling out in the fresh air."
"Just you didn't know anything about this warmth."
"Okay. Our boss will tell you everything about him. Hold his arm. I'm going to twist his arm straight."
"Move your arm back. Weird question. Watch out."
"All right, turn around."
"Thank you. You got any tattoos on you?"
"Yes."
"Where are they?"
"Couple years older than you. You look a lot younger than me."
"This job kills you."
"Stupid job."
Police transported Gleeor for questioning to a local station in DC near where he was living. Gleeor worked as a real estate agent, had been married, and was living a cozy, comfortable life. Meanwhile, the Prier family had been living in agony, waiting for answers. And finally, they were about to get them.
"Thank you."
"Hi Eugene."
"Hello."
"Hello."
"If we need a break or something, let me know."
"Thank you."
"I am Detective Accen. This is Detective Dcoy"
"from McGomery County."
"Okay."
"I'm sure you're wondering what this is all about."
"Really like to know. Um this has been really"
"really hard whatever is happening. Well, we're going to get through all of that with you, we just have to do some paperwork real quick."
"Yeah. Um, before we can talk to you about anything, we have to read you your rights. So, now that that's out of the way, we are from McGomery County. We actually work in the cold case unit. Um, we investigate crimes that have been unsolved for quite a period of time. We investigate homicides and rape. So, um we were working on a case that came from Chvy Chase and um when we were going through the case file, your name was in there um as someone that was related to the family, whether it we have a big list of people, but um friends, family, something like that. So, um do you recall back in 2001 Leslie Prior?"
"Yes. that she was murdered. Yeah."
"Yes. Okay. So, that's the case that we are investigating. Um, so I you went to BCC with her daughter at the time, correct?"
"Is that correct? Okay. And what was your relationship with Lauren, the daughter?"
"Um, we had dated."
"Okay. And when did you guys date?"
"Do you remember years?"
"Uh, exact dates, I'm not entirely sure. Um,"
"were you in high school or was it after high school?"
"this high school. Um, yeah, I'm not I'm not exactly sure. Maybe like 1994 to 1997 or something around there."
"Okay. Um, and from your dates of birth, I can see you're um a little bit younger than Lauren. So, was she already graduated from high school or were you guys both still in high school when you guys were dating?"
"We were both in high school. She had finished high school. Um, and I believe we had dated for a few months while she was in college, but um, but that was it."
"Okay. And so you and Lauren had dated well before her mother was killed. Do you remember um, like, were you still in touch with Lauren when this stuff happened to her mom?"
"Um, no. We had broken up a couple years before um, at least. um maybe longer. I I'm not sure. And um believe I reached out just to send my regards and um maybe saw her a couple times and um but that was it."
"Okay. Do you remember how you found out about it? Um, I remember I was at work and I believe she had actually told me that she had come into where I was working at a restaurant and she had had told me that."
"And when you were younger, did you ever get in any trouble with the police or anything?"
"Not particularly. No."
"Okay."
"Um, yeah. Not not that I can recall."
"Okay. Um, how well did you know Lauren's mom? Like, was there ever any kind of a weird relationship between you two after Lauren?"
"No. Okay. I wasn't in touch so"
"Okay. So, you were never like dating Lauren's mom or anything like that behind the scenes?"
"No. Okay."
"I I just I wasn't I was an effort in touch. Um, you know that"
"Okay."
"Um, so the reason that we wanted to talk to you is because a lot of the people whose names are in the case file, they've been interviewed throughout the years and they've been asked to give DNA samples to compare to DNA from the crime scene. And most of the pretty much everybody that's in the list has been talked to has been eliminated as a suspect. your name was actually in the file, but they never reached out to you or never spoke to you for some reason. So, that's why we wanted to reach out to you and see if you remember, recall anything about the time when Leslie was killed, anything that you remember about your life at the time that like could be relevant, any relationships you had with the family or anything like that?"
"I I really don't recall."
"Okay. Um, so from the crime scene, we have DNA from the person who was there when Leslie died. So there's Leslie's blood all over the place, obviously. Um, but then there's also another DNA profile that was picked up from the crime scene. And we had put that into COTUS, our database from the National COTUS um DNA index system, and it has never hit. So, whoever was there, whoever's DNA was also on the scene has never been arrested. And that's why we were going through doing all these elimination DNA samples to find out, you know, okay, well, this person couldn't have done it cuz we match their DNA to it. Um, so we realized that they never talked to you, never did anything, and we wanted to find out more about you, and if there was any kind of situation where you could have been at the house at that time."
"I I'm just I'm a little confused. So, to find out more and talk to me, why not just call me and ask me to come in and and talk to me versus have marshals come and arrest me and bring me in? I'm I'm just confused as to why that's the case."
"Well, because we needed to talk to you in a controlled environment and because there's a little bit more to it than what we've told you so far."
"Could Could you tell me?"
"Well, we're getting there. I'm trying to give you an opportunity to be a little bit forthcoming before we"
"I mean, I I I'm I feel very I feel a little bit trapped here, like"
"Well, you're under arrest, so you should feel trapped,"
"right? And so I I think, you know, I mean, probably asking for a lawyer is my best course of action at this point."
"Um,"
"okay."
"Instead of doing any more discussing or talking about it, it just doesn't seem"
"I don't understand. So, I'd like to have somebody"
"That's why we're trying to talk to you about it."
"I know. And there's two of you and one of me. So, I I feel a little outnumbered. Um, and I probably would need some type of representation if I am under arrest, as you said, which which I am."
"Yeah."
"And so I I think that having a lawyer would be the best for me in in my interest at this point."
"That's totally fine. And we don't have to ask you any more questions, but we are going to just tell you some stuff. Okay."
"Okay. Um, so from the crime scene, the DNA that was taken, we actually have a sample of your DNA and it was compared to the crime scene DNA and it matched. So we know that you were there at the time when Leslie died,"
"but I never gave a sample of DNA."
"That's correct. We obtained a sample from a discarded water bottle that you drank out of. So you were followed and we collected it after you discarded it into the trash and it was swabbed and it was compared. So your DNA matches the crime scene DNA."
Now the bottle that the police collected involved a lot more tracking, stealth, and hard work than they're stating here. Eugene went on a trip to London shortly before his arrest. On his return flight, the police had him brought in for a random screening at the airport. There, in a controlled environment, the TSA asked him some questions and offered him a water bottle. As soon as Eugene drank it and tossed it in the trash, he was released. And immediately after, the detective swooped in to grab the sample. By the way, if you're finding this video interesting so far, please do us a favor. Make sure to hit like and subscribe and help us get to 1 million subscribers. We are so close. Now, let's dive back in.
"I don't know what to say. I am not I have no recollection. I have no memory. I have no I I I don't know what to say."
"Okay. Well, that's why we wanted to talk to you to find out if there's any other explanation, but we can't ask you any more questions if you want a lawyer present."
"Yeah, I I think I should have a lawyer present. I just don't I don't know what to do or say. It doesn't make sense to me. So, I don't know."
"Do you have a lawyer that you"
"No, I don't have to call. I don't know. I probably call my girlfriend and ask her to help."
"You know, we wanted to try to see if there was another angle or another side to this story. And"
"you know, we know"
"why would my DNA be there?"
"That's what we're trying to figure out."
"So, I don't know. I I I don't know. You know, I mean, I was in the house, but it was years before, you know, when I dated her,"
"right?"
"Um I I don't know. I wish I could tell you."
"I don't know. I don't know. This is all very bewildering, very strange. Is there more that you're going to tell me? Is there"
"I mean, we've told you plenty. We We can't continue to ask you questions. If you want to keep talking, we can. But if you want to stop, you have to let us know for sure."
"Yeah."
"We can tell you more about, you know, what we think happened."
"I I don't I mean, what you think happened? I don't know. I can't verify. I don't know. I don't recall. I don't have any memory. I didn't do anything that you're talking about. So, I don't know. And I don't feel like I can I don't know how to answer or go into I don't want to to incrimidate myself with questions. You guys are professionals. I'm not I I don't know. I I really do think I need an attorney. I need to use the phone and I need to call someone and I need to I need legal representation before I respond to anything else. I I"
"Okay, that's fine. Um we're not going to ask you any more questions. There's no tears coming out of your face."
"I'm very dry right now."
"You're dry."
"I'm very dry. I'm part dehydrated. You can probably see my eyes are bloodshot red because I'm just tired and drained. I don't know what's going on. YOU WANT ME TO GO DRINK WATER so I can tear? Like, what the [ __ ] is wrong with you?"
"I don't want you to tear. I just don't want"
"What are YOU TRYING TO SAY? I'm just trying to say that this seems a little put on."
"Are you kidding me? Are you [ __ ] kidding me?"
"No."
"Oh my god. You're so full of it. You're You're just You're after This is This is the police. This is Yes. Like it makes sense. You know, it's in your eyes. It's guilty until proven innocent. I get it."
"Well, I mean, your DNA was in the crime scene. His DNA being at the crime scene was utterly devastating for Lauren. In fact, Lauren had run into Eugene about a year before his arrest. They had chatted like old friends, and Lauren had no idea that Eugene had been the person who had murdered her mother over two decades ago. In fact, she was proud of Eugene when she ran into him. In his teens, he had struggled with substance use, which resulted in frequent burglaries and run-ins with the law. At one point, he was even the suspect in the murder of a jogger just weeks before the murder of Leslie Prier. But when Leslie ran into him in 2022, things were different. He was clean cut, off drugs, and making a name for himself. But very soon, he was about to reap what he had sown all those years ago."
"There's there's just there's there's there's due process, right? Due process. So you're saying that like So you're saying I'm guilty before I've even been put it into a court of law."
"You're saying there's probable cause to believe that you were there when"
"I think what you're saying was the contrary to that. So okay, but I don't remember. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know."
"What we're trying to figure out is how your blood was at the scene that day."
"If there's an alternate explanation, that's why we wanted to talk to you today. Okay. So, I feel like you just need to take a breath for a second. Okay, that's what we're trying to figure out. Why is your blood there? Could it have been, you know, an interrupted burglary? Did something happen where you didn't expect anybody to be home?"
"I have no idea. I don't remember. I don't recall. again. You're asking me questions that I don't know. And I asked you you did you just asked me a question and I asked for legal representation. And you guys are very smart smug looking at me like I'm like I've done something and of course it's innocent until proven guilty. Right."
"Am I wrong or am I right?"
"You are entitled to your due process. Absolutely."
"This is insane. This is insane. I don't I I really don't know what else to say other than please allow me to you you read it to me, right? That I am allowed legal representation."
"Absolutely."
"This would be the best thing for me to do right now. I don't ask any more questions."
"You said you wanted to know more, so we were telling you more."
"I'm sorry. I just I'm I'm really on edge and I can see"
"upset and Yeah. Yeah."
"Okay. You would like legal representation. That is absolutely your right. We will not ask you any more questions. All right."
"And how do I go about doing this? What's"
"When we're done talking to you, they're going to walk you back over to processing. And once they are done, I don't know if they've done fingerprints and all that stuff with you yet. Once they're done with all that and you meet with I think in DC, you're going to still meet with a commissioner and be charged with this paperwork for this or be served with it. and then you'll have an opportunity to make whatever phone calls you need to make."
"Okay. I'm I'm really confused and I'm really at a loss and I I don't know. I don't have any recollection of being involved with any of this."
"You keep saying you don't remember and you don't have any recollection."
"Well, but if somebody was not involved, it would be an adamant I didn't do."
"Oh, I didn't do it. I did. I definitely didn't do it. Like this is absolutely I definitely this is you know I've been an alcoholic in recovery for years now. I've been sober for years and there are many many times in which it earlier life wasn't great you know abusive father uh issues at you know but at the same time this isn't something that I I I know I didn't do it I know I wasn't involved and I just don't understand how this has come to this I really wish I knew and I really wish I could tell you some give you some answers and give you more feedback from an honest perspective because I just don't know. I just don't know."
"I don't know either. That's why we wanted to talk to you. I don't know why your blood is there. Also, I don't know."
"Wow."
"The only person that knows is Leslie and she can't tell us."
"Wow. Can't believe it. Do I get to make phone call? Do I get"
"We're done. Do you have any other questions for us?"
"I I don't I don't know. I if something comes up I I mean I'm I'm [ __ ] flabber. I I I don't know what to say or what to do or what to think right now."
"Okay."
"Well, after you talk to your attorney, if you want to talk to us again, my name and information is on the paperwork that you're going to get. You can have your attorney reach out to Montgomery County. He'll be able to figure out or he or she, whoever, um will be able to figure out how to get in touch with us. Okay. Okay."
"All right."
Ultimately, Eugene never gave a reason for murdering Leslie Prier. He repeatedly denied remembering the murder. Detectives, however, believed that he may have broken into the home in order to steal money for drugs since he knew from dating Lauren that the back door was always left open. They suspect that he was surprised by Leslie when he entered the home, and as a result, he bludgeoned her to death. Sadly though, we will never know the real truth because Eugene has kept that from both Lauren and the public. Eugene took a plea deal and was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the death of Leslie Prier. Lauren is both shocked and relieved that the person who killed her mother is finally behind bars. Sadly, her father, who had been the prime suspect for years, passed away in 2017, never knowing who took his wife from the world. His obituary read that he had never recovered from the loss of her. If you found this case interesting, well, then you need to check out my video on the evil neighbor who drove into a birthday party.