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Suddenly quite little fayetteville was ground zero for a massive search for a missing army medic. >> detectives say information in this case keeps pointing them to look in this area near where she was last seen. >> kelly bordeaux had been missing some 72 hours. the chances of finding her were growing slimmer by the day. >> investigators have combed through every area in fayetteville as well as cumberland county. >> 600 moiles away in florida, kellys boyfriend was talking to detectives telling th...

>> she was in the military. you dont hlet them disappear. she was a young female, thats not right. >> hes a bounty hunter and private investigator. his specialty, finding people, dead or alive. >> i knew she wasnt alive. she just needed to be found. >> remember that tv interview nick holbert did? he saw it too. >> when im watching him im like dude i can tell youre lying. he did it. he knows where she is at. he killed her. >> and marshburn was also convinced he could find kelly bordeaux. operatin...

So, next day comes, we go pick him up, and hes real quiet. >> he, of course, was nick holbert, who was now back in the forest outside fayetteville. it was may 14th, 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 looked over to my left and theres ...

Marshburn, im a private investigator. im here to try to find kelly bordeaux and i think you can help him. >> his strategy was simple. trick holbert into thinking he was an ally. basically telling him im your angel. im your help. let me help you. >> help him how, though? >> for people to see the light that he was not guilty. >> and he buys that. >> hook, line, and sinker. >> so now, the bounty hunter and the prime suspect talked. over the next few months, marshburn gradually started to win holber...

For months. but no trace of kelly. >> i got really frustrated and disappointed and im at my wits end. >> then came an unlikely break. in may 2013, nick holbert was released from jail after being locked up on the parole violation. if he was happy, david was thrilled because now he could deal with him face to face. so just a day after his release marshburn pulled up to the house where he was staying. >> i have never talked to a killer, have you? >> i work on dateline. >> i take that back. >> what ...

He saw them right out of the gate and come outside and got paranoid. >> so paranoid that marshburn tried another trick to push him to give it up. he had his wife pose as a paralegal and draw up phony inindictment papers charging him with kellys murder. >> i changed who the detective was and changed the charges. he was being indicted and i got cece my pair legal person on the phone. >> who is your wife. >> who is helping me. the plan was working good and he was worried. >> holbert took one look a...

Things were about to change up in fayetteville the private investigator david marshburn confronted nick holbert. he was working practically 24/7 to get a confession, chasing every clue he dropped. >> wed go talk to him and then go out and try to figure it out. we knew we were going on wild goose chases. we had to do it. what else you got? >> marsh burn needed to turn up the heat on holbert and had an idea. >> he was always worried. >> that was his achilles heel. >> so i knew that was a weakness....

Bar where she texted justin throughout the night and then there was that last rather odd text he received. he was sure she had something to do with his disappearance. >> she went out with this kid and was supposed to come home and didnt come home with that kid. >> detectives went to froggy bottoms and he was down on his luck living in the woods behind the bar. they searched his camp site and his car. not one clue. holbert agreed to an interview at the police station where he told detectives he p...

>> so they let him go. >> if nick was a suspect, he certainly wasnt acting like one. he joined search teams looking for kelly and spoke on local tv expressing his concern. >> i hate that shes missing. >> but fayetteville police werent buying his story and now he too was a person of interest along with kellys husband mike bordeaux. remember, mike said he was home in florida when she went missing which detectives needed to confirm. >> family put him there friday night friends put him there. his al...

Straight to him and do what i had to do and come back. >> were you obsessed? >> i dont stop until i get them. >> isnt that obsessed? >> i dont know, dedicated. >> but he still wasnt providing any answers about kelly that had been missing some 18 months. by this time, marshburn spent thousands of hours and some $40,000 trying to crack holbert. he was losing hope and considering quitting or even trying something drastic. >> at times i wanted to just take nick and cut his fingers off and say you te...