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
husband, mike bordeaux. remember, mike said he was home in florida when she went missing, which detectives needed to confirm. family put him there friday night. friends put him there. his alibi checked out. so now, detectives and district attorney billy west zeroed in on the last person seen with kelli. everything kept coming back to nicholas holbert as the prime suspect. so investigators dug into holbert s background and discovered something rather disturbing. he was a registered sex offender and served time in a penitentiary for that. it certainly was a red flag, the fact that he had a prior sex offense and he is the last person that s seen with kelli. that was very, very concerning to us. the d. a. didn t have any evidence to arrest holbert for kelli ds disappearance, but he did discover holbert was violating the terms of his parole. he was a prior sex offender, and he was not registered properly and he was placed in jail.
everything kept coming back to nicholas holbert as the prime suspect. so investigators dug into holbert s background and discovered something rather disturbing. he was a registered sex offender and served time in a penitentiary for that. it certainly was a red flag, the fact that he had a prior sex offense and he is the last person that s seen with kelli. that was very, very concerning to us. the d. a. didn t have any evidence to arrest holbert for kelli ds disappearance, but he did discover holbert was violating the terms of his parole. he was a prior sex offender, and he was not registered properly and he was placed in jail. 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
the da didn t have any evidence to arrest holbert for kelli ds disappearance, but he did discover holbert was violating the terms of his parole. he was a prior sex offender, and he was not registered properly and he was placed in jail. sex offender nicholas 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 da seemed so close to an answer. they