♪ with all your parts ♪ oh, it's all part of being a pirate ♪ >> ♪ pirate, pirate >> ♪ you can't be a pirate with all your parts ♪ >> the northern california renaissance faire gets under way this weekend, starting september 15th, in hollister. [ women singing indistinctly ] spanning more than 20 acres, the village of williamtown comes to life with actors roaming the grounds. >> ...do hereby declare this faire open! hip, hip! >> huzzah! >> hip, hip! >> there are battles, improv troupes, comedy acts, and so much more. and for the first time, due to popular demand, the norcal ren faire is running six weeks. over the years, aubrey and i have become ren faire veterans, sharing some of our favorite highlights of the annual event. welcome, indeed, to the northern california renaissance faire! full eight stages, 20 acres!

feasting and drinking beyond compare. artisans and entertainmentor fee eyes, ear, and self. >> part of the fun of the renaissance faire, dressing the part. with hundreds of actors roaming the village in costume, you may want to get into costume yourself. >> you know, dressing up just adds to the fun. and if you're gonna be coming a lot, if it's becoming, like, a regular thing for you, renting can get pretty pricey. but if you invest in your costume pieces while you're here, you can pick just exactly what you like. you can build your outfit and make it your own, personalize it with accessories, mix and match your belts and your hats and your purses and your pouches and your jewelry and really make something truly unique, which is just really what adds to the beauty of the faire. [ crowd cheering ] >> a crowd favorite at the

ren faire? the jousting battles. >> we have four different knights from each region. we have england, france, spain, scotland, and we put on kind of a re-enactment of tournaments as they would be during the renaissance time. we actually do a joust -- full-contact jousting -- and then go to the ground and do ground combat with medieval weapons -- swords, axes, shields. so, we put on a little more of, i would say, a show as opposed to historically accurate, but crowd seems to enjoy it. it's sometou yngnoan c everywhere, that's for sure. the horses are a big draw. renaissance fairs are the one place you can go and see men on horseback, running full speed. you can see the horses enjoy doing it. > if all that action has you working up an appetite, there's plenty of food for the pickiest of eaters. well, you can't come to the renaissance faire without trying some of the great fair food. so, frances, you're gonna show me now your favorites here. >> my favorites. >> okay. what do we have? >> you know, you do so much throughout the day that you really get hungry.

>> right. >> so, people like to eat, like, corn on the cob, strictly. it's so good. we also have a meat pie that you're gonna have to try. we also have the artichoke. this is delicious. you can get it with butter, or you can get it with mayonnaise. this is cheesecake dipped in chocolate. and then, of course, you can't come to the renaissance faire without the famous turkey -- >> the famous turkey leg. [ laughs ] well, that is quite the behemoth of tury le can you see that? >> [ laughs ] >> my goodness. and it's still hot. >> we have a lot of artisans there, and they will -- they have pewter -- look at this beautiful cup. >> that is gorgeous. >> you can buy these there, and you can fill it up with ale, cider, water, coke, whatever you want. >> i definitely have to try the meat pie. >> see? >> mmm! no wonder why that's one of your favorites. >> it's my favorite. >> that is really, really good. and if you're looking for

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definitely feed a family of four or five. >> do not e before you eat it. [ laughter ] >> i love old chicago pizza. >> it's a recipe forged along petaluma river, and the locals drive for miles to experience this deep dish. with me is audrey haglund. she's one of the owners here. audrey, tell me a little bit about old chicago pizza. >> so, we started in 1978, and bill, the original owner, was the one who developed the recipe, and it hasn't changed siose.y guarded secret, but here's a simplified definition of a true chicago deep dish. >> it is the crust, the cheese, the sauce on top, and then the toppings. >> wow. so that's how you know what a chicago pizza is. >> yes, absolutely. plus, the flavor. it is just divine. >> we're in the kitchen, so i think it's only appropriate that we're gonna be cooking something. what are we gonna do? >> let's do a deep dish first. >> sounds good. >> okay. so, you're gonna start from the center and go out.

>> oh. >> and you're basically gonna go as close as you can to the crust itwi dthoeousnt 't burn. >> without touching the crust. >> and you know what? looks like we need a little bit more sauce, so let's do that. okay. okay, and then like so out here. >> it's all in the -- it's in the wrists. >> it's in the wrists. it really is. you called that. >> once we've added the secret sauce, it's time for toppings, and i mean lots of them -- pepperoni... sausage... bell peppers... onions... olives... mushrooms... and tomatoes. a large deep dish can weigh more than seven pounds, and the ingredients should be even to cook properly. to cook one of these, it takes a little bit of time. , es yluab so it's in the oven about 25 minutes, and about 5 minutes or 3 minutes to assemble. >> while waiting for the pizza, we learned why old chicago is a magnet for multi-generations of loyal families. >> it's hometown petaluma.t mea?

it's not some big pizza like domino's or something like that. we're supporting a local business. it's terrific. i'd eat here every day if i could afford it. [ laughs ] you don't get pizza like thisan. >> the brick and the kind of low lighting, especially at night, it's just got a very comfortable, cozy kind of mospre. and when you pair that with comfortable, cozy, cheesy, wonderful pizza, it's like at-s. >> comfortable and cozy is what it's all about as i prepare to taste my cheicy sl he of you need a knife and a fork for this pizza. >> absolutely. this is not "hold it in your hand" pizza. >> [ laughs ] okay. >> tell us what you think. >> here we go, if i could pick it up. look at all that cheese. wow. [ laughs ] mmm! >> oh, was that good? >> the cheese, the flavor -- that is good.

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poetically on hi hope road, sits sergeant john richter, unwilling to give up on hope. he spends an entire year listening to what it's like being watched and controlled 24/7. >> i'm supposed to live my life running around wondering where a recorder is? what emails are being read? >> who brought that on themselves? >> no, matt. people don't live that way. >> reporter: 1,200 hours that he

says reveal to him, the only crazy thing about nique was that she was married to a monster. >> [ bleep ]. lower your voice! i am not going to sit here and listen to this [ bleep ]. >> reporter: matt shows he is just as capable of losing his temper and according to nique -- of using his hands as well as his voice to abuse her. >> if i wanted to do harm to you i could have done it. you think i'm going to harm you? >> i don't know, matt. you tried to tonight. >> i did not. >> [ bleep ]. with 6'5", 250 [ bleep ] plus pounds, with your hands around my throat. you had me pinned to the [ bleep ] wall. >> all my homicide victims over the year, i've never met anybody. but after listening to these recordings, it gave me the -- you know, ability to know her. >> reporter: you liked her. >> i think she was a wonderful person, a wonderful mother, and by all accounts, she was a wonderful wife. just couldn't do enough for one individual. >> reporter: and you became determined to get this solved. >> i wasn't going to give up. >> reporter: that devotion leads

to a big break. something as good as a bloody fingerprint hidden deep inside matt leili's computer. >> this was enough to tip the scales. >> reporter: control alt arrest. matt leili, about to find himself in handcuffs. and his teenage daughters, staying loyal to their father. how far will they go to prove daddy didn't do it? jail house phone calls ahead. >> love you, baby girl. good luck today. >> i love you too. >> reporter: stay with us. here. take your razor, yup. alright, up and down, never side to side, shaquem. you got it? come on, get back. quem, you a second behind your brother, stay focused. can't nobody beat you, can't nobody beat you. hard work baby, it gonna pay off. you got this. with the one hundred and forty-first pick, the seattle seahawks select. alright, you got it, shaquem. alright, let me see.

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"20/20" continues. >> seems like over the years, i must have passed this place hundreds of times and i always thought of her. and i'd always stop and look. >> reporter: as years passed, some may have figured hell would freeze over before police would solve the strange case of nique leili, found dead near her home in the atlanta suburb of lawrenceville.

>> it's a day much unlike today. it's, you know, not snowing. it's july. and it's hot. >> reporter: it is definitely freezing on this day, more than four years later, as cold case cop john richter leads us to the little woods where her nude body was hastily buried under dead leaves and branches. exactly? >> it's right in this area in here, amongst these -- these trees. >> reporter: detective richter was part of the homicide team called out here the day her body was discovered. here in these woods, richter says he made a vow. >> that day when i was -- i was looking at this person who was placed here, it's like she didn't matter to anybody so i made a promise to myself that day that i would never give up on this case or nique. >> i think we were all hoping for some sort of resolution by this time. >> reporter: for all matt leili's surveillance cameras, his radio shack syndrome, the fate of nique remains a blind spot. not so much as a flickering

image or telltale echo. the story had always been, all that video evidence disappeared because matt leili's hard drives somehow got corrupted. >> now, corruption, it's -- it's a broad term.ould have been an accident. >> sure. >> reporter: could have been power went out. >> yeah, the lightning strike. you know? >> reporter: but then that cold case detective has a white-hot idea. he asks detective chris ford, a forensics expert, to autopsy lma newly available technology will exhume any evidence buried r. >> oftentimes in my cold cases, i send off clothing, you know, so you might get a dna hit on some clothing that you didn't prior. well, in this case in particular, it was computers. it was the forensic stuff that i decided, you know, let's get a new, fresh look at the computer detective ford casually drops the report off at richter's desk. >> and i look at it, and i see that -- i see the word "deleted." and i said, "no, these video files are deleted." he's like, "oh, absolutely. it was all deleted."

>> reporter: now the evidence is clear. this was no accident. somebody intentionally deleted security camera video from the precise hours when nique had left, or been taken, from the house. the difference between the word deleted and corrupted for you is what? >> deleted, to me, means it was deleted by a person. somebody went in there and deleted, wanted this video gone. >> reporter: so now, you got to figure out who had the opportunity to do that. >> right. >> reporter: and what did your investigation show? >> coincidentally enough, the defendant in this case is, by his account, a computer expert. a surveillance expert. >> reporter: it's all circumstantial but it's enough. the cops are now rebooting their case and the timing couldn't be worse for matt leili. that's because just about this time, he's back in town, in federal court in atlanta to testify in a civil lawsuit over nique's life insurance money. matt's lawyer in that case, jeff diamond. >> my perceptions is that he was a caring father.

he was a big teddy bear, really. >> reporter: but big teddy bear has a big problem. >> reporter: were you there in the court? >> i was outside. >> reporter: matt leili leaves the courtroom and gets in the elevator. he thinks he's going down to the lobby but he's just going down. detective richter arrests him right there at the courthouse. did you get to put the cuffs on him? >> i did. and it felt good. >> reporter: we're finding out what led gwinnett county police to charge a husband in the murder of his wife three and a half years ago. >> reporter: our affiliate wsb went straight to nique's sister amy and showed her this video of her nemesis in custody. >> it's a thing i've kind of pictured in my mind for a while but kind of had doubts as to whether i would actually ever see it. >> reporter: matt leili can forget about spending the insurance money. now he's fighting to keep from spending the rest of his life in a georgia prison. >> you have been charged with murder. >> reporter: matthew leili appeared tired and dazed as a judge read him the charges. >> reporter: dazed, maybe, but

not confused. from behind bars awaiting trial, these recordings obtained by "20/20" reveal leili has an audacious plan to spring himself. >> make sure you tell people we have set up a youtube channel to tell you the truth about what happened in our home. >> okay. >> reporter: his secret weapon? his own daughters, amanda and rebecca. they get father-knows-best instructions from jailhouse phone calls to launch a youtube crusade to defend him against nique's family. >> all these years we were told to be silent. to protect mom's image. we can't be silent anymore. >> okay. >> my daddy's now in jail because of these false allegations, it's time we tell the truth.tt. >> reporter: just listen, they execute his instructions almost word for word. to tell the truth and for us to call them out on their lies and -- >> now's our chance. >> say something insulting, from

this, pathological lying family that doesn't want their dirty laundry aired, but the truth will come out. >> yes, sir. >> and the family is making sure that we can't say anything. we can't argue to keep their dirty laundry from being aired. >> reporter: then matt uses his daughters to support his claim that their mother nique was crazy. >> my mom started pacing back and forth and she started kind of mumbling to herself. >> don't forget to tell everybody about the ubutyotesie because we want it on tv, okay? >> okay. >> love you, baby girl. good luck today. >> i love you too. >> reporter: leili got his wish. the girls' video makes news. >> as focus turns on dad. nique's own daughters take to youtube to defend him. >> the video was created by the man's two daughters. >> this is the teenage daughters, they made a youtube have you hadio in support of the father. >> it hurt a lot. they said some -- some hateful things about our family. they painted our mom like someone she really wasn't.r:s t

nique's murder grips the streets of lawrenceville, just past scotland yard antiques, a stree courthouse. where the two sides of the feuding family will meet again. or la>>wyepers rare questioning t final potential jurors in the trial of a man who prosecutors say murdered his wife. >> rter: still ahead, the murder trial of matt leili. the star witness, the victim herself, nique leili is about to speak to the jury. >> you tried to kill me. >> reporter: and the witness who almost stops the trial with just one look. whhe sats oe d mth >> it was probably one of the most awkward momenf omyif le. >> reporter: stay with us.

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>> reporter: under a threatening sky a storm blowing in over the gwinnett county courthouse. matt leili is on trial, accused of murdering his wife. >> the new murder in georgia where a father of two is charged of killing his wife pretending >> before he even calls police to report her missing, he calls a lawyer. >> reporter: in court, two powerful teams head to head, prosecutor lisa jones. >> the evidence will prove, tha. >> reporter: tom clegg, matt leili's criminal defense attorney. >> he is falsely accused, pure and simple. >> reporter: exhibit "a," the autopsy.

the medical examiner, often a casemaker for prosecutors, helpfully testifies she sure does susou fctaypll something directly connecting this witness is no help. que ed.venay f surhow >> they don't have a rock solid case at all here. >> i rule the cause of death as undetermined. >> reporter: jurors such as kim muenster say when it comes to hard direct evidence. at least at the beginning of the state's case, they're just not hearing it. did any of that bother you? >> i thought from the get-go that you had to have proof, i was like, i need something more, i need something more. >> reporter: and the prosecution got an unpleasant surprise when maand, joanne lucie. ttei people in the courtroom say the legal bar suddenly turns into a singles bar. no objection, but it sure looks like the witness is flirting. >> okay. you're looking at him,

periodically. >> he has beautiful eyes. he'd known that. he knows that i will always look at his eyes. he knows that. >> was that part of what attracted you to him to begin with? eyes.s yeah. hi ht.iheig his physique. >> okay. >> reporter: even though they'd been unhappily and briefly married 20 years before, there was still something. >> be that as it may, you still can't help but look at his eyes, can you? >> no. they're beautiful. >> that was astonishing, okay? she was flirting with him on the witness stand. >> reporter: goo-goo eyes aside, matt's former missus does manage to deliver some damaging testimony, confirming he got rough with her. >> he would like to push you down to the ground, and pin you down. i'm not a very strong person, so i was easy to pin down. >> juror kim munster, i guess she loves his eyes and loves his look but she doesn't like the

things that he did to her. >> reporter: because he did some -- some things that are very similar to what he did to nique. >> very similar. >> there were several nights that i would lay up at night, and listen to her say, "please get off of me. get ofof me. you're hurting me." >> reporter: and prosecutor jones has much more ammo in her arsenal. e richter's forensics from investigation. thive camederacts wetere worki e this crime happened. >> absolutely. it was intentionally deleted. >> reporter: but there is more. those recordings of a marriage on the brink. detective john richter takes the stand to testify about the year of his life he spent listening to nique. >> a victim's life, and how her life was leading up to her death. and i mean, i -- it was -- it was gold. >> reporter: listen to this gem. shouting match. richter, and apparently nique, believe matt once made something very much like a death threat. >> the words out of your [ bleep ] mouth. i should've let you kill yourself so i didn't have to [ bleep ] do it.

don't [ bleep ] deny it, because those were the exact words that came out of your mouth. >> i said you should've, i should've let you killed yourself, why should i bother, be the one to do it? >> reporter: and so here is the state's theory of the murder of nique leili. what do you surmise did happen? after she and matt come home from the movies, that last security camera gets a glimpse as she sneaks a smoke. very likely the last one of her life. >> he gave her some ghb just to lower her, her resistance level. and then, you know, they had sex. >> reporter: fed up with the fights over sex and money, and l ticket will leave with the kids, matt leili then makes certain raise her voice to him again. >> and at some point, she was asphyxiated by him sitting on her, or strangling her. >>wi rth horis own hands? >> he did. absolutely. he killed her with his own hands, with his own body. >> reporter: the crime sce bears no signs of a struggle.

the body, no defensive wounds. but a dead wife is still a dead wife. >> he's got to get her out of that house, 'cause the girls are going to get up soon. he puts her in the woods like that. now he's got to delete the video. the only video that would show how she left that house. >> reporter: okay, so, that's the theory. prove it, says matt leili. his daughters, amanda, now 17, rebecca, 14, are his best weapons. they arrive at thert coue hous one after the other, the girls take the stand to defend their father. >> is this gentleman here your dad? >> yes. >> okay. and you love him, right? >> of course. >> very briefly, describe the relationship that your mom and dad had. >> they loved each other. >> did they ever fight? argue? >> they did argue, yes. >> did you ever see your dad hit your mom? >> no. >> did you ever see any obvious injures or bruises to your mom? >> no, sir. >> rorte butor jor kim muenster, just the sound of those terrible fights. my hands throat! >> reporter: the despair in nique's voice. >> if you don't get off, i swear

to god. get off! >> reporter: gave her sleepless nights. how hard was it to listen to her audio recordings? >> all i could think about when i would go to sleep is anytime i would close my eyes, that's all i would hear was, "get off me, get off me," her screaming. >> reporter: there is just one more lingering question in this trial, what does matt leili have to say for himself? rumors fly around the courthouse that he wants to take the stand. the judge even asks him. >> mister leili, have you had a chance to speak with your attorney about that decision?on. i'm too emotional. >> reporter: instead, in closing arguments, defense attorney tom clegg throws his client's personality under the bus but claims the state fell far short of proving he's a killer. >> he can be an argumentative s.o.b. he probably is pretty [ bleep ] good at pushing people's buttons. but what does that have to do with murder? >> and you need to listen to her. >> reporter: prosecutor lisa jones has the last word.

making sure the jury leaves the courtroom with nique's voice echoing in their ears. >> welcome to my world. you killed me a long time ago. >> find him guilty because that's exactly what he is. >> reporter: it's a friday afternoon. thjury has two things on its mind. lunch, and whether matt leili will be eating prison food the rest of his life. >> you have reaped a verdict? >> yes, your honor. >> reporter: t

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>> reporter: i'm told by the bailiff that the jury has reached a verdict so we're going to go ahead and ask the jury to come in. >> reporter: judgment day for matt leili, accused of killing his wife, nique. nearly five years to build the case, three and a half hours to decide it. on a friday afternoon in georgia, this is the moment nique's family hand in hand, they can hardly wait. >> i'm going to ask you at this time if you would stand and read

the verdict out loud. >> as to count one, we the jury find the defendant guilty of malice murder. as to count two, we the jury find the defendant guilty of felony murder. >> and as soon as i heard guilty, i probably squeezed her hand so hard i'm surprised it didn't break because i was like, did he say guilty, did he say guilty, are you sure? oh, my gosh. >> you got my hand too. >> mr. leili, is there anything you want to say? >> i didn't do it. and i'll be filing an appeal. >> reporter: matt and nique's younger dogs arrive in court in time to hear their father's sentence for murdering their mother. >> i need you to stand up for this sentencing portion. i am going to follow the state's recommendation as to count one, and have you sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. >> reporter: amanda and rebecca still have not given up hope walking out of court somehow convinced daddy will be coming home soon. >> he's filing an appeal and you'll see my dad. >> reporter: the main thing

that's left is any kind of reproach plent with your sisters. >> as hard as this has been, and as much hatred that they've harbored, my door is always open. because i don't blame them. i blame him. it's his fault. i love them dearly and i will always have open arps to them. >> reporter: nique's family wanted to meet some of the people they believe helped deliver justice. >> nice to meet you. >> it's a pleasure to meet you. >> reporter: they asked us to help arrange it and so nique's sister amy dropped by our interview with juror kim muenster. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: and finally, that detective who made the promise here at nique's grave, tells me it's time to turn the page. now that you're back here after the verdict, what are your thoughts? >> maybe now nique can rest in peace, and -- and know that at least justice was served. and her family can know that. and, you know, now it's time for me to move on to another case. and, you know, hopefully bring some kind of closure to some -- another family. it's time to move on.

and the couple's children are moving on. amanda and rebecca are back in touch with their step sister and others in the mother's family. >> meanwhile matt's appeal for a trial has been heard. he's waiting for a ruling. what do you make of the dogs supporting their father when so many others did not. >> let us know and facebook and wit twitser. >> i'm amy robach. >> i'm david muir. for all of us here, thanks for watching. good night. . rescuers are going door to

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