Over the years, Dateline has brought several true crime cases to the light on NBC. The Dateline episode titled Deep in The Woods took an incisive look into the disappearance and subsequent murder of United States Army medic Kelli Bourdeaux back in She was twenty-three at the time of her death.
Kelli Bourdeaux went missing on April 14, , and she was last seen at the now-closed Froggy Bottoms bar with Nicholas Holbert, who also used to work there.
Following several twists and turns, a private investigator named David Marshburn was eventually able to bring the case home when he convinced Holbert to confess his crime of kidnapping and murdering Bourdeaux. Here are five chilling details from the Dateline episode that recount the crime and its aftermath.
According to the testimony of Kelli Bourdeaux's secret boyfriend, Justin Thompson, he and Kelli had visited the bar named Froggy Bottoms near Interstate a week before her disappearance and murder. It was then that Holbert, who was a bartender, had first approached her. He had mentioned that he worked there and that she could contact him if needed. Little did she know that such a casual acquaintance would later prove to be the beginning of her end.
According to the Dateline episode, Nicholas Holbert had a prior record as a sex offender, and he was arrested once for not declaring himself to be a registered sex offender. This could have led Kelli to unwittingly believe him to be harmless, especially as the Froggy Bottoms bar was near her residence, and she felt safe there, according to a report by The Hunter.
