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Genetic Genealogy Solves Mother's Mysterious Murder | Crime Alert 05.28.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Climb ahert I may see race breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 1: When Leslie J. Prier, fifty and married mother of two,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't show up for work, a coworker calls husband, Carl Priyer,
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  Speaker 1: and the Maryland Police officers find dried blood, a October table,
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  Speaker 1: and a moved rug.
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  Speaker 2: In the foyer.
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  Speaker 1: Leslie's strangled body found in a shower on the second
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  Speaker 1: floor of the home. Detectives find DNA evidence at home,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't match the husband or anyone in their.
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  Speaker 3: System, Nancy. The case went cold for more than two
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  Speaker 3: decades before new analysis tools finally gave detectives a clue
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  Speaker 3: as to the identity of the killer. Leslie's daughter, Lauren's
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  Speaker 3: high school boyfriend, Eugene Gleigor. The teens were broken up
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  Speaker 3: at the time of the murder, but Lauren was surprised
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  Speaker 3: Gleigor didn't attend her mom's funeral since they dated for
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  Speaker 3: five years. She says, never in a million years did
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  Speaker 3: she imagine he would hurt her mother. Gleigor's DNA was
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  Speaker 3: found in multiple locations throughout the home, but the most
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  Speaker 3: stamming under Leslie's fingernails.
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  Speaker 1: Cops arrest Gleigor, who admits to the brutal murder. He
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  Speaker 1: faces a max of thirty years behind bars on murder
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  Speaker 1: II sentencing sec. August twenty eight. More crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this Now with the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: breaking news Crime a Lines by John Limley.
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  Speaker 2: In New Orleans, a jail maindenance worker is under arrest,
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  Speaker 2: accused of helping ten inmates escape after allegedly being threatened
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  Speaker 2: at knife point. Twenty two year old Nicholas Grigsby told
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  Speaker 2: investigators he shut off water to a jail cell toilet,
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  Speaker 2: exposing a hole in the wall the men used to
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  Speaker 2: flee early on the morning of May sixteenth. One of
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  Speaker 2: the inmates, he says, had stabbed him days earlier and
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  Speaker 2: forced him to cooperate. Authorities call it one of the
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  Speaker 2: largest jail breaks in recent US history. Graffiti found inside
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  Speaker 2: the cell read too easy lol. Grigsby is being held
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  Speaker 2: on one point one million dollar bond. Five inmates, including
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  Speaker 2: nineteen year old murder suspect Corey Boyd, are back in custody.
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff Susan Hudson's as multiple failures, including a loan, guard
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  Speaker 2: on duty and delayed response, made the escape possible. She's
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  Speaker 2: now suspended her re election campaign. Citing a need to
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  Speaker 2: restore public trust. In a rare move, Kansas Parole Board
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  Speaker 2: has rescinded its decision to release a man convicted of
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  Speaker 2: killing a state trooper nearly five decades ago. Our correspondent
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  Speaker 2: Sydney Sumner has the details.
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  Speaker 3: The Kansas Prisoner Review Board has reversed its earlier decision
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  Speaker 3: to grant parole to Jimmy k Nelns, now seventy eight,
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  Speaker 3: who was convicted in nineteen seventy nine for the aggravated
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  Speaker 3: kidnapping and murder of Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Conroy O'Brien
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  Speaker 3: during a traffic stop on the Kansas Turnpike near Matfield Green.
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  Speaker 3: Nelms was sentenced to two new life terms plus nine years,
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  Speaker 3: but became eligible for parole under the more lenient laws
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  Speaker 3: of the time. The Board's initial decision to grant parole
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  Speaker 3: in March sparked outrage from law enforcement groups and by
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  Speaker 3: partisan political leaders, including Democratic Governor Laura Kelley and Republican
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  Speaker 3: Attorney General Chris Kobok. Following a new hearing on May sixteenth,
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  Speaker 3: the board rescinded its decision, citing the overwhelming public outcry
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  Speaker 3: and concerns over public safety. The Kansas State Troopers Association
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  Speaker 3: expressed relief, stating today justice was reaffirmed and we are grateful.
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  Speaker 3: This case has reignited discussions about the parole process in Kansas,
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  Speaker 3: particularly the twenty eleven restructuring that shifted board appointments from
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  Speaker 3: gubernatorial to Department of Corrections control, a move critics argue
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  Speaker 3: has reduced accountability.
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  Speaker 2: The Nelm's case has prompted renewed calls to reform Kansas's
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  Speaker 2: parole process. State lawmakers save changes to how board members
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  Speaker 2: are appointed may be next Thanks John.
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  Speaker 1: Family of Amy Wang twenty four, says she spends most
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  Speaker 1: evenings at home in San Mateo, California, in gray pajamas.
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  Speaker 1: When Amy doesn't show up for work, her parents alarmed
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  Speaker 1: police find her car with hazard lights flashing, abandoned on
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  Speaker 1: the westbound San Mateo Bridge. Dash Cam footage shows her
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  Speaker 1: at two twenty one a m. Walking on the bridge
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  Speaker 1: in her pajamas. Her dad uses a backup key to
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  Speaker 1: start the car, finding her wallet and phone inside the
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  Speaker 1: house and car key missing. Security footage shows her car
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  Speaker 1: entering but not leaving the bridge. The footage not clear
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  Speaker 1: enough to see any activity of people on the bridge.
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  Speaker 1: Amy five to one Asian, black hair, brown eyes. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info on Amy Wang, please contact San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.