police rushed to the scene and soon, detective jeff locklear was interrogating holbert on camera. where do you want me to start, at 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 so i just snapped and zoned out and hit her, knocked her out. holbert said he took kelli to his camp site, where she woke up and started screaming. and i hit her again, knocked her out again. and i mean, she was dead. holbert says he then took kelli s body deep into the woods and buried her. are you okay with going back there? i don t know, i don t really want to. holbert was then taken downtown and arrested. this morning, detectives with the fayetteville police department homicide unit
you caught him in lies but you couldn t crack him? exactly. by now olivia and matt had left fayetteville and gone home. you must have felt kind of like you were leaving your sister alone, even though you confined her. 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 da 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 finally unravel the mystery, but they were about to get help, help they never imagined. deep in the forest a secret investigation was underway, a man on a mission to bring kelli
detectives say information in this case keeps pointing them to look in this area near where she was last seen. kelli bordeaux had been missing some 72 hours. the chances of finding her were growing slimmer by the day. investigators have combed through just about every area here in fayetteville as well as in cumberland county. 600 miles away in florida, kelli s boyfriend justin thompson was talking to detectives, telling them he was home the weekend kelli disappeared. he was not where he said. we checked his phone. everything checked out with justin. justin told detectives something else, another name to check out. when he and kelli visited froggy bottoms the week before she disappeared they met a chatty guy who worked there named nick holbert. he started talking to us. i get vibz vibes from people sometimes. i could see it.
this is an out-of-character thing to happen to my sister. it is not something that she would do. olivia quickly became a mainstay on every media outlet in the area. i just want my sister back, you know. i just want to talk to her. mike bordeaux also went on camera to plead for his wife s return. please let her come home. just let her come home. the public, police and military response was intense. it seemed like the whole town turned out to look for kelli. most of us are military, prior military or spouses, so we are very driven to find one of our own. search teams numbering in the hundreds combed the fields and thick forests surrounding fayetteville. i searched basically every day i was there, sunup to sundown for the most part, and then it is just searching, searching, searching. this volunteer group started
just like slams on the brakes, in your life you can t do anything. i honestly didn t think we would ever find her. really? what was going to change? but little did justin know things were about to change. up in fayetteville, private investigator david marshburn had befriended nick holbert, the prime suspect in kelli s disappearance. marshburn was working practically 24/7 to get a confession, chasing every clue holbert dropped. we go talk to him and then we d go out and try and figure 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 it was a weakness. which marshburn exploited by