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Hours altogether. >> holbert was fully cooperative. didn't duck one question. >> if you knocked her down in the car, i need to know about that. >> no, i did not. >> not even touched her? >> no. >> so they let him go. if nick holbert was a suspect, he certainly wasn't acting like one. he joined search teams looking for kelli and even spoke on local tv expressing his concern. >> she seemed like a really nice and cool person, and i mean i hate that she's missing. >> but fayetteville police weren't buying holbert's story, and now he too was a person of interest along with kelli's husband, mike bor...

It was weird. >> kelli being kelli asked holbert if he wanted to join them for a game of pool. holbert hung out with them until justin and kelli decided to head home for the night. >> did he ask kelli for her phone number? >> yes. >> and? >> she gave it to him because he worked there. it is always good to have somebody that works at the bar as a friend. >> that friday the 13th when kelli decided to go back to the bar by herself, justin told detectives she wasn't really alone. he said she arranged to get a ride from nick holbert. >> i just said this guy, watch out, be careful around him. told h...

You need to get me to where kelly is at. and he's standing there just looking straight down and it feels like he is imaging all of this stuff going on of what he knows. >> do you think he's finally going to reveal to you. >> this is it. >> this is it. i had chills. >> marshburn then applied one last bit of pressure. his own ticking clock of sorts to push him over the edge. >> so i pick up this stick and i figured if i snap it, that it would ring in his mind, i'm on a time limit, the clock is ticking, i start snapping the twinges off of it and finally i got to the last little piece off of it an...

Point but then he threw it back at me after looking at it for about five minutes and said no, they'll just take it back. >> marshburn thought that wasn't exactly the reaction of an incident man. no, he was fully convinced that nick holbert killed kelly but he needed him to reveal where he buried the body. >> i had to do some things and say some crap that i didn't believe but i had to do it to play the part. >> marshburn bought him countless meals, beers, even hired him to do odd jobs, slowly becoming a bff or maybe more of a frenemy but he paid a high price as he practically abandoned his wife...

>> 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 wanted my sister. i didn't want her body, i wanted her. and so, i was like, what happens to nicholas holbert isn't going to change what he's done, whether he says he's sorry or whether -- it doesn't matter. >> for david marshburn, his remarkable work was done. case closed. justice served. kelli bordeaux was...