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>> do you think this case ever would have been solved without you? >> no. i dont think that nick would have ever told anyone unless they were his friend. but he did tell me. >> for the family of kelli bordeaux, the loss, the pain, the sorrow never goes away. but david marshburn at least gave them a chance to heal. >> he ended a suffering for my family. where were sitting here, agonizing for these last two years. he was the one who was able to come in and end this for us. and to make it to where ...

Had killed kelli, but he needed to get holbert to reveal where he buried her body. >> how can i be his friend? and i had to do some things, say some crap that i just didnt believe, but i had to do it to play the part. >> marshburn bought holbert countless meals, beers, even hired him to do odd jobs, slowly becoming a bff, or maybe a more of a fren-enemy. but marshburn said he paid a high price as he practically abandoned his wife and young son. >> i didnt do any family stuff. if we were eating s...

Marshburn. im a private investigainvestig. im here to try to find kelli bordeaux and i think you can help me. >> his strategy was simple, to get nick holbert to think he was an alibi. >> it was basically to say im an angel, let me help you. >> help him how, though? >> to get him to see the light. >> youre telling nick youre going to prove that he didnt have anything to do with the disappearance of kelli bordeaux. >> uh-huh. >> and he buys that? >> hook, line and sinker. >> so now the bounty hunt...

Would not believe, because we went two years nonstop, kelli, kelli, kelli, kelli. >> do you think this case ever would have been solved without you? >> no. i dont think that nick would have ever told anyone, unless they were his friend. but he did tell me. >> for the family of kelli bordeaux, the loss, the pain, the sorry never goes away. but david marshburn at least gave them a chance to heal. >> he ended a suffering for my family, where were sitting here agonizing for these last two years. he ...

Confessed so they took a ride to froggy bottoms back to where it all began. >> i said, look, nick, youre fixing to be indicted on this. they evidently got evidence. you need to tell me what happened. the middle youre probably not sure, its fuzzy, you got tunnel vision. the end is where we need to get to. thats where i need to be. you need to get me to where kelli is at. ill leave you right here and you think about it and ill wait as long as you need me to. he didnt say a word. nothing. >> this m...

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...

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 ...

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...

>> reporter: so paranoid that marshburn tried, yet another trick to push holbert to give it up. he had his wife pose as a paralegal and draw up 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 cici, my paralegal person on the phone. >> who is your wife? >> yeah, whos helping me. the plan was working good. and he was worried. >> reporter: holbert took one look at the i...