the officers telling matt leili that his missing wife had just been found, dead. the uniformed guys told me that he at one point seemed like he got sick. matt leili may well have been sick, sick of talking to the cops, because by now he had lawyered up and wasn t answering any of their questions. so you now have probable cause to get a search warrant? correct, correct. do you think, man, maybe this is going to help us? maybe these cameras saw and recorded 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
down. i am reaching out to you. i don t want to hold your hand right now. in retrospect for the prosecution, the recordings seemed to have the ring of prophecy. your hands around my throat. my hands were not on your but it was my throat they were around. they were not around your throat. stop telling that story like the prosecutors said nique leili s best chance for leaving her marriage came 12 days before she disappeared. after yet another argument nique had called 911. my husband won t let me leave the house. my wife is yelling and screaming and just woke up the children. 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 s
too. we just laughed, putting up pictures in the apartment and stuff. it sounds like a sitcom. at times it definitely was. eventually nique moved out, remarried and had two more daughters with her third husband, matt leili, a new yorker she met online. he made my sister laugh. so we would all laugh. after brief stays in oklahoma and mississippi, nique and matt returned to georgia and settled into this house on sidney s cove in lawrenceville. nique, a well regarded corporate money person, was the primary bread-winner. matt, a computer guy, ran a small business out of the house. he started going to, like, government surplus auctions and buying these big pallets of old, used computer parts and
felt pretty good. nique s family knew the feeling. i raised my hands and said, praise god. that was my reaction. in addition to facing a murder charge, matt leili was eventually charged with sexual assault and multiple counts of eavesdropping. a few weeks after his arrest, nique 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. i can only attribute that to, you know, 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 light is on in the bedroom. i can see it upstairs. i go upstairs to see what s going on. she is not there. all her stuff was still there. her car was still there. her keys, her phone. her purse was till there. he assumed she had left on foot or somebody picked her up. matt told the cop it was then that he realized his home security system had been turned off. i have a camera system in the house because i sell cameras. to the dvr. she always shuts it off when she leaves. when she is pissed off. she knows it pisses me off. this is the first you learn the place is wired for sound and pictures. correct. when her body was found days later near her home, learning the story told by those cameras became most urgent. coming up, a treasure trove of evidence. quantify it. what are we talking about? thousands of hours of material. just what will it reveal? it s absolutely a torture to listen to. when dateline extra continues.