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In this series, a 20-year-old murder case was re-examined. The killer turned out to be the person nobody would have expected. Leslie Prier was murdered by her daughter's high school boyfriend, Eugene Glee Gore. Glee Gore initially denied he was responsible, but later admitted his guilt and court. Stephanie Ramos reported a story for 2020 last year, and of course, hosted this podcast. And today, I've got Stephanie here with me to ask exactly what it was like reporting out the story.

And she's got some fresh reporting that you have not heard yet. Stephanie, thanks so much for being here. Thank you, Brad. It's great to be here.

So first off, I wanted to ask you. I had forgotten. This was one of your first big sort of 2020

investigations that you were sort of leading the charge on. What was it like just as a reporter,

“you know, learning about this case and going through it all?”

Yeah, it was so interesting. I admired the 2020 team for so many years. They are absolutely brilliant. And I wanted to work on something long form like this for a while. And I learned so much just about the process of putting together a long piece like this where you have so many different characters, so many different people that you're interviewing and you're gaining information from and then you're weaving all of this together. And trying to figure out kind of like who knows what

when to see specific to this case. What was interesting about this is that we were waiting for the sentencing. So as we were putting this together in the summer and going and making those trips to Chevy Chase and interviewing the neighbors and Brett Reedy, we still hadn't heard from Eugene in court. So it was still news breaking as you're putting it. Exactly. We're watching it all in real time. So it was just fascinating. It was great to really work on this. And I, I think just

“being able to sit down with Lauren, prayer, Leslie's daughter, and have her trust us to tell her”

story. And for her to be so open, this can't be easy for her. And that's the thing is when we first discovered Eugene Lee Gort was responsible for killing Leslie, prayer, I couldn't stop thinking about Lauren. Because how do you even begin to wrap your mind around the idea that the person you went to prom with? You probably haven't thought about them most days since then. Murdered your mom. It's horrific. And I spoke with Lauren at length, Leslie Pierce daughter, while we were working

on this 2020 episode. And all of these years, she had no idea who did this to her mother. She said that her life would be so much different if her mother was here. And she just was holding

out hope for so many years. She was coming to the realization that she would never know who did this

to her mother. And then she gets the call from these two detectives who say, we've been assigned to this case. We're going to figure out who did this to your mother. So when I spoke with Lauren and she talked about that moment when she found out it was Eugene Glee Gort. She was shocked to learn who did this. She almost fainted. And we heard a lot of police tape in this series. We heard Sandy Priors interviews with the initial case detectives through to Eugene Glee Gort's interview with

cold case detectives 20 years later. By the way, that's some of the most compelling tape I have heard in a long time, just like, and I love that you guys just let it play because you see how bizarre this back and forth is with this guy breaking down. Anyway, so we heard all this really fast naming tape. I've heard there was another police interview that we haven't heard so far. That's right. So cold case detectives, Tara Augustin, and Allison DuPoy, they interviewed

Eugene Glee Gort's brother, Andre Glee Gort. And this was after Eugene had been arrested. So throughout this process, he's just kind of out there, you know, related to this suspected killer. And detectives hadn't spoken to him, but this interview happened after Eugene was arrested for this crime. What do we know about him? Who is this brother? So Eugene and Andre, they both grew up in the same home, same neighborhood. And this is an upper middle class neighborhood. Very

nice. Front lawns are gorgeous. The homes are great. Everyone has some sort of interesting

just a few minutes away from the prayer house. So it was walking distance. There's this park

in the neighborhood that connects all of these different streets. It's a very interesting neighborhood, but they lived nearby with their parents. And their father was born in Romania. Their mother was American. One was an academic, a teacher at a university. Their in D.C. and the other parent was a world bank employee. So really solid job. Andre and Eugene's parents divorced when Eugene was in high school. The brothers are four years apart. That's so Andre's a little older.

“Why did detectives reach out to Andre then? What do they think he could offer?”

Okay. So I'm going to take you back to 2024. Right. So these cold case detectives,

Tara Augustin and Allison DuPoy. They were looking for a person that the unknown male DNA

belonged to from the crime scene. This is the DNA that was found at the crime scene at the home of Leslie Prayer. So they used genetic genealogy. And it led them to the name Glee Gore. We know and detectives know that Lauren dated a guy by the name of Eugene Glee Gore. So they've got the name Glee Gore in their case file. And they know that there was this family living nearby living near the prayer house with the name Glee Gore. So they've got Eugene Andre and the father.

They told us if that DNA did not match Eugene Andre was going to be next on the list. Because the DNA is pointing us in a direction like the DNA is pointing us to Glee Gore. Yes.

“Yes to Eugene Glee Gore. They said if that DNA does not match Eugene Glee Gore,”

Andre might be our guy. But of course Eugene's DNA did come back with a match and detectives quickly ruled out his brother Andre and his father as possible suspects. So Eugene was arrested in June of 2024 in July, just the following month, detectives asked Andre to come in for an interview. So that's when they spoke with him. They wanted to find out if he could add anything any information like what he knew or did it know about Eugene from the time of the murder.

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questions. What do they say? What does he say? Okay, so it's summer of 2024. The detectives, Augustine and DuPoi, they match the DNA sample from the crime scene to Eugene Glygor. Authorities arrest Eugene Glygor, sitting on a stoop outside his apartment in Washington, DC, and then a few weeks later, detectives ask Andre to come in. And there is a video of this

So, I'll describe Andre for you just a little bit. He looks very similar to Eugene. They're both slim with dark hair. They've got glasses. And detectives, they wanted to know more. They wanted to see, this is the suspected killer's brother. What could he know? Did he hear anything during that time about the murder? What extra details could he provide? So the detectives start asking Andre about his connections to the prayer family. Did he ever meet more and more and

pleasantly informed? Yes. So Andre goes on to tell them about his pet sitting at the prayer house,

that he had watched the prayer's dog. So remember in the first episode, when Brett Riedy

Leslie's coworker arrived at the prayer home, they go inside, clearly something has gone wrong. And Brett Riedy gets a bit spooked by the basement door. It starts at night. Super slow. So at

“this point, he tells us he's thinking, is this Leslie coming up the stairs? Is she injured?”

Who's down there? Is there some perpetrators still in the home? Which is why authorities wanted Brett and Sandy to leave the home at this point? Just in case someone was in there. It was the dog, the prayers, family dog opening up this door. And it was the same dog that Andre had dog set,

a black lab called Boomer. So Andre tells the detectives that he had looked after Boomer a few times

and that the prayers either gave them a key to their house or left one somewhere for him to use. So he was pretty familiar with his home. I mean, that seems significant then that he is saying like I knew the prayer family like I had interacted with them at least. Right, Andre knew them well enough that when Leslie died, he went to her memorial service along with his parents. And this is the

“part that really stood out to Lauren's friends that Eugene wasn't there, that Eugene didn't go to”

the memorial, but yet Eugene's brother and his parents went to Leslie's memorial. The prom dates

not there. It's like everyone who kind of knows the person that she's most involved with.

Exactly, exactly. But this bit of information did show detectives just how close he had been with the family where he was there. His parents were there. And the only one missing was Eugene because he's apparently on a road trip across the country. So detectives told Andre in this interview that part of the story about Eugene and not going to the memorial service had really struck them at strange. We know that he was out of town, that we have like records and things to show that

he wasn't in the area at all during that time of the service and things like that. And we thought that was a little bit peculiar because you know a truck's girlfriend's mother got murdered at the street. Yeah. You're here if I would definitely want to see there. And obviously, you felt you can tell. Yeah. So that's one of the main things that we're going to be confused about like why Andre told detectives that he also thought it was odd that Eugene didn't go, but he said he often

“didn't know where Eugene went at the time. And you have to keep in mind that these two brothers”

despite the fact that they grew up in the same home, same parents, they weren't very close. I didn't know where he was, what you did, I think really. We just were close and just different. Yeah. I want you to bring to people too. Andre told detectives that his relationship with his brother was straight. That's interesting then. So this back in 2001. So the relationship between the brothers kind of frosty. What about later? Because we did hear like Eugene kind of

reinvented himself as the years went on as we got further away from this murder. Did he bring any of that Zen that newfound perspective to his relationship with his brother at all? It didn't seem like it. So this was a really interesting thing that popped up a few years before Eugene's arrest. Andre claimed that Eugene was trying to sabotage him. And that was his word in the police interview sabotage. He alleged that Eugene was trying to get him evicted from his home and at the time,

Andre was living in a house owned by their mom and Eugene had recently separated from his wife. So Andre claimed that Eugene was trying to get him to move out so that he could move in. I didn't know the extent of it. So I thought if I object my promise to me around the house, right, does that mean they're just dangerous? Well, I believe so too.

Andre told detectives he was afraid of Eugene. He said he was afraid Eugene would show up to the house unannounced and claims that Eugene had stolen from him in the past. But we should say,

Eugene has been convicted of second degree murder. He has never been convicted of theft.

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“And so Andre reaches out to Lauren Preer. What did she say? Remember, Lauren and Eugene.”

They had split up some two decades earlier. It's been a long time. Andre and Lauren weren't even friends. Even though Andre had come over to to Dog said he was familiar with the home. They weren't close friends. But like they knew each other. Alright, right. And Lauren had spent a lot of time at Eugene's Eugene's house. Eugene and Andre's house when they were in high school in dating. So in his interview, Andre told

the cold case detectives that he asked for her opinion on his relationship with Eugene. Lauren was not the only one Andre message. He also wrote to Eugene's first wife. In those messages, he wrote, quote, "I'm starting to get fearful of Eugene." And he asks her, "Do you think Eugene has a conscience or can feel remorse?" From her interview with detectives a few years later, Eugene's ex said that Andre could be dramatic. And I'm going to quote from her police interview here.

She said the brothers had this love hate for one another. And she thought that this was just another brotherly choral. And even in those messages, you can see she's like, well, hopefully you all can mend this relationship. But as for Lauren, she told me that she remembered getting that message from Andre. She didn't send anything back. So she didn't respond to him. But the next time Lauren and Andre would see each other was at one of Eugene Glygors' court hearings. Well, and the one thing we kept

hearing was how shocked people were to hear that Eugene was the killer that he was pleading guilty to this, especially Lauren who at one point knew him so well. And I do want to come back to what I said earlier, just about finding out that your high school boyfriend killed your mom. Because all these

details about Eugene do help us make sense to that picture. But there's still a lot, I guess we'll never

“know. How does that shit with you as somebody who's reported on this for a while now?”

It's still shocking. It's I feel for Lauren because her life completely changed. And she was so close to her mother. She, she told us, this was her best friend. She had the the most perfect childhood.

had been welcomed into the family. Eugene Glygor would go on vacations with the prayer family.

He was a regular at that home while they were dating. So it's it's heartbreaking, but to know that Lauren has a little bit of peace just knowing after so many years. There's the relief. I mean, imagine going so long more than 20 years without without knowing. But for her, it was a shock.

“It's still a shock to this day. And she still has so many questions about why why did he do this?”

But at least she knows who didn't. And the kind of like what prosecutors would say was a cop out

of him saying, I don't exactly remember everything. Like that still has to be frustrating. I imagine. Oh, absolutely. And even though he apologized to Lauren in court, there's still no explanation. Why did you go in to the house? Eugene still had these huge memory blackouts about the day of the murder. In fact, prosecutors took real exception to that. And I want to read you a little bit from the sentencing memo. It's a little spicy in the most people way possible. They said that Eugene's

“memory blanks quote conveniently allows him to avoid taking full responsibility for the most gruesome”

and calculated aspects of the murder. Prosecutors made the point that Eugene was able to drive a car, kill someone and try to clean up the crime scene. Because there were still smears, blood smears in the foyer, on heading up the stairs. But it was evident that someone tried to clean this up. Which then doesn't sound like that person is completely incapacitated or something. Right. Something doesn't add up. Eugene's lawyer tried to argue against that saying that the

cleanup attempts were, quote, obviously frantic and not planned or considered. They also said that the

“memory blanks weren't an excuse, but actually consistent with what's called a fragmented blackout.”

And that can happen under the influence of alcohol. But no matter how you look at it, Lauren will probably

never know the true details of that day. It's just absolutely fascinating in case,

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