Kelli Bordeaux Missing: Sex Offender Nicholas Holbert Questioned In Soldier's Disappearance

A 25-year-old bar hand who is also a registered sex offender was one of the last people to see missing Fort Bragg soldier Kelli Bordeaux on Saturday morning, cops said.

Nicholas Holbert -- who was convicted at age 16 of an offense involving a 5-year-old child -- was questioned twice by police on Wednesday. Holbert told ABC 11 in an exclusive interview that he gave Bordeaux a ride home from the Froggy Bottoms bar in Fayetteville that night, but said he dropped her off at the entrance of her neighborhood.

"As soon as you drive into the entrance to Meadowbrook, she said stop right here," Holbert told the station. "So I stopped and she said, 'I'll walk home.' I said, 'Are you sure?' She said, 'Yeah.' I figured she didn't want me to know where she lived, or somebody was there and she didn't want to be seen together."

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• Missing Soldier

  FILE- This undated file photo provided by the Fayetteville, N.C. Police Department shows Kelli Bordeaux. Authorities say 23-year-old Pfc. Kelli Bordeaux has been missing since April 14. Officials at Fort Bragg reported her missing to Fayetteville police two days later. Investigators say phone calls and text messages show nothing out of the ordinary happened that night. Their only lead- She left the bar with a man who is a registered sex offender _ and who swears he had nothing to do with her disappearance. (AP Photo/Fayetteville, N.C. Police Department, File)

• Missing Soldier

• Missing Soldier

  This undated handout photo provided by the Fort Bragg Public Affairs Office shows Pfc. Kelli Bordeaux. Police in Fayetteville, N.C. are asking for the public's help in finding an Army private they believe may be in danger. Authorities say 23-year-old Bordeaux has been missing since April 14. Officials at Fort Bragg reported her missing to Fayetteville police two days later. (AP Photo/Fort Bragg Public Affairs Office)

• Kelli Bordeaux missing

  Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

• NC Missing Soldier

  Kelli Bordeaux is seen in an undated photo provided by the Fayettville, N.C. Police Dept. Authorities say 23-year-old Pfc. Kelli Bordeaux has been missing since April 14. Officials at Fort Bragg reported her missing to Fayetteville police two days later. Police are asking for the public's help in finding the Army private they believe may be in danger. Police say anyone with information should either call police or Crimestoppers. (AP Photo/Fayettville, NC Police Dept.)

• NC Missing Soldier

  This April 13, 2012 photo provided by the Fayettville, N.C. Police Dept shows 23-year-old Pfc. Kelli Bordeaux. The Fayetteville Observer on Thursday, April 26, 2012 reports that a mix of more than 500 soldiers and civilians turned up at the parking lot of Cape Fear Valley Medical Center's Health Pavilion North to look for Bordeaux, who was last seen as she left a bar about 1:20 a.m. April 14. (AP Photo/Fayettville, N.C. Police Dept.)

• Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

• Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

• Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

• Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

• Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

• Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

• Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

• Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

• Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

• Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

• Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old Army combat medic, went missing after leaving a bar in Fayetteville, N.C. early on Saturday, April 14. Here are some of her Facebook photos, many of which feature her husband.

In addition to questioning Holbert, authorities conducted an expansive search for the 23-year-old soldier on Wednesday, both near the Interstate 295 corridor where her last text message was sent and at a pond that an anonymous tipster identified as a place of interest, CNN reported.

Cops said that Bordeaux disappeared after leaving the bar at about 1:20 a.m. At some point that morning, two text messages were sent from her phone. One said, "got home safely," according to CNN. It's yet unclear to whom the text was sent or what the contents of the second text was.

So far, the search hasn't turned up any results. Police are still worried that Bordeaux is in danger.

"There is some information we've gathered that makes us concerned for her safety," Fayetteville police spokesman Gavin MacRoberts told ABC 11.

Holbert has not been charged with any crime.

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Comments

[Hkwithaak]

10:23 AM on 03/04/2013

Hmm text got home safely yeah ok and how sure are we Holbert didn't send that!!! I am glad I don't live in NC where the police and detectives can't do their job!

[artstnmtn1]

12:22 PM on 05/22/2012

wanna get the real scoop on her marriage visit: www.blinkoncrime.com

[dbrett480]

05:16 PM on 05/16/2012

Most of these types of murders are committed by people the victim knows, so I doubt the sex offender is a suspect.

[charon]

05:42 PM on 04/28/2012

Child molesters are generally cowards who pick their victims for their vulnerability and are less likely to attack adults because of their sense of weakness. However, any man who gives a woman a ride home from a bar, when the woman may be less than sober, and the woman then disappears, is a natural suspect in the crime. I will have to see compelling evidence that it wasn't him before I'll stop suspecting that it was.

[MissFish]

11:40 AM on 04/27/2012

Sex offender that lives in a TENT behind the bar gives her a ride home. And she is never seen again. Sure, I believe that guy, NOT.
I feel bad for her husband & family. It does not look good.

[bdl00]

11:43 PM on 04/22/2012

At the end of the day it really makes you wonder why she would even want to be in a bar alone, where were her group of friends? Where was the taxi. I'm sure that's safer than getting in a car with a registered sex offender. America is an unsafe country and although it has its perks I'm happy to say I don't live there the crime is horrendous and the fact that people can bare arms at 18 years of age so easily is frightening.

[joltmanpa1]

02:21 PM on 04/24/2012

America is a large country with freedom of the press, which many countries do not have. There are hundreds of countries with much worse problems, its just because the press is an arm of the government, or no press at all, that you don't hear about the atrocities elsewhere so easily.

[MissFish]

11:52 AM on 04/27/2012

UNBELIEVABLE. Because she went to the bar alone, she deserved to be abducted? Do you REALLY think she knew this guy was a sex offender? And WHAT do arms have to do with this story??

[NiiPuu]

07:43 AM on 04/22/2012

What I don't get is, why does it matter what one of the last people who've seen this poor missing soul is? What does him being a sex-offender have anything to do with the bloody story? Nothing as far as I can see.... =/

[humaneisfact]

01:50 PM on 04/22/2012

i faved you by accident.I really can't imagine how you could not see it as significant that he is a sex offender.And you don't think the last person to see a now missing person isn't significant either?hmmm.

[Lila Folster]

03:27 PM on 04/22/2012

Being a registered sex offender does not make you a murderer or kidnapper. The police have already cleared him anyway. They even did a forensic search of his car and found NOTHING! They said he was no longer a person of interest. The fact that he was a sex offender had everything to do with publicity and ratings for the story and nothing to do with the fact that he was the last one to see her.

[wonderfullone]

01:54 AM on 04/22/2012

The police investigators should ask him to take a lie detector test.

[Fenrir Lokison]

06:50 PM on 04/21/2012

I hope Holbert is innocent.

[humaneisfact]

01:51 PM on 04/22/2012

so ,you are more concerned that the sex offender who saw her last is innocent than if the woman is found alive?

[LivelyLexie]

08:57 PM on 04/20/2012

How many murders are going to be committed by "rehabilitated" sex offenders?
Ridiculous.

[Fenrir Lokison]

06:47 PM on 04/21/2012

Is this a general question or a question pointed at this gentleman?

Because, he may just be innocent and that his pass has nothing to do with this missing solider.

[sam0616]

06:57 PM on 04/21/2012

Agreed. People are so naive. There are some offenders who should be allowed to try rehabilitation. Sex offenders ARE NOT one of them!

[JuzSayn]

08:28 PM on 04/20/2012

I thought Holbert might be innocent too until I watched this video of him being interviewed......VERY smug and almost laughing, I hope law enforcement are just giving him enough rope to hang himself....http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2131891/Kelli-Bordeaux-Sex-offender-Nicholas-Holbert-questioned-Fort-Bragg-soldiers-disappearance.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[nancy kriescher]

10:15 AM on 04/21/2012

I too, was willing. I will go to link.. then we will have to wait, till she is found,, sadly:)

[nancy kriescher]

10:26 AM on 04/21/2012

His eyes either look scared, or he is trying to mask any knowledge, by the vacant appearance. I can't say yet. but if they find her body.. :)

[GOCmember]

02:57 AM on 04/20/2012

another sad story, it's sounding like she won't be found alive

[pslcitizen]

01:22 AM on 04/20/2012

Assuming your safe is just an illusion.. Things can change on a dime.

[duaneanthonywebb]

01:14 AM on 04/20/2012

CORRECTION: Nicholas Holbert is a former offender.

[stayingsaneinthemadness]

10:22 AM on 04/20/2012

He's a registered sex offender. He gave himself that title by abusing a child.

[rewith85man]

12:15 AM on 04/20/2012

This is a time to use your head. Once something happens, it is too late. Kelli should had known this before jumping in a vehicle with some strange guy.

[MissFish]

11:57 AM on 04/27/2012

Maybe he wasn't "strange". If he lived behind the bar, maybe he was a regular? I'm SURE, he didn't disclose to her that he is a registered sex offender.