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
some money, i would get up and do what i had to do and come back. were you obsessed? when i have somebody i m hunting down i don t stop until i get them. isn t that obsessed? i don t know. dedicated. get the answers you need. when i m hunting someone down, i don t stop until i get the answers i need. but holbert still wasn t provided answers about kelli who had now been missing some 18 months. by this point marshburn spent some $40,000 trying to crack holbert. and thousands of hours. he was losing hope and considered quitting or even trying something drastic. at times i wanted to just take nick and cut his fingers off and say, you tell me or i m going to chop another one off. i wanted to torture him because i knew he knew. you really would have done that? oh, yeah. i hated him that bad, i despised him. marshburn didn t resort to
there, nick? i don t want to. hoblert was then taken downtown and arrested. this morning, detectives with the fayetteville homicide fayetteville police department homicide unit recovered what we believe to be private first class kelli bordeaux. by now, kelli ds family had gotten the news. he called me and he was like, hey, you need to come to mom s now, they found kelli and i remember dropping to the floor, like, i dll be right there. then it s a sense of relief instead of just wondering, what if, what if, what if, what if. olivia called kelli ds boyfriend, justin thompson. as soon as she called, i knew they found her. i was so grateful. honestly, i was so happy that she was found. i can t say happy.
it worked like a charm because he saw him right out the gate when he come outside and got paranoid. so paranoid that marshburn tried yet another trick to push holbert to give it up. he had his wife pose as a paralegal and drop phony indictment papers charging holbert with kelli s murder. i took one of his old charges, changed who the detective was, changed the charges. he was being indicted and i got ceecee my paralegal person on the phone who is your wife? yeah, who is helping me. the plan was working good and he was worried. holbert took one look at the indictment papers and went into a panic. sensing nick was near his breaking point, marshburn reminded him about the sweetheart plea deal if he confessed. so, they took a ride to froggy bottoms, back to where it all began. i said, look, nick, you re fixing to be indicted on this. they evidently got evidence.
judge on there. it was justin f. case, honorable justin f. case. just in case. did he believe it? yeah. he believed it to a point, but then he threw it back at me after looking at it for about five minutes said, no, they ll just take it back. marshburn thought that wasn t exactly the reaction of an innocent man. now he was fully convinced nick holbert had killed kelli, but he needed to get holbert to reveal where he buried her body. how can i be his friend? and i had to do some things, say some crap that i just didn t believe, but i had to do it to play the part. marshburn bought holbert countless meals, beers, even hired him to do odd jobs, slowly becoming a bff, or maybe a more of a fren-enemy. but marshburn said he paid a high price as he practically abandoned his wife and young son. i didn t do any family stuff. if we were eating somewhere, and nick called and said i need cigarettes, i need