before passing sentence, the judge gave matt leili once last chance to have a say. >> mr. is there anything you want to say? >> i didn't do it. i'll be filing an appeal. >> with that, the judge asked matt leili to rise and receive his sentence. >> i'm going to follow the state's recommendation as to count i and have you sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. >> it was a bittersweet ending for nique's family. they'll never see matt leili again, but as niquie leili's youngest girls left the courthouse to go back north with their grandfather, it seemed just as likely that they would never see them again either. >> they were my girls. i still love them to this day. taught them how to read. got them ready for school in the mornings. >> you'd like to have a relationship with them. >> i would love to have a relationship with them again. i don't know that that day will ever come. but i want them to know my door is always open. but i don't know if that day will ever come. >> one murder, so many victims. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline extra." i am tamron h