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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 didn't want her body, i wanted her. so i was like, what happens to nicholas holbert isn't going to change what he's done, whether he says he's sorry, whether -- it doesn't matter. >> for david marshburn, his remarkable work was d...

Abandoned his wife and young son. >> i didn't 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 don't give up. i wanted to be the one to find the answer. marcia, my partner, she's the same way. we don't stop until we get results. >> but holbert still wasn't providing any answers about kelli, who had now been missing some 18 months. by this time, marshburn had spent thousands of hours and some $40,000 trying to crack holbert. he was losin...

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 couldn't remember exactly where he had buried kelli's body and went off searching in a different direction. >> we're standing there, i'm like, darn it! i cannot figure this out! and all of a sudden, i look over and there's some clearing over here and there's the sun coming down. >> then, in that very same spot, he seemed to pick up a scent. >> all of a sudden he starts crawling...

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 it's 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. >> he's trained on track and trail, whatevermarshburn, marci and kaz slogged through fields, forest, thousands of acres and searched for months. but no trace of kelli. >> do you ever lose hope? >> oh, yeah. i got really frustrated an...

>> 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, i'm 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, i'm ready. >> ready to confess. finally after a year-long cat-and-mouse game holbert revealed to marshburn that he killed kelli bordeaux. they got back in the van and holbert directed marshburn to a remote are...