a husband named mike bordeaux. they got married in 2010 before she joined the service but later separated. after some time apart, the couple decided to give it another shot. so when the army sent kelli to north carolina, she asked mike to come with her. why did kelli want to save the marriage? i think she didn t want to see it as a failure. she said, i m going to give it three months where i devote i am going to make this work. but kelli couldn t make it work. despite her efforts the marriage was on the rocks. she bought him a one-way plane ticket to florida and he left. and did she actually use the word divorce? i remember in the text messages very clear, like,
he wasn t being consistent. were they talking divorce? kelli was, mike wasn t. did you see that as a possible motive? yeah, we had to eliminate mike bordeaux. mike insisted he was in florida when kelli went missing in fayetteville. even so, police still considered him the primary person of interest. has her husband been questioned by detectives? we ve had conversation with mr. bordeaux. police also needed to have a conversation with kelli ds boyfriend, justin thompson. little did they know that justin had a huge new lead waiting for them about the night kelli disappeared. coming up a new possible suspect. he is the last person that is seen with kelli. that was very concerning to us. why something in his past would trigger even more alarm bells. it certainly was a red flag. when dateline continues. need a backup plan? get plan b one-step. plan b helps prevent pregnancy before it starts
yes. what happened? it was dead. what were you thinking? it was bad, i knew it was bad. what happened to kelli bordeaux? her family begins to panic. coming up day and night. we were all of us dazzling. like knights sworn to protect our kingdom. we knew it wouldn t last forever, but. that s what made it special you know we ll be back tomorrow, right? yeah, but it ll never be today again. -[ groaning ] -just get on the bus, flo! moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it s one pill, once a day, that s effective
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.
fayetteville, but nearly two years after kelli bordeaux had mysteriously vanished the investigation had cooled. new crimes now took priority. kelli s family still visited fayetteville periodically to keep the case alive, somehow never losing hope. people would ask, how do you keep thinking she s alive. i was like, until you can prove otherwise, why should i believe it. i would rather believe the better scenario. how did you have that hope it would happen? because the other avenue wasn t one i wanted to go down. back in florida, kelli s boyfriend, justin thompson, had been living in limbo with a bad case of survivor s guilt. i could have done more. somehow i should have done better. i should have told her don t go, argued about it. i don t know. what was the waiting like, and the not knowing? terrible. just like slams on the brakes. in your life you