we are agonizing for these last two years. he was panicked, that turned into torment. i was concerned, she was hurt somewhere. i felt so helpless. kelly was always there for others. she liked to help people who needed help. there are, for her friends, for her country, this was a good fit for, her the army? she wanted to be an officer. her personal life was a little more complicated. d. were they talking divorce? kelli was. mike wasn t. had a new boyfriend. she was pretty fun. she s easy to talk to. and lately, she seemed to have an admirer. did he ask kelli for her phone number? yes. when she suddenly vanished, hundreds joined the search, including this perfect stranger. i said, i d like to see if i could solve this. he was suspicious about one of the men in kelli s life. it is like, dude, i can tell you re lying. but getting the truth wouldn t be easy. i had to get into his mind, see what he was about. what you were involved in was p
was estranged from her husband. were they talking divorce? kelli was. mike wasn t. had a new boyfriend. she was pretty fun. she s easy to talk to. and lately, she seemed to have an admirer. did he ask kelli for her phone number? yes. when she suddenly vanished, hundreds joined the search, including this perfect stranger. i said, i d like to see if i could solve this. he was suspicious about one of the men in kelli s life. it is like, dude, i can tell you re lying. but getting the truth wouldn t be easy. i had to get into his mind, see what he was about. what you were involved in was psychological warfare. uh-huh. he knows where she s at. after a young soldier s mysterious disappearance, one man s personal battle to find her. do you think he s finally going to reveal to you? oh, i know he is. hello and welcome to dateline . kelli bordeaux was just starting what she hoped would be a long career in the military, but fate had other plans. on
sex offender nicholas holbert right where detectives wanted him. now they could watch holbert. see if he blabbed to a cell mate about what happened to kelli. they also questioned him, twice. even took him back to froggy bottoms to jog his memory, but holbert stuck to his same, though sometimes inconsistent story. you caught him in lies but you couldn t crack him? exactly. by now olivia and matt had left fayetteville and gone home. i remember feeling defeated. we came up here thinking that something was going to happen and it didn t. i don t know. i felt like i didn t sleep for a couple of weeks. it was 24/7 thinking about what happened, what happened, what happened? detectives and the d. a. seemed so close to an answer. they even had their prime suspect in custody, but weeks passed, months. holbert stopped talking. you couldn t arrest him? we needed her body. we needed to find kelli bordeaux. little did police know it would take some two years to
aware of david marshburn and his diy investigation. did you take david marshburn seriously? absolutely. he came to us and wanted to befriend nick holbert. what did you think of that? hey, go for it. we can t tell him what to do. marshburn, remember, is a private eye, not a police officer. unlike detectives he could try tactics that were, to say the least, unorthodox. a few months after they met marshburn told holbert that the da was ready to cut a deal if he confessed. marshburn even presented holbert with this very attractive plea bargain agreement. it would be something like manslaughter and he would do three to four years and he would go to a mental hospital. the so-called deal was completely bogus. you ll see, i put a fake judge on there. it was justin f. case, honorable justin f. case. just in case. did he believe it? yeah. he believed it to a point, but then he threw it back at me after looking at it for about five minutes said, no, they ll just take it back.
progress. now, minutes after sending kelli s body, he sent them something definitive and dreadful. a photo of what appears to be a human bone. a place he s digging. and at that time, he contacted him and said, hay, cease and desist on digging. don t do nothing else. police rushed to the scene and soon detective josh locklear was interrogating hoblert on camera. where do you want me to start from? the very beginning? holbert told the whole horrible story. how he took kelli to the bar and they hung out, then later, said holbert, someone there told kelli about his prior sex offense. she got upset and swore at him in the empty parking lot. and i just snapped and zone pd o ed out and hit her and