We need heard a come home. Then, they found her. Launching a mystery that would divide this family, one daughter thought her Stepdad Math did. The other said, no way. And matt he had a theory all his own. This is not the first time shes run away, okay . Had nique taken off and found trouble . Now youre Thinking Someone gave her a Date Rape Drug. Thats a possibility. The trail would lead to this house of cameras. There is a big Server Tower that would indicate a large amount of data being stored. What they discovered, thousands of hours of tape. Let me out of this room. Its absolutely a torture to listen to. And would reveal one shattering truth. I got Down On My Knees and just started crying. Welcome to dateline. Nique leili was 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. Niques last months had been recorded on camera. Could that Footage Lead detectives to her . Here is Dennis Murphy with the house on Sidneys 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. Shes been missing for a week now. She has three kids who would love to see her home. Amy robinson told reporters that her 44yearold sister, mother of three, was hardly the kind of person who would just up and disappear without a word to anyone. Im just so worried about my sister. We just have no idea where she is, or what whats happened to her. As fate would have it, the question of where nique was would be answered soon enough. But even now, the question of what happened to nique remains unclear. I am sick of playing your games. What is clear from the recordings she left behind is that Nique Leili lived a trouble and tormented life. This is what i live day in and day out is keep my mouth shut, my head down, and do exactly whats expected of me. Tell me about niques personality. She was very funny. She and i used to laugh all the time. And she was very feisty. She would say what she meant. She didnt mince a lot of words. As sisters, Amy Robinson and Nique Leili were ten years apart, but according to amy they were always close. Boy, you two look alike in those old photos. We do. I was thinking maybe youre swapping out each others clothes, but of course youre ten years apart. That didnt stop it from happening. I wore a lot of her handmedowns. By the mid90s nique had been married and divorced twice and she and her young Daughter Alex were sharing an apartment with amy. We had a good time with that too. We just laughed, putting up pictures in the apartment and stuff. It sounds like a sitcom. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And 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, you know, we would all laugh. After brief stays in oklahoma and mississippi, Nique And Matt returned to georgia and settled into this house on Sidneys Cove in lawrenceville. Nique, a well regarded corporate money person, was the primary breadwinner. 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 then, you know, rebuilding them and selling them on ebay. By this ring by this ring. When it was amys turn to get married in 2003, her big sis was there serving as matron of honor. I just want to raise a toast to amy my best friend. My confidant, my sister, and to the love of her life, who makes her head spin. To amy and dylan. Then, later that night, boogying to, what else, we are family. We are family as the years passed, the sisters remained close. In late June 2011 amy organized a Spa Day out for nique and her three girls. No boys allowed. Only were going to go have a girlsday. Where did you go . We went to get our nails done. Day of beauty at the spa. Mmhmm. 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 girlsday out. It was fun. I am beyond grateful now that weve 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 dont 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 Wasnt that interesting a story. Well, A Hundred people getting together all wearing 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 Leilis 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 youve seen her. Every searcher had an assignment. Look, we got blue sky. Its going to smile on us. Harriet garrett, niques mother, had the job of going Door To door, leafletting The Neighborhood with flyers picturing her daughter. I dont think anybodys At Home, but well 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 is missing. And theyre trying to give were trying to get some news coverage. Like so many of the volunteers that day, Alison Rockwell wasnt a relative. She was looking for nique, her coworker. I love nique. Nique was great. She was so great to work with, very smart. Lots of energy. Positive. Wonderful. Just a wonderful person. On the morning of the search, alison recalls that she and another colleague from work, a man named derek, were running late, and that would turn out to be an important twist of fate. 40 minutes late, actually. Everyone else had started searching. Were you given a grid or an area to look at . Yes. We were given the front of The Neighborhood, the very front of The Neighborhood. On the right. It was one of the last unassigned sections of the organizerssearch grid, a patch of woods near a busy road. Derek and i went Into The Woods together. And i remember having to walk up and go over a large tree. And there is this pile of leaves, and its in the middle of where everything else is clear and flat. And my heart is racing A Million miles an hour. I go up to the pile of leaves. I was using my boots to move leaves at the bottom of the of the pile. As i was doing that, i said Derek Derek came over. And he heard the panic in my voice, and he started helping me. And thats when We Saw blonde hair. And i screamed this bloodcurdling scream. And there was no question. No. Coming up she said, oh my god, its her. We found her. There is her hair. How awful for you. Yeah. A body, and a vital clue. The telling factor was, the bottoms of her feet were clean. What did that mean . When dateline continues. Now weve created a brandnew way for you to sell your car. Whether its a year old or a few years old. We wanna buy your car. So go to carvana and enter your License Plate Answer a few questions. And our Techno Wizardry calculates your Cars Value and gives you a real offer in seconds. 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It was terrible. I think everybody was a little bit shocked. So i just kind of went into Crisis Mode and i called 911. Within minutes, police, ambulances and News Cameras were converging on the patch of woods where the body was found. Niques mother, harriet garrett, says she heard the news when a cop told her she would have to stop leafletting The Neighborhood. Someone in The Neighborhood had complained. And while he is talking to me, his radio goes off. Its the dispatch. Body has been found. You hear it over the dispatch. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Do you actually go to that place in that little bit of woods . Yes. Well, i couldnt by the time i got there, they already had the crime Scene Tape up, and i couldnt get any further. Were going to move back. Were going to move back on down, guys. They had it isolated by that time, but i got to it as close as i could. Hello . Soon, harriet had niques oldest Daughter Alex on the phone. Do you know its her . Well, im right here. The Police Wont let me come, honey. They wont let me through. Im right here where the police are. They wont let me through. Where are you . I just remember fainting or something. But as soon as i came to, i took Off Running. And i ran all the way to where the crime Scene Tape was. You cant. You cant baby. First they wouldnt let me see her. I am grateful that they didnt now. As Niques Family struggled to process the news, amy faced the microphones and once again became the familys voice. All We Saw was her hair. Um, you know, so were just waiting for the police to do their job and well find out more soon. Inside the police tape, investigators carefully uncovered the body of a middleaged female. She was nude, lying facedown 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, theres no there is no identifying documents around it. So theres 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 didnt walk out there and put herself in those woods, and she sure wasnt going to cover herself up. Later, Lab Analysis of Niques Blood revealed Something Else that was odd. There was a high level of the Date Rape Drug ghb in her system. So now youre thinking maybe sometime before this womans death, almost immediately before, somebody gave her the Date Rape Drug . Thats a possibility. M. E. Also finds semen. Correct. Had nique somehow been abducted, raped, and then dumped less than a mile from her home . The Detective Couldnt say. But in the days before her body was found, while this was still a missing persons case, niques Husband Matt had told Everson Something intriguing on the phone. This wasnt the first time Nique Leili had walked out on him. My wife has a long history of some kind of mental imbalances, okay. And i have been finding out the past two Days Everything she has been telling me in therapy all these years has been a lie. Coming up the nique No One knew. Stories of unstable behavior. My father is a witness for her throwing a knife at my face. When dateline continues. Introducing xfinity rewards. Our very own way of thanking you just for being with us. Enjoy rewards like Movie Night specials. Xfinity mobile benefits. And exclusive experiences, like the chance to win tickets to see watch what happens live. Hey its me. The longer youve been with us. The more rewards you can get. Like sharpening your Cooking Skills with a top chef. Join for free on the Xfinity App and watch all the rewards float in. By the time searchers found our thanks. Your rewards. Nique leilis body, Police Detective Brad everson already knew bits and pieces of her life story. He had been working her case since she was reported missing a few days earlier. I had already talked to her dad, talked to her mom, talked to both her sisters, you know, talked to her oldest daughter. The picture that emerged was of a woman whose life had revolved around her work, her daughters and her husband, matt. He would come sometimes and do lunch with nique. Did she ever talk about her girls . Yes. Yeah. She was very proud of all three girls. Yes. Photos on the Desk Kind of thing. Oh, absolutely. Like most marriages, niques had its ups and downs. Early July 2011 when nique disappeared was one of the down times. Matt freely admitted that when he talked to the detective the day after he reported her missing. This is not the first time she has run away, okay. She has run away and shes been gone for two hours. She has been gone for three hours, four hours one time. She has gone to work with a bag of clothes and then come back after work. You know. But she has never been gone overnight. So hes telling you this is just the latest of a continuing episode that my wife has. Correct. Matthew in this Telephone Call which the detective recorded, Matt Leili said his wife was mentally unbalanced. She is not very happy with her life. She has never felt accepted, okay. Weve been in and out of therapists. Theres a fear of intimacy. You know, shes got No Problem with girls. But when it comes to a male, they are a threat. They are all my life, guys have used me for sex. He is getting a host of information. I have a hard time getting a word in edgewise. She yells at me in front of the kids. She throws things at me in front of the kids. All im doing is sitting there going, please stop. Please stop. Do you remember what the doctor said. Is this the person you want to be . Matt leili said he considered getting a Court Order to protect him from his wife. Has she ever been violent . Yeah. I have pictures of myself with bruises on me. My father is a witness of her throwing a knife at my face. I am 250 pounds, 65. Shes 98 pounds soaking wet. Im being beaten up by my wife. Who is going to believe me. Hes telling you that shes bats. Thats what hes saying. As for the Night Nique disappeared he stated the previous friday that they had actually gone out to eat and gone to a movie after she got home from work. We had a great time. We we came home. On the way home i said to her, you know, hey, you know know i want to have sex. I said to her, hey, how about you put on an outfit. I think it might have set her off. He wanted her to put on a little sexy costume of some kind, huh . Correct. The fear of intimacy that i thought she was working on getting over, it was gone. But apparently that set her off, because she picked a fight. As matt tells it, the fight continued At Home and ramped up. Matts father, who was visiting from new york, was just down the hall. When the argument touched on the Way Nique had supposedly been treating her fatherinlaw, matt asked his dad to weigh in. He called his father matthias into the bedroom and basically asked matthias to tell nique how he felt about being down there, and that matthias came out with a line that he hadnt felt welcome, that kind of stuff, and that nique reacted to that by basically saying he was lying. Then matt said his wife did something off the wall. I mean, holy cow. She rips her shirt off with her [bleep] hanging out, no bra, nothing, says maybe we should just [ bleep ]. Throws her shirt on the floor and then says, isnt that what family does. Youre kidding. She flashed her fatherinlaw . Correct. My wife has done some weird [ bleep ]. Thats the weirdest shes ever been. Matt says the dust finally settled in the wee hours of saturday, july 9th. Nique in the bedroom, he on his couch in the downstairs office. I wake up at 6 00 to go to the bathroom. The light is on in the bedroom. I can see it upstairs. So i go upstairs to see whats going on. Shes not there. All her stuff was still there. Her car was still there. Her keys, her phone. Her purse was still there. Correct. He assumed she had left on Foot Or Somebody came and 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. Thats the first you learned that this place is Wired For Sound and pictures . Correct. When Nique Leilis 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. 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Nique leili was dead, now her husband was telling police that this seemingly happy mom was violent and often mentally unstable. But investigators were about to get a better view into thAt Home than they could have imagined here again is Dennis Murphy with the house on Sidneys Cove. Within minutes of finding Niques Body, police raced to the Leili Home about a mile away. What they observed right away was astounding. The Home Security System that Matt Leili had casually mentioned to Detective Everson a few days earlier, appeared more appropriate to Fort Knox than a house in theburbs. And when you first see the house from the road, you can see all these huge, big cameras on the eaves of the house, both sides. There were 21 Security Cameras in all, with a Trickedout Control Room to monitor and record everything. He sounds like oneman nsa. It was a lowcrime area. It almost boggled the mind as to why he felt he needed quite so much Surveillance Coverage for the house. Odd to be sure. An observation to tuck away for later. But the duty that day came first. Notification. 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 wasnt 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 whats up with nique . That was my hope. Were 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 matts claim that his wife was bonkers. Are any of her Family Members corroborating this emotional Instability Issue thats raised by the husband . None whatsoever. This is not a woman off her meds. No. Theyre 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. Niques Daughter Alex had lived with her Mother And Matt until she was 16, and there was plenty she had to say to the detective. I wanted him to know what was going on In The House. I wanted him to know that i suspected him from the beginning. That my mom would have never left her girls. And i wanted him to know he would restrain her, lock her in bathrooms. Why did he do this . The whole thing with the cameras. He is just extremely controlling. Still, despite the Familys Suspicion and the fact that the semen found on Niques Body proved to be matts, the police didnt feel they had enough evidence to make an arrest. There is no Ankle Bracelet on this man. You havent taken his passport. No. Does anybody say, if youre moving around, tell us where youre going to be. Is it that kind of relationship with the authorities . No. There is not really a relationship with us. What about all the computer evidence, the Video Files from matts Hard Drives . They appeared to be useless. After months of reviewing more than a half million video clips, the best investigators could come up with was this. Its a clip of Nique Leili walking onto the front porch to have a smoke just after midnight on july 9, 2011. The day she went missing. After that, nothing. What happened after midnight in that house . Exactly. That was the million dollar question. The Video Files from midnight until 6 00 in the morning that day were corrupted, according to the Tech Guy who examined them. We could see footage, but what it was, it was very disjointed. Most of it was not time stamped or it was not date stamped. So it was not in a manner that you could just go in and click play and just play through everything. The bottom line, the police had zero, nada, zilch. And so with no compelling reason to stick around lawrenceville, Matt Leili moved back up north to vermont, to be closer to his family. That was in february of 2012, almost seven months to the day after Niques Body was found. Niques stepmother, betty chatham, says the move effectively ended all contact between Niques Family and her two youngest daughters amanda, 12, and rebecca 9. He was to provide us with a telephone number. He was to set up a Skype Account so that we could talk with the girls. Nothing. Packed up. Moved. Five months later in the summer of 2012, the investigative file passed to cold Case Detective Sergeant John richer. I was actually in the Homicide Unit as a corporal when her body was found. Does that stay with you . Yeah, i would say that certain cases that stick with you. And this is one. At first richer did what all cold Case Detectives do. He reinterviewed witnesses. When that went nowhere, richer took another look at Matt Leilis computer Hard Drives. Do you think somewhere in there is the nugget that will get you to the next step in the investigation . I think at the minimum we needed to redo it to see if technology had advanced. So i needed new forensic guys to look at the video, or whatever else he could find on the computer. Turns out the techie richer needed was just down the hall. Corporal Chris Ford had been an i. T. Guy before joining the police force. Richer came down and said, hey, do you mind taking a look at this . I start looking for what we call lowhanging fruit. Whats easily available. Thats when i started digging through and finding the Audio Files. Nobody had listened to the Audio Files before because investigators were so focused on finding video from the Night Nique disappeared. Thats just what ford did at first too. I basically looked at the video in raw format, which is basically computer language. So, something was recorded there. Yes. It just wouldnt play. Eventually ford determined the screwed up files were no accident. Someone had deleted those files and then run a Cleanup Program to clear the data base logs. Not once, but twice. The only two times the Cleanup Drives were run were the days that he reported her missing and the day her body was found. Ill never forget the day he comes to my cube and says, these videos were deleted. This wasnt corrupted. He turns to leave and he looks back and goes oh, i got a bunch of Audio Files on there, too if youre interested. A bunch of files. Quantify it. What are we talking about . Thousands of hours of Material Dating back from 2008 up to 2011. The Audio Recordings are probably best described as cringeworthy scenes from a very bad marriage. Thats not what i said and how i said it. Dont take my words out of context. When we got in that [bleep] car [bleep] [ bleep ]. Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it. [bleep] lower your voice its absolutely torture to listen to because we have a woman i know is now deceased and im hearing how shes living for the years preceding her death. And how shes just being beaten down psychologically and mentally. It took the detective nearly a year and a half to listen to all of the recordings, and by then he had heard more than enough. When he learned that Matt Leili would be returning to georgia to testify in a civil suit concerning the payout from some Life Insurance policies nique had, Sergeant John richer planned to be waiting. Could investigators have it all wrong . 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Returned To Georgia For The First Time since hed left the state three years earlier. It was money that brought him back. A Court Proceeding concerning a payout from his wife niques Life Insurance policies. I knew he was coming down. That made me uneasy. It made me feel really creeped out. This is three years later . Mmhmm. What we didnt know was that the whole federal courthouse was actually crawling with plainclothed Gwinnett County police. They were taking him down that day. They were. We had no idea. Sergeant John Richer says the plainclothed cops waited all day for just the right moment to make their move. Get him on the outside of the courthouse. Who makes the collar . How does it go down . Myself and Detective Washington were there. Put the handcuffs on him. Felt pretty good. Niques 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, niques 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 Niques 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 hardworking wife. Nique leili was the breadwinner. The family was in debt, up to 300,000 in debt. Furthermore, jones said, Matt Leili tried to control his wife by turning their home into a virtual north korea. With cameras and recording devices everywhere. Lenses aimed at them as they sat on the couch and watched tv. You will take a look into this marriage, ladies and gentlemen, in this case. You will hear the voices of Nique Leili and the defendant in this case arguing. Niques murder, she claimed, was simply Matt Leilis final act of control. I think they got into an argument. That he wanted to have sex. That he drugged her, that he has his way. She is loud, she is not able to resist as much as it progresses, that he silences her. That he strangles her, he sits on her, he asphyxiates her to where she cant breathe. Not meaning to, maybe. I think he meant to. I think he had it. I think he knew she was leaving him. She made it clear she was done. Raise your right hand, please . The states first witness was niques oldest Daughter Alex. They would be arguing. He would end up locking her in a bathroom. She had been shoved down stairs. There were several nights that i would lay up at night and listen to her say, please get off of me. Get off of me. Youre hurting me. Next, niques Sister Amy told the jury about the constant monitoring at the leili house. We knew that he would record Phone Conversations that came into or out of the house. Were you aware at any time whether there were ever Gps Trackers or tracking devices on any types of the phones or vehicles at the residence . Yes. I knew that he had trackers on Niques Phone and when alex was old enough to have a cellphone that he tracked her phone as well. Then the prosecution gave the court a Flyonthewall Look inside the Leili Home by playing those promised recordings of the couples fights. Let the Record Show i am now locked in a room again. I dont want to be here. I dont want to have this conversation. Ive asked let the Record Show that she is being an absolute [ bleep ]. Wants her way No Matter What. It was hard to listen to. Bitter screaming matches, frequently about sex. I know that when we go two days without sex, youre going to automatically assume i am on Strike Mode No Matter What else is happening. Dont Touch Me sit down if you want to sit down i am reaching out to you. I dont 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 throat. I dont care what the [bleep] you think. But it was my throat they were around. They were not around your throat. Stop telling that story like that. Bull [ bleep ]. You threatened to kill me. The prosecutors said Nique Leilis best chance for leaving her marriage came 12 days before she disappeared. After yet another Argument Nique had called 911. 911. Yes, my Husband Wont 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 wouldnt budge from the front porch. She wanted him to go. He wouldnt go. He wanted her to go. She wasnt 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 matts claim that nique had somehow turned off the Security System by calling the police departments i. T. Guy, Chris Ford, as her last witness. So detective, in your professional opinion, then, did an individual have to go in and purposefully corrupt and delete those files . Thats correct. Yes. Thats the only way i can explain why, out of all the dates and video that i can recover, thats the only Date Range I cant 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 Wifes 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 thats 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. Its got to have been him. Thats what you call a circumstantial case. Yes. Nique and matts daughters say that in their parentsmarriage, matt was the victim. She took a heel and threw it. I myself had to duck from it. Was it being thrown at your dad . Yes. When dateline continues. Is olay better than your clean beauty . Olay has 99 pure niacinamide. Its dermtested. And now, its cleanest formula with hydration that beats the 400 cream. Tried. Tested. Never bested. Shop at olay. Com trusted by Pet Owners for over 20 years frontline® plus is the 1 name in Flea And Tick protection. With frontline, you and your pet can go anywhere. No matter how you define it. Frontline®. Here. There. Everywhere. Its the biggest sale of the year, on the new Sleep Number 360 smart bed. Its the most comfortable, no matter how you define it. Duallyadjustable, footwarming, temperaturebalancing, proven Quality Night Sleep weve ever made. Save 50 on the new Sleep Number 360 limited edition smart bed. Plus, 0 interest for 60 months. Ends monday. We did it again. 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So if you were to ask yourself questions that might have been posed of you if you were to have gone to Journalism School who, what, where, why and how you will find that, during the course of this trial, The State Of Georgia will fall woefully short in proving the allegations that they are making against this man. I think their Gut Feeling was, come on, shes naked, shes buried this close to the house, shes obviously hidden. Its got to have been him. Thats 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 didnt see it. The cameras did not see it. That is absolutely correct. As for those Audio Recordings of the couples 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, dont 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 Cherrypicked 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 theyre getting along well, when they are affectionate towards one another, when they renew their wedding vows in hawaii, they dont tape that stuff. Its 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 matts father, matthias, to verify his Sons Version of the last fight between matt and nique. The one where she allegedly flashed him. She tore off her top and says, come on, lets go, lets 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, wouldnt 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 im going to go forward with a divorce. The defense wrapped up its case by Calling Matt and niques 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 mothers relatives, who hadnt seen them in four years. Whatever affection might once have existed seemed to be gone now. We made our own decision. We dont like that side of the family. So we want to stay away. Its not him forcing us to stay away from them. In closing, Tom Clegg argued that, while the state may have proved Matt Leili unlikable, it had not answered any of the basic journalism questions. Who, what, where, when, why or how . In closing i said, you have heard all of this evidence. The state still cannot answer any of these particular questions. What does that tell you . That tells you they have fallen woefully short of proving matts guilt. After eight days of testimony, both sides of the family prepared for a long and anxious wait for a verdict. Turns out they didnt have to pace long. After just three hours of deliberation, the jury announced it had reached a verdict. Im going to ask you at this time if you would stand and 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 Leilis 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 . Im going to follow the States Recommendation as to count one and have you sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. It was a bittersweet ending for Niques Family. Theyll likely near see Matt Leili again. But as Nique Leilis 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. Youd like to have a relationship with them. I would love to have a relationship with them again. I dont know that that day will ever come. But i want them to know my door is always open. But i dont know if that day will ever come. One murder, so many victims. Thats all for this edition of dateline. Im craig melvin. Thanks for watching. Breaking on msnbc, Hurricane Ida upgraded to a Monster Category four storm. And Wind Strength Evening more as we come on the air, gusting up to hundred and 40 miles an hour. Is set to slam into louisiana on the anniversary of katrina. Forecasters warning ida could leave parts of the Gulf Coast uninhabitable for weeks. Governor John Bel edwards urging people to take this eerie sleep. We can summon up by saying this will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit anywhere in louisiana since at least the 18 fifties