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. i can only attribute that to, you 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 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.
purposefully corrupt and delete those files? that s correct. yes. that s the only way i can explain why, out of all the dates and video that i can recover, that s the only date range i can t recover from. though no one knows exactly what was on the missing video, the prosecutor suggested that it was probably video of matt leili carrying his wife s body out of the house. you heard her in closing, the prosecutor let nique leili have the last word. you need to listen to what she says and what she lived. welcome to my world. you killed me a long time ago. welcome to my world. you killed me a long time ago. find him guilty. because that s exactly what he is. coming up has the prosecution really proved anything? i think their gut feeling was she is buried this close to the house. it s got to have been him.
something that tells us the story of what s up with nique? that was my hope. we re mainly going for anything in the house that has any sort of memory. be it computers. be it he had a dvr hooked up to the surveillance system. the detective knew it would take time to review and catalog all of that material, so since the police had found no sign of blood, nor any signs of struggle in the house, the detective reviewed the evidence he did have, particularly matt s claim that his wife was bonkers. are any of her family members corroborating this emotional instability issue that s raised by the husband? none whatsoever. this is not a woman off her meds. no. they re completely shocked by this this version of events that matthew leili is giving me. are any of them suspicious of matt, the husband? yes, they were all suspicious of matt. nique s daughter alex had lived with her mother and matt until she was 16, and there was plenty she had to say to the detective.
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 an individual have to go in and
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 was shut off at some point in the morning. matt believes that nique shut it off. he is insistent that he did not shut it off, that the system was shut off by nique. so, whatever happened to her, the cameras didn t see it. the cameras did not see it. that is absolutely correct. as for those audio recordings of the couple s screaming arguments, clegg pointed out that most were recorded in