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>> 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 sit...

>> you caught him in lies but you couldnt 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 didnt. >> i dont know. i felt like i didnt sleep for a couple of weeks. it was 24/7 thinking about what happened, what happened, what happened. >> detectives and the da seemed...

>> 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, kellis boyfriend justin thompson was talking to detectives, telling them he was home the weekend kelli disappeared. >> he was not whe...

Adamant about it. im not going to tell her no a thousand times on text message. >> kelli made it safely to the bar where she texted justin throughout the night, but then there was the last odd text he received. justin was sure he had something to do with her disappearance and sent the text to cover his tracks. detectives went to froggy bottoms where they found nick holbert. they discovered he was down on his luck living in the woods behind the bar. they searched his campsite and his car. not one...

Enlisting a friend who owned a vehicle that looked like an unmarked police car. he had him park near holberts 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 kellis murder. >> i took one of his old charges, changed who...

Released from jail after being locked up from that parole violation. if holbert was happy, david marshburn was thrilled, because now he could deal with him face to face. just a day after his release, marshburn holed up at the house where holbert was staying. ive never talked to a killer. have you? >> i work for "dateline." >> were you worried he would kill you? >> i didnt fear him because i dont fear anybody. nobody is big or gad enough, its the man upstairs im worried about. >> so its more like...

It was justin f. case. honorable justin f. case. just-in-case. >> did he believe it? >> he believed it to a point, but then he threw it back at me after looking at it for five minutes, and he said, no, theyll just take it back. >> marshburn thought that wasnt 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 get to be his friend? i had to say some crap i just didnt belie...

I didnt know how i was going to get it out of him. >> by this time police knew about david marshburns investigation. >> did you take david marshburn seriously? >> he wanted to come and befriend nick holbert. >> what did you think of that? >> we told him to go for it. he had common sense. we were okay with him trying to befriend him. >> marshburn is a private eye, not a police officer. unlike a police officer, he could try tactics that were unorthodox. a few months after they met, marshburn told ...

Seen with kelli. >> everything kept coming back to nicholas holbert as the prime suspect. >> so investigators dug into holberts background and discovered something rather disturbing. >> he was a registered sex offender and served time in a penitentiary for that. >> it certainly was a red flag, the fact that he had a prior sex offense and he is the last person thats seen with kelli. that was very, very concerning to us. >> the da didnt have any evidence to arrest holbert for kellis disappearance,...

Just like slams on the brakes, in your life you cant do anything. i honestly didnt 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 kellis disappearance. marshburn was working practically 24/7 to get a confession, chasing every clue holbert dropped. >> we go talk to him and then wed go out and try and figure it ...