We need nicky to come home. Then they found her. You cant, baby. Launching a mystery that would divide this family. I suspected him from the beginning. One daughter thought her step dad matt did it. The other said no way. Its ridiculous the lies theyre spreading. And matt . He had a theory all his own. This is not the first time shes run away, okay . Trouble . Youre thinking somebody gave her a date rape drug . Thats a possibility. The trail led to this house of camera. There was a server with a large amount of data being stored . They discovered thousands of hours of tape. It was a torture to listen to. That would reveal one shattering truth. I got down on my knees and started crying. Im lester holt and this is dateline. House on sidneys cove. Theres never a good day to search for a missing woman but this rainy muggy saturday . The heat of july made an unhappy task all but unbearable. Take flowers. Friends and family decided they would wear red shirts. They got themselves organized in the parking lot of a walmart in lawrenceville, out to find any trace of a pet keep Corporate Executive named nikki. We have three kids that would love to see her home. Amy robinson told reporters her 44yearold sister, mother of three, was hardly the kind of person who would up and disappear without a word to anyone. Im so worried about my the fate of where nickie was would be answer soon enough but the question of what happened to nikki remains unclear. Im sick of playing your game. What is clear from the recordings she left behind is that nikki lived a troubled and tormented life. This is what i live day in and day out. I keep my mouth shut, my head down and do exactly whats expected of me. Tell me about nikkis personality . She and i used to laugh all the time. She was very feisty. She didnt mince a lot of words. As sisters amy robinson and nikki lieli were ten years apart but according to amy they were always close you two look alike in old photos. I was thinking youre swapping each others clothes but youre ten years apart. That didnt stop it from downs. By the mid90s nikki had been married and divorced twice and she and her young daughter alex were sharing an apartment with amy. We just laughed putting up pictures in the apartment. This sounds like a sitcom. At times it was. Eventually nikki moved out, remarried and had two more daughters with her third husband, matt lieli, a new yorker she met online. He made my sister laugh so we and mississippi, nikki and matt returned to georgia and settled into this house on sidneys cove in lawrenceville. Nikki, 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 palettes of old used computer parts then rebuilding them and selling them on ebay. When it was amys turn to get married in 2003, her big sis was there serving as matron of honor. I just want to toast to amy, my best friend, my confidante, my sister, to amy and dylan. Later this night, boogying to, what else, we are family. . We are family . . As the years passed, the in late june, 2011, amy organized a spa day out for nikki and her three girls. No boys allowed. Were going to have a girls day. Where did you go . We went to get our nails done. Day of beauty at the spa . Uhhuh. We got manicures and pedicures and we had lunch. Nikki had had her toenails painted pink that day and though she sometimes had a difficult relationship with her teenage daughter, alex said that day at the spa felt like a turning pretty happy. Good girls day out. It was fun and im beyond grateful now that weve done it. Two weeks later, nikki 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 a grown woman having left her house wasnt well, 100 people getting together wearing red shirts, theres an interesting story. 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 nikki lielis subdivision for cues as to what might have happened to her. Keep your eyes open. If you see her, call 911, let them know youve seen her. Nikkis mother had the job of going door to door, leafletting the neighborhood with fliers with pictures of her daughter. I dont think anybody is at home. Well find out. Even though Southern Hospitality may have been in short supply that day. Get out of here before i call the cops. Harriet pressed on. Good morning, sir. My name is Harriet Garrett. Whats the camera for . My daughter is missing and were trying to get some news coverage. Like so many of the volunteer s that day, Allison Rockwell was looking for her coworker. I loved nikki, she was great. Very smart. Lots of energy. Positive. Wonderful. Just a wonderful person. On the morning of the search, allison recalls she and another colleague from work, a man named derek, were running late. Important twist of fate. 40 minutes late. Everyone else started searching. Were you given a grid or area to look senate. We were giving the front of the neighborhood, the very front of the neighborhood. On the right. It was the last assigned grid. Derek and i went into the woods together and large tree and theres this pile of leaves. And its in the middle of where Everything Else is clear and flat. My heart is race ago million miles an hour, i go up to move leaves at the bottom of the pile. As i was doing that, i said derek. Derek came over and he heard the helping me and thats when we saw blond hair. And i screamed this blood curdling scream. And there was no question . 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Within minutes police, ambulances, and news cameras were converging on the patch of niques mother Harriet Garrett says she heard the news when a cop told her shed have to stop leafletting the neighborhood. Someone in the neighborhood had complained and while he is talking to me, his radio goes off, its 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 couldnt get any further. Were going to move back. Were going to move back down, guys. They had it isolated by that time but i got to it as close as i could. Soon harriet had niques oldest daughter alex on the phone. Do you know its her . Well, im out 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. 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, baby. First they wouldnt let me see her and im grateful they didnt now. As niques family struggled to process the news, amy faced the microphones and once again became the familys voice. All i saw was her hair but um, you know, were and well find out more soon. 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 son. No clothing whatsoever. Any obvious injuries to the body. Lacerations, Blunt Force Trauma . Gunshot . Stab wound . Anything you could see . Nothing. At this point theres no identifying documents around it so theres nothing around where the body is a that would indicate what happened. In the way of these thing, dental records confirmed what everyone suspected. The body in the woods was, indeed, that of nique bottoms of her feet were clean. Connect the dots for me. That tells you she didnt walk out there and put herself in those woods. And lets face it 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 some time before this womans death, almost immediately before, someone gave her a date m. E also finds semen . Correct. Had nique somehow been abducted and raped less than a mile from her home . Detectives couldnt say but in the days before, while this was still a missing persons case, niques husband matt told ebberson something intriguing on the phone. This wasnt the first time nique leili walked out on him. My wife has a long history of of some kind o 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, stock . And even violence. My father is a witness for. Like most marriages, niques had its ups and downs. Early july, 2011, when nique 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. But shes never been gone overnight. So hes telling you this is just the latest of a continuing detective in this telephone call which the detective reported, matt leili said his wife was mentally unbalanced . Shes not happy with her life, she never felt accepted, okay . Weve been in and out of therapists. Shes not 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. Hes giving you a hose full of informat word in edge wise. She yells at me in front of the kids, she throws things in front of me and im just going please stop, please stop, do you remember what the doctor said . Is this the person you want to be . Mat leili said he continued getting a court order to protect him from his wife. Has she been violent . Yeah. My father is a witness for her throwing a knife at my face. Im 250 pounds, 65, shes 09 whos going to believe me . Hes telling you shes bats . Thats what he said. As for the night she disappeared he stated they had gone out to eat and gone to a movie after he got home from work. We had a great time. We came home, on the way home i said to her i wanted sex so i said to her how about you put on an outfit, i think that might have set her he wanted her to put on a sexy costume. That fear of intimacy that i thought she was working on getting over but that set her off because she picked a fight. As matt tells it, the fight continued at home and ramped up. Matts father, visiting from new york. Matts father had been visiting. Matt asked his dad to weigh in. He called his father Matthias Matthias to tell nique how he felt about being down there and matthias came out with a line that he hadnt felt welcome, that kind of stuff and that kick nique reacted by saying he was lying. Then matt said his wife did something off the wall. I mean, wholly 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 flo what family does . She flashed her fatherinlaw . Correct. My wife has done some weird [ bleep ], thats the weirdest shes ever been. Matt said the dust finally settled in the wee hours of saturday, july 9, nique in the bedroom, he on his couch in the down stairs office. I wake up about 6 00 to go to the bathroom my light is on in the bedroom. I go to see what shes going on, her keys, her phone. Herrers . Yes, he assumed somebody had picked her up. Matt told the cop it was then he realized his Home Security system had been turned off. I have a camera system in the house because i sell cameras with a dvr. She always shuts it off when she leaves. When shes pissed off because she knows it pisss me off. Thats the first time you learn this place is wired for sound and pictures . 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. Quantified . What are we talking about . Thousands of hours of materials. What will it reveal . Its a torture to listen to. . . One day a rider made a decision. His motorcycle insurance to geico. Theres no shame in saving money. Ride on, ride proud. Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. 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Odd to be sure, an observation to tuck away for later. But the duty that day came first, notification, the missing life had just been found dead. The uniform 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 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 and whats up with nique . House that has any sort of memory, be it computers, be it he had a dvr hooked up to his 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 by the husband . None whatsoever. This is not a woman off her meds . No, theyre completely shocked by this version of events that Matthew Leili has given 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 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 himm have never left her girls and i wanted him to know he would restrain her and lock her in bathrooms is. Why did he do that . The whole thing with the cameras . Hes 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 evidenc