The other said no way. Its ridiculous the lies theyre spreading. Reporter and matt, he had a theory all his own. This is not the first time shes run away. Okay . Reporter had nique taken off and found trouble . So now youre thinking someone gave her date rape drug . Thats a possibility. Reporter the trail would lead to this house of cameras. Theres a big server tower. That would indicate a large amount of data being stored. Reporter what they discovered, thousands of hours of tape. Let me out of the frame. Absolutely a torture to listen to. Reporter and would reveal one shattering truth. I got down on my knees and just started crying. Reporter im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Dennis Murphy with the house on sidneys cove. Reporter theres 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. Take some fliers with you. Reporter theyd decided, the friends and family, that theyd all wear redshirts. 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. Shes got three kids that would love to see her home. Reporter amy robinson told reporters that her 44yearold sister, mother of three, was hardly the kind of person whod just up and disappear without a word to anyone. Im just so worried about my sister, you know. We just have no idea where she is or what whats happened to her. Reporter as fate would have it, the question of where nique was would be answered soon enough. But even now, five years later, the question of what happened to nique remains unclear. Im sick of playing your games im sick of reporter what is clear from the recordings she left behind is that nique leili lived a troubled 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. You know, she and i used to laugh all the time. And she was very she was very feisty. She she would say what she meant. You know, she she didnt mince a lot of words. Reporter as sisters amy robinson and nique leili were 10 years apart. But according to amy, they were always close. Boy, you two look alike in the old photos. We do. I was thinking maybe youre swapping out each others clothes, but of course youre 10 years apart. Well, that didnt stop it i wore a lot of her hand me downs. Reporter by the mid 90s, 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 used to we just laughed, putting up pictures in the apartment and stuff. This sounds like a sitcom. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it at times it definitely was. Eventually, nique moved out, remarried and had two more daughters with her third husband, matt leili, a new yorker shed met on line. He made my sister laugh. And so, you know, we would all laugh. Reporter 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 wellregarded 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. Reporter 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 dallan. Reporter then later that night, boogeying to what else . We are family. We are family reporter 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 you know, were going to go have a girls day. Where did you go . We went to go get our nails done. And day of beauty at the spa, huh . Uhhuh. Yep. We got we got manicures and pedicures and we went and had lunch. Reporter nique had had her toenails painted pink that day. And though shed sometimes had a difficult relationship with her teenaged daughter, alex says that day at the spa felt like a turning point, a fresh beginning. Snapshots, everybody looks pretty happy. Yeah. Good girls day out. Yeah, it was fun. And im beyond grateful now that wed done it, so. Reporter 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. Shes not on the 11 00 news every night. No. Because frankly, you know, grown woman having left her house wasnt that interesting a story. Well, 100 people getting together all wearing red shirts, though, theres an interesting story. So they covered that. So then the cameras were out . Then the cameras came. Reporter and 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. Well, keep your eyes open if you see her or see anything, definitely call 911 and let them know youve seen her. Reporter every searcher had an assignment. Oh look, we got blue sky. Its going to smile on us. Reporter harriett garrett, niques mother, had the job of going door to door, leafleting the neighborhood with fliers picturing her daughter. I dont think anybody is at home, but well find out. Reporter even though Southern Hospitality may have been in short supply that day get out of here before i call the cops. Reporter harriett pressed on. Good morning, sir. My name is harriett garrett. What is the camera for . My daughters missing, and theyre trying were trying to get some news coverage. Reporter like so many of the volunteers that day, Alison Rockwell wasnt a relative. She was looking for nique, her coworker. I loved nique. Nique was great. She was just such so great to work with. Very smart. Lots of energy, positive, wonderful. Just a wonderful person. Reporter 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. 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 neighborhood on the right. Reporter 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 theres 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 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. Hey nithanks. Today. Juicy fruit . Sure ill try a piec. Juicy fruit. So sweet you cant help but chew. Theres nothing like snuggly softness. But the more love it gets, the more odor it gets. New snuggle plus super fresh. Snuggly softness plus new odor eliminating technology. And it releases freshness. 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Reporter nique leilis sister amy and her friend alison felt sure the body beneath the leaves had to be niques. It was terrible. I think everybody was a little bit shocked. So i just kind of went into crisis mode and i called 911. Reporter within minutes police, ambulances and news cameras were converging on the patch of woods where the body was found. Niques mother, harriett garrett, says she heard the news when a cop told her shed have to stop leafleting the neighborhood. Someone in the neighborhood had complained. And while he is talking to me, his radio goes off. Its a 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 taped up. And i couldnt get any further. Okay. 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. Reporter soon harriet had niques oldest daughter, alex, on the phone. Do you know its her . Im right here but 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. I need to see her. No, you cant. You cant, baby. Of course they wouldnt let me see her. And im grateful that they didnt now. Reporter 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. But so were just waiting for the police to do their job and and well find out more soon. Reporter inside the police tape, investigators carefully uncovered the body of a middleaged 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 a while. It had been out there several days. Reporter Gwinnett CountyPolice 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 theres no identifying documents around it, so theres nothing around where the bodys at that would indicate what happened. Reporter 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 sergeant. Well, that tells you that she didnt walk out there and put herself in those woods. And she sure wasnt going to cover herself up. Reporter 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, someone gave her date rape drug . Thats a possibility. M. E. Also finds semen . Correct. Reporter 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 ive been finding out the past two days everything shes been telling me in therapy all these years has been a lie. Coming up, the nique no one knew. Stories of unstable behavior. This is not the first time shes run away. Okay . And even violence. My father is a witness for her throwing a knife at my face. When dateline continues. 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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, yes. She was very proud of all three girls. Yes. Photos on the desk kind of thing . Oh, absolutely. Reporter 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 shes run away. Okay . Shes run away and shes been gone for two hours, shes been gone for three hours, four hours one time. Shes gone to work with a bag of clothes and then come back after work. You know, but shes never been gone overnight. So hes telling you this is just the latest of a continuing episode that my wife has . Correct. Matthew, this is detective everson, Gwinnett County police department. Reporter in this telephone call which the detective recorded matt leili said his wife was mentally unbalanced. Shes not very happy with her life. She 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 all my life guys have used me for sex. Hes just giving you a hose full of information . I have a hard time getting a word in edgewise. She yells at me in front of the kids. She throws things in front of me in front of the kids. And 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 . Reporter matt leili said hed even considered getting a court order to protect him from his wife. Now, has she ever been violent . Yeah. Ive got pictures of myself with bruises on me. Ive got a my father is a witness for her throwing a knife at my face. Im 250 pounds, six foot five. Shes 98 pounds soaking wet. Im being beaten up by my wife. Whos going to believe me . Hes telling you that shes bats . Thats what hes saying. Reporter as for the night nique disappeared he stated the previous friday that they had actually gone out to eat and then gone to a movie after she got home from work. We had a great time. We came home. On the way home i said to her you know, hey, you know because i wanted sex, so i said to her you know hey, you know, how about you put on an outfit . I think that might have set her off. He wanted her to put on a little sexy costume of some kind, huh . Correct. That fear of intimacy that i thought she was working on getting over was gone, but apparently that set her off because she picked a fight. Reporter 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 father in law, 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 just reacted to that by basically saying youre he was lying. Reporter 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, and 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. Reporter matt said 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 about 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 assumes she had left on foot or assumes somebody had come and picked her up. Reporter 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 with the dvr. She always shuts it off when she leaves, when shes pissed off. Because she knows it pisses me off. So thats the first you learn that this place is wired for sound and pictures . Correct. Reporter when nique leilis body was found days later near her home, learning the story told by those cameras b