only date range i can t recover she says and welcome to killed me a long time a welcou killed me a long time ago. find the house. that s what you call nique and matt s daughters say that in their parents marriage, matt was the victim. she took a heel and threw it and i myself had to duck from it. was it being thrown at your dad? yes. when dateline continues. ck fro it was it being thrown at your dad? yes when dateline continues g snack. you might think that s wasteful, but it s not. cause even half loads use 80% less water than handwashing. saving up to $130 a year on utilities. and with cascade platinum plus, you just. scrape. load. done. so next time you re waiting to run it, just run it. dare to dish differently. is a new title really necessary? sir, after bestowing the gift of renting ease to millions, a bump is in order. okay, let s see. oh, hey. what s this? lord of the lease! i m not a hat-person. yeah, no. emperor of the rentalverse. that s funny. no.
that matt leili was, in fact, an innocent man, falsely accused by the state of georgia. they have a theory, and that theory is nothing more than a hunch. it is a guess. so if you were to ask yourself questions that might have been posed of you if you were to have gone to journalism school who, what, where, why and how you will find that, during the course of this trial, the state of georgia will fall woefully short in proving the allegations that they are making against this man. i think their gut feeling was, come on, she s naked, she s buried this close to the house, she s obviously hidden. it s got to have been him. that s what you call a circumstantial case. yes. the defense attorney concedes he had some difficult circumstances to overcome in this case, beginning with the six hours of missing surveillance camera video from the night nique leili disappeared. clegg insists his client did not erase those files as the prosecution claimed. the video surveillance system w
yes, my husband won t let me leave the house. my wife is yelling and screaming and just woke up the children. officers dispatched to the leili home that day offered to help nique leave. but, as this still photo shows, she wouldn t budge from the front porch. she wanted him to go. he wouldn t go. he wanted her to go. she wasn t going to leave without the girls. so the argument they were pretty much at an impasse. two weeks later nique leili was dead. in a house where practically everything was recorded, the prosecutor claimed it was no accident that the video covering the crucial hours when nique leili went missing was somehow corrupted. the surveillance system was in fact recording during that time period. is that correct? that is correct, yes. the prosecutor countered matt s claim that nique had somehow turned off the security system by calling the police department s i. t. guy, chris ford, as her last witness. so, detective, in your professional opinion then, did
have existed seemed to be gone now. we made our own decision. we don t like that side of the family. so, we want to stay away. it s not him forcing us to stay away from them. in closing, tom clegg argued that, while the state may have proved matt leili unlikable, it had not answered any of the basic journalism questions. who, what, where, when, why or how? in closing i said, you have heard all of this evidence. the state still cannot answer any of these particular questions. what does that tell you? that tells you they have fallen woefully short of proving matt s guilt. after eight days of testimony, both sides of the family prepared for a long and anxious wait for a verdict. turns out they didn t have to pace long. after just three hours of deliberation, the jury announced it had reached a verdict. i m going to ask you at this time if you would stand and
that kind of weapon. so the only two people who know what happened in that house, charlie and his mother, have stayed mom all this time. neither was ever interviewed by police. people will say that this is a kid who killed his father and cross into the uni purchase. court, on t in his filing, charlie admitted prand his young life, he ple hiw page affidavit in his o qput r then, they found her. [screams] you can t! launching a mystery that dozens join the search. when do you think you can come home? then, they found her. launching a mystery that would divide of this family. i suspected him from the beginning. one daughter thought her stepdad meant it. the other said no way. matt had a theory of his own. had nicki taken off and found