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Subscribe to RSSKelli Bordeaux, a soldier who recently joined the army, has been missing since Saturday from Fort Bragg, NC. She was last seen leaving a local bar. NBC's Amy Robach reports.
The husband of a 23-year-old Army soldier who disappeared after leaving a bar in North Carolina said Wednesday that he was cooperating with police. Meantime, searchers for PFC Kelli Marie Bordeaux were focusing on an area where her cell phone last pinged off towers, a local media report says.
Bordeaux didn’t turn up to her post at Fort Bragg on Monday, prompting Army officials to report her missing, NBC News reported.
“Being a soldier to Kelli is something she wouldn’t jeopardize for anything. Missing work is something that is not in character for Kelli,” her sister, Olivia Cox, told reporters.
Bordeaux was last spotted leaving a bar, Froggy Bottoms, in nearby Fayetteville about 1:30 am on Saturday. A bar employee gave her a ride home, but he is not considered a suspect, a military official told NBC.
Bordeaux, a health services specialist originally from St. Cloud in Central Florida, has been married for two years but is estranged from her husband, Mike, the official said.
But Mike Bordeaux, who is not in the military, told NBC-17, a local station, that their marriage was “happy” and they were not estranged. He wouldn’t say where he was Friday or over the weekend -- just that he was not at their apartment. He said he was devastated by his wife’s disappearance.
"I would never lay a hand on her," he told NBC-17 during an off-camera talk.
Fayetteville Police Chief Thomas Bergamine told reporters that authorities would be searching an area from Froggy Bottoms along the I-295 corridor. Records show Bordeaux’s cell phone hit off towers near what is known as the North Ramsey corridor, he said.
Bordeaux may be in danger and the case was still being considered a missing person investigation, detectives said.
“Supposedly when the guy that was giving her a ride home, was taking her to her apartment, he got to her apartment and something spooked her so … she said, 'No, no, no just let me out here,' instead of taking her like around the corner to her apartment,” her mother, Johnna Henson, told wptv.com. “I don’t understand that.”
An Army investigator told wptv.com that, at some point, two text messages were sent from Bordeaux’s phone, including one that said she got home safely.
Henson told the Orlando Sentinel that Mike Bourdeaux was visiting his father in Florida when Kelli disappeared and that he returned to North Carolina when he got the news. She said Mike and Kelli were best friends, though their relationship had been tested when Kelli left for training. He moved to Fayetteville in December to join her, she said.
"He is in a total panic," she told the newspaper. "He wants to be there when she comes home. He's totally losing it."
Kelli Bordeaux is assigned to the 601st Area Support Medical Company, 261st Multifunctional Medical Battalion, 44th Medical Brigade. She joined the military in April 2011 and arrived at her unit in November.
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And the person that last saw her and gave her a ride home, but did not drop her at her apartment is not a person of interest because??????????? To me it's to soon to rule out :(
The article states he is not a suspect...that doesn't mean he is excluded as a person of interest.
This boggles me too. He should be a prime suspect. Last person seen with her. Just because "she" sent a text saying she made it home safely doesn't mean she actually sent that message. She has been reported missing, therefore its a missing persons case. The case has begun.
Because it's an ongoing investigation, and none of your business.
What makes you think you have the right to know every single bit of information about tnis case, or any other case?
The police will release the details they want to release, not necessarily the ones you want to know.
Jeez, some of you people are WAAAAAY to used to reading the Enquirer.
Or maybe he complied with her wishes and dropped her off where she asked him to. This is an active investigation so once the professional investigators know something they'll release it. Some of you watch to much CSICarly....
So she sees something at her apartment that "spooks" her so her decision is to have the person she is with and is in a car to take her around and drop her off around the block. So now she doesn't have the added protection of another person or a car to quickly leave the area in.............not the brightest decision ever if that is what actually happened.
Got a real bad feeling on this one :(
holliegohappy, you'd pick the driver over the estranged spouse? I'd say statistically speaking ex-spouses or soon to exes are probably way higher up the list of those committing crimes. Plus if she sent two text messages later, maybe the driver has an ironclad alibi for anything after that time.
Or he is actually a suspect, but they don't want him to know it.
I imagine that they are working many leads, and won't tell the public every detail. At some point our desire to be NOSY needs to come last. She may be alive and in danger. What if more information puts her in danger?
Let the evidence lead the investigation, not the investigation lead the evidence. No reason to call him a suspect until there is reason to think he had done something wrong to her.
Maybe it's the fact that 90% of the population is happy ruining someone's life regardless of whether he's innocent or not. He's obviously got some reason that makes him not a suspect. The detectives are not idiots. They would check out his story as he would clearly be the #1 suspect at the beginning.
"Supposedly" her mother said she said that... It gave no source as to who said that she said this. That is the biggest mystery because it doesn't make sense. There isn't enough information in this tiny article to make any reasonable judgement one way or the other.
Has the fiasco surrounding Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin not taught us anything at all? DON'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS. By no means does this article tell you everything you need to know.
Just because text messages were sent from her phone does not mean that she sent them. This is an ongoing investigation and if the police/military don't consider him a suspect isn't it possible that they may know something that "you" don't? It isn't customary for all clues and evidence to be released in an ongoing investigation. Geez.
Am I the only one who read where the husband was in another state when she disappeared? Half you people have him convicted. Read the damn article. There's no telling who she ran into that night, or in the nights before...besides, the last person to see any given missing person is ALWAYS the person of most interest this close to the beginning of an investigation in which NO ONE has any information. In my opinion, anyone in a bar at 1:30 a.m. is asking for trouble...that goes for men as well as women. Take your ass home and go to bed like a grownup.
Fayetteville is a crap hole. Clubs, pawn shops, and used car lots. Having so many soldiers doesnt help either. It floods the area with scammers, and dope dealers who just sit back and wait for their money to come to them.
I can recall in about 1994 a soldier shot dead, in the head on Bragg Blvd. There have been so many missing, or just killed. Lets not forget the solider that sat next to the track for PT on Ardennes and picked off people running in formation.
I've heard this too.
Still so sad though. I hope they find her.
Tac...I worked in Fayetteville for two months before I finally got a permanent job back here in Alabama...not a pleasant place...everywhere I went I saw practically every business withbars on their windows. The only really nice people I met was the owner of a little Chinese restaurant and a waitress at one of the little coffee shops in the historical district by the library.
I hope they find her safe.
My husband was assigned to Fort Bragg for 7 years. Fayetteville isn't that bad. It is just like any other city, good areas and bad areas. And if "practically every business with bars on their windows" is what you saw, you were hanging in the wrong part of town. I met some really great people in the Fayetteville area. It isn't like TacSat stories are an everyday thing. VT had shootings as have other colleges, does not mean VT is a dangerous place, just the site of an unfortunate tragedy.
Yeah, I lived there for 6 years and I love Fayetteville.. Theres some rough spots but its a much much nicer town than most ive been exposed to.. I live in NJ, if you think Fayetteville is a "bad" place come up here and visit Camden, Trenton or Newark.. you haven't seen anything yet.
TacSat - the part of Fayetteville that's a hole is the part where many soldiers go to spend their money. Separating soldiers from their money is a cottage industry. It's like that in many small towns where there are military bases. Or anywhere you find a gullible clientele with a guaranteed paycheck.
If this turns out to be a case of foul play, I'm betting that the husband was involved in her disappearance.
If she was spooked, you'd think he'd walk her to her door!
Maybe what 'spooked' her was that she didn't want the bar employee to know exactly which apartment was hers.
If her estranged Husband is that Biscuit Head in the photo with her I'd be looking at him as far as suspects. Young women Soldiers have no place hanging out in bars drinking. Fellow biscuit heads are looking to take advantage of them, Which is so much easier when they are intoxicated. Beer is Legal Drink up Sauceheads!
Um... last time I checked, every guy at a bar is always looking to take advantage of every young woman at a bar, regardless of whether they're soldiers or not. That's kinda what bars are for.
Um... last time I checked, every guy at a bar is always looking to take advantage of every young woman at a bar, regardless of whether they're soldiers or not. That's kinda what bars are for.
Yeah you can meet some very classy women in bars. If your into leftover Skank.
A sport f--k doesn't need to be classy; just hot and easy. You don't go to a bar to find your soul mate.
You ought not project your own intentions as if they are every mans intentions.
I have been going to the same bar every Saturday for quite a while now, and I don't seem to recall ever thinking of how I could take advantage of the drunk chick at the pool tables.
Last I checked, a bar is a place where you meet with friends and to get away from the ladies.
Not every male that goes to a bar is looking to score with a woman that has had one too many.
Last time I was at the bar I was trying to figure out why there was flourescent lighting along the walls. Then someone helped me back up into my barstool and it dawned on me; I had just fallen over backwards.
wow, rank...you sound like quite the catch yourself.
I go to bars because I like live music and my friends play in bands. I don't go to pick anyone up or get picked up. Some knuckle heads that I run into have difficulty understanding that.
@Sirlafalot,
HAHAHA...good one!
NY Mike,
If you have been going to the same bar for a while, and never, ever thought about hooking up with the drunk chick at the pool table.......you might be gay.
whenever I go to a bar, I remember something I heard my mother say to me when I was a kid, "Don't pick that up. You don't know where it's been."
Who hangs out in that area, at that time, that has an injury. Hopefully a military girl could inflict some damage.
PTSD I bet. The husband is a trained killer that just can't stop killing. She's pretty, sleeps around a bit when he's out killing babies in Iraq (Now Afghanistan) and now they are 'together' again - GASP. Bet, he gets arrested for murder and the Defense blames PTSD for his criminal behavior. After all, he killed a 'white' woman, not a Hajji, Rag head, or Camel jockie, huh? Meanwhile, Major HASAN, THE US ARMY PSYCHIATRIST THAT 'BLEW AWAY' A DOZEN OF THESE 'BORN KILLERS' AT FORT HOOD IN 2010 AWAITS TRAIL FOR KILLING A ' BAKERS DOZEN' OF THESE MONSTERS - BUT, GUESS WHAT? HE'S A PALESTINIAN MUSLIM AND PTSD WON'T GET BROUGHT UP AS A DEFENSE AT HIS TRIAL AND HE'LL GET LIFE IN THE STOCKADE AT FORT LEVENWORTH FOR KILLING THEM MONSTERS THAT WERE TELLING HIM DURING PTSD DEBRIEFING HOW THEY MURDERED AND MAIMED THEM NASTY A-RAB MOTHERS AND THEIR BABIES JUST FOR THE THRILL OF IT. LIFE ISN'T FAIR, HUH FOLKS? AND IN GENOCIDAL AMERIKKKA ITS GETTING EVEN WORSE BY THE MINUTE!
I stopped reading when I hit OMIGOD MOTHA@!$%#IN CAPSLOCK BITCHES.
Seriously, cut that out.
Dude are you really that messed up there Cowboy? Seems like you are missing some pharmaceuticals. Quick go see your therapist.
LOL @ Chris
You made it further than I did...
Whoa, Cowboy! If you aren't seeing a therapist you definitely should be. And if you are, well he's not doing a very good job! Maybe you ought to find a new one!
A psychology major could write an entire paper from that post alone....
I'd give my next paycheck to see you that say that S$%T to a Ranger's face. Oh man, that would be great.
@AZCowBoy,
You are seriously phucked up guy...got some issues with the Army?....Maybe you tried to get in but rejected you because you're a phucking psycho? You have some serious mental deficiencies...get them checked out before you do damage to someone or someone puts you out of your misery.
I will be in Tombstone on Friday. In my uniform. Come and say that SH&T to my face. Killing babies huh. Thats all you got? Its us "trained killers" that give you the right to spew that nonsense out of that filthy sewer you call a mouth. You dont like what we do and how we do it? Go somewhere else like Mexico. Douglas is just right down the road.
All you need to do is look at the history of AzCowboys posts and you will get the hint, same old story from him. Where's TrustVerify cut and pasting his usual rhetoric:
Hello folks, when will we discard our Imperialistic mindset? This is just another ploy reaching out to women to assist in the war mongering and demonizing as the U.S. is trying to drum up more support for another war. We’ve caused enough trouble around the world. If you can't see that we are the instigators in most of the world's wars and displacement of millions of people who are fleeing our aggression, than you are in denial and are not paying attention. If you don’t think we have been in Syria covertly arming the rebels you are in denial and forgetting about Libya. We need to stay out of other country’s civil disputes. I hope we aren’t going to go against the United Nations vote earlier this year and unilaterally go into Syria under the pretext that we need to stop the violence like we did in Libya. General Wesley Clark has stated that a Syria invasion has been pre-planned for quite awhile.
General Wesley Clark: "America will take out 7 countries in 5 years"
I have seen these same posts so many times, the rhetoric has become old.
I believe AzCowboy and TrustVerify are both sitting in some Mid East hell hole, on their computers, pretending to be disgruntled U.S. citizens.
Major Nidal Hasan's Court Martial is scheduled for 12 June. Tune in then.
TheAZCowBoy, Tombstone, AZ., why are you still doing this whole "AMERIKKKA" thing?
Please stop.
You are suspended for a week for violating rule # 5 of the Code of Honor.
On behalf of sane people everywhere....thank you Sally!
Hey Cowboy can you say XANAX!
Sad to say but the odds on favorite is the estranged husband and my guess is that she was spooked by the idea he was waiting for her and how'd he'd react if he saw her in a car with another man. Her disappearance probably means she's deceased.
Bingo.
That's what I was thinking too Jeff. I hope it's not the case, but....
Apparently nothing was learned from the Trayvon Martin/Zimmerman case. You all jump to conclusions without knowing all the facts.
I think we've just found the prime suspect.. This Clown---->TheAZCowBoy
That wouldn't have anything to do with his delusional psychotic ramblings would it?
AZ Cowboy, based on his post, appears to not be mentally competent to stand a trial. But I am not a qualified person on that matter.
The sad thing is, a young soldier is either in danger, or deceased.
Maybe you jackasses should do some background the husband came back from Afgan after she went missing especially you AZcowboy you POS
Floyd... actually wrong coast.
The "case" you are thinking of involves a Marine on the West Coast and his missing wife.
This is about a young enlisted WOMAN who is missing from Ft. Bragg... NOT Camp Pendelton.
This guy was a civilian. Check YOUR own sources.
While everyone is speaking about the estranged husband and bartender, I surmise thinking a little outside of the box is too difficult.
Is it not possible that neither is guilty of anything other than guilt by association?
If in fact, the woman did get spooked, is it not possible that she might have seen another individual? Possibly one she was involved with which was the initial "reason" for an estrangement from her husband? And she didn't want to provide that individual any reason to break things off?
Just asking of course. I'm playing the same supposition, innuendo, hyperbole, conjecture game as everyone else here. Ain't it fun????
SAtaistics simply prove that well over 50% of the women in America dying by murder are being murdered by the current or previous men in their lives.
Can you send me the link where you get your statistics?
TO: Arizona Cowboy... Your opinion of our military is really bull $hit... but you knew that. You must have gotten the crap beaten out of you in a bar by a GI who didn't like you trying to sneak a feel on his lady friend. So, now ALL GI's are bonkers... right? Go shove your head in a bucket of "Get smarts" and take a deep breath. Slime ball!!! "Nuff said... People like you makes it unpleasant reading these posts.
Ignore that man behind the screen...the military does not have a discipline problem after more than 10 years of war...repeat does NOT have a discipline problem...everything is just peachy...
The Military, just like any other employer has it's share of good and bad personnel. Not all are fine upstanding people, nor are all psychos. As the wife and mother of military men I have seen my share of both. My prayers are with this soldier and her family and friends.
Arizona Cowboy did it. I'M SURE OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He brought in a whole new level of crazy!
I was in the military for 9 years, and I never once saw anyone kill a baby. Arizona obviously never served and is maybe a tad bit jealous of those that did.
Kids getting drunk in a N.C. bar late at night what do you expect.
Um....I'm pretty sure the article said she was 23 yrs old. Oh, yes, look at that, it did! And don't forget kids become adults the moment they enlist in the military at age 18. I wouldn't consider any military person a kid....maybe they act like kids sometimes. Just sayin'
XDM9MM It is pretty fun isnt it LOL. Not about the poor missing girl, but about the crap pots like AZCowboy that comment LMAO...
I was in the military for 9 years and never once did I see anyone kill babies. I just hope someone finds this young woman alive.
In fact when things started getting really hokey in Nam, when we were unsure of who the enemy was any longer outside of our own unit, when it became really hard to know what to believe in any longer we had this just for ourselves, "Every body's baby deserves to be free". Children are very special thing to a soldier. We shared our rations with many.
What makes this a news worthy story? The fact she is a woman. I wonder if a guy who got drunk at a bar and didn't show up for work would any play at all. Since we are all equal now there is no reason to give a girl GI more cover than a guy GI...unless he is gay GI.
ok... we really are having self image problems today aren't we. A young woman is missing. The story could very well bring forward someone who saw something but did no think was important enough at the time to report.
To me is is more newsworthy than hearing obama's rankings for the NCAA. in fact how is anything about sports news worthy yet they still post it everyday.
Get over yourself. Young women are being abducted all the time. The more they report on it the more likely someone will demand that something be done to try and change things.
Bill:
This incident is News to the Soldier's Family. It is news to her Section Chief, Platoon Sergeant, First Sergeant, Company commander, and her battalion commander. You can bet it is of concern to her Brigade Commander and the Post Commandant. It is definitely of interest to the CID office for the post she serves in.
Any person missing is news. I only hope they can find the Soldier safe and alive.
Don't forget the blonde hair-blue eye thing... Can you say Natalie Holloway?
Bill,
Just sayin',..... are you in the closet? You sound a little uneasy here dude.............
holliegohappy.... yes it is a sad story, hopefully, the ending will not be tragic.
But yes, it usually is funny how some post their speculation as fact. The sad part is they actually think their anonymity shields them from proving how absurdly idiotic they are. They don't realize they act and speak the same way in real life.
BOTTOM line people no matter what a young soldier is missing and a family is left with unanswered questioned!! I pray that this young beautiful lady is found unharmed and returned to her family.
I hope the police are able to utilize assets and resources to effectively do their jobs as quickly as possible. She is a very pretty young woman. I miss Ft. Bragg, some of the best memories in my life.
Not sure what to think here.
Best guess would one of two things;
I didn't have time to read all of the above so someone else may have already wrote similar guesses.
All in all, I hope they find her safe and sound.
This is unusual in FayetteNam ? Media knows more than what they're printing, otherwise, they wouldn't plant this story so soon of such limited substance.
Some of you have no clue how police operate. They will only release information that they think will help solve the crime if a crime has been commited. Regardless of what the police are reporting the person that drove her home is a prime suspect except if that person has an alibi. Her husband would also be a suspect if he does not have a alibi. The difference between a suspect and person of interest is semantics in most detective units.
Nobody is considered a "suspect" until it is determined that a crime has been committed.