Husband. Were they talking divorce . Kelli was. Mike wasnt. Had a new boyfriend. She was pretty fun. Shes 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, id like to see if i could solve this. He was suspicious about one of the men in kellis life. It is like, dude, i can tell youre lying. But getting the truth wouldnt be easy. I had to get into his mind, see what he was about. What you were involved in was psychological warfare. Uhhuh. He knows where shes at. After a young soldiers mysterious disappearance, one mans personal battle to find her. Do you think hes 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. One night the young army medic was hanging out at a local bar when suddenly she vanis
Were they talking divorce . Kelly was. Mike wasnt. Had a new boyfriend. She was pretty fun. And lately she seemed to have an admirer. Did he ask kelly for her phone number . Yeah. When she sudden livanished hundreds joined the search including this perfect stranger. I said id like to see if i can solve this. He was suspicious about one event in kellys life. But getting the truth wouldnt be easy. I had to get into his mind and see what he was about. What youre involved in was psychological warfare. Yeah. He knows where she is at. After a young soldiers mysterious disappearance, one mans personal battle to find her. Do you think hes finally going to reveal to you . Oh, i know he is. Kelly was just starting what she hoped to be a long career in the military but fate had other plans. One night she was hanging out at a local bar when suddenly she vanished. Fearing the worst, friends and family launched a frantic search but it would take a stranger hellbent on justice to track down the ugly
marshburn. i m a private investigainvestig. i m here to try to find kelli bordeaux and i think you can help me. his strategy was simple, to get nick holbert to think he was an alibi. it was basically to say i m an angel, let me help you. help him how, though? to get him to see the light. you re telling nick you re going to prove that he didn t have anything to do with the disappearance of kelli bordeaux. uh-huh. and he buys that? hook, line and sinker. so now the bounty hunter and the prime suspect talked. over the next few months, marshburn gradually held nick holbert s confidence, getting him to gradually tell him what happened to kelli bordeaux. i had to get into his mind and find out what he was about. did you think he was just going to confess to you? no.
remember that tv interview nick holbert did? marshburn saw it, too. when i m watching him, it was like, dude, i can tell you re lying. he did it. he knows where she s at. he killed her. and marshburn was also convinced he could find kelli bordeaux. operating on his own time and own dime, marshburn started carefully researching the details of kelli s disappearance. i don t know what got into me to do it, i just did it. to bring some answers to her family. yeah. i loved doing it. i loved helping the family out. reporter: marshburn was convinced holbert had buried kelli s body in the thick brush near fayetteville. how daunting of a task was it? it s like throwing a rock a bit bigger than this, throwing
off and say, you tell me or i ll chop another one off. i wanted to torture him because i knew he knew. you really would have done that? i hated him that bad. i despised him. he really got into your head. i wouldn t say he got into my head, i spent so much money, almost lost my family, almost lost the favorite thing i had. marshburn didn t resort to torture, but he did need a new tactic, something that would finally make holbert share his deadly secret. coming up marshburn finds a new pressure point. that was his achilles heel. but will it work? is the mystery about to be solved? this is it? this is it. when deep in the woods continues. woods continues. follow me.