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You get vibes from people. i could see it was weird. >> but he says kelly being kelly asked him if he wanted to join them for a game of pool. he hung out with them until justin and kelly decided to head home for the night. >> did he ask kelly for her phone number? >> yeah. >> she gave it to him because he worked there so its always good to have somebody that works at the bar as a friend. >> that friday 13th when kelly decided to go back to the barbie herself, justin told detectives she wasnt rea...

For months. but no trace of kelly. >> i got really frustrated and disappointed and im 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 ...

He saw them right out of the gate and come outside and got paranoid. >> so paranoid that marshburn tried another trick to push him to give it up. he had his wife pose as a paralegal and draw up phony inindictment papers charging him with kellys murder. >> i changed who the detective was and changed the charges. he was being indicted and i got cece my pair legal person on the phone. >> who is your wife. >> who is helping me. the plan was working good and he was worried. >> holbert took one look a...

>> so they let him go. >> if nick was a suspect, he certainly wasnt acting like one. he joined search teams looking for kelly and spoke on local tv expressing his concern. >> i hate that shes missing. >> but fayetteville police werent buying his story and now he too was a person of interest along with kellys 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 al...

Straight to him and do what i had to do and come back. >> were you obsessed? >> i dont stop until i get them. >> isnt that obsessed? >> i dont know, dedicated. >> but he still wasnt providing any answers about kelly that had been missing some 18 months. by this time, marshburn spent thousands of hours and some $40,000 trying to crack holbert. he was losing hope and considering quitting or even trying something drastic. >> at times i wanted to just take nick and cut his fingers off and say you te...

Diy investigation. >> did you take david seriously? >> absolutely. he came to us and wanted to befriend nick. >> what did you think of that? >> go for it. we cant tell him what to do. >> marshburn remember is a private eye, not a police officer and unlike detectives he could try tactics that, to say the least, were unorthodoxed. a few months after they met he told him that the d.a. was ready to cut a deal if he confessed. marshburn even submitted him with a very attractive plea bargain agreement...

>> do you think this case ever would have been solved without you? >> no. i dont think that nick would have ever told anyone unless they were his friend, but he did tell me. >> but 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 were sitting here agonizing for these last two years, he was the one that was able to come and end that for us and to make it to where you ...

Desist on digging. dont do nothing else. >> police rushed to the scene, and soon, detective jeff locklear was ininterrogating holbert on camera. >> where do you want to start from, the very beginning? >> holbert told the whole, horrible story, how he took kelli to the bar and they hung out. then later, said holbert, someone there told kelli about his prior sex offense. she got upset and swore at him in the empty parking lot. >> and i just snapped and zoned out and hit her, knocked her out. >> ho...