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There's more to this story. Now on its face, that has never been enough for me to take on a case, but this felt different. Not only were there missing pieces to the puzzle in the media reporting, there were missing pieces in the lives of these girls. Nikki's girls. And I'm not sure how I knew that. but I felt driven to bring closure for them. When I called up Amy, she'll tell you that she politely told me to kick rocks. You seem like a nice person, she said.

But no, we're not going to go through what we went through again when Matt went on trial. Amanda and Rebecca were just kids in the murder trial of their dad. They were on the other side of the aisle from their aunt and their own sister. I was 100% my dad's innocent. He didn't do this. Amanda, in the intervening years, had become Matt's unofficial counsel. She was there to defend him with a carefully scripted and rehearsed set of answers. Rebecca was also there to represent her dad in whatever way he saw fit.

I remember I was the last one to go. I didn't look around at anybody. And I remember when the lawyer asked if I loved my dad. the blocking kicked in that I had been taught, and I remember saying, yes. And then I, like, remember, like, turning and looking at my dad, like, it was like, that was the director. Like, it was, like, at this point, I say this line, and I look at my dad, and that's the moment that was created.

While I was testifying, I'd be looking at him after I answered each question, and, like, I'd feel good if he was smiling at me. I was like, okay, that means I said what I should have said. I remember there was one time, like, I answered something, and Lisa was tough. She did not take it easy on us. Lisa Jones, the assistant DA. I can't remember what exactly I said, but I said something in a way that allowed Lisa to kind of be like, oh, but you said this earlier. It caused me to trip up, and I remember looking over at my dad, he had this, like, almost

disappointed look, and I was like, oh, I fucked up. I was like, okay, now how do I fix it? And so then I'd say something horrible about how I hated Alex or I hated granddaddy or Nana for trying to take us away. And then I'd look back over and he'd smile. What they said or didn't say on that day was a blur. I don't remember half of what I said. And the only thing I do know is probably 90% of it wasn't true. Amy was there for Amanda and Rebecca's testimony.

It was the first time she'd seen them in a long time. It had been five years since we had laid eyes on them. You know, they were young ladies. That was stunning. I was like, wow, who are these people? We lost so much time. I had like this five-year hole where I don't even know what their life was. Amy said she avoided watching the YouTube videos the girls made,

the way she also avoided drinking Drano. And on the stand, she was disgusted watching how the girls had been. manipulated. But she also knew that they were more than what Matt had coached them to say. And on some level, too, Amanda knew what she was saying about Nikki's family wasn't quite right. Even she was in court saying it. I think there was like a brief moment. Like I looked at them. I saw them. And I was like, I'm about to absolutely trash these people on the stand. I know that's what I'm going to have to say in order for my dad to be found not guilty.

Something began simmering inside of Amanda that day. Rebecca, too. This trial would be a moment of truth for everyone involved, even if the truth was not what Matt wanted his daughters to believe. Looking back now, that's probably where a lot of the doubt started to creep in, is seeing them again and having that feeling of, I'm about to say these horrible things and I don't know if I actually believe them.

From Sony Music Entertainment, you're listening to watching you. I'm Jonathan Hirsch. Episode 6. Nikki's Girls. An emotionally difficult task was ahead for the prosecutor, Lisa Jones. This moment, the murder trial of Nikki Liley was nearly five years in the making. But to be successful, Lisa would have to confront Amanda

and Rebecca about their version of events, which they faithfully relayed on behalf of Matt. These girls were victims, too, and the jury wouldn't take too kindly to a prosecutor eviscerating them on the stand. It was hard to watch them, and I was very grateful for Lisa Jones in that moment, and her approach to those girls.

She was so gentle with them, because we all knew they were lying, or at least Amanda was lying. Lisa caught her in a lie, right? She said that, no, I made the videos myself. My dad didn't tell me what to say. My dad didn't tell me what to do. And then Lisa played the phone call, where he, from jail, was calling her and telling her exactly what to say and exactly what to do. We all knew she was lying.

but we knew why. We weren't mad at her about it, and we knew these girls are just trying to survive this. Many of the details the prosecutor laid out, Amy was hearing in full for the first time. It starts with the mental abuse. It starts with emotionally just crushing someone to the point where they don't have footing.

to be able to push back. I had no idea how much of it there was. In particular, there was the recording they had where you hear him, he says, God damn it, God damn it, and, you know, lower your voice. And that was chilling to me. And after that happened,

after we listened to that recording, and I get into the victim witness room, and I remember I picked up one of the big throw pillows from that couch, and I looked at Alex, and I said, I am going to punch this pillow repeatedly for a while. You know, and then I did it, and I guess I was so livid. Oh, wow. I knew that they fought a lot, but I had no idea what she was living in. Like what kind of hell she was going through. Like you can hear, because she's no longer talking at that point. And so he has done something to silence her right then. It was pretty clear.

He was physically assaulting her in some kind of way. When we got in that goddamn car. What the fuck is goddamn. It's goddamn. God damn it, God damn it, God damn it. Fucking damn it! Throw your voice! I am not going to sit here and listen to this shit.

I knew about the fight they had had three years prior, you know, because she called me and told me. And, yeah, Matt tried to say that it never happened and that she made it up. Amy's talking about the time her sister called her and said Matt had put his hands around her throat. But even with all that she already knew about the terrible situation, Niki had with Matt, hearing the audio of their fights was almost too much for Amy to take. It was all this salacious, awful audio. It was not her. It was not her normal self. It was not the her that I talked to. It was not the her that I just called and had conversations with and stuff. It was this awful version of her where, not that she was being awful, but where she was being treated so awfully,

she was being so abused. Alex was there, too, while Lisa Jones laid out the closing arguments. There was, according to the prosecution, a longstanding history of abusive and controlling behavior and signs of a cover-up. The smoking gun was, in a way, the absence of a smoking gun. The deleted logs showed a willful act on Matt's behalf to remove the hours she went missing from the cameras. Hours, the prosecution argued.

He'd spent murdering his wife and disposing of her body. Lisa Jones said Nikki had likely been drugged before she died. She was found face down in the dirt, naked. The souls of her feet were clean, suggesting that she'd been moved to that location. What I'm going to tell you is he murdered her in that house, Lisa said. She noted he could have sat on her and she would have been unable to break free. A 98-pound woman against a 250-pound man.

It would explain the absence of blunt force trauma or signs of strangulation, her nakedness, the drugs in her system. He silenced Nikki with the weight of his body. and in a way, the weight of his ego. Matt's defense rested on Nikki's character. They portrayed an unstable and crazy woman. The testimony of Amanda and Rebecca corroborated their father's innocence. This was not an open and shut case.

I finished closing arguments and we asked his lawyer, like, what happens next? It's okay, well, the jury's going to deliberate. It might take a while. Go back to the hotel, shower, eat. I'll call you if anything comes back. It might not be today. Like it might not be eaten until next week even. Like this, sometimes juries can deliberate for weeks.

I'll call you if anything happens. So we went back to the hotel. I'm sitting in bed and I'm watching the news. And the news says the jury came back. He was found guilty. After three hours. The jury deliberated for three hours. So you found out for,

I found out through the news. On February 5th, 2016, the jury found Matt Liley guilty of malice murder and felony murder. He was also convicted of unlawful eavesdropping and surveillance. At the sentencing, victim impact statements were given, and the judge came forward. He sentenced Matt to life in prison without the possibility of parole for malice murder. Then, on top of that, three five-year terms for each count. of unlawful eavesdropping and surveillance. Nikki's family cheered.

I remember seeing them cheering, and I remember sitting in the courthouse, and I was, like, gutted, and then it created even more of this dynamic that he had created of my hatred for them. And I remember just, like, seething as I was sitting there, like, how could they be so excited about this? Matt's fate was clear.

But Amanda, Rebecca, and Alex, that part was far from over. Amanda, like her sister Rebecca, struggled with the verdict. A part of her still believed her dad was innocent, until she saw herself on the stand when Nikki's case was covered on national TV. Pretty much what really flipped a switch for me was when kind of 2020, and Dateline and all of those started happening. I think it was the 2020 episode, but I was watching it, and they were playing, like, the recordings of the jail phone calls with my dad

and me on the stand. And, like, seeing how robotic I was and hearing my dad telling me to say this on the jail call and then me saying it pretty much word for word on the stand. during that time, I fully believed those were my words. Like when I was testifying, I 100% believe that's the truth. This is coming from my brain. I came up with all of this. But then seeing like the recording of it after, I was like, that's not me.

Like that's my voice, but those aren't my words. Like it felt like I started coming out of this fog. Doubted in. Amanda still struggled to face the whole truth for a while. It started out as, oh, maybe he's not 100% innocent. Like maybe something happened. There was an accident, and it got blown out of proportion. Like, that's kind of where it started was he knows something.

He's not 100% innocent. As soon as she started feeling this way, she told her grandfather, her guardian at the time. Hey, I'm feeling this way. Is there any information you have? And as soon as I did that, that night, there was a little bit of the same. there was a phone call with my dad Papa told him like hey Amanda is having doubts

and it was like nope I'm disowned now I am now an enemy yeah and then when you said hey I'm not really sure it feels like there's more to the story he was like that's it you're out and is that

maybe is that the point at which you realized that you believed he did it was that what broke the spell It took a while. Like I was still in that phase of, okay, he's not innocent. Like, I don't know what happened. And it was one of those things of, like, wanting to find the information. It was like middle of my junior year.

I was a really rough year because I wound up kind of in and out of the hospital in the inpatient ward for suicide attempts and kind of, this feeling of like everything I've known as a lie. I trashed my dead mom on YouTube and to the news. I've trashed my mom to the world. I've made her out to be crazy. I've alienated myself from my mom's side of the family. Now my dad, who I sacrificed my high school years

for playing lawyer, hates me. I have no one. Eventually I just had to get out of the house and I wasn't sure how. I started talking to the counselor at school. I was like, hey, I can't live at home anymore. My husband, now boyfriend at the time, we went to high school together and I pretty much moved in with him.

He and his family were a godsend. I was able to kind of have a safe place to kind of process through everything I was feeling. Okay, he's not, he's definitely not innocent, but how much did he know something? Did he actually do it? There's been so many different thoughts that go through my head of what did happen, what could have happened. And it's just one of those things that also sucks because, unfortunately, the only person who truly knows what happened will never say what actually happened.

I don't even think there would even be a deathbed confession or anything. I think he'll go to the grave that he's innocent. Matt never spoke to his daughter again, never reached out. That was it. Amanda was left to unravel her own complex feelings about her dad, the man who killed her mother. She says she still can't see a red Ford expedition and not have this irrational fear that it's him, following her. Not long after Amanda left, Rebecca came to a similar realization. Between the phone calls and video calls and everything, he also had an email and he would email us.

Yeah, he had like a little like iPad type thing and he would email me. I don't remember what he did, but I remember I composed an email that was basically, you can't treat me the way that you've been treating me. How you've treated me is not a father. You have not treated me and loved me as a daughter. and I remember I closed it and I said, I wanted a father and not a chess player. And I never heard from again.

And when I think on that moment more, it's the typical, like, sociopath, as soon as they no longer have that hold over someone, you're done, you're gone, you're useless to me. And that was very much what it felt like. It felt like I stood up to him and I was done. You were never my daughter. I never loved you.

Meanwhile, the money Nikki had wanted to provide for her family in case of her death finally got paid out to her children split between the three of them. We didn't settle the life insurance for years after he was convicted. Like it took a while. I think it was 2020? Yeah, it was a while. Yeah, it was. That's when I bought my house. They paid it out and I used it to buy my house. Hey, Sal. Hank? What's going on? We haven't worked occasionally. years. I just bought my car at Carvana and it was so easy, too easy. Think something's up?

You tell me, they got thousands of options. Mm-hmm. Found a great car and a great prize. Uh-huh. And it got delivered the next day. It sounds like Carbana just makes it easy to buy your car, Hank. Yeah, you're right. Case closed. Buy your car today on.

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see the point in making a podcast about her sister's case. The family had been through so much. And to her mind, the defense had twisted a domestic abuse situation into a he-said, she-said dogfight. And the media ate it up. But you're hearing domestic violence, Sarah? Well, she is completely unstable. I think she's completely crazy.

And I think that the 500,000... I think she's completely dead. Yeah, she's completely dead, but before she died. And I think that, I think there's been a whole slew of incidents where she's tried to stage some kind of domestic violence on herself and that, and he's taping all this to protect himself. I mean, why would you have 500,000 plus? Because you're a control freak. Because you're trying to coercibly control your life. But he's the one that's usually calm.

I mean, you played one where he isn't, but often he's the calm one. And she's the one that's out of control. He knows she's recording. These so-called trial experts got it terribly wrong. But there's something else I now better understand. Having reviewed over 25,000 files from this case, what we see with Matt and Nikki is a frightening cautionary tale to meet someone to fall in love.

to have a relationship. It's about a connection, yes, but anyone who's been in a serious relationship will tell you it's also about sacrifice, meeting in the middle for the sake of that love. But where's the line? When does sacrifice become abuse? It's not always easy to see.

And with Nikki, she was already in too deep when she started to fight back. There's this three-hour recording I came across in reporting this story that chills me to the bone. I don't think I'll ever be the same after hearing it, because it reveals both Matt's cruelty towards Nikki, his obsession with owning every part of her narrative, and her continually sacrificing herself in service of their relationship. The recording is called Nikki Life Confessions,

and in it, Matt interviews Nikki about her. personal sexual history. Everything she's ever done with another man is laid out in this conversation. Tell me where you are you high school. But I don't know about your childhood and high school and everything else that you feel I have to know. High school was a lot of feeling, always feeling, never adequate, never having any confidence in myself, being small, being little. She talks about her sexual partners in college and in her 20s. Yes, he's seen me naked. Yes, we did some heavy-duty partying and some stupid shit.

Like... I tell you, I never slept with him, never wanted to. You're being specific saying you never slept with him. What had... What did you do? I didn't do anything other than strip poker. He's stinging naked and a bunch of drug partying. And throughout, Matt demands she be explicit, exhaustive.

Who were you flirting with, and who did you go say? The only person I ever met was... And you know about that? You haven't told me everything? I haven't told you everything, okay? I've met. I've started with... We talked on the phone a couple of times.

When I went out to California, I called in, told him I was coming. We hooked up for dinner. Matt saw Nikki as his property. He had a right to know every sordid detail. And Nikki is fighting throughout to be understood. to be loved by Matt. That I have done the lion's share of things wrong in this relationship. I am asking for some very simple things.

The only thing I've asked for in this entire conversation is by any window, I've asked for the opportunity to prove that I can be honest. On top of that, I've asked for just simple comfort and the leeway and the latitude to be who I am and be emotional just because I'm emotional. Then there's the contract. Nikki wrote a contract and gave it to her husband. The contract gave him complete rights to her breast implants. To Matt, it was a sign of her undying love.

So she wrote a contract voluntarily. She handed me this, hand me this just for surgery. I, Dominique C. Liley, do hereby and agree with him, allow my loving, devoted husband, Matt J. Liley, to retain full and sole ownership of the breast implants that I'm receiving on 8,000. He has earned the right to have full ownership of the implants and can, in his discretion, request that they be removed, which I would never do when I told him, including, but not limited to two, if any marriage and separations, belief of infidelity or any other reason he may deem it. John Richter remembered seeing this contract, too.

It's a piece of paper and it says, these implants belong to my husband, Matt, and he has complete control. If at some point he doesn't like, if someone else is getting joy for my breast implants, he can have him removed and she signed it. The end of the three-page contract read, quote,

By way of this letter slash contract, I am giving full control and ownership of the memory gel implants that I am receiving to my adoring husband to have and to do with as he pleases, including demand their removal, should he see fit? For any reason, he decides as appropriate and at any time. I love you, man. You are my one only, and no man will ever stand in your place.

If you die tomorrow, it would simply be a whole there forever, and I would never want to feel it with anyone. It would be a few foul effort to try to, because no one else would ever be able to be who you are, and make you feel the way you are. I love you always. Always and forever. The contract is in force and binding as of April 15, 2008. Can you imagine? And if he's not happy with, if someone gives her,

if someone is caught looking at her or something, he's going to have him removed and she's in his, like he's in control. Like, but that's the level of craziness. I know. I said, I've made my fair share of mistakes, and I've done things wrong, and I've done beat things,

and I've done things I should have done. Since I left Athens, since I moved to Oklahoma, the only thing I have done is reach out and try to do the best I can do and reach out and help who I could help. That's all I have done. But I don't deserve this. Margot, Freshwater.

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this is the crimes of Margot Freshwater, coming January 1st to the binge. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts. You know, they say there are two ways in which we live and die. The physical death, of course.

And we all know that Nikki is no longer with us, but there is another way in which we do or don't survive. It's in the memory of others. was something Amanda said to me. They said the door is open, so... Hello.

How are you? Hey, what's up? Hi. On November 8th, just a few weeks before wrapping this series, we met all three girls in Richmond, Virginia. Amanda and Alex had driven up from Georgia the day before. It had been five years since the three of them had been together. Well, I called her short.

The first thing I did was I said I forgot how short you are. I asked them about last night. We also bought a bottle of wine, and we were sitting on these couches and talking and everything, and it was a lot of, I remember this, and oh, do you remember this happened? And oh, my God, you did this. And then we jumped to, like, oh, you have this health condition or, like, we were all over the place. It was very much when you see someone after a long time and then you're always worried about the building up and you're like, oh, what are we going to talk about? Like, it's going to be awkward. Her wedding was the last time I've seen them.

And so it did feel a lot like just jumping in. Like we just like jumped in and hung out and talked. They'd stayed up all night. When we walked in, they were all squished up on a two-seater couch together. where they had fallen asleep. It's not like their Airbnb didn't have bedrooms. They just couldn't bear to be apart. They are all in therapy now.

Alex has kids of her own. They're rebuilding their relationship, but they are nowhere near as close as they'd like to be. Their lives were each blown apart by what happened to their mother. Blown apart in different directions. They're still tussling with some impossible issues like, is it okay to have positive memory? of Matt.

Something that I wrestle with when I do remember things are can I still remember this good memory of my father with the shadow that he killed my mother?

Am I allowed to enjoy this memory still? There was a night. Yes. Oh, yeah, it was a night. Let me answer that for you, yes. Big sister's going to drop in for that one. Yes, you can't. Um, we, so me and my husband went over to Alex's house. There was a lot of alcohol consumed.

For me, I struggle with those feelings all the time of like, he did it. He did this horrible thing, but he's still my dad. And I still have good memories of him. And I, there is some part of me that loves him in some way, whether that's the idea of him or. Yeah. And then there's Alex who, like, her version of it is like, he did this horrible thing. He did absolutely horrible things to her and horrible things to her mom. And she never loved him, I don't think.

For Alex, there was a kind of clarity from the start. Amanda recognizes that now. So, like, she doesn't want to trash-hawk my dad to me. And I don't want to come across as defending my dad to her. And so, like, it felt like there was always kind of that tension. of we could never really talk about it with each other. It did take two bottles of wine. Yeah, that night, two bottles of wine kind of helped break through that wall.

But I was so intoxicated that I spilled wine all over my rug, my wall. And then you poured baking soda all over it. I thought that would clean the wine stains in my drunken state. But we were like in like crying breakthrough. So. And here they were. Amanda, Alex, and Rebecca, together, keeping the memory of their mother alive, trying to. I hope what comes out of this is closer relationships between the three of us.

I just hope that, like, we don't go through this and then just settle back into... It's not that we haven't kept in contact. It's just, you know, life has lifed, and I hope that in a way we find... ways because to her point, there's so many good memories. I can't, I can't even find them in the back as part of my brain. And I know that they've got to be there. Like, there's times that Amanda will be like, do you remember when this and it'll be a good memory? And I don't. Like, I can't grab it. I don't remember it. I have no idea what she's talking about. And it makes me really sad. And I know that they live there. And I'm hoping there's ways that we can grab them back and find

them. There's still a lot to be rebuilt between these three women. They know it. It will take years. There are so many difficult conversations yet to have, so many memories to sift through. But I had a strange feeling as we sat there. Something I can't say I've felt before or since. And Alex told me she felt it too, that we weren't alone.

that in some way that I can't quite explain, Nikki was there with her girls who were together, remembering their mother and safe, perhaps for the first time. Thank you so much for listening to watching you. Not sure what to listen to next? Check out my fugitive dad, a podcast I hosted for The Binge

about the shocking true story behind Ohio's most infamous bank robbery. It's a story with a surprising twist, inspired by his favorite movie, The Thomas Crown Affair. 19-year-old vault teller Ted Conrad stole over a million dollars and was never apprehended.

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Hi, Jonathan. Tell me about your dad. Well, my dad's name is Tom. He's one of the most charming men you'll ever meet. He's a car salesman, a scratch golfer. You wanted Tom on your team because he's a ringa. He was... unreal. The love of my mom's life and my best friend. But Ashley's dad had a massive secret.

And he said, if I tell you, you have to promise you will not look into it. I don't want you telling anybody. A secret he kept for more than half a century, not just from his family. And she looked at me like I'd hit her in the face with a brick. but from the world. Ted Conrad walked out of the bank he worked at. He disappeared with a paper bag containing $215,000. He evaded authorities for 52 years. So where is Teddy Conrad today?

Who knows? The Conrad trail is cold, as marshals look to generate some kind of heat. A father and son duo made catching him their life's mission. Some people portrayed Conrad as a Robin Hood, and my dad called him nothing but a thief. This is the story about trying to make sense of a wonderful life based on a terrible lie.

My dad wasn't Tom Randall. Right. I mean, he was Ted Conrad. He was a wanted fugitive, hiding in plain sight. I'm Jonathan Hirsch. Join me and Ashley together as we tell The real story of her dad, Ohio's most infamous fugitive, for the first time. We'll not only reveal how he did it, but why?

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