kelli bordeaux had been out of touch for hours. her boyfriend, justin thompson, knew something was wrong. what was supposed to be a day off was now turning into a day of dread. not a call, text or tweet from her, he says. i remember talking to my mom. i was like, i don t want to start a storm but i m really worried about it because i knew something bad happened. why did you jump to that conclusion so fast? if you talk to somebody every day and they you can t get hold of them it is no good. saturday came and went, still nothing from kelli. so on sunday, justin, now frantic, phoned the fayetteville police department, urging them to start searching. nobody would help me. i called them several times. police policy required a family member to call in and provide more personal details
friday? i was just trying everything. everything led to nothing, no leads, no clues, no kelli. what were some of the scenarios that were running through your mind? just that somebody was holding her somewhere. a kidnapping kind of thing. yeah, i was more concerned she was hurt somewhere and she wasn t able to get to us so we have to get to her. olivia, matt and mike immediately made plans to all meet in fayetteville. by now the fayetteville pd was all over the case. one of the investigators assigned was veteran homicide detective mike ballard. we knew this could be an endangered person. why the homicide unit when she has barely been missing. kelli bordeaux was not a problem soldier, always contacted her family, her friends, and then she just disappears off the face of the earth. breaking news in the case of kelli bordeaux, the fort bragg soldier missing since saturday. the disappearance of the beautiful young army medic was
would do. olivia quickly became a mainstay on every media outlet in the area. i just want my sister back, you know. i just want to talk to her. mike bordeaux also went on camera to plead for his wife s return. please let her come home. just let her come home. the public, police and military response was intense. it seemed like the whole town turned out to look for kelli. most of us are military, prior military or spouses, so we are very driven to find one of our own. search teams numbering in the hundreds combed the fields and thick forests surrounding fayetteville. i searched basically every day i was there, sun up to sundown for the most part, and then it is just searching, searching, searching. this volunteer group started at kelli ds apartment, but just like police their search turned up nothing. detectives were also combing through kelli ds background, her habits, and, most importantly, her circle of family and friends. everybody s a suspect until we eliminat
because she could help them to be better. kelli grew up in florida and then enlisted in the army when she was 22. you just wait until i see you. i m not playing with you at all. after basic training the army sent her to fayetteville, north carolina. at fort bragg kelli trained as an army medic, one of the most demanding jobs in the military. i think it gave her an opportunity to do something better with her life and she wanted to help people. and what was it about being an army medic? that s an intense job. it was something that would push her to her limits. i want to make a career out of it, i want to do my 20 years. she s like, i really want this to be something. so she would have possibly made a life out of the military. oh, yeah. de yes, that was the plan. kelli s professional life was on track but her personal life was complicated. kelli had
question was, could the admitted killer make good on his promise and give kelli s family the peace they deserved. here s andrea canning with the conclusion of deep in the woods. it was a long night in north carolina. nick holbert was holed up in a hotel. while a few miles away, david marshburn was wide awake, wondering, worrying, hoping that tomorrow would be the day that he could finally bring kelli bordeaux home. i couldn t sleep that night. marcia couldn t sleep. we were just all excited for the next day. so the next day comes, we go to pick him up and he s real quiet. he, of course, was nick holbert, who was now back in the forest outside fayetteville. it was may 14th, 2014. two years of searching had now come down to this one sweltering spring morning. but holbert still couldn t remember exactly where he had buried kelli s body and went off searching in a different direction. we re standing there, i m like, darn it, i cannot figure this out. and all of a sudden, i looke