The House on Sidney's Cove
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There's this pile of leaves, and it's where everything else is clear and flat. My heart is racing a million miles an hour. I was using my boots to move leaves, and that's when I screamed this blood curdling screen.

Nicky lie, a corporate exact who made time for romance and her three daughters.

SHE was the .

best mom that SHE disappear. Dozens join the search.

We need naked to come home.

Then they found her. Launch in a mystery that would divide this family, I suspected .

him from the beginning.

One daughter thought her stepped dead. Matt did IT. The other said, no way.

it's ridiculous.

List and met. He had a theory all his own. Had nicky taken off and found trouble.

So now you're thinking something gave a date rape job.

That's a possibility.

The trail would lead to this house of cameras.

There are being server tower that would indicate a large amount of data. B instore.

What they discovered thousands of hours .

of tape that .

is absolutely a torto listen to that .

would reveal one shattering truth.

I'd got down on my knees and just started crying.

I'm later hold. And this is deadline. Here's Dennis Murphy with the house on sydney's code.

There is never a good day to search for a missing woman, but this rainy, muggy y saturday in the heat of july, made an unhappy task, all but unbearable.

Some fires.

They decided, the friends and family that they, they all wear red shirts. They got themselves organized in the parking lot of a walmart in Lawrence village, georgia, about an hour outside of atlanta, and then set out to find any trace of a petie corporate executive named nicky.

This every week, now got three kids that would love to see your home.

Amy Robinson told reporters that her forty four year old sister, mother of three, was hardly the kind of person who just up and disappear without a word to anyone.

I'm just so worried about my sister, and we just have no idea where SHE is or what what's happened to her.

As fate would have IT, the question of where nicky was would be answered soon enough. But even now, the question of what happened in niki remains unclear and sick.

Playing your games.

what is cleared from the recording SHE left behind is that nicki live lived a troubled and tormented life.

This is what I live of day in and day out is keep my mouth shut, my head down, and doing exactly what's .

expected of me.

Tell me he was very funny, you know, he used to laugh all the time um and he was very he was very fisty um SHE SHE would say what he meant um you know SHE SHE didn't meant a lot of words as sisters .

amy Robinson and nicky lightly were ten years apart, but according to amy, they were always close for you to look like in the old photos we do. I was like, maybe your swap and each each other ds are close with a Christ ten years apart.

Well, that didn't stop IT from happening. I wore a lot of her hamed's.

By the mid nineties, nicki had been married and divorce twice, and SHE and her Young daughter alex were sharing an apartment with amy.

We had a good time with that too. We just laughed, put up pictures on the apartment stuff.

Yeah, oh, yeah. At times.

I definitely was.

Eventually, nicky moved out, remarried and had two more daughters with her. A third husband met lightly. A new yorker sheet met online.

You made my sister laugh. So, you know, we would all laugh.

After brief stays in oklahoma and mississippi, nicki and mat return to and settled into this house on sydney's cove in Lawrence ville. Nicky, a well regarded corporate money person, was the primary bridge. Winter met a computer guy, ran a small business out of the house.

He started going to like government surplus auctions and buying these big pilots of old use computer parts, and then rebuilding them and selling in the money ebay.

By this rain, by this rain. When I was ami's turned to get married in two thousand, three, her bixi was there, serving as metro of honor.

I just want to raise a test to amy, my best friend, my cafe on my sister, until a lot of her life. Who makes me happen? I mean that.

Then later that night book into what else we are family. As the years passed, the sisters remain close. In late june two thousand eleven, amy organized a spot day out for the three girls.

No boys allowed only you. We're going to go to have a girl stay where you go.

We went to go get our nails done day of beauty .

at the SPA got mans and petite res, and we went, had lunch.

Nicky had had her tone nails painted pink that day. And though sheet sometimes had a difficult relationship with her teenage daughter, alex says that day of the spot felt like a turning point, a fresh beginning shot. Everybody prety happy. Good girls day out.

Yeah, that was fun. And i'm beyond grateful now that we've done IT.

So two weeks later, nicky had apparently left home in the middle the night without a word to anyone when the family reported her missing two days later, the police advised them there was little they could do.

Their response was, we don't even know where we're start looking.

She's done of news every night.

No, because, Frankly, you know, grand woman having left her house wasn't that interesting a story. Well, one hundred people getting together, all wearing red shirts. So there is an story. So they covered that.

So then the cameras were out.

Then the cameras came.

And this is what the camera saw, surfers armed with maps, literally beating the bushes around nicky, lightly subdivision for clues as to what might have happened to her.

Will keep your eyes. I ve been, if you hear anything. That's all anything.

Every researcher had an assignment.

Oh, look, we got blue sky going. Smile almost harriot.

Garret nicky's mother had the job of going door to door lea, flitting neighborhood with fliers picturing .

her daughter anybody's will out.

even though southern hospitality may have been in short supply that day. Harry had pressed on.

good morning, sir. My name is Harry. Git my daughter missing? And they're trying to give IT. We're trying to get some news coverage like .

so many of the volunteers that day. Alison rock, well, wasn't a relative. SHE was looking for nicky, her co worker.

I love nicky. Nicky was great. He was just such so great to work with. Very smart, lots of energy, positive, wonderful. Just a wonderful person.

On the morning of the search, alison calls that he and another colleague from work, a man named Derek, were running late. And that would turn out to be an important twist of fate.

Forty minutes late, actually, everyone else had started searching.

So you give a grade and area look at.

yes, we were given the front of the neighborhood, the very front um of the nights or hood on the right.

IT was one of the last unassigned sections of the organizer search grid, a patch of woods near a busy road deric.

And I went into the woods together, and I remember having to walk up and go over a large tree. And there's this pile of leaves and it's in the middle of where everything else is clear and fly. And my heart is racing a million miles an hour.

I go up to the pile of leaves. I was using my boots to move leaves at the, at the bottom of the of the pile. As I was doing that, I said dairy. And Derek came over, and he heard the panic in my voice, and he started helping me. And that's when we saw long hair and I scream, this blood curdling scream.

and there was no question.

When we come back.

he said, I got IT. It's her. We found her. There's her .

hair awful for you and .

a body and a vital clue.

That telling factor was the bond were free or clean.

What did that?

At first, IT was the unnatural way the leaves were clumped that attracted attention. Then IT was the hair.

And I hear scream from the woods.

You hear a scream.

go. And I tore off, running into the woods. And then when I got into the woods, her coworker Allison was there and he said, when I got IT, it's her.

We found her. There's her hair. How awful for you. Yeah.

nicky lightly sister amy and her friend Allison felt sure the body beneath the leaves had to be .

nicky IT was terrible. I think everybody was a little bit shocked. Um so I just kind of win in the crisis mode and I called nine one one.

Within minutes, police ambuLances and news cameras were converging on the patriots where the body was found. Nicky's mother, harriet gar rett, say he heard the news when a cop told der sheds have to stop left living the neighborhood.

Someone in the neighborhood had complained. And while he is talking to me, his radio goes off. It's a display. Ch body has been found.

You hear IT over the dispatch. Yes, sir, yes. Or do you actually go to that place in a little bit of woods?

yes. Well, I couldn't. By the time I got there, they already had the crime saying, type up, and I couldn't get any further.

We're going to move. We going to come back down.

Yes, they had IT isolated by that time, but I got to IT is closest I could.

Soon Harry had had nick's older .

daughter, alex on the phone, where am I going here? The police will let me come on. Yes, I won't let me throw.

I'm right here with the police. Are they want to let me throw? Where are you? I just remember painting or something. But as soon as I came to, I took off running and I ran all the way to where the crime seem tape was. First they went my me here, and i'm grateful that they did IT.

Now, as nickey's family struggle to process the news, amy faced the microphones and once again became the .

family's works. Always her hair, you know, so what? We're just waiting for the police to do their job and and we'll find out more soon.

Inside the police tape, investigators carefully uncovered the body of a middle female SHE was nude, lying face down, tellingly, appeared to have a fresh pink, petite lar. Given the decomposition, the heat, the rain, investigators figured the body had laying there for a while.

been out there several days .

when that county police detective brand emerson.

no calling what soever .

any obvious injuries to the body, lacerations, blunt force trauma, gunshot, stabbing.

anything you can see nothing um and of course at this point there's no do I can find documents around IT. So there's nothing around with the bodies that that would indicate what .

happened in the way of these things. Dental records confirmed what everyone suspected. The body, in the words was indeed that of nicki telling .

factor was the bond were free.

What does that tell you?

Connect the doing well, that tells you that he didn't walk out there and put herself in. Sure, when cover herself up.

Later, lab analysis of nicky's blood revealed something else that was odd. There was a high level of the date rate drug G, H B in our system. So now you're thinking maybe sometime before this woman's death, almost immediately before someone .

gave a date rape joke.

that's a possibility. Amy also finds.

seen them to red.

Had nicky somehow been abducted, raped and then dumped less than a mile from her home, the detective couldn't say, but in the days before her body was found, while this was still a missing person's case, nicky's husband, md, had told ever since something intriguing on the phone. This wasn't the first time nicki lightly had .

walked out in a my wife has a long .

history of some .

kind of mental and baLances, okay? And i've been finding out the past two days she's been telling me in therapy .

these years has been a lie. The stories of unstable behavior.

not the first time is away.

okay, and even violence.

My father is a witness for one of my face .

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By the time searchers found nicky, lily's body police detective brad ever son already knew bits and of her live story, he'd been working her case, and he was reported missing. A few days earlier.

we talked to her dad, talk. To her mom, talk. Both her sisters now talk to her, her oldest daughter.

The picture that emerged was of a woman whose life has revolved around her work.

Her daughters and her husband met. He would come sometimes .

to do lunch with niki t.

About girls that was very proud of all three goals.

Yes, photos on the death kind of thing.

I'm absolutely .

like most marriages. Nicky had its ups and downs early july two thousand and eleven, when nicky disappeared, was one of the downtime. Math freely admitted that when he talked to the detective the day after he reported her missing.

just not the first time he is run away. Okay, she's run away. And she's been gone for two hours.

She's been gone for three hours, four hours. One time she's gone to work with a bag of clothes and then come back if to work. But she's never been on overnight.

So he told you this, just the latest of continuing episode that my wife has tried making.

This is detected very in this .

telephone call, which the detective recorded. Mad lily said his wife was mentally unbaLanced.

not very happy with life. You'd never felt accepted. Okay, we've been in an out of therapist. There's a thera intimate.

He's got no problem with girls, but when he comes to a male, they are a threat. They are all my, all my life. Guys have used me for sex.

He's just giving your host for of information.

Have a hard time getting a warn age was .

he yelled at me in front of the kids. She's throws things in fun of me, in fun of the kids, and all i'm doing a sync on. Please stop, please stop to remember what the doctor or said, is this the person you want to be?

He's telling you that she's bats. That's what he's saying. As for the night nicky disappeared.

he stated the previous reality that they had actually gone out to eat and they go to a movie after he got home from work.

We have great time. We came home on the way home, I said to her, you know, hey, you know, you have one of tax. So I said to hurry, you know, here, how to put on an outset, I think that might set off.

You wanted to put on a little sexy customer, as i'm gna correct.

That fear of intimacy that I thought he was working on getting over was gone. But apparently that set off. He picked the fight.

As matt tells IT, the fight continued at home and wrapped up. Matt's father, who was visiting from new york, was just down the hall when the argument touched on the way nicky had supposedly been treating her father in law, matt, as his dad to weigh in.

He out to his father mothers in the bedroom and basically asked me thanks to tell nicky how he felt about being down there. And mats came out with A A land that he had felt welcomed, that custom, and that nicky just read that bus about basically saying what he was line.

Then mad said his wife did something off the wall .

and he ripped her shot off. With her to hang and out, no, brought nothing and says, maybe we should just grow your share on the floor and then says, isn't that what the family does?

You could SHE flash her father in law .

to my wife has done some way. That's the way IT she's ever been.

matt said. The dust finally settled in the we hours of saturday, july. Nth nicky in the bedroom, he on his couch in the downstairs office.

The light is on in division. I can see upstairs, so I go upstairs to see what's going on. She's not there.

All her stuff was still there. Her car was still there. Her keys or phone.

her purse was still there.

correct? He assumed he had let on food or a some picture up.

Matt told the cup IT was then that he realized his home security system had been turned .

off just in the house because I sell cameras, but the dvr SHE always shuts IT off when he leaves. Missed off. That pisses me off. So that's first.

If you learn that this places wired for sound and pictures.

great.

When nicki lyell's body was found days later near her home, learning the story told by those cameras became most urgent.

Coming up, a treasure trove of evidence quantified .

what we talking about .

thousands of hours.

Just what will IT reveal?

It's absolutely a torture inal. Listen to.

Within minutes of finding nicky's body, police raced ed to the lightly home about a mile away. What they observe right away was astounding. The home security system that that likely had casually mentioned to detective everything a few days earlier appeared more appropriate to fort knocks than a house in the burbs.

And when you first see the house in the road, you can see all these, you, these big cameras. On the eve of the house, both sides there were .

twenty one security cameras at all, with a tricked out control room to monitor and record everything. He sounds like a one man. Nsa.

I think he was a very low ground area. So IT almost bugged the man as to why he felt he needed quite so much surveilLance coverage for .

the house, ought to be sure, and observation to talk away for later. But the duty that day came first notification the officers telling matt likely that his missing wife had just been found dead.

The from guys told me that he, at one point, then to get sick.

met lily mae. Well, have been sick, sick of talking to the cops, because by now he'd clear up and wasn't answering any of their questions. So you now have probable cause to get a search one rect.

Do you think? Man, maybe this is gonna us. Maybe these cameras saw, recorded something that tells the story of what's up with nicky.

That was my hope. We're mainly going for anything in the house that has any short of a memory. But be at computers, be IT. You know, he had A D B R. Top to his support system.

The detective nuit would take time to review in catalogue all of that material. So since the police had found no sign of blood nor any signs of struggle in the house, the detective review the evidence he did have, particularly mats claim that his wife was bonkers, or any of her family members colaba ating this, this emotional instability issue that raised by the husband.

Then.

whenever and any of the suspicious of mat, the husband.

yes, they were all suspicious of mad .

nicky's daughter alex had lived with her mother and mad until he was sixteen. And there was plenty she'd had to say to the detective.

I wanted him to know what was going on in the house. I wanted him to know that I suspected him from the beginning that my mom would have never left her girls.

Still, despite the family suspicion and the fact that the sea and found on nicky's body proved to be met, the police didn't feel they had enough evidence to make an arrest. There's no ankle braced on this man. You haven't taken his passport. Does anybody say if you're going to be moving around, tell us where you're gonna? Is that, that kind of relationship with the authorities at .

that point now he's there's not royal relationship with us.

What about all that computer evidence? The video files from math hard drives, they appeared to be useless after a months of reviewing more than a half million video clipsed the best investigators could come up with with this. It's a clip of Mickey li walking onto the front porch to have a smoke just after midnight, and july eighth, two thousand and eleven, the day he went missing. After that, nothing. What happens after midnight in that house?

EXO, that was a million other question.

The video files from midnight until six in the morning that day were corrupted, according to the tech guy who exam them.

We could see footage. H, but what I was IT. IT was very destiny. Most of IT was not time to motivate, was not day stamp. So IT was not in a manner that you could just go in and could play, just play through everything.

The bottom line, the police had nothing. And so with no compelling reason to stick around, Lawrence fill mad lie left town. He and his two daughters, a man at twelve and rebeca nine, resettled in vermut, close to his family, all communication with relatives. And georgia ended in the summer of two thousand twelve, one year after nicky's dam, the investigated file passed to cold case detective surgeon john Victor.

I was actually in the homicide unit as a corporal when her body was found.

Does that stay with you?

Yeah, I always say they're, you know, certain cases that stick with you.

And this is one. At first, bitter did what all cold case detectives do. He, we interviewed witnesses. When that went nowhere, rector took another look at mat lyly computer hard drives. Do you think somewhere and there is, is the thing that the nugget that's going to get you to the next .

step in this investigation, I think at minimum, we need to redo IT. Just a see if technology had advanced IT. So I needed new friends sic guy to look at the the video or whatever can find on the computer.

Turns out the techy rector needed was just down the hall. Corporal Chris ford had been an IT guide before joining the police force. Ritters came down.

Hey, you might take a look at this. So I started looking for what we call low king, and fruit was easily available. That was, I really started digging in finding all these audio files.

Nobody had listened to the audio files before because investigators were so focused on finding video from the night nicky disappear. And that's just what ford did at first, too. I basically look at that video on raw format, which is basically computer language.

So something was recorded there. Yes, they just won't play. Eventually, ford determined the screwed up files were no accident. Someone had deleted those files and then run a clean up program to clear the databases logs once, but twice. The only two times the queen of jobs were run, where the day shut, he reported missing, and the day her body was found. I'll never forget.

Today he comes to my cube. He says these videos were deleted. This is a corrupt IT and he turns to leave. And I think he just looks, says, I got a bunch of audio files that are around there too.

If you're interested, a bunch files quantified. What are we talking about in terms of like .

hours of material, thousands of hours of material that date back from two thousand and eight, up to two thousand eleven?

The audio recordings are probably best described as cris. The scenes from a very bad that's not .

what I said and how I said in and don't take my words at a context when we got in that game card.

姐妹 姐妹 姐妹。 姐。

Your voice is absolutely .

a torture to listen to because we have a woman who I know is now the seized. And i'm hearing how she's living for the years, proceeding her death, and how how he has just been in beaten down psychologically and mentally.

IT took the detective nearly a year and a half to listen to all of the recordings, and by then he'd heard more than enough when he learned that mat likely would be returning to georgia to testify in a civil suit concerning the payout from some life insurance policies. Nicky head, jon, john, Richard planned to be waiting.

Coming up, could investigators have IT all wrong? Nicky Youngest daughters paint a very different picture of their childhood home.

was always happy in loving.

Why they're furious with their mom side of the .

family is just ridiculous.

The lize their spend .

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In march two thousand fifty that lightly returned to georgia for the first time since he had left the state three years earlier, IT was money that brought him back a court proceeding concerning a payout from his wife, nicky's life insurance policies I would do.

he was coming down. That made me uneasy, made me feel really creeped out. This is three years later. What we didn't know was that the whole federal courts was actually crawling with plain clothes.

going out, counting police.

They were taking him down, that they were.

We had no idea, jon, john, Richard says the plane close. Cops waited all day for just the right moment to make their move.

Get any outside of the course. Who makes the color? Has a good myself.

A detective wasn't ton were there? We put the hand cups on. Pretty good .

nicky's family knew the feeling.

I raised my hands and said, praise god, that was my reaction.

In addition to facing a murder charge, matt li was eventually charged with sexual assault and multiple counts of eve dropping. A few weeks after his arrest, nicky, lily's daughter AManda and rebeca posted an edited video on youtube in support of their dead. So tell what life was like growing up in your home.

IT was always happy and loving most mom.

Travels in the video, the girls claimed that their mother hated her own family, and those same spiteful relatives were the primary reason their dad was in jail.

Theyve never liked my dad, and i've been reading things online. I've been watching the news, and I can see the hatred that they have for my dad, and it's just ridiculous, the lives their spreading .

nicky's family. That video was devastating. What, they wondered, had happened to those girls in the four years they'd been in vermont.

As far as I can tell, he poison them against us, and I can only attribute that to, you know, them. Living in a house with a master manipulator.

the notion of mat, likely as a master manipulator, would become a central theme when his murder trial began in january two thousand sixteen.

morning days and women .

in her opening statement to the jury, prosecutor lisa Jones depicted matt lightly as a couch potato sponge of his hard working wife.

He live was the bread winner that that family was in debt up to three hundred thousand dollars in that.

Furthermore, Jones said that lily tried to control his wife by turning their home into a virtual north korea with cameras and recording devices everywhere, lenses aimed at them as they SAT on the couch and watch TV.

You will take a look into this .

marriage later and dolman. In this case, you will hear the voices of neglible and the defendant in this case arguing .

nickey's murder, he claimed, was simply met lightly. st. Final active control.

I think that I got into an argument that he wanted to have sex, that he drugs her, that he has his way, that she's loud, she's not able to resist as much as IT progresses um that he silenced her that he strangles her, he sits on her he has fixie tes her towards SHE can .

breathe not meaning to maybe oh I .

think he meant to I think he'd had IT um and I think he knew that he was leaving him because he had made IT clear SHE was done .

the state's first witness was nick's all this daughter alex .

they're be arguing and he would into blocking hara bathroom sh'd been to have downstairs. There were several nights that I would lay up at night and listening a hearsay. Please get off of me, get off of me or hurting me next.

Nick sister amy told the jury about the constant monitoring at the lightly house.

We mean that he would record phone conversations that came into out of the house.

Were you aware of any time, whether there whatever GPS tractors or tracking devices on any time of the phones of the vehicle?

Yes, I I knew that he had trickled on nicky phone. And when alex was old enough to have a cell phone, that he tracked her phone as well.

Then the prosecution gave the court a fly on the wall. Look inside the lightly home by playing those promised recordings of the couple's fights.

Let the record show, I am now locked in a room again. I don't want to be here. I don't want to have this conversation.

The record show that she's being an absolute wants her way .

no matter what. IT was hard to listen to bitter, screaming matches frequently about sex.

I know that when we go two days without sex, you're going to automatically assume I am on strike mode no matter what else is happening. Don't touch me, sit out if you want to sit and I don't want to hold you have right now.

in retrospect, for the prosecution, the recording seem to have .

the ring of proposed y my hands were not on your throw. Get IT to head. They would not around your throw.

Stop down the story like that. You find the kill in, the prosecutor said. Nicole y's best chance for leaving her marriage came twelve days before he disappeared. After yet another argument, nicky had called nine one one.

My my here just up with and officers .

dispatched to the lightly home that they offered to help. But as this still photo shows, SHE wouldn't budge from the front porch .

and he wanted him to go. He didn't wanna go and he wanted heard to go. SHE wasn't going to leave without the girls. So the argument, they were pretty much at an in pass.

Two weeks later, nicky lively was dead in a house where practically everything was recorded. The prosecutor claimed IT was no accident that the video covering the crucial hours when nicki lily went missing was somehow corrupted.

Our surveilLance system was, in fact, recording during that time period is expert.

That is perfect? yes. The prosecutor countered match claim that nicki had somehow turned off the security system by calling the police department's IT guy, Chris ford, as her last witness.

So detective.

in comfort opinion, then, did an individual have to go in and purpose li corrupt and delete those files?

That's correct. Yes, that's only way I can explain why at all the days and video that can recover the only date range I can recover from, though no one knows exactly what was on that missing video, the prosecutor suggested that he was probably video of mt. Lightly Carrying his wife's body out of the house. Did you hurt her enclosing the prosecutor? Let nicki lightly have .

the last word to listen to what he says and what he lived.

Walk to my world. You killed me a long time.

你 叫 面， 我 唱的歌 换 个 标准。 Because that's .

exactly .

what he .

is coming up. Has the prosecution really proved anything?

I think that their god feeling was cheese very disclosed to the house. It's got to .

have been here.

And then nicky and math daughter says in her parents marriage.

matt was the victim SHE took a hill and throw IT and I myself had a .

duck from IT was IT throw if yes.

By early february two thousand and sixty, the prosecution had rested its case against that Willy, the husband was portrayed as an eve dropping control free who killed his wife during an argument while's defensive tourney. Tom pleg insisted that mat light was in fact in innocent, where falsely accused by the state of George .

at a theory, and that theory is nothing more than a hunch. That is a guess if you were to ask yourself questions that might have been posed of you, if you were to have gone to journal some school, who, what, where, why and how, you will find that during the course of this trial, the state of georgia will fall globally short, improving the allegations that they are making against this. Me, I think their gut feeling was, come on, she's naked.

She's bury this closed to the house. She's obviously hidden. It's got .

to have been him. The defensive journey concedes he had some difficult circumstances to overcome, in this case, beginning with the six hours of missing surveilLance camera video from the night nicki likely disappear, clog and six. His client did not raise those files as the prosecution claimed the videos .

surveilLance system was shut off at some point in the morning. Matt believes that nicky shut IT off. He is insistent that he did not shut IT off, that the system was shut off by nicky.

So whatever happened to where the cameras since IT.

the cameras did not see that that is absolutely correct.

As for those audio recordings of the couple's screaming arguments, plague pointed out that most were recorded in two thousand eight and two thousand, two years before niki died. According to the defense attorney, math made the recordings with the encouragement of a marriage therapist that the couple had been seeing at the time.

He is talking, and he is conciliatory ory in my opinion, he is trying to calm things down.

And IT is impossible .

to calm .

nicky down. You know, what do this with me right now? I mean that you do not want to tangle with me right now at all. What did I do?

According to a clock, the prosecution Cherry pick scenes from the lightly marriage, highlighting the bed and downplaying the good bright spots like a two thousand and trip that nicki p to hawaii. They even renews their marriage vows on that trip.

The tapes reflect both of them at their worse. Now the flip size is when they are getting a long well, when they are affectionate towards one another, when they renew their wedding vows in hawaii, they don't tape that stuff.

So with the dark aside of the moon.

with this a dark IDE, absolutely like, yes.

As for the night nicky disappeared, the defense tried to show that nicki lightly was once again acting unstable, behaving erratically. The defensive journey called math father matheus to verify his son's version of that last fight between math and nicky, the one where he allegedly flashed him. He took off top and says, come on, let's goal. Lets have like a family.

Were you expecting any sort of comment like that?

Once nicky disappeared.

Clarke says, md lightly inquired about having his wife involuntarily committed and even hired a divorce attorney. A man who knows his wife is already daddy says wouldn't have done either of those things.

He did not really want to a divorce, or he wanted to let her know. Look, here are your options. You can go get helpful yourself or i'm going to go forward with a divorce.

The defense wrapped up its case by calling mat and nickey's two daughters, Rebecca, then fourteen, and AManda than seventy.

Did you ever see your dad .

hit to your mom?

no. Did you ever see any obvious injuries or bruises to?

You know.

according to the girls, their mother was the one with the violent temper, not their dad.

And SHE took a heal. And through IT, and I myself had a duck from IT was IT .

being thrown enter this?

Yes.

on the day nicky made that nine one one call a man to said her mother complained about hearing voices in her head.

SHE was passing back and forth saying that he was tired of people talking about about her behind her back and my dad asked her who was talking about her and he said that um SHE was hearing voices and like the voices in her head, we're telling her that people were talking about about her throughout.

Neither girl made eye contact with their mother's relatives who hadn't seen them in four years.

We made our own decision. We don't like that side of the family, so we want to stay. It's not his, him forcing us to stay away from them.

In closing time, clg argued that while the state may have proved mat likely unlikeable, IT had not answered any of those basic journalism questions, who, why, where, when, why or how and closing.

I said you've heard all of this evidence. The state still cannot answer any of these particular questions. What does that tell you that tells you they have fAllen willfully short.

approving match killed. After eight days of testimony, both sides of the family prepared for a long and anxious wait for reverted. Turns out they didn't have to pay small. After just three hours of deliberation, the jury announced IT had reached a verdict. I'm going to ask you this time if you would stand and read the verdict out .

now as to count one, we the jury found the defending guilty of mouse murder.

Though not a sound came from nicki lightens family, their expression said at all, thanks. Before passing sentence, the judge gave that lily one last chance to have this say. That is anything you want to say.

With that, the judge asked.

met, likely to rise and receive his sentence. I am going to follow the state recommendation to count one. Have you sense to life without the possibility of parole? IT was a bitter sweet ending for y's family.

They are likely never see mat lightly again. But as nicki lightly Youngest girls left the courthouse that night, the prospects of repairing their relationship with the girls seen very much in doubt. One murder, so many .

victims.

That's all for now. I'm letter halt. Thanks for joining us.

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