- Fort bragg army medic kelli bordeaux
Is as ambitious as she is dedicated.
- She was just committed to excellence.
- So, when she vanishes after a night out off base,
Military immediately enlists local police.
- A 23-year-old soldier just disappeared
Off the face of the earth.
- Being a soldier, to kelli, is something
She wouldn't jeopardize for anything.
- We have no crime scene,
No dna evidence, no body.
- We were very concerned that someone had taken her.
- Just let her come home to her family.
- A southern military town unites to search.
- I was amazed at how many people showed up.
- And while police zero in on suspects...
- A rookie pi goes rogue to find her.
- I just knew that I could solve this case.
And if I didn't, it would never get solved.
[dog barks]
["just another ghost"]
♪ ♪
- ♪ oh, child ♪
♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
[banjo music]
- Fayetteville, north carolina--
It doesn't get more american than a city
Named after revolutionary war hero marquis de lafayette.
And down south, where bigger is always better,
Fayetteville is the proud home to fort bragg,
The largest military base in the world.
You'd think this is the safest place on earth.
- This is little america over here.
Everybody's either in the military
Or has been in the military
And feels very strongly about their love for the country.
- Fort bragg is home to about 50,000 soldiers.
It's a hard-core community.
You've got the 82nd airborne division.
You got special forces.
You've got psyops operations there.
Everybody is a type-a type personality.
- It's the absence of one of the most duty-bound
Of these type-a soldiers that grabs everyone's attention.
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- On Monday, April 16, 2012,
23-year-old private first class kelli bordeaux
Didn't show up for formation.
- Formation started at 6:30 in the morning,
And we were getting ready to conduct physical training.
And kelli wasn't there.
- We knew immediately that something was very wrong.
She'd never been late before.
- When we conducted our physical training
And people started coming up to me from her platoon
Asking if I've heard from her...
We started calling kelli...
And it would just ring and ring.
Close friends of kelli that were close friends
With her husband, mike,
They did reach out to him.
- 25-year-old mike bordeaux,
Kelli's husband of almost two years,
Is stunned by the call.
- He was visiting his family in florida,
And the last time he had spoke to her was on Friday.
- Busy with family obligations,
Mike didn't think anything about their lack
Of communication the rest of the weekend,
Until he got that call on Monday.
- He was really concerned
Because she would not not show up to work.
- Agents from
The army criminal investigation division
Now get involved and head to the nearby apartment complex
Where she and her husband, mike, live.
Kelli's car is in the parking lot,
But no one answers the door.
- She wasn't home.
We tried not to panic and worry,
But it was starting to set in that something was wrong.
- Military authorities contact fayetteville pd.
- We always have to take missing persons seriously,
And the information that they had immediately indicated
That something fishy was up.
- A 23-year-old soldier just disappeared
Off the face of the earth.
That was very concerning to us.
My suspicion is that someone had taken her,
Kidnapped her, abducted her.
So we definitely had a sense of urgency
To find kelli.
- Police immediately get kelli's husband, mike,
On the phone.
- Anytime a married person goes missing,
Obviously, the other half of that marriage
Is suspect number one.
- Mike seemed to be genuinely concerned.
He said that he loved kelli
And that that was the love of his life.
And he was very distraught
Over the fact that she was missing.
- Mike tells investigators
He's coming back to fayetteville
And gives them permission to search their apartment
In the meantime.
- Fayetteville police went to the apartment.
There was nothing out of the ordinary.
It did not look like there had been a breaking-and-entering.
It didn't look like there had been
Any type of struggle or fight.
However, her id, her phone,
Her personal effects like that were not there.
- With no crime scene or evidence at the apartment,
Investigators subpoena kelli's bank accounts
And cell phone records.
- We wanted to know who she was communicating with.
And, most importantly, any interaction with that phone,
It's going to be pinging off a tower.
We really needed to find out
Where kelli's phone's last ping was.
- As they wait on the records,
Fayetteville pd attempt to piece together a timeline.
- We quickly find out through friends nobody's heard
From kelli in two days now.
- The last time kelli was seen was Friday.
No one had seen her that entire weekend.
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- As they continue probing friends for information,
A vivid picture of kelli bordeaux
Begins to emerge.
- Kelli bordeaux was a 23-year-old soldier,
A bright, attractive young lady
From the st. Cloud, florida, area.
- Her goal was to become a medical officer in the army.
- She was just very passionate about helping people.
And, frankly, she had a knack for it.
She had a knack for everything that she tried.
- She ran circles around me and most of the people in our unit.
She was always up to a challenge.
There was nothing that she wouldn't try.
[martial music]
- From everything that we heard,
She is not the type of person
That would just fall off the grid like this.
Something happened to kelli.
[dramatic music]
- With time of the essence, investigators work fast
And soon uncover
Their first significant discovery in the case.
- As we talk to family and friends and other folks,
Another thing we learned--
That the relationship was not good
At the time kelli went missing.
Mike and kelli were on the outs.
- I was aware the relationship was on the rocks.
There was obviously a lot of gossip about that.
Like, did he do something crazy because he was upset
That they were breaking up?
♪ ♪
- The following day, mike arrives in fayetteville,
And investigators immediately bring him in for questioning.
- Initially, mike did not tell us the whole story,
But then he began to tell us more.
- Mike said he came with her
When she was assigned to fort bragg.
- When I first met mike and kelli, they were happy.
I never saw them fighting or anything.
- Mike was crazy about my friend.
- But behind the scenes, as kelli was thriving,
Mike was struggling to find work
And fit into this new environment.
- It took a toll on them.
And you have to remember,
They were married at a fairly young age.
- She's this young, vibrant woman
Who's starting out her military career at fort bragg.
Soon thereafter, she decided, we need some time apart,
And mike goes back to florida.
- Though mike had originally said
He was just visiting family in florida,
They learned he'd actually been living there
For a few months.
- There was no plan to get back together.
Mike was upset,
But kelli had been very clear about that.
He says he was in st. Cloud,
But st. Cloud is probably
Eight-, nine-hour drive up I-95.
So there's certainly the possibility
That he could have drove to the fayetteville area,
Did something to kelli, and returned back.
We really needed to talk to people in st. Cloud
And confirm his alibi.
- At the same time, investigators
Sit down with kelli's sister olivia,
Who also came up with mike to help.
- They were very close.
And she told us that on that Friday night,
Kelli had actually snapped a selfie of herself
And sent it to olivia,
As kelli was headed out to a bar.
So we want to find out, where was she going that night,
Who was she with, and when people saw her last.
- But before they can dive into this pivotal stage
Of the investigation,
Olivia drops a bombshell.
- She told us that kelli was dating someone.
He was a high-school friend that kelli knew
From the st. Cloud area,
But he had been to visit kelli in fayetteville
The weekend prior.
- And with this love-triangle revelation,
Investigators now have a possible motive.
- That certainly piqued our interest--
The fact that she was married, but now we have a boyfriend.
♪ ♪
- Coming up...
- Where is she? That's just the gnawing question.
Like, where is she?
- He did a tv interview with a local tv station
Where he talked about what happened that night.
- I saw his interview.
I watched his movement, his mannerisms.
He knew where she was.
♪ ♪
- ♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
- ♪ judgment day shall come ♪
[dramatic music]
- After discovering
That missing army medic kelli bordeaux recently split
From her husband, mike,
Investigators sat down with her sister olivia
And got another game-changing revelation.
- There's a new guy in the picture.
She was seeing someone from her hometown.
- We reach out to justin thompson,
The boyfriend.
He was in florida.
He was very concerned that kelli was missing.
That Friday night, he was at a concert
Back in the st. Cloud area with friends.
He told us they were texting back and forth
About what she was up to in real time that evening.
She was at a bar called froggy bottoms,
Socializing with a fellow by the name of nick holbert.
- Justin tells investigators that he'd been in fayetteville
The prior weekend
And that's when nick entered their lives.
- Justin came up to visit kelli,
And they met nick at froggy bottoms.
Nick was bragging about, oh, he was an mma fighter.
He was this, he was that.
And justin didn't get the warm and fuzzy
About nick.
- When kelli walks into a room, she will make friends
With everybody and anybody.
- Justin felt that nick
Was being a little too friendly with kelli.
They were exchanging numbers and that sort of thing.
- According to justin, on the night she disappeared,
Kelli had texted him that nick was driving her home.
- She sent a text message
At 12:46 a.M. Going home.
- There was also another one at 1:24 a.M.
That said, I'm drunk.
I'm going to bed.
- There's approximately
A 45-minute gap between the text saying,
Nick's about to take me home,
To, I'm drunk, getting in bed.
But froggy bottoms was only a half a mile
Away from where kelli lived.
- 45 minutes instead of a quick 5
Is right troublesome.
But it's not just the timing
That makes justin think something is afoot.
- Everyone sort of has a way in which they text.
He said that last text did not sound like her.
- And that's the last time that justin hears from kelli.
- He told us that he had tried to reach out to law enforcement
On Saturday to say, you know, I haven't heard from her,
And this is unusual.
- While he may have put in a call,
That only heightens investigators' consideration
Of justin's motives.
- Was he contacting law enforcement
Because he was somehow involved,
Or was he genuinely concerned?
♪ ♪
We definitely wanted to confirm his alibi,
Dig a little deeper into his story.
- With precious hours slipping away on finding kelli,
Justin heads to north carolina.
And as they wait for him to arrive,
Investigators set out to speak with nick holbert,
Who appears to be the last person
To have seen kelli bordeaux.
- We head out to froggy bottoms.
[rock music]
- It was a popular watering hole
Of some of the local soldiers.
- No bad reputation, just a bar.
And it just happened to be about a half a mile
Away from where kelli lived.
- They talked to the bar owner.
What we found out is that nick actually worked
There at the bar as a barback.
And he was with kelli that night.
He was, you know, playing pool with her.
- The owner directs them to where they can find nick,
And they don't need to go far.
- Holbert was living in a wooded area behind the bar.
- Nick was basically homeless.
He used his car and what's known as a lean-to,
Which is like a tarp or a poncho
That is used to give yourself some cover for the rain.
- Investigators locate nick,
And he agrees to come with them to the station.
- Nick told us the two of them talked on Friday afternoon,
And he offered to pick her up and drop her off.
She knew that she'd be drinking some.
It didn't seem incredibly unusual for young people.
- Over the next two hours, investigators press nick hard.
- And then about almost 1:00 in the morning,
He says he took kelli home,
Dropped her off at the front gate.
- He says, I took her home.
But there was no sign
Of anybody ever being in that apartment that night.
- ♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
- ♪ judgment day shall come ♪
- Police are wrapping up their interrogation
Of 25-year-old barback nick holbert...
- Who claims to have dropped kelli bordeaux
Around 1:00 a.M.
At the entrance of her apartment complex.
- As an investigator, you want to lock
The person in to their story.
He says, I took her home.
So now we go out and set about to either prove
Or disprove what is said.
- Kelli's apartment complex had no surveillance
Of her apartment parking lot or that sort of thing.
There was no cameras, no video from inside the bar
Or outside the bar either.
So we couldn't confirm or deny
What we were hearing about that night.
- They search nick's car, take pictures of it.
- It was very disheveled, dirty,
You know, lots of food wrappers,
Blankets, that sort of thing,
But no evidence of any foul play.
- As investigators quietly continue looking into nick,
The story of the beautiful missing army medic
Reverberates around the nation.
- Local media,
National media is picking the story up.
- Missing female soldier who police believe
May be in danger.
- She was last seen April 14th leaving a local bar.
- Anyone with information is asked to call crime stoppers.
- As each hour passes,
The likelihood of finding kelli alive dwindles.
- There was a lot of external interest
And pressure at this point,
But, really, what we wanted to do
Was bring kelli home safe.
- And when kelli's cell phone records come in,
Investigators have a starting point on where to look.
- Her last cell phone ping
Is hitting off a tower in the froggy bottom zone.
- The area of the cell phone tower,
The bar, and her apartment are very close together.
I mean, you're talking about probably a mile radius.
But there is a lot of wooded areas
Within that mile or 2-mile radius.
So searches for her began in that area.
- We all mobilized right in front of froggy bottoms.
- Guys, we appreciate everybody coming out.
- Perhaps she was injured.
Perhaps there was still a chance in locating her.
- I was amazed at how many people showed up.
- Literally, hundreds of people.
- And, well, I'll be,
Wouldn't you know who else is out there fixing to find her.
- Mike bordeaux, justin thompson,
And nick holbert all were participating in the searches.
They were not acting like anyone
That had anything to do with kelli meeting with foul play.
- Me and her loved each other very much.
And I just appreciate everyone out here.
- Both mike and justin
Had had a romantic relationship with kelli,
So they were certainly
The main persons of interest at this time.
[dramatic music]
- We were looking in ditches.
We were looking in really rough brush...
A lot of uneven terrain.
We were so focused on finding her somewhere,
Someplace...
That she was alive.
♪ ♪
- Despite the search efforts, nothing--
Absolutely nothing.
- Where is she? That's just the gnawing question.
Like, where is she?
♪ ♪
- With news cameras now embedded in town,
Family and friends make impassioned appearances,
Pleading for kelli's safe return.
- Just let her come home to her family.
- [crying] please just return my sister.
♪ ♪
- Even nick holbert did a tv interview
With a local tv station.
- It's that very news piece that catches the eye
Of a local man named david marshburn.
- I heard the talk about a missing soldier,
And I stopped what I was doing.
I have a military background.
And what got my attention was, she was a soldier.
That's it.
When you're in the military, all you see is green.
♪ ♪
- But david marshburn isn't just former military.
He'd recently gotten his private investigator license.
And before that, he'd spent years tracking down fugitives
Who jumped bail.
- I hunted a lot of people down,
Did a lot of investigation.
- David's experience as a bounty hunter
Has made him a self-proclaimed human lie detector.
And as he watches the news segment,
His intuition kicks into high gear.
- I saw nick holbert doing his interview.
And I was reading him like I do when I play poker,
I'm looking at everything.
I do read the eyes.
When your eyes dilate, that means you're lying.
♪ ♪
I watched his movement,
His mannerisms,
And it all screamed...
I did it. I did it.
- ♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
- ♪ judgment day shall come ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- After seeing nick holbert's mannerisms
During a news interview,
Former bounty hunter david marshburn is convinced
He's guilty as sin.
- I had no connection whatsoever to kelli,
But she was a military soldier that was in need,
And you can't ignore that.
I had well over 3,000-something hours in hunting people down.
And I'd just got my private investigator license.
It's sort of like, things are aligning.
- David marshburn makes a snap decision.
This will be his very first case
As a private investigator.
But first, marshburn reaches out to fayetteville pd
To let them know he's gearing up
To do his own investigation.
- There were concerns when I heard about david marshburn.
I remember talking to the detectives about that,
And they assured me that he was not working for them.
He was just doing this on his own.
- Legally, mr. Marshburn was not acting
On behalf of the district attorney's office
Or the fayetteville police.
- The way they explain it is, you do your investigation,
And we'll do our investigation.
But if you have information you want to give us, we'll take it.
- On his own time and dime,
David begins trying to find kelli bordeaux.
- I took news articles,
Took what law enforcement was saying on the news,
And I started researching.
I just felt inside of me that I could solve this case.
- Meanwhile, fayetteville pd are fixing to do the same,
As they continue to dig in on kelli's love triangle.
- We really had three persons of interest
In the disappearance of kelli bordeaux.
With three, obviously, it makes it a lot more difficult.
- With multiple teams of investigators working
As quickly as possible,
The detectives dispatched the day before to florida
To check the alibis of mike and justin report back.
- Detectives were able to confirm the alibis
Of justin thompson and mike bordeaux.
So now we have the husband eliminated,
The boyfriend eliminated,
And we're left with nick holbert.
- With their focus now squarely on nick,
Investigators conduct a background check,
And the findings are jaw-dropping.
- Law enforcement were able to identify him,
That he was on our sex-offender registry list.
What we discovered was he had inappropriate sexual conduct
With a five-year-old child.
He pled guilty and had spent six years in prison.
An alarm bell went off when we saw this.
- This convicted sexual offender
Is the last person
Who sees this young, beautiful girl alive.
We can't get past that.
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- All of this was very concerning.
It certainly encouraged us
To find out even more about nick holbert.
- And as they did,
They uncover an unexpected revelation.
- He was violating his parole.
He was supposed to report where he's living.
He had it listed as this relative's house.
It wasn't listed as living in the woods
Behind froggy bottoms.
- And they use that to their advantage.
- He was arrested for parole violation
And sent back to prison.
- The judge sentenced him to approximately a year
For the sex-offender-registry violation.
And now we knew exactly where he was, what he was doing.
He could not flee the state or the country
Or anything like that.
- Nicholas holbert, the bar hand--
- I heard it on the news that nick holbert was arrested.
So, while he's in there,
I try and get into his life.
I go to froggy bottoms, and I go back to the area
Where he's got his "setup camp,"
His home, if you will.
Kaz came along, my cadaver dog.
We were searching in the woods.
It doesn't stop just because he's arrested.
♪ ♪
- But weeks roll into months,
And neither pi mashburn nor fayetteville pd
Have uncovered any concrete evidence
Tying nick to kelli's disappearance.
- The investigation stalled.
- It just seemed to get colder and colder.
Even with him going to jail...
Why weren't we getting any more answers?
Why isn't anybody finding kelli?
Our army family fell apart.
You can't get back to normal...
Not with that.
♪ ♪
- In may of 2013,
Just over a year after kelli's disappearance,
Nick is released from prison.
- He continued to reside here in the fayetteville area.
We were keeping close tabs on him.
- For pi marshburn, who's been devising a plan
Hinging on nick's release, it's go time.
- My plan was to start talking to nick and befriend him,
Get him to trust me, get him to talk.
Within a couple of days after he's released,
I find out where he's living, and I go to his door.
♪ ♪
I knock on the door, and I say, hey, nick.
I'm david marshburn.
I'm a private investigator
Working on the kelli bordeaux case.
And I don't think you had anything to do with it,
But the last one to see her.
I need your help.
- ♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
- ♪ judgment day shall come ♪
[crow cawing]
- With nick holbert out of prison,
Private investigator david marshburn
Pays him a visit to enact phase one of his plan,
By asking for nick's help to solve the kelli bordeaux case.
- His reaction was, okay, no problem.
I start talking to nick and befriend him,
Lay a foundation.
Like, the first thing is, you have nothing to do with it.
I'm not looking at you. I'm on your side.
- We don't have the capability to keep nicholas holbert
Under surveillance 24-7.
Got other cases going on, manpower.
Mr. Marshburn kind of does that for us
By developing a relationship with him.
- But it's not just friendship that marshburn offers.
- I give him work.
He would do odd jobs for me--
Landscaping, get the office to look good.
- Working for pi marshburn
Helps him get back on his feet,
But nick soon admits to his newfound benefactor
That it's not enough.
- Nick was worried that he was going back to jail
Because he needed to pay his probation off.
So I went to the bank and paid his probation off.
I think it was around $1,000.
You're my friend. I'm going to help you out.
Money makes people trust everybody.
- Over the next few months,
Nick gets increasingly comfortable
With david's generosity.
- In the middle of the night, he'll call me up
And say, david, I'm out of cigarettes.
I'm hungry. I need a pizza.
I have to get up, go all the way to fayetteville,
Give him money, and then come all the way back home.
It's roughly an hour and ten minutes there
And an hour and ten minutes back.
Money wasn't ever an issue between me and my wife.
It was time I was spending on a case
Versus spending with my family.
- David's vigilance starts to pay off.
Within a few months,
Nick begins to confide in his new friend.
- Nick told me he was worried
Law enforcement was watching him.
He's a very nervous guy.
- Pi marshburn immediately uses that disclosure
To his advantage.
- I need to set that up
To make it look like he's being watched.
That works on someone's mind.
It just wears them down.
I had a friend of mine who had a law enforcement car
Volunteering to sit outside of nick's house
So it would look like--
That law enforcement was watching him.
- Nick's paranoia grows
And pi marshburn sets the next part of his plan into motion.
- One morning, I woke up,
And I said, it's going to be today.
I got a plan, and maybe this will work.
The plan was to pick nick up for work.
We were going to go back to my office in harnett county.
He was going to do some landscaping.
Kaz came along, my cadaver dog.
- Marshburn enlists his buddy
With the undercover-looking cop car
To help him with phase two of the plan.
He has him stationed outside of nick's house.
- Nick gets in the car, and I happen to mention,
Are they still watching you?
He said, yeah. Look straight ahead.
And that's where my buddy was.
So we get to the stoplight.
I said, okay, I'm going to lose him right here.
[engine revs, tires squealing]
I just cut off another car and just went left
And acted like I lost him.
- With nick on edge, it's time for phase three.
As they're driving,
David gets a private call about the kelli bordeaux case
From cece, the paralegal in his office.
Only, david doesn't actually have a paralegal
In his office.
- I had to get my wife involved.
And she plays the role of cece.
- The entire call is scripted for nick to overhear.
- She said, yeah, he's being indicted.
She goes through the motions of what we had talked about.
- Nick is chomping at the bit to find out what's going on.
And when pi marshburn hangs up,
He relays to him the fake intel.
- Hey, dude, they're fixing to indict you.
That means they're going in front of a jury and saying,
Hey, all this circumstantial evidence
Leads to believe that you're guilty of this,
So they're going to put you back in jail.
And now he's upset. He's chewing his fingernails.
- I did not know about any type of fake indictments
Or the specific tactics that david marshburn was using.
I was just aware that he was developing a close relationship
With holbert in hopes that holbert would tell him
What happened to kelli.
- Up to this point, david has reassured nick
That he fully believes nick had nothing to do
With kelli's disappearance.
Now he offers him an alternative explanation.
- I said maybe you did do it, and you don't remember.
Maybe you blacked out.
So I said, what we're going to do,
We're going to go back to froggy bottoms
Where this all started, and maybe that'll give you
Some help in remembering what went on.
We pull into froggy bottoms...
And I follow him.
Nick is pretending to act as if he's trying to remember.
[dramatic music]
I put my hand on his shoulder.
I said, did you do something to kelli?
♪ ♪
He said, I killed her.
♪ ♪
We sat there for a few more minutes,
And I said, do you remember where you put her?
He said, yeah, yeah, I buried her.
I'm just pumped up, going off of adrenaline.
This was what we had been working two years for.
We're going to get her dead body.
We're going to recover kelli bordeaux.
♪ ♪
- Pi marshburn follows nick
A good two miles from froggy bottoms.
- When we get there, nick tells us,
She's down the path.
This path is, like, a mile long in the woods.
I'm asking him, is there a tree?
Is there any landmark?
He said he couldn't remember.
- The men search for hours.
- Nick is out there actually sweating
And working hard at it.
And I think he's thinking,
If I help find her, I get a break,
Or I get to see what it looks like before I go to jail.
I don't know what's going through his mind.
♪ ♪
- Taking a break for the darkness and some rest,
The two resume as the sun rises.
And soon kaz, the cadaver dog, circles a new area.
- I started digging.
And the first thing I hit was a jacket...
Like, this big old fluffy jacket.
Nick said, yeah, it's my jacket that I had that night.
I covered her after I put her down in the hole.
And I grab it, and I pull it back.
And when I pull it back, there she is.
We found her. We found kelli.
- ♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
- ♪ judgment day shall come ♪
[dramatic music]
- A year after befriending nick holbert,
Pi david marshburn finally convinced him
To confess and take him to the remains of kelli bordeaux.
- I was excited and sad at the same time.
You go high, low, high, low,
And it's just a weird feeling.
- Marshburn calls the police,
Saying, I'm at the gravesite.
- They told me to stop digging and wait for us.
- Oh, my god, do we have the break
We've been waiting for for two years?
[dog barks]
- Nick was shaking. He was shaking like a leaf.
He knew he was done.
But I said, "it's going to be all right, man.
We'll get through this," to try and help him
Because I wanted him to be calm.
So we waited on law enforcement,
And that's when I talked to him about what happened that night.
I think he was relieved
That he was finally getting it off his chest.
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- When we get there...
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I could see nicholas.
He just looks kind of wore out, defeated,
That this has been wearing on him,
And it's over now.
- What holbert says in his confession is that,
At some point, someone at the bar
Told kelli about his sex offense.
- They get out in the parking lot,
And there's an exchange.
[muffled shouting]
- According to nick,
I asked her if we're going back to her apartment.
She called me names.
- He admitted that he had taken her cell phone
And sent that last text to justin.
- He said she started coming back
And started screaming.
- And he beats her to death.
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- In nick's confession,
You know, he kind of glosses over and just says,
You know, I hit her until she, you know, wasn't alive anymore.
But we had skull fractures.
The jaw was dislocated, teeth missing.
So it was a very violent attack.
- With a full confession,
Nick is hauled off to the station.
- Nicholas was charged with first-degree murder,
First-degree kidnapping of kelli bordeaux.
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[birds chirping]
[car engine whirring]
- I get pulled into the commander's little office.
And first sergeant looked at me.
They said they found her.
They found her remains.
And I just fell.
I just became weightless,
And I fell.
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- My blood run cold
Because you spend so much time not knowing
And fostering a little bit of hope.
And then all of a sudden, that hope is gone.
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- After lengthy discussions with kelli's family,
District attorney billy west offers nick a deal.
- You plead guilty,
You could spend the rest of your life in prison, no parole.
You don't do that, we'll go for the death penalty.
So nick, of course, chose the deal.
- It took over two years,
But justice is finally served,
As nick holbert will pay for his sins
For the rest of his life.
- We were able to get some measure of justice.
David marshburn didn't stop until we got that.
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- A few weeks later,
Her loved ones unite to mourn and honor kelli.
- I spoke at her memorial.
I wanted everybody in that room to know who kelli was
And how special she was.
- It was beautiful.
I met the family for the first time,
And the mother wanted to give me something.
She gave me the dog tags of kelli, which means a lot.
I keep them hung up on the wall behind my desk.
I'll never part with them.
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- Kelli was a force to be reckoned with.
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- It's a privilege to have been her friend.
The world is a sadder place with her gone.
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