recordings of the couple s screaming arguments, clegg pointed out that most were recorded in 2008 and 2009, two years before nique died. according to the defense attorney, matt made the recordings with the encouragement of a marriage therapist that the couple had been seeing at the time. he is talking and he is conciliatory in my opinion. he is trying to calm things down, and it is impossible to calm nique down. please, don t do this. please, nique. you do not want to do this with me right now. i mean it. you do not want to tangle with me right now. at all. what did i do? according to clegg, the prosecution cherry-picked scenes from the leili marriage, highlighting the bad and downplaying the good. bright spots like a 2010 trip matt and nique took to hawaii. they even renewed their marriage vows on that trip. the tapes reflect both of them at their worst. now, the flip side is, when they re getting along well, when they are affectionate towards one another, when they renew
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
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don t tape that stuff. it s always the darkest side of the moon? the darkest side. absolutely, yes. as for the night nique disappeared, the defense tried to show that nique leili was once again acting unstable, behaving erratically. the defense attorney called matt s father, matthias, to verify his son s version of that last fight between matt and nique. the one where she allegedly flashed him. she tore off her top and says, come on, let s go, let s f like a family. were you expecting any sort of comment like that? never. i never. once nique disappeared, clegg says, matt leili inquired about having his wife involuntarily committed and even hired a divorce attorney. a man who knows his wife is already dead, he says, wouldn t have done either of those things. he did not really want to divorce her. he wanted to let her know, look, here are your
mm-hmm. yep. we got manicures and pedicures and went and had lunch. nique had had her toenails painted pink that day. and though she sometimes had a difficult relationship with her teenage daughter, alex says that day at the spa felt like a turning point. a fresh beginning. everybody looks pretty happy. good girls day out. it was fun. i am beyond grateful now that we ve done it. two weeks later nique had apparently left home in the middle of the night without a word to anyone. when the family reported her missing two days later, the police advised them there was little they could do. their response was, we don t even know where to start looking. she is not on the 11:00 news every night. no. because, frankly, a grown woman having left her house wasn t that interesting a story. well, a hundred people getting together all wearing