The After Show: Who Killed Leslie Preer?
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Hi there everybody, I'm Debra Roberts and welcome to 2020 The After Show where we pull back the curtains on some of our reporting at 2020 to give you a sense of what happens behind the scenes. And today we're gonna take you to an affluent Maryland suburb, Chevy Chase. And our story begins with a 50 year old married mom who fails to show up for work. Police would find her body on the second floor of her home in the shower. And this was a case that just went unsolved for 23 years until recently. And there were so many questions around this case. Well, of course, we had to dive in. We focus on this story in 2020's episode called First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder. And of course, you can listen to it right here on your podcast feed or watch on Hulu and Disney Plus.
The correspondent in that story is Stephanie Ramos. Hello, Stephanie. Hello. I thought I was the Energizer Bunny. Oh my gosh, you are on World News Tonight. You're on ABC News Live, on Prime, you're on Nightline, and now you're on 2020. What was that like for you switching gears? Because doing these shorter stories is so different from an in-depth two-hour investigation.
Oh, absolutely. And as a national correspondent here at ABC News, I mean, a lot of the work that I do is day of news coverage. So this is actually something that I had wanted to do for quite some time, be part of a project, a long term project where you can really get into the details and sit down for these interviews and spend some time. with the individuals that are really sharing their life story. So it was great to be a part of this team, and they brilliantly put together all of the pieces. And it took several months, but we were able to tell this story, what happened to Leslie Preer, and speak to friends and family, and just really get... into it.
Well, to call your team brilliant, I got to tell you, you're already scoring some points here in 2020 because, you know, they do so good. They do a great job. Well, let's jump into this because, Stephanie, this story I remember reading about in a couple of magazines and I thought, wow, that's very strange.
What happened in the discovery of Leslie Preer’s body and why did the case go cold?
Leslie Prier found murdered in the shower in her home. The shower is still going. And, you know, it was just such a bizarre mystery. There were little clues here and there. But what was your first take when you heard about this story down in Maryland?
I found it fascinating that after so many years, more than two decades, these two detectives, these two women, moms, just hard-charging women were able to put the pieces together. Of course, there are a lot more technological advances now compared to in 2001 when this murder took place. But just fascinated that there was justice at the end of this. Even though it was an unsolved case, a cold case for so long, Lauren Prier who we spent a long amount of time with, her life was just turned upside down.
The daughter of Leslie.
The daughter of Leslie Prier. Just to see it all come together because these two women were assigned to this case, and they said, we're gonna help this family. We're gonna find out who did this.
We're gonna solve it. You know, I've done stories before with a pair of female detectives, and it's always interesting, sometimes the women's intuition might be a little bit different from some of their male detectives, in the same department. And sometimes there's something there that they just can think of and see that others don't.
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