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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 site, where she woke up and started screaming. >> and i hit her again, knocked her out again. and i mea...

>> you caught him in lies but you couldn't 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 didn't. >> i don't know. i felt like i didn't sleep for a couple of weeks. it was 24/7 thinking about what happened, what happened, what happened. >> detectives and the da seemed so close to an answer. they even had their prime suspect in custody, but weeks passed, months. ...

>> 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, kelli's boyfriend justin thompson was talking to detectives, telling them he was home the weekend kelli disappeared. >> he was not where he said. we checked his phone. everything checked out with justin. >> justin told detectives som...

Adamant about it. i'm 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 clue. holbert also agreed to an interview at the police station where he told detectives, yes, he ...

Enlisting a friend who owned a vehicle that looked like an unmarked police car. he had him park near holbert's 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 kelli's murder. >> i took one of his old charges, changed who the detective was, changed the charges. he was being indicted and i got cc, my paralegal person o...