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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.
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>> 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
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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
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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
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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.
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