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we are agonizing for these last two years. he was panicked, that turned into torment. i was concerned, she was hurt somewhere. i felt so helpless. >> kelly was always there for others. >> she liked to help people who needed help. >> there are, for her friends, for her country, -- >> this was a good fit for, her the army? >> she wanted to be an officer. >> her personal life was a little more complicated. d. >> were they talking divorce? >> kelli was. mike wasnt. >> had a new boyfriend. ...

was estranged from her husband. >> were they talking divorce? >> kelli was. mike wasnt. >> had a new boyfriend. >> she was pretty fun. shes easy to talk to. >> and lately, she seemed to have an admirer. >> did he ask kelli for her phone number? >> yes. >> when she suddenly vanished, hundreds joined the search, including this perfect stranger. >> i said, id like to see if i could solve this. >> he was suspicious about one of the men in kellis life. >> it is like, dude, i can tell youre ...

Provided answers about kelli who had now been missing some 18 months. by this point marshburn spent some $40,000 trying to crack holbert. and thousands of hours. he was losing hope and considered quitting or even trying something drastic. >> at times i wanted to just take nick and cut his fingers off and say, you tell me or im going to chop another one off. i wanted to torture him because i knew he knew. >> you really would have done that? >> oh, yeah. i hated him that bad, i despised him. >> ma...

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 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 ach...

Locked up on that parole violation. if holbert was happy, david marshburn 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 holbert was staying. >> idve never talked to a killer. have you? >> i work for "dateline. " >> oh, yeah. i take that back. >> what were you nervous about, that he would try to hurt you or just that the stakes are high here? >> sort of like a star struck, you know what i mean? youre like, wow,...

>> the da didnt have any evidence to arrest holbert for kellids disappearance, but he did discover holbert was violating the terms of his parole. >> he was a prior sex offender, and he was not registered properly and he was placed in jail. >> sex offender nicholas -- >> right where detectives wanted him. now they could watch holbert, see if he blabbed to a cell mate about what happened to kelli. they also questioned him twice, even took him back to froggy bottoms to jog his memory, but holbert s...

His concern. >> she seemed like a really nice and cool person, and i mean i hate that shes missing. >> but fayetteville police werent buying holberts story, and now he too was a person of interest along with kellids 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 alibi checked out. >> so now detectives and district attorney billy west zeroed in on the las...

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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 the detective was, changed the charges. he was being indicted and i got ceecee my paralegal person on the phone -- >> who is your wife? >> yeah, who is helping me. the plan was working good and he was worried. >> holbert took one look at the indictment papers and went into a panic. sensing nick was near his breaking point m...

And soon detective josh locklear was interrogating hoblert on camera. >> where do you want me to start from? 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 i just snapped and zone pd o ed out and hit her and knocked her out. >> hoblert said he took kelli to his camp site where she woke up and...