Lee Mongerson Gilley is an American software developer from Houston, Texas, United States. The city is around 917 miles away from Clemson, South Carolina, USA.
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BIOGRAPHY
Gilley and Christa Nicole Bauer Gilley met while attending Clemson University in Clemson. They have two children together.
Aside from Clemson, Lee has lived in other parts of South Carolina including Anderson and Fountain Inn. He has lived in different parts of California, USA including Long Beach and San Diego and previously lived in Naperville, Illinois, USA and Laurel, Maryland, USA.
In August 2025, Lee turned 39. Here are 13 more things about him:
- From 2004 to 2008, he attended Clemson University where he earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
- From 2009 to 2010, he was an instrumentation engineer at Chicago Bridge and Iron Company (CB&I) in Beaumont, Texas, USA and Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- From 2010 to 2011, he was a field engineer at CB&I in San Diego, in Carson, California and in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA.
- In 2011, he founded Mongoose Coding in San Diego.
- From 2014 to 2016, he was a Big Brothers Big Sisters of America mentor and in 2015, he joined the University of California, San Diego in San Diego as an advanced Microsoft Excel instructor.
- In 2017, he married Christa.
- In 2018, he founded the software consulting company Docmo in Houston.
- In 2020, Christa gave birth to their first child.
- In 2022, Christa gave birth to their second child.
- In 2023, he allegedly had an affair with a woman in California.
- In 2024, he was accused of fatally strangling Christa.
- In 2025, while on bond for Christa’s murder, he allegedly communicated with the Californian woman he had an affair with in 2023, discussing plans to flee to Mexico and other countries.
- In 2026, he was arrested in Italy.
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TIMELINE
Lee was 6 months older than Christa. She was from Summerville, South Carolina.
2010s
- In February 2014, he joined Big Brothers Big Sisters of America as a mentor.
- In November 2016, his Big Brothers Big Sisters of America mentorship ended.
- In April 2011, he founded Mongoose Coding.
- He was the Mongoose Coding lead developer until December 2014.
- He was the Mongoose Coding lead designer until December 2019.
- In July 2015, he became a University of California, San Diego instructor.
- On January 28, 2017, he and Christa got married at The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Charleston, South Carolina.
- In March 2018, he founded Docmo.
2020s
- On October 7, 2024, he allegedly fatally strangled Christa, who was 9 weeks pregnant with their third child, in their residence in Houston and called 911 to report that she had tried to kill herself by overdosing.
- On October 11, 2024, he was arrested, booked at the Harris County Jail in Houston and charged with the murders of Christa and their unborn child.
- On October 14, 2024, a judge denied his bond request.
- On October 17, 2024, he appeared in court in Harris County, Texas where his bond was set at $1 million. The conditions of his bond include turning in his passport, having no contact with his family including his children, having no drugs, alcohol and firearms and wearing global positioning system (GPS) monitoring.
- On October 21, 2024, he was released from jail after posting a $1 million bond.
- On December 3, 2024, a temporary restraining order was filed against him in a trial court in Harris County.
- On December 13, 2024, he filed a petition asking the court to compel the Honorable Fransheneka Watson to vacate the order.
- On December 19, 2024, he filed an unopposed motion to dismiss his mandamus petition.
- On May 1, 2026, his global positioning system (GPS) monitor started generating a strap tamper alert so Pretrial Services attempted to reach him by phone and as of May 4, 2026, the alert was still going off.
- On May 4, 2026, his attorney Dick DeGuerin told KHOU that he left the U.S. and flew from Canada to Italy where he was taken into custody by authorities.
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