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>> reporter: tonight, "20/20" takes you inside that family's nightously hotwired with 21 surveillance cameras rolling non-stop, recording everything. her husband, a security expert, trying out the latest equipment on his very own family. >> he was trying to watch the entire world around him. >> reporter: but is his wife just being mad? i know for a fact i let it go. >> reporter: or going mad? >> my wife has a long history of mental imbalances.inwreck waiting to happen. >> reporter: a marriage unraveling. a father under suspicion. >> this is really freaking me out. >> reporter: the media obsessed. >> i'm not suspicious.d. >> reporter: and two crucial days of tapes missing. >> so here's a man waiting for a crime to happen every day. one finally happens, and he's >> reporter: but what happens after an autopsy on the computer? >> it was gold. >> reporter: tonight, the sergeant, haunted by the case. myself i

>> reporter: the suspect's daughters defending him.ublic on youtube. >> it's finally time for us to tell the truth. >> reporter: and how it finally gets solved, by a voice from the grave. >> i don't want any part of thise. >> reporter: what the camera didn't see. >> good evening. i'm david muir. >> and i'm elizabeth vargas. most scrapbooks, family photo albums. but tonight's has taken that to the extreme. years worth of recordint just the happy times. from a command center inside the home. >> and when a tragedy occurs, where are they? 48 hours, ere tonight, what the camera didn't see, and the just-finished murder trial that the country's jim avila. >> reporter: what would we see if your home was being watched

by 21 surveillance cameras? watching as you sat on the couch in front of the tv, unblinking or a smoke on the porch. show me where you saw cameras. >> if you see the front door -- to in the corner there was -- there was a camera right there. kind of up in the top eave, on the back corner of the house. >> reporter: welcome to sidney'sde-sac in lawrenceville, georgia. 40 miles north of atlanta. a small town where the bells of the first baptist church can be d in the backyard and dinnertime is marked by the rumble of freight trains. it's home to matt and nique leili, their daughters amanda and rebecca -- and nique's older daughter alex, from a previous marriage.ras? matt's in the business. he sells security systems.

neighborhood watch. we sat down with nique's family.m, her daughter, alex and sister amy. >> i knew that there were cameras all over the place because, i mean, you know he made a point to -- sort of brag about it, really. it was a -- sort of a source of pride for him. seems so tranquil on the outside. matt and nique, both 44 years old. married on valentine's day. together 13 years. many of them good., an accountant, the breadwinner. called her babycakes.u know, that she was in love with him. >> reporter: their daughters rebecca posted this youtube video of the couple's trip to hawaii to frolic in the sun. >> my mom surprised my dad while they were down there and renewed their vows. she's happy. they were in love.eporter: that does seem like something people who are in love and still care for each other do. >> right. >> reporter: but just like hawaii's famous volcanoes, this

like kilauea in the dark of night.tt's over the top obsession with security everywhere, we hear it all. >> get out of my [ bleep ] way reaking [ bleep ] in this office. >> look at the way we're approaching this. >> i'm fixing to start breaking [ bleep ]. >> i know you are. >> so get out of the way. >> reporter: that steel ze voice belongs to the petite nique leili, 5'3", 98 pounds soaking wet .ant oaf of a man. 6'5", 250 pounds. big enough to lift his tiny wife nique with one hand, but on some of these recordings, he so >> i can't keep doing this. these fights that we're having. >> you are e. how you can dare sit here and talk to me. >> lower your voice. >> my time. >> reporter: the reasons for their fights might sound familiar. money and sex. the leilis are $300,000 in

they are seeing a counselor. >> i am fighting for this marriage. >> [ bleep ].u. here, you want the cops. >> the problem that i see, is that what you want is not me and not us. >> reporter: matt's surveillance business has become his obsession.always watching. the porch cams, the yard cams, the driveway cams, all diligently docum of suburban life. >> this guy has a system in his house that the -- the military would be jealous of, you know? we're talking about a huge server, bigger than something that we would even have at the police station.16 because she couldn't get along with her ameras, leaving her younger half-sisters behind. >> it was very uncomfortable all of the time, you know? he had a camera in the living room that faced the couch. so if you wanted to sit down and watch tv, you were being monitored. matt insists there was a reason for all the surveillance.

become mentally unstable.protect my child and make sure you're not a yelling, raving lunatic first. >> give me a [ bleep ] break. they do not need protection from me! >> reporter: worse, she had a habit of storming off.ut of my way. >> can we compromise here? >> no! there is no compromise. no!hat you calm down for a moment. if in a clear head, you want to leave, i'm not going to stop you. >> good.s afraid nique might run off in a rage and get hurt. to deal with that he turns to another of his tech skills.ders in her car, her purse, and using her cell phone to track her.n. >> i'm recording my wife, i've got a tracker on her, you know. i've got to find my wife every time she runs away. i mean, i'm not some over

living in the house, amanda and rebecca, are witness to the es. in that youtube video, which will play a big role in this story later, they say their mom was the problem. she was acting crazy. >> she was saying how she was ing her that people were talking bad about her and she was tired of the voices telling her this and the voices telling her that.r: that was june 28th, 2011. nique calls 911. documentation of what matt says he fears. she's running away from home. >> gwinnett county 911. >> yeah, my husband refuses to let me leave the house. >> my wife is yelling and e up the children. you really want the cops here? i think my wife just was throwing a temper tantrum, i don't think we need the police. >> let me have her tell me that, sir., you need to pick up the phone or they're going to come. >> you don't need to come. i'll stay in my house all day. >> i already have them dispatched that way, sir.

>> you're welcome. cops come by to make sure things are under control, but nique doesn't even look at the officers. that's her bag packed and ready by her side.kes it and leaves. and within hours matt has their then 12-year-old daughter amanda call and beg her not to stay away. it's heartbreaking. >> hey baby, how are you? >> good. mommy, we need to go on vacation, all of us as a family. save this family. >> reporter: the family doesn't go on vacation. but nique comes home. they stay at sydney's cove behind closed doors -- with all those cameras rolling.e getting back to normal.two weeks. until a july night, that small figure in screen is nique. it's date night with matt. dinner and a movie. later that night, the leili

before bed. we can't tell in this tape, but the cigarette is not the that summer night. nique leili is about to disappear. when we come back, after 13 years of marriage and thousands of arguments, gone for good. and her husband says it's because she is crazy. where's nique? and what do all those cameras ppearance? stay with us. we stop arthritis pain, so you don't have to stop. in go. onward. today's the day. carpe diem. tylenol 8hr arthritis pain in relief. the first is fast. the second lasts all day. we g ive you your day back. up to you. tylenol . nivea in-shower ... then i

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continues, with what the camera didn't see. >> reporter: a hard-working, spitfire of a woman, breadwinner, a woman who despite her size takes no guff from her outsized husband, and now she is missing. the nowhere to be found in the house outside atlanta. now we can go inside with video obtained by abc news. are there any clues in here that answer the question, where's nique? go ahead, look around, see any any blood stains on the carpet? broken furniture? sure, there's a gun in a holster, but it's not smoking. nothing more incriminating than an unmade bed.it is, matt's electronic fortress. and yet for someone so concerned with the comings and goings in

before bothering to pick up the phone and call nique's sister amy. >> and he said, "have you talked to nique?" and i said, "no. why? what's going on?""well, nique's missing." i said, "what are you talking about?" and he said, "yeah. she hasn't been home since saturday." i said, "are you serious? call the police."r: after that call, matt did file a missing person report and told his story to police. he and nique had a fight, he slept on the floor of his office and when he woke up the next s gone. he says the only thing she took was her toothbrush. her purse, her phone, any eft behind. >> i go upstairs to see what's going on. she's not there. >> reporter: he says she has been breaking down mentally for ked away. >> this is the weirdest thing. okay. this is really freaking me out, okay? this is not the first time she's

overnight. >> reporter: matt overshares with the cop on the phone telling him the fight is about sex, in detail. >> on the way home i said to her, sex. but the sex we've been having hasn't been anything special. i said to her, "hey.t on an outfit?" i think that might have set her off. >> reporter: he says maybe she checked into a hospital, suffering from a breakdown.history of some kind of mental imbalances. okay? >> reporter: now matt says he's had enough. he's done with his crazy wife. straighten up, i'm going to divorce her. i saw an attorney about it too, just yesterday. >> reporter: that's right, before police have even launched ays before matt has spread the word that nique has gone missing. he has hired a lawyer to divorce her. >> what was that about?you. i mean, my response to that, my reaction to that, was, "who does that?" >> it was just all about him. it was never a frantic, "where

isn't enough of a threat, matt goes down to the courthouse to fill out paperwork to have nique committed. here he is telling his t. >> i was at the court house swearing out a warrant for nique leili. for involuntary committal. breaking out. pitting the northerner matt and his young daughters against his southern in-laws, nique's ughter alex. >> my mother was the farthest thing from crazy you could get. >> reporter: nique's family has a very different take about her disappearance.is saying about nique's mental condition and they're angry that matt took two days to tell them she is missing.t all about finding his wife. he was concerned about making sure that he spread the story that she was insane.r: so a week after

organize a search.media, hoping to get the whole community involved. more than 100 volunteers, all in red, spread out through the neighborhood. matt was not among them. skipping what may have been the shortest search persons. ten minutes after friends and family had formed a grid. >> i just saw a huge big pile.vering up something so i just started kicking away at it and then saw her body and her hair.ody scream from the woods, you know, so i went running up there to see what they had uncovered. and it was my sister.oh, dear god. >> family members crying refighters and police arrive just minutes after people looking for nique leili make a shocking discovery. >> and i blacked out. i just remember hitting the ground. >> reporter: niq less than a mile from her house.

didn't get far.gins. this is amy, moments after her sister nique's body is found. >> he waited two days to even report her missing. he told me that they'd had a ou know, she wasn't well and that she had been having breakdowns and stuff. but i saw her two weeks ago and she was fine.issing persons case is closed. but is this murder? >> investigators are talking with leili's husband and home. but police say right now, he is not a suspect. >> reporter: certainly matt's personal centcom will prove he had nothing to do with his wife's disappearance.i witness than 21 cameras? so here's a man waiting for a crime to happen every day, sitting in his office, looking around.ens, and he's got no pictures of it? >> correct.

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return to "20/20"'s what the camera didn't see. >> reporter: take a good look at this image of nique leili on her porch. supposedly walked out on her husband matt. it's the last picture of her alive. because, believe it or not, in this house tricked out like a small casino with 21 cameras, em managed to capture a single image of her final exit. >> so did you as an investigator think, well, this might be easy? there's cameras all over the place.re. you might get some evidence off of this. >> correct. >> and did you ask him, can i see the night?e came back to his office he realized the system was turned off. >> reporter: cue the chorus. how convenient -- and suspicious.

watergate.8 minutes. its two days' worth of critical ound. >> you would think we'd have it on video. i mean, this guy was serious about his video surveillance. >> reporter: matt leili tells police that after his wife had that cigarette on the porch -- the on the night of july 8th, 2011. his elaborate monitoring system y move simply went dark. matt's theory -- she stopped by his office where he was sleeping on the floor and pulled the plug on her way out the door on her ight. >> he said she turned off the system. >> reporter: without him knowing it? >> correct.gh he's in the room? >> correct. >> reporter: getting no help from matt's cameras, investigators turn to nique's body under the branches. else? the boelse? >> yeah, the body's definitely telling us that she didn't walk there. we're working this as a homicide. >> reporter: then there is the condition of her bare feet. >> that's something that's very telling of, you know, of a body ean feet because if you're running around the neighborhood, you're going

i mean, these were pristine. the nail polish is clean and not nicked up. >> reporter: after an autopsy, ort reveals a tantalizing new piece of evidence about nique's last hours. in her system they find high he date rape drug. >> in hundreds of cases, accidentals, overdoses, des, i've never seen ghb in a toxicology report. so that caught my attention immediately. matt told the police the big blow-up that night was over sex. he wanted it, she didn't. but now there's evidence, something he failed to mention in his phone conversation with the cops. >> i said, listen. okay, this has gone on far enough, all right. i'll go downstairs, once again, . you go to sleep. we'll talk about this in the morning. >> reporter: but the autopsy is most notable for what it does

>> we don't have an indication at that time, because of decomp and seven days out in july heat, of exactly the cause of death. no bullet holes, no knife wounds. no blunt force trauma. >> reporter: you thought she had been strangled. but there's no fingerprints either, right?round her neck. >> right. because of decomp, we don't have the telltale signs of strangulation. >> reporter: matt leili is definitely a suspect in his wife's murder.t. but there is not enough evidence to charge him. nique's family is beside themselves. her daughter alex almost feels guilty.as something i wasn't doing to help fight for justice. there was something i was missing. sometimes you just wanted to scream at the rooftop. you know, he did it. do something. off nique's family. isolating his daughters, they skip a memorial for nique. they don't even go to her funeral.o police too. >> police say matt leili is not cooperating, refusing to meet with them.

and worse yet -- the day before att and nique's 14th anniversary, sidney's cove is being vacated. >> today we found two moving. >> reporter: matt leili is moving away from nique's accusing family. >> there is no recourse so we feel very helpless. >> r georgia cops. >> as far as restricting his movements, we don't have any that right now. >> reporter: starting a new life 1,000 miles away in a hilltop house in rural londonderry, vermont. and he is taking amanda and rebecca with him.he's gone away, alex, but the real downside is your sisters have gone away too. >> it breaks my heart. to be completely honest, it breaks me down. i practically helped raise those girls. >> reporter: time is moving. but the case is not., nique's oldest daughter, is planning her wedding with no mother of the bride. the other two daughters are now teenagers. sydney's cove is foreclosed and sold off.

forgotten. at police headquarters, located road, sits sergeant john richter, unwilling to give up on hope. he spends an entire year like being watched and controlled 24/7. >> i'm supposed to live my life running around wondering where a recorder is?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 a monster. >> [ bleep ]. lower your voice! i am not going to sit here and ]. >> reporter: matt shows he is just as capable of losing his temper and according to nique --l 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.

>> [ bleep ]. bleep ] plus pounds, with your hands around my throat. you had me pinned to the [ bleep ] wall. >> all my homicide victims over anybody. but after listening to these recordings, it gave me the -- you know, ability to know her.er. >> 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 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.enough to tip the scales. >> reporter: matt leili, about to find himself in handcuffs. and his teenage daughters, father. how far will they go to prove daddy didn't do it? jail house phone calls ahead.. good luck today. >> i love you too. >> reporter: stay with us. and this... is a

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once again, what the camera didn't see, and "20/20." >> seems like over the years, i must have passed this place always thought of her. 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 d 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.initely freezing on this day, more than little woods where her nude body

leaves and branches. >> reporter: where was it exactly? >> it's right in this area in these trees. >> reporter: detective richter was part of the homicide team called out here the day her body was discovered. er 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 lf that day, i would never give up on this case, or nique. >> i think we were all hoping for some sort of resolution by this time. matt leili's surveillance cameras, his radio shack syndrome, the fate of nique remains a blind spot. not so much as a flickering or telltale echo. the story had always been, all that video evidence disappeared because matt leili's hard drives somehow got corrupted.'s -- it's a broad term, you know? >> reporter: could have been an accident.

>> rpower went out. >> yeah, the lightning strike. you know? >> reporter: but then that cold case detective he asks detective chris ford, a forensics expert, to autopsy matt leili's hard drive hoping newly available technology will exhume any evidence buried inside the computer.ld 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.uff that i decided, you know, let's get a new, fresh look at the computers and the forensics. >> reporter: two weeks later y 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, tleted." he's like, "oh, absolutely. it was all deleted." >> reporter: now the evidence is clear. this was no accident. somebody intentionally deleted 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?ns it was deleted by a person.

deleted, wanted this video gone. >> reporter: so now, you got to figure out who ho 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.all circumstantial but it's enough. the cops are now rebooting their case and the timing couldn't be worse for matt leili.ause 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.s is that he was a caring father. he was a big teddy bear, really. >> reporter: but big teddy bear has a big problem.there in the court? >> i was outside. >> reporter: matt leili leaves elevator. he thinks he's going to down to the lobby.ing down.

right there at the courthouse. him? and it felt good. >> reporter: we're finding out winnett county police murder of his wife three and a half years ago. >> reporter: our affiliate wsb went straight to nique's sister amy and showed her thiustody. >> it's a thing i've kind of pictured in my mind for a while but kind of had doubts as to ly ever see it. >> reporter: matt leili can forget about spending the insurance money.eep 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.ybe, but not confused. from behind bars awaiting trial, these recordings obtained by an audacious plan to spring himself. >> make sure you tell people we

>> okay. >> reporter: his secret weapon? his own daughters, amanda and rebecca. they get father-knows-best instructions from a jailhouse phone to launch a youtube against nique's family. to be silent. we can't be silent anymore. >> okay. >> my daddy's now in jail because of these false allegations, it's time we tell even better. >> reporter: just listen, they execute his instructions almost word for word. >> and it's finally time for us to tell the truth and for us to call them out on their lies and -- >> now's our chance.ting, from this, pathological lying family that doesn't want their dirty laundrwill come out. >> yes, sir. >> and the family is making sure we can't say anything. we can't argue to keep their dirty laundry from being aired.ses his daughters to support his claim

crazy. >> my mom started pacing back started kind of mumbling to herself. >> don't forget to tell everybody about the youtube site because we want it on tv, okay? >> okay.. good luck today. >> i love you too. >> reporter: leili got his wish. the girls' video makes news. >> as focus turns on dad.take to youtube to defend him. >> the video was created by the man's two daughters. daughters, they made a youtube video inspired by the father. >> it hurt a lot. they said some -- some hateful things about our family. they painted our mom like ly wasn't. >> reporter: as the mystery of nique's murder grips the streets of lawrenceville, just past scotland yard antiques, a streetthe courthouse. the feuding family will meet again. >> reporter: happening now,

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>> the new murder in georgia where a father of two is charged of killing his wife pretending she disappeared.alled police, he calls a lawyer.r: in court, two powerful teams head to head, prosecutor lisa jones. >> the evidence will prove, that matthew leili murdered his wife. >> reporter: tom clegg, matt leili's criminal defense attorney. >> he is falsely accused, pure and simple.it "a," the autopsy. the medical examiner, often a casemaker for prosecutors, helpfully testifies she sure does suspect foul play. but if the jury is hoping for matt leili to his wife's death, this witness is no help. sure how nique died. >> they don't have a rock solid case at all here. >> rule the cause of death as undetermined. jurors such as

to hard direct evidence. at least at the beginning of the stat 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: andnpleasant surprise when they called this woman to the stand, joanne lucie. matt leili's ex-wife. people in the courtroom say the legal bar suddenly turns into a singles bar.t it sure looks like the witness is flirting. >> okay. you're looking at him, periodically. >> he has beautiful eyes. he'd known that.t i will always look at his eyes. he knows that. >> was that part of what attracted you to him to begin with? >> oh, yeah. his eyes. his height. his physique. >> okay.r: even though they'd been unhappily and briefly married 20 years before, there was still something. as it may, you still can't help but look at his eyes, can you?

>> 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 rming he got rough with her. >> he would like to push you down to the ground, and pin you down. i' i was easy to pin down. >> i guess she loves his eyes and loves his look, but she s that he did to her. >> reporter: because he did some -- some things that are very similar to what he did to nikki. >> very similar. >> there were several nighat night, and listen to her say, "please get off of me. get off of me. you're hurting me." >> reporter: and prosecutor jones has much more ammo in her arsenal. from detective richter's investigation. the cameras were working when this crime happened. >> absolutely.eleted. >> reporter: but there is more. those recordings of a marriage on the brink. detective john richter takes the stand to testify about the year

to nique.a rare view into a victim's life, and how her life was leading up to her death.t was -- it was gold. >> reporter: listen to this gem. not just a garden variety shouting match. richter, and apparently nique, something very much like a death threat. >> the words out of your [ bleep ] mouth. i should've let you kill ave to [ bleep ] do it. don't [ bleep ] deny it, because those were the exact words that came out of your mouth.e, i should've let you killed yourself, why should i bother, be the one to do it? >> reporter: and so here is the murder of nique leili. what do you surmise did happen? after she and matt come home that last security camera gets glimpse as she sneaks a smoke. very likely the last one of her

lower her, her resistance level. and then, you know, they had sex. >> reporter: fed up with the fights over sex and money, and terrified that his wife and meal the kids, matt leili then makes certain his tiny wife nique will never raise her voice to him again.nt, she was asphyxiated by him sitting on her, or strangling her. >> reporter: so he killed her with his own hands? >> he did. absolutely. he killed her with his own dy. >> reporter: the crime scene 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 gsoon. he puts her in the woods like that. now he's got to delete >> reporter: okay, so, that's the theory. prove it, says matt leili. his daughters, amanda, now 17, est weapons. they arrive at the courthouse from vermont. one after the other, the girls take the stand to defend their

>> is this gentleman here your dad? >> yes. >> okay., 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.e any obvious injures or bruises to your mom? >> no, sir. >> reporter: but for juror kim muenster, just the sound of those terrible fights. >> y >> my hands were not on your throat!ir 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 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 havelf? rumors fly around the courthouse that he wants to take the stand. the judge even asks him. >> mister leili, have you had r attorney about that decision?

i'm too emotional. >> reporter: instead, in closing arguments, defense attorney tom clegg throws his client's r the bus but claims the state fell far short of proving he's a killer. >> he can be an argumentative s.o.b.damn good at pushing people's buttons. but what does that have to do with murder? >> and you need to listen to her. lisa jones has the last word. making sure the jury leaves the courtroom with nique's voice echoing in their ears.. you killed me a long time ago. >> find him guilty because is. >> reporter: it's a friday afternoon. the jury has two things on its mind. lunch, and whether matt leili od the rest of his life. >> have you reached a verdict? >> yes, your honor.nd an

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say guilty, are you sure? oh, my gosh. >> you got my hand too. there anything you want to say? >> i didn't do it. and i'll be filing an appeal. >> reporter: matt and nique's younger daughters -- now estranged from her family, arrive in court just in time to hear their father sentenced 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.nda and rebecca still have not given up hope walking out of court somehow convinced daddy will be coming home soon.appeal and you'll see my dad. >> reporter: the main thing that's left ent 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 that n arms to them. >> reporter: nique's family

deliver justice.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., 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? 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 forer case. and, you know, hopefully bring some kind of closure to some -- another family. it's time to move on. for some of the family members, but not all. so, keep the conversation going tonight with this question. >> if one of yourwere charged and the evidence was compelling, how far would

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