juggling family life and a thriving career when suddenly she vanished. detectives turned to those closest to her for information then they discovered something unusual. nique s last months had been recorded on camera. could that footage lead detectives to her? here is dennis murphy with the house on sidney s cove. there is never a good day to search for a missing woman. but this rainy, muggy saturday in the heat of july made an unhappy task all but unbearable. they decided, the friends and family, that they would all wear red shirts. they got themselves organized in the parking lot of a walmart in lawrenceville, georgia, about an hour outside of atlanta. and then set out to find any trace of a petite corporate executive named nique leili. she s been missing for a week now. she has three kids who would love to see her home.
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 options. you can go get help for yourself, or i m going to go forward with a divorce. the defense wrapped up its
middle-aged female. she was nude, lying face-down and, tellingly, appeared to have a fresh pink pedicure. given the decomposition, the heat, the rain, investigators figured the body had lain there for awhile. it had been out there several days. gwinnett county police detective brad everson. no clothing whatsoever. any obvious injuries to the body? lacerations? blunt force trauma, gunshot, stab wound? anything you could see? nothing. and of course at this point, there s no there is no identifying documents around it. so there s nothing around where the body is at that would indicate what happened. in the way of these things, dental records confirmed what everyone suspected. the body in the woods was indeed that of nique leili. a telling factor was the bottoms of her feet were clean. what does that tell you? connect the dots for me. that tells you she didn t walk out there and put herself in those woods, and she sure wasn t going to cover herself up. later, lab anal
red shirts. there is an interesting story. so they covered that. then the cameras were out. then the cameras came. this is what the cameras saw. searchers armed with maps literally beating the bushes around nique leili s subdivision for clues as to what might have happened to her. keep your eyes open. if you see her or anything, definitely call 911 and let them know that you ve seen her. every searcher had an assignment. look, we got blue sky. it s going to smile on us. harriet garrett, nique s mother, had the job of going door to door, leafletting the neighborhood with flyers picturing her daughter. i don t think anybody s at home, but we ll find out. even though southern hospitality may have been in short supply that day. go before i call the cops. harriet pressed on. good morning, sir. my name is harriet garrett. my daughter go before i call the cops. harriet pressed on. good morning, sir. my name is harriet garrett. my daughter is missing. and they re
read the verdict out loud. as to count one, we the jury find the defendant guilty of murder. though not a sound came from nique leili s family, their expression said it all. thank you, sir. the judge aked matt leili to before passing sentence. the judge gave matt leili once last chance to have his say. mr. leili, is there anything you want to say? i m going to follow the state s recommendation as to count one and have you sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. it was a bittersweet ending for nique s family. they ll likely near see matt leili again. but as nique leili s youngest girls left the courthouse to go back north with their grandfather, it seemed just as likely that they would never see them again, either. they were my girls. i still love them to this day. taught them how to read. got them ready for school in the mornings. you d like to have a relationship with them? i would love to have a relationship with them again. i don t know that that day