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 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
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.
would not believe, because we went two years nonstop, kelli, kelli, kelli, kelli. 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 sorry 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 that was able to come in and end that for us and to make it to where you can try to start rebuilding and doing things that will make kelli proud and to live your life. the family also had something for david marshburn, a very special gift from kelli. kelli s dog tags, which, that s a great honor in itself. this is a very important thing. yeah.
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. you need to tell me what happened. the middle you re probably not sure, it s fuzzy, you got tunnel vision. the end is where we need to get to. that s where i need to be. you need to get me to where kelli is at. i ll leave you right here and you think about it and i ll wait as long as you need me to. he didn t say a word. nothing. this must have been a powerful moment between you two. it was. he was standing there just looking straight down. it feels like he s imaging all this stuff of what went on. did you feel like he was finally going to reveal to you?
enlisting a friend who owned a vehicle that looked like an unmarked police car. he had him park near holbert s house and conduct surveillance, fake surveillance. 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 cc, 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