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>> 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 couldn't crack him? >> exactly. >> by now olivia and matt had left fayetteville and gone home. >> i remember feeling defeated. we came up here thinking that something was going to happen and it didn't. >> i don't know. i felt like i didn't sleep for a couple of weeks. it was 24/7 thinking about what happened, what happened, what happened? >> detectives and the d. a. seemed so close to an answer. they even had their prime suspect in custody, but weeks passed, months. holbert stopped talking. you couldn't arrest him? >> we needed her body. we needed to find kelli bordeaux. >> little did police know it would take some two years to
aware of david marshburn and his diy investigation. >> did you take david marshburn seriously? >> absolutely. he came to us and wanted to befriend nick holbert. >> what did you think of that? >> hey, go for it. we can't tell him what to do. >> marshburn, remember, is a private eye, not a police officer. unlike detectives he could try tactics that were, to say the least, unorthodox. a few months after they met marshburn told holbert that the da was ready to cut a deal if he confessed. marshburn even presented holbert with this very attractive plea bargain agreement. >> it would be something like manslaughter and he would do three to four years and he would go to a mental hospital. >> the so-called deal was completely bogus. >> you'll see, i put a fake 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.
progress. now, minutes after sending kelli's body, he sent them something definitive and dreadful. >> a photo of what appears to be a human bone. a place he's digging. and at that time, he contacted him and said, hay, cease and desist on digging. don't do nothing else. >> police rushed to the scene and soon detective josh locklear was interrogating hoblert on camera. >> where do you want me 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 zone pd o ed out and hit her and
>> 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 some money, i would get up and do what i had to do and come
she was a young female. that's not right. >> he is both a bounty hunter and private investigator. his specialty, finding people, dead or alive. >> i knew she wasn't alive. i knew she needed to be found. >> she seemed like a really nice -- >> remember that tv interview nick holbert did? marshburn saw it too. >> when i'm watching him it's like, dude, i can tell you're lying, he did it, he knows where she's at, he killed her. >> and marshburn was also convinced he could find kelli bordeaux. operating on his own time and own dime, marshburn started carefully researching the details of kelli's disappearance. >> i don't know what got into me to do it. i mean i just did it. >> to bring some answers to her family. >> yeah, i love doing it. i
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 -- -- the one. carvana had so many great options. you could get something like a
last bit of pressure. his own ticking clock of sorts to push holbert over the edge. >> i pick up a stick. i figured if i sit there and snap it, it would ring in his mind, hey, i'm on a time limit, the clock is ticking. i started snapping the twigs off of it. finally, i got to the last pieces off of it and he said something like, okay, i'm ready. >> ready to confess. finally, after a year-long cat and mouse game, holbert revealed to marshburn that he killed kelli bordeaux. they got back in the van and holbert directed marshburn to a remote area where he remembered burying the body. >> and then he said, right here. so we pulled down this path. >> are you getting nervous? >> no. i'm excited i'm going to find her. and i take cass and me and cass try and find her. >> marshburn and cass spent the next several hours combing through the thick woods, trying to get a scent of kelli's grave. >> we searched to almost dark. cass starts laying down and so
love helping a family out. >> marshburn was convinced holbert had buried kelli close to the froggy bottoms bar somewhere in the thick forest surrounding fayetteville. >> how daunting of a task was it? >> it is like -- i don't know, taking a rock no bigger than this and just throwing it out here and saying, "go find it. " and you miss it by an inch, you might as well have missed it by a mile because it is not that easy to find something. >> marshburn needed help, so several months into his very private search he added two new members to his team, an assistant named marcia ward and a specially-trained search dog with a keen sense of smell named cass. >> he's trained on tracking, trailing, whatever you want, what odor you want. >> including buried bodies. together marshburn, marcia and cass slogged through ponds, fields, forests, thousands of acres and searched for months, but no trace of kelli. >> i got really frustrated and disappointed, and i'm at my wit's end.
and is expected to strengthen. back here in the u.s., a statue of emmett till was unveiled in green will mississippi saturday. not far from where white men kidnapped and killed a black teenager. 1965 lynching of till became a catalyst for a civil rights movement. now, back to dateline. now, back to dateline. >> welcome back to "dateline". 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
it out. we knew we were going on wild goose chases. we had to do it. i mean what else you got? >> marshburn needed to turn up the heat on holbert and had an idea. >> nick was always worried law enforcement was watching him. >> that was his achilles heel? >> uh-huh. so i knew that was a weakness. >> which marshburn exploited by 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.