the defense wrapped up its case by calling matt and nique s two daughters, rebecca, now 14, and amanda, 17. did you ever see your dad hit your mom? no. did you ever see any obvious injuries or bruises to your mom? no, sir. according to the girls, their mother was the one with the violent temper, not their dad. she took a heel and threw it. i myself had to duck from it. was it being thrown at your dad? yes. on the day nique made that 911 call, amanda said her mother complained about hearing voices in her head. she was pacing back and forth saying that she was tired of people talking bad about her behind her back, and my dad asked her who was talking about her, and she said that, um, she was hearing voices and like the voices in her head were telling her people were talking bad about her. throughout, neither girl made eye contact with their mother s relatives, who hadn t seen them in four years.
how does it go down? myself and detective washington were there and put the handcuffs on him. it felt pretty good. 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 leili s daughters amanda and rebecca post aed a youtube video in support of their dad, saying that their mom hated her family and those same spiteful relatives were the reason their dad was in jail. what they wondered had happened to those girls in the four years they had been in vermont. as far as i could tell, he poisoned them against us and i can only attribute that to, you know, them living in a house with a master manipulator. the notion of matt leili as a
so with no compelling reason to stick around lawrenceville, matt leili moved back up north to vermont to be closer to his family in 2012, almost seven months to the day that nique s body was found. nique s stepmother said that effectively ended all contact between nique s two daughters, rebecca. he was to set up a skype account so we could talk to the girls. nothing. packed up, moved. in the summer of 2012, the investigative file passed to cold case detective sergeant john richter. when her body was found i was a sergeant. does that stay with you? certain cases stick with you. this is one. at first, richter did what all cold case detectives do, reinterviewed witnesses.