thompson. she was just fun. she was easy to talk to. she was always laughing, loving, she never meant anything wrong to anybody. kelli had a knack of making everyone happy? she was inviting to everyone. if you were there you were part of the party. when she tried to give her marriage work, she gave her space. when mike ultimately moved out, kelli asked justin to move in. 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 t was going to happen, but i know it was our intentions, to further our relationship. w 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, i this time for good. meanwhile, that friday the 13th kelli decided
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 us. 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 at that point. you get vibes from people sometimes, i could see he was weird. but he says kelli being kelli asked holbert if he wanted to join them for a game of pool. holbert hung out with them until justin and kelli decided to head home for the night. did he ask kelli for her phone
fayetteville periodically to keep the case alive, somehow never losing hope. people would ask, how do you keep thinking she s alive. i was like, until you can prove otherwise why should i believe it. i would rather believe the better scenario. how did you have that hope it would happen? because the other avenue wasn t one i wanted to go down. back in florida, kelli s boyfriend, justin thompson, had been living in limbo with a bad case of survivor s guilt. i could have done more. somehow i should have done better. i should have told her don t go, argued about it. i don t know. what was the waiting like, and the not knowing? terrible. 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
because she could help them to be better. kelli grew up in florida and then enlisted in the army when she was 22. you just wait until i see you. i m not playing with you at all. after basic training, the army sent her to fayetteville, north carolina. at fort bragg kelli trained as an army medic, one of the most demanding jobs in the military. i think it gave her an opportunity to do something better with her life and she wanted to help people. and what was it about being army medic? that s an intense job. it was something that would push her to her limits. i want to make a career out of it, i want to do my 20 years. she s like, i really want this to be something. so she would have possibly made a life out of the military. oh, yeah. yes, that was the plan. kelli s professional life was on track but her personal
friends, and then she just disappears off the face of the earth. breaking news in the case of kelli bordeaux, the fort bragg soldier missing since saturday. the disappearance of the beautiful young army medic was 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