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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 given the front of the neighborhood, the very front of the neighborhood. on the right. >> it was one o...

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 that's 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, it's her, we found her. there's her hair. >> how awful for you. >> yeah. >> a body and a vital clue. >> the telling factor was the bottoms of her feet were clean. >> what did that mean? ♪...

♪ >> reporter: by early february 2016, the prosecution had rested its cased against matt leili. the husband was portrayed as an evesdropping control freak who'd killed his wife during an argument. leili's 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 were to have gone to journalism school, who, what, where, why, and how, you will find that during ...

The defense attorney called matt's father, matthias, to verify his son's 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 let's go. let's 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 already dead, he says, wouldn't have done either of those things. >> he did not really want to divorce...

>> reporter: this is not a woman off her meds? >> no. they're completely shocked by this version of events that matthew leili's given me. >> are any of them suspicious of matt, the husband? >> yes. they were all suspicious of matt. >> reporter: nique's daughter alex had lived with her mother and matt until she was 16. and there was plenty she'd 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 or lock her in...