like most marriages, nique s had its ups and downs. early july 2011 when nique disappeared was one of the down times. matt freely admitted that when he talked to the detective the day after he reported her missing. this is not the first time she has run away, okay. she has run away and she s been gone for two hours. she has been gone for three hours, four hours one time. she has gone to work with a bag of clothes and then come back after work. you know. but she has never been gone overnight. so he s telling you this is just the latest of a continuing episode that my wife has. correct. matthew in this telephone call which the detective recorded, matt leili said his wife was mentally unbalanced. she is not very happy with her accepted, okay. we ve been in and out of therapists. there s a fear of intimacy. you know, she s got no problem with girls. but when it comes to a male, they are a threat. they are all my life, guys have used me for sex. he is getting a host of i
suspicious of matt. nique s daughter alex had lived with her mother and matt until she was 16, and there was plenty she d to say to the detective. i wanted him to know what was going on in the house. i wanted him to know that i suspected him from the beginning. that my mom would have never left her girls. and i wanted him to know he would restrain her, lock her in bathrooms. why did he do this? the whole thing with the cameras? he is just extremely controlling. still, despite the family s suspicion and the fact that the semen found on nique s body proved to be matt s, the police didn t feel they had enough evidence to make an arrest. there is no ankle bracelet on this man. you haven t taken his passport. no. does anybody say, if you re going to be moving around, tell us where you re going to be. is it that kind of relationship with the authorities? no. there is not really a relationship with us. what about all the computer evidence, the video files from matt s hard dr
melvin. nique leili was dead and now her husband was telling police that this seemingly happy mom was violent and often mentally unstable. but investigators were about to get a better view into that home than they could have imagined here again is dennis murphy with the house on sidney s cove. within minutes of finding nique s body, police raced to the leili home about a mile away. what they observed right away was astounding. the home security system that matt leili had casually mentioned to detective everson a few days earlier, appeared more appropriate to fort knox than a house in the burbs . and when you first see the house from the road, you can see all these huge, big cameras on the eaves of the house, both sides. there were 21 security cameras in all, with a tricked-out control room to monitor and record everything. he sounds like one-man nsa. it was a low-crime area. so, it almost boggled the mind as to why he felt he needed quite so much surveillance coverage for
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the jury, prosecutor lisa jones depicted matt leili as a couch 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?