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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. >> 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 clai...

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 act like a family. >> were you expecting any sort of comment like that? >> never. i -- never. >> once nique disappeared, clegg says, matt le...

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 layly 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...

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 blood-curdling scream. >> and there was no question. >> no. coming up. >> she said, oh my god, its her. we found her. there is her h...

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 s...

She was looking for nique, her co-worker. >> 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 gi...

Miles an hour. i go up to the pile of leaves. i was using my boots to move leaves at the -- 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 blood-curdling scream. >> and there was no question? >> no. >> when we come back -- >> she said oh, my god, its her, we found her. theres her hair. >> how awful for you. >> yeah. >> a body and a vit...

♪ >> reporter: by early february 2016, the prosecution had rested its cased against matt leili. the husband was portrayed as an evesdropping control freak whod killed his wife during an argument. leilis defense attorney, tom clegg, insisted that matt leili was, in fact, an innocent man, falsely accused by the state of georgia. >> they have a theory, and that theory is nothing more than a hunch. it is a guess. well, if you were to ask yourself questions that might have been posed of you if you ...

The defense attorney called matts father, matthias, to verify his sons version of that last fight between matt and nique. the one where she allegedly flashed him. >> she tore off her top and she says, "come on lets go. lets f like a family." >> were you expecting any sort of comment like that? >> never, i -- never. >> reporter: once nique disappeared, clegg said matt leili inquired about having his wife involuntarily committed and even hired a divorce attorney. a man who knows his wife is alread...

>> reporter: this is not a woman off her meds? >> no. theyre completely shocked by this version of events that matthew leilis given me. >> are any of them suspicious of matt, the husband? >> yes. they were all suspicious of matt. >> reporter: niques daughter alex had lived with her mother and matt until she was 16. and there was plenty shed 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 mo...