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The neighborhood on the right. >> it was one of the last unassigned sections of the organizers search 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. a...

Short supply that day. >> get out of here 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 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 ...

>> it was a low-crime 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 a...

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 ...

She was just so great to work with, very smart, lots of energy, positive, wonderful. just a wonderful person. dennis murphy: on the morning of the search, alison recalls that she and another colleague from work, a man named derek, were running late. that would turn out to be an important twist of fate. forty minutes late actually, everyone else had started searching. so 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 neighborho...

The defense attorney called matts father mathias 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 says, come on, lets go. lets f like a family. tom clegg: were you expecting any sort of comment like that? never. never. dennis murphy: 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,...

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 up at the bottom of the pile. as i was doing that, i said, derek. and derek came over. and he heard the panic in my voice, and he started helping me. and thats when we saw a blond hair. and i screamed this blood curdling scream. and there was no question? no. craig melvin: coming up. and she said oh my god, its her. we found her. oh, i need to see her. theres her hair. - how awful f...

Dennis murphy: by early february 2016, the prosecution had rested its case against matt leili. the husband was portrayed as an eavesdropping control freak who had 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. so if you were to ask yourself questions that might have been posed of you if you were to...

That matthew leili has given me. are any of them suspicious of matt, the husband? yes. they were all suspicious of matt. dennis murphy: 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 mom would have never left her girls. and i wanted him to know he would restrain her, lock her in bathrooms. wh...

Seemed like he got sick. dennis murphy: matt leili may well have been sick, sick of talking to the cops. because by now hed 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 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 compute...