that was my reaction. >> in addition to facing a murder charge, matt leili was eventually charged withle counts of eavesdropping. a few weeks after his arrest, nique leili's daughters amanda and rebecca post aed a youtube video in support of their dad, saying that their mom hated her family and those same spiteful relatives were the reason their dad was in jail. what they wondered had happened to those girls in the four years they had been in vermont. >> as far as i could tell, he poisoned them against us and i can only attribute that to, you know, them living in a house with a master manipulator. >> the notion of matt leili as a master manipulator would become a central theme when his murder trial began in january 2016. >> morning, ladies and gentlemen. >> in her opening statement to the jury, prosecutor lisa jones depicted matt leili as a couch potato, sponging off his hard-working wife. >> nique leili was the bre breadwinner. that family was up to $300,000 in debt. >> furthermore, jones said, matt leili tried to control his wife by turning their home into a virtual north korea, with