Army Spc. Kelli Bordeaux was murdered by sex offender Nicholas Holbert on April 12, 2012
A 28-year-old sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison after he admitted to killing a Fort Bragg soldier, whose shallow grave he kept secret for two years following her disappearance.
Nicholas Holbert pleaded guilty in the first-degree kidnapping and murder of Army Spc. Kelli Bordeaux on April 12, 2012 after she confronted him about being on the sex offender registry.
Holbert accepted a plea deal on Friday that sentenced him to life in prison without parole, admitting that he beat Bordeaux to death.
Her body was found buried in the woods two years later.
Bordeaux, who was 23 at the time, had recently befriended Holbert and was out drinking with him earlier that night at a bar called Froggy Bottoms in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
She got a text that night revealing Holbert was on the sex offender registry.
When Bordeaux confronted him about it, he knocked her out, put her in his car and then drove her to the camp site where he was living at the time.
Bordeaux woke up screaming and Holbert proceeded to beat her until she died before burying her body off River Road.
Holbert pleaded guilty in the first-degree kidnapping and murder of Bordeaux and on Friday was sentenced to life in prison without parole
Bordeaux, who was 23 at the time, had recently befriended Holbert and was out with him earlier that night at a Fayetteville, North Carolina bar when she received a text revealing that he was on the sex offender registry
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ShareHe was then arrested after it was discovered he wasn't living at the address he gave authorities, a violation of the sex offender registry, and was a person of interest in Bordeaux's disappearance.
But Holbert, who was imprisoned until May 2013, claimed he had dropped Bordeaux off in front of her apartment that night, and organized searches failed to find her.
When Bordeaux confronted Holbert about it, he knocked her out and took her to his camp site, where he later beat her to death
Two years would pass before a private investigator who befriended Holbert
Her body wouldn't be found until two years later thanks to private investigator David Marshburn, who was secretly working with police to try and get a confession from Holbert, according to The Fayetteville Observer .
Mashburn befriended and gave odd jobs to Holbert, who months later would lead him to Bordeaux's body.
Bordeaux, a Florida native, was assigned to the 601st Area Support Medical Company, 44th Medical Brigade and served as a combat medic.
Jonna Henson, speaking directly to Holbert on the witness stand, described her daughter as a 'determined, beautiful young lady' who didn't judge people.
She then said she wished her daughter could have seen 'what kind of demon you are', The Fayetteville Observer reported.
'You took my baby girl for nothing and you want to say sorry?' Henson said after Holbert apologized to her and Bordeaux's siblings on the stand.
'Twenty-five months went by to say sorry,' she continued.
'I don't have anything else to say except you can go to hell.'
Bordeaux, pictured here with her husband Mike, was assigned to the 601st Area Support Medical Company, 44th Medical Brigade and served as a combat medic
Bordeaux's mother Jonna Henson, speaking directly to Holbert on the witness stand, described her daughter as a 'determined, beautiful young lady' who didn't judge people
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