I said 'You better bring your pepper-spray.'" Private investigator David Marshburn, who conducted his own investigation of the Kelli Bordeaux case, says Nick considered their night at Froggy Bottoms a date -- but Kelli didn't. Just being friendly." Kelli would leave Froggy Bottoms with nick some time after midnight. "Her bar tab wasn't enough to make somebody dizzy." Nick would later tell cops that he'd dropped Kelli off near her apartment. Justin Thompson did call her, constantly, all weekend, to no avail. Among the search volunteers, Nick Holbert and Kelli's estranged hubby Michael Bordeaux, who, along with her boyfriend Justin, were the cops' main persons of interest.

And boyfriend Justin received a text from Kelli's cellphone later that night reading "Got home safe ... Call me tomorrow." "It was so weird because the text message before that was, 'Hey, call me. And because Nick was the last known person to see Kelli before she vanished, he was immediately under heavy suspicion.

David Marshburn, a private investigator who conducted his own investigation into Kelli's April 2012 disappearance, says the stress of adjusting to a new life in another state put their marriage under pressure, with Mike unable to find a job, and drinking heavily.

"She just had enough of him, from what I understand," said David Marshburn.

The mystery was all the more compelling in that Kelli was hardly your profile soldier.

She was a former high school cheerleader and beauty queen whose good looks had always made her a magnet for male suitors.

But the private life of Private First Class Kelli Bordeaux was about to get complicated.Kelli was never seen again after leaving later that night with Nick Holbert. Kelli Bordeaux disappeared, she was excited about going out to have some fun after another hard week at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N. Kelli wouldn't drink and drive, so her new acquaintance Nicholas Holbert had given her a ride to Froggy Bottoms, where he worked as a general helper.Kelli had even told boyfriend Justin Thompson, who was living in Florida, that Nick was taking her to the bar. And he knew immediately," said Kelli's sister Olivia."Nick gave her his telephone number and tried to befriend her," said David Marshburn. "Nick offered to bring her back out there and she accepted," said Marshburn.She returned to Froggy Bottoms with him the following Friday night.But it seemed like everyone in Fayetteville had their own idea of who might have had something to do with Kelli's disappearance."The police department's number one person of interest, and I do know this for a fact, was the husband, not Nick," said Marshburn. Kelli Bordeaux had been keeping an intimate and perilous secret.Her husband of less than two years, Mike Bordeaux, had moved with her from St.Cloud, Florida, and the couple settled into an off-base apartment together.Police still couldn't link Nick to Kelli's disappearance, but they did manage to put him behind bars for a year for failing to register as a sex offender in Fayetteville. And when he answered the door, I said 'Nick, I'm David Marshburn. By the end of that you did it stage, i was accusing him of doing it and he won't deny it" Marshburn would start by literally buying Nick's friendship and trust. "He needed money, and if I gave him money, he would keep wanting to see me, whether I talked to him about Kelli or not."So while he was in jail, the only thing I could do is go to areas where Nick had been, and I wound up working hundreds of hours searching woods, searching ponds, searching you know lakes, everything," said Marshburn. There were times when I would be at dinner with my family and he would call and said 'I don't have anything. I need to eat.' And I would drop what I was doing, leave my family and go an hour away just to give him money." But months would go by without a frustrated Marshburn getting any information out of Nick about Kelli's disappearance.Holbert was pleading with the public for information on her whereabouts while he was out looking for her with hundreds of other searchers. And then police discovered Nick Holbert was a convicted sex offender who had sexually assaulted and beaten a 5-year-old girl when he was 16. I don't believe you done it.'" "I told him right out of the gate."And I told my wife, I said, 'Look, he's lying,'" said Marshburn. Marshburn says Nick Holbert was a predator around females of any age. 'But I believe you can help me to clear your name so we can find her,'" Marshburn said. You didn't have nothing to do with it, you might have had something to do with it, you did it.Kelli's gregarious, fun-loving personality also made her one of the most popular girls in her home town of St. The petite, 5'1" blonde was also as tough as nails.That, along with her passion for adventure and a dream of seeing the world, made the military a natural calling for her.