we are agonizing for these last two years. he was panicked, that turned into torment. i was concerned, she was hurt somewhere. i felt so helpless. kelly was always there for others. she liked to help people who needed help. there are, for her friends, for her country, this was a good fit for, her the army? she wanted to be an officer. her personal life was a little more complicated. d. were they talking divorce? kelli was. mike wasn t. had a new boyfriend. she was pretty fun. she s easy to talk to. and lately, she seemed to have an admirer. did he ask kelli for her phone number? yes. when she suddenly vanished, hundreds joined the search, including this perfect stranger. i said, i d like to see if i could solve this. he was suspicious about one of the men in kelli s life. it is like, dude, i can tell you re lying. but getting the truth wouldn t be easy. i had to get into his mind, see what he was about. what you were involved in was p
was estranged from her husband. were they talking divorce? kelli was. mike wasn t. had a new boyfriend. she was pretty fun. she s easy to talk to. and lately, she seemed to have an admirer. did he ask kelli for her phone number? yes. when she suddenly vanished, hundreds joined the search, including this perfect stranger. i said, i d like to see if i could solve this. he was suspicious about one of the men in kelli s life. it is like, dude, i can tell you re lying. but getting the truth wouldn t be easy. i had to get into his mind, see what he was about. what you were involved in was psychological warfare. uh-huh. he knows where she s at. after a young soldier s mysterious disappearance, one man s personal battle to find her. do you think he s finally going to reveal to you? oh, i know he is. hello and welcome to dateline . kelli bordeaux was just starting what she hoped would be a long career in the military, but fate had other plans. on
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
now big news and covered extensively by local media like nbc station wral tv. right now it is still a missing person case. there is a lot that is not known at this time. olivia and mike arrived in fayetteville where they took a grim meeting at police headquarters. what did you tell them? that we were hoping for the best but preparing for the worst and they should do the same thing, too. i remember at one point the detectives were trying to take us back to talk to us more and we were walking into a room and it said homicide on the door, and i was like i m not going in there. they were like, no, no, this is just the best room. i was like, that s not happening, i m not letting that thought in. i have to stay positive. this is an out-of-character thing to happen to my sister. it is not something that she
were you in love with kelli? yes, we were in love. i don t want to be like we were going to get married and have kids because i don t know what was going to happen, but i know it was our intentions, to further our relationship. was home wherever kelli was? yes. in early april of 2012 justin visited fayetteville to get acquainted with his future home the couple also hit froggy bottoms. then justin returned to florida. he would be back in two weeks, this time for good. meanwhile, that friday the 13th kelli decided to go to the bar alone. she texted her sister olivia before she left that night and sent this selfie. ed did she say if she was going with anybody? no, she s like i m going to go sing karaoke and not think about work, not think about mike, just kind of trying to get away from all of that and relax. kelli also texted justin about her plans. justin said he wasn t happy that kelli had gone out alone in a new town she didn t know. i didn t feel like her life was i