they'll likely near see matt leili again. 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." i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." she was home with the kids. her husband out with friends when it happened. >> he said something about his kids telling them there was a robber. >> all they told us was there was an intruder. >> their home, so deep in the woods, now shrouded in a mystery even deeper. >> this is a real who done it? >>