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And they're trying to give -- we're trying to get some news coverage. >> like so many of the volunteers that day, alison rockwell wasn't 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 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...

>> matt leili may well have been sick, sick of talking to the cops, because by now he had lawyered up and wasn't answering any of their questions. >> so you now have probable cause to get a search warrant. >> 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 what's up with nique? >> that was my hope. we're 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 catal...

The husband was portrayed as an eavesdropping control freak who had killed his wife during an argument. leili's defense attorney, tom clegg, insisted that matt leili was an innocent man falsely accused by the state of georgia. >> they have a theory, which 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 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 ma...

Leili is giving me. >> are any of them suspicious of matt, the husband? >> yes, they were all suspicious of matt. >> nique's 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 them to know i suspected him from the beginning. my mom would have never left her girls. 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 family's suspicio...

And there is this pile of leaves, and it's 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 that's 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, it's her. we found her. there is her hair. >> how awful for you. >> yeah. >> a ...