and knocked on the door. and he answered the door, and i said, hey, nick, i m david marshburn, i m a private investigator, i m here to try to find kelli bordeaux and i think you can help me. his strategy was simple, trick holbert into thinking he was an ally. it was 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 kelli bordeaux. i had to get into his mind and see what he was about. did you think that he was going to just confess to you? uh-huh, i knew that. i didn t know how i was going to get it out of him. at this point police were
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
depression like you would not believe. because we went from two years, nonstop, kelli, kelli, kelli, kellie. do you think this case ever would have been solved without you? no. i don t think that nick would have ever told anyone unless they were his friend. but he did tell me. for the family of kelli bordeaux, the loss, the pain, the sorrow never goes away. but david marshburn at least gave them a chance to heal. he ended a suffering for my family. where we re sitting here, agonizing for these last two years. he was the one who was able to come in and end this for us. and to make it to where you can try to start
i m natalie morales. where was kelli bordeaux? after the alibis of both of her estranged her and her boyfriend checked out, police suspected a man named nick holbert had the answer. a convicted sex offender, nick told detectives he drove kelli home from the bar that night but never touched her. to police the story just didn t add up, and now a total stranger was ready to prove it. once again here s andrea canning with deep in the woods. autumn, 2012. kelli bordeaux had been missing for months. the searches continued but were winding down and so was hope. privately, many around town felt kelli would never be found. but in the forest outside fayetteville there was someone still secretly searching for her. no one knew, not police, not even kelli s family. his name was david marshburn. he didn t know kelli, but had an intense interest in her case from the day she disappeared. she was in the military. you