suddenly quite little fayetteville was ground zero for a massive search for a missing army medic. detectives say information in this case keeps pointing them to look in this area near where she was last seen. kelly bordeaux had been missing some 72 hours. the chances of finding her were growing slimmer by the day. investigators have combed through every area in fayetteville as well as cumberland county. 600 moiles away in florida, kelly s boyfriend was talking to detectives telling them he was home the weekend that kelly disappeared. he checked his phone. everything checked out. justin told detectives something else. another name to check out. when he and kelly visited frog gi bottoms the week before she disappeared they met a chatty guy that worked there named nick holbert. he started talking to us.
she was in the military. you don t hlet them disappear. she was a young female, that s not right. he s a bounty hunter and private investigator. his specialty, finding people, dead or alive. i knew she wasn t alive. she just needed to be found. remember that tv interview nick holbert did? he saw it too. when i m watching him i m like dude i can tell you re lying. he did it. he knows where she is at. he killed her. and marshburn was also convinced he could find kelly bordeaux. operating on his own time and own dime, marshburn started carefully researching the details of kelly s disappearance. i don t know what got into me to do it. i just did it to. to bring some answers to her family. yes. i love helping the family out. he was convinced holbert
so, next day comes, we go 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 looked over to my left and there s some clearing over here and there s the sun coming down. then, in that very same spot, cass seemed to pick up a scent. all of a sudden he starts crawling to it, like whimpering crawling. and he stops. that was our spot. they carefully pushed a metal rod into the ground.
marshburn, i m a private investigator. i m here to try to find kelly bordeaux and i think you can help him. his strategy was simple. trick holbert into thinking he was an ally. basically telling him i m your angel. i m your help. let me help you. help him how, though? for people to see the light that he was not guilty. 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 started to win holbert s confidence, coaxing him to confess about what really happened to kelly bordeaux. i had to get into his mind and see what he was about. did you think he was going to just confess to you? no. i didn t know how i was going to get it out of him. at this point, police were aware of david marshburn and his
for months. but no trace of kelly. i got really frustrated and disappointed and i m at my wits end. then came an unlikely break. in may 2013, nick holbert was released from jail after being locked up on the parole violation. if he was happy, david was thrilled because now he could deal with him face to face. so just a day after his release marshburn pulled up to the house where he was staying. i have never talked to a killer, have you? i work on dateline. i take that back. what were you nervous about? that he would try to hurt you or just that the stakes are high here? sort of like star struck, do you know what i mean. you re just like wow, this is happening. marshburn took a deep breath and knocked on the door. and he answered the door and i said hey, nick, i m david