Stephanie Ramos

Eugene repeatedly calls me a whore and yells into my face.

He throws objects, punches walls, and I fear for my safety when he has these outbursts.

I am seeking protection from this verbal abuse and escalation.

The petition was ultimately denied by the court, which said there were, quote, no reasonable grounds to believe that abuse as defined in the statute occurred.

Detectives also spoke with Gligor's other ex-wife.

She said Gligor could be a different person when he drank.

He definitely started taking two different directions, where my friend was making celery juice, and his was hiding a bottle under, you know, a kitchen counter while working kind of thing.

But he did a really good job of...

I guess, juggle and hiding.

I don't know what you want to call that.

It got to a point with both of them that they ended up getting divorced because of his substance abuse issues.

For detectives, an image of Eugene Gligor was coming into focus.

seeing that one of his ex-wives had filed for a petition for a protection order, immediately that kind of put red flags in my mind because I'm like, okay, well, that's because of either a threat of violence or a fear of violence.

When detectives suspected that Gligor might have killed Leslie Prier, they still needed more evidence.

Remember, at this point, the detectives have the crime scene DNA from an unknown male.

They had used genetic genealogy to find possible relatives of whoever's DNA that was.

That process led them to the name Gligor.

What detectives did not have was Eugene Gligor's DNA.

Without that, they couldn't be sure that his DNA matched what was at the scene.

But as Detective Augustin points out, getting a suspect's DNA is no easy task.