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Big news, it was actually televised. >> aim, fire! >> kelli bordeaux was just 23. >> everybody rise, please. >> just over a year later came a measure of justice. >> are you, in fact, guilty of each of these crimes? >> yes, sir. >> facing the possibility of the death penalty, nick holbert pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing kelli in exchange for a life sentence. i didnt want her body, i wanted her. so i was like, what happens to nicholas holbert isnt going to change what hes done, whether he...

Abandoned his wife and young son. >> i didnt do family stuff. if nick called me and said, hey, i need cigarettes, i need money, i would get up and leave, get to him and do what i had to do and come back. >> were you obsessed? >> when i have an answer, i dont give up. i wanted to be the one to find the answer. marcia, my partner, shes the same way. we dont stop until we get results. >> but holbert still wasnt providing any answers about kelli, who had now been missing some 18 months. by this time...

So the next day comes. we have to pick him up. >> he was nick holbert who was now outside fateville. it was may 14. 2014. two years of searching had now come down to this one sweltering spring morning. but holbert still couldnt remember exactly where he had buried kellis body and went off searching in a different direction. >> were standing there, im like, darn it! i cannot figure this out! and all of a sudden, i look over and theres some clearing over here and theres the sun coming down. >> the...

It out here and saying, you got to find it. if you miss it by an inch, you might as well miss it by a mile because its 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 watchdog with a keen sense of smell named kaz. >> hes trained on track and trail, whatevermarshburn, marci and kaz slogged through fields, forest, thousands of acres and searched fo...

>> i knew he was. i had chills. >> marshburn then applied one last bit of pressure, his own ticking clock of sorts to push holbert over the edge. >> i pick up a stick, i figure if i sit there and snap it, it would ring in his mind, hey, im on the clock, the clock is ticking. i started snapping the twigs off it. finally i got to the last pieces off of it and he said something like, okay, im ready. >> ready to confess. finally after a year-long cat-and-mouse game holbert revealed to marshburn that...

Hours altogether. >> holbert was fully cooperative. didnt duck one question. >> if you knocked her down in the car, i need to know about that. >> no, i did not. >> not even touched her? >> no. >> so they let him go. if nick holbert was a suspect, he certainly wasnt acting like one. he joined search teams looking for kelli and even spoke on local tv expressing his concern. >> she seemed like a really nice and cool person, and i mean i hate that shes missing. >> but fayetteville police werent buyi...

It was weird. >> 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 number? >> yes. >> and? >> she gave it to him because he worked there. it is always good to have somebody that works at the bar as a friend. >> that friday the 13th when kelli decided to go back to the bar by herself, justin told detectives she wasnt really alone. he said she arranged...

You need to get me to where kelly is at. and hes standing there just looking straight down and it feels like he is imaging all of this stuff going on of what he knows. >> do you think hes finally going to reveal to you. >> this is it. >> this is it. i had chills. >> marshburn then applied one last bit of pressure. his own ticking clock of sorts to push him over the edge. >> so i pick up this stick and i figured if i snap it, that it would ring in his mind, im on a time limit, the clock is tickin...

Point but then he threw it back at me after looking at it for about five minutes and said no, theyll just take it back. >> marshburn thought that wasnt exactly the reaction of an incident man. no, he was fully convinced that nick holbert killed kelly but he needed him to reveal where he buried the body. >> i had to do some things and say some crap that i didnt believe but i had to do it to play the part. >> marshburn bought him countless meals, beers, even hired him to do odd jobs, slowly becomi...

>> everybody rise, please. >> just over a year later came a measure of justice. >> are you, in fact, guilty of each of these crimes? >> yes, sir. >> facing the possibility of the death penalty, nick holbert pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing kelli in exchange for a life sentence. >> i wanted my sister. i didnt want her body, i wanted her. and so, i was like, what happens to nicholas holbert isnt going to change what hes done, whether he says hes sorry or whether -- it doesnt matter. >> for...