Seeking Answers and Final Reflections

This is Deborah Roberts here with the final episode of our latest trrue Cime series from twenty twenty and ABC Audio Blood and water If you aren't caught up, you can still go back and listen through the whole series. Just search Blood and Water on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast app Now, here's the final episode Blood and water Hey there, it's Wayfair here, where delivery and setup are as easy as a few taps on your phone. You're relaxing in an old hammock, scrolling Wayfair's app when you spot it, a brand new patio set. Next thing you know, Wayfair delivers it right to your patio and sets it up Whoa, you need a new grill too? Allright, Wayfair's got you covered. Wayfair's room of choice delivery and fast experts set up on qualifying orders, life gets a little easier. Visit wayfair dot com or the Wayfair app. Wayfair everyvery style every home I'm Brad Milky, host of ABC's Start here podcast, and if you're joining us, it's because you just listen to the latest series from ABC Audio in twenty twenty, Blood and Water In this series, a twenty year old murder case was reexamined, the killer turned out to be the person nobody would have expected. Leslie Prier was murdered by her daughter's high school boyfriend, Eugene Gligor. Gigor initially denied he was responsible but later admitted his guilt in court. Stephanie Ramos reported a story for twenty twenty last year and of course, hosted this podcast 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 like big sort of twenty twenty 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 had admired the twenty twenty team for so many years. They are absolutely brilliant and I had 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. trying to figure out kind of like who knows what when too, seem so specific to this case. What's interesting about this is that We were waiting for the sentencing. So as we were putting this together during the summer and and making those trips to Chevy Chase and interviewing the neighbors and Brett Reedy, we still hadn't heard from Eugene in court. So there's 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 think just