front porch to have a smoke just after midnight on july 9th, 2011. the day she went missing. after that, nothing. what happened after midnight in that house? exactly. that was the million dollar question. the video files from midnight until 6:00 in the morning that day were corrupted, according to the tech guy who examined them. we could see footage, but what it was, it was very disjointed. most of it was not time stamped. most of it was not date stamped. so it was not in a manner that you could just go in and click play and just play through everything. the bottom line, the police had zero, nada, zilch. and so, with no compelling reason to stick around lawrenceville, matt leili moved back up north to vermont, to be closer to his family. that was in february of 2012, almost seven months to the day after nique s body was found. nique s stepmother, betty chatham, says the move effectively ended all contact between nique s family and her two youngest daughters amanda, 12, and rebe
the future starts now. we moved out of the city so our little sophie could appreciate nature. but then he got us t-mobile home internet. i was just trying to improve our signal, so some of the trees had to go. i might ve taken it a step too far. (chainsaw revs) (tree crashes) (chainsaw continues) (daughter screams) let s pretend for a second that you didn t let down your entire family. what would that reality look like? well i guess i would ve gotten us xfinity. and we d have a better view. do you need mulch? by early february 2016, the what, we have a ton of mulch. prosecution had rested its case against matt leili. the husband was portrayed as an eavesdropping control freak who had killed his wife during an argument. leili s defense attorney, tom clegg, insisted
i am sick of playing your games. what is clear from the recordings she left behind is that nique leili lived a trouble and tormented life. this is what i live day in and day out is keep my mouth shut, my head down, and do exactly what s expected of me. tell me about nique s personality. she was very funny. she and i used to laugh all the time. and she was very feisty. she would say what she meant. she didn t mince a lot of words. as sisters, amy robinson and nique leili were ten years apart, but according to amy they were always close. boy, you two look alike in those old photos. we do. i was thinking maybe you re swapping out each other s clothes, but of course you re ten years apart. that didn t stop it from happening. i wore a lot of her hand-me-downs. by the mid 90s nique had been married and divorced twice and she and her young daughter alex were sharing an apartment with amy. we had a good time with that too. we just laughed, putting up pictures in the apart
potato sponging off his hard-working wife. nique leili was the breadwinner. the family was in debt. up to $300,000 in debt. furthermore, jones said, matt leili tried to control his wife by turning their home into a virtual north korea, with cameras and recording devices everywhere. lenses aimed at them as they sat on the couch and watched tv. you will take a look into this marriage, ladies and gentlemen, in this case. you will hear the voices of nique leili and the defendant in this case arguing. nique s murder, she claimed, was simply matt leili s final act of control. i think they got into an argument. that he wanted to have sex. that he drugged her, that he has his way. she is loud, she is not able to resist as much as it progresses. that he silences her. that he strangles her, he sits on her, he asphyxiates her to where she can t breathe. not meaning to, maybe? nig please get off o nex whether there w tracked her phone as to have is being an a it was har s i am reac
after his arrest, nique s leili s daughters, amanda and rebecca, posted an edited video on youtube in support of their dad. in the video the girls claimed that their mother hated her own family and those same spiteful relatives were the primary reason their dad was in jail. for nique s family, that video was devastating. what, they wondered, had happened to those girls in the four years they had been in vermont. as far as i can tell, he poisoned them against us. and i can only attribute that to them living in a house with a master manipulator. the notion of matt leili as a master manipulator would become a central theme when his murder trial began in january 2016. morning, ladies and gentlemen. in her opening statement to