Fayetteville, NC-  Kelli Bordeaux and her husband of two years  Michael Bordeaux recently separated.

For the first time since boot camp, she was on her own living in the Meadowbrook home the couple previously shared.

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The blonde 23 year old private first class left Valencia College to enlist in the Army as a medic team member to pay for her continued education.  Bordeux is a St. Cloud native

Tragically,  Kelli’s encounter with a convicted and classified as  aggravated sex offender Nicholas Holbert may have ended in a violent altercation and she is now missing since 1:20 am Saturday.

Police interviewed Holbert, a bar hand and resident of the Froggy Bottoms Bar for the second time yesterday.  Froggy Bottoms is located in a heavily wooded area of Ramsey St.

Holbert went on record that he believes he is being targeted because of his criminal past which resulted in his conviction at age 16 for indecent liberties with a minor and aggravated sex offender status.

“As soon as you drive into the entrance to Meadowbrook, she said stop right here,” Holbert said. “So I stopped and she said, ‘I’ll walk home.’ I said, ‘Are you sure?’ She said, ‘Yeah.’ I said 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.”

Holbert is living in a lean-to behind the Froggy Bottoms Bar, which is a violation of the registration requirements under his parole.

Police sources who do not wish to be identified have confirmed they have recovered evidence that suggests Bordeaux may have been injured, and although they will not reveal what it is,  believe it is tied to Holbert.

His last verified address check was April 4, 2012 at 52 Ranger Lane in Spring Lake, NC;  a trailer park located in Harnett County, approximately 9 miles from the bar.    Holbert  is facing arrest on a parole violation pending the recommendations of his parole officer.

Bordeaux’s cell last pinged late Friday evening or early Saturday morning in the Ramsey St corridor, which is less than .8 of a mile from the entrance of her home at Meadowbrook at Kings Grant.

Investigators are focused on scouring the area between her home and the  tower pings which are too close together to define if her last location was the bar or her apartment.

At the time of this publication,  www.blinkoncrime is working to confirm reports that Holbert was in court in February and again last Friday April 13th for a separate criminal court matter.

Check back to www.blinkoncrime.com for updates to this developing story.

*Blink  AND Pat Brown discussing this review and Powell and Sandusky cases tonight at 9PM on The Dana Pretzer Show click here to listen *

Perched atop a steep hill at the end of Makin Road, Billy Ray led a quiet existence with his furry friend and aptly-named Big Dog.   He was simple like the syrup in sweet tea you could imagine him drinking on his shabby back porch every evening come sundown.

With no proper schooling or family to speak of since his MommaAunt died and left him his house in the woods, he could not read , worked odd jobs and street sweeping for weekly groceries and beer.

Billy Ray was the John Coffey of Whitfield Glen.    Like the drink, ‘cept not spelled the same, not spelt the same at all.

That all changed when the girl with the red suitcase crossed his path.

Can I Go With You, Billy Ray?

Charlene was the first woman Billy Ray had ever made love to.  She made fluffy biscuits and Billy Ray realized what lonely was like when they was apart even for a few hours for his work or a trip into town for supplies.  He knew he would need to put some money into that ole beater pick up now.

It did not go fast enough up that hill for him anymore; Charlene was waiting on him.

When Charlene hung garlic from the porch to keep the vampires away, he should have left it right up there like she set it in the first place.  He thought it was silly.  Silly is as silly does I reckon, or more like simple.

Simple like the sugar the old guy with the same skin color as Charlene came to borrow the day everything went sideways and Billy Ray got a visit from Sheriff Hathaway.

The story of Billy Ray and Charlene, whose last name he never asked, begins like a lazy afternoon sitting next to the soft babbles of a field creek in bare feet.

As the layers of Charlene’s past begin to peel like that ominous hanging garlic, Pat Brown’s ONLY THE TRUTH has us looking up at the sky for a funnel cloud only to see that as the reader, we are already in its eye.

In Pat Brown’s freshman fiction ekindle effort, the journey of Billy Ray, Charlene and the lives one gives as well as takes away are not the simple outcomes of good versus evil.

Brown does a masterful job engaging the reader while weaving the psychological tapestry of love, loss, brutality and shame that challenges us to think we know what it will look like when completed, only to learn our lenses may need a cleaning.

Only The Truth eKindle Book is offered by Amazon for under $3, however, you do need a Kindle to read it.  You can download the Kindle reader cloud for your PC or download the Kindle reader app for your smartphone.   It is a quick and riveting read, told in Billy Ray vernacular.  4.5 out of 5 winks from Blink.

Pat Brown is the author of non-fiction titles The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths by Pat Brown and Bob Andelman, Me, Abe, and Greyhound U , Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers, Interview with a Cannibal: The Secret Life of the Monster of Rotenburg by Gunter Stampf and Pat Brown

Princeton, NJ-  Taking a break in observance of The Easter Holiday,  www.blinkoncrime.com previews next weeks featured articles.   Comments always open;  joyous and safe celebrations to all.

The Joshua Powell Backstory Even Susan Did Not Know

Part 2 of the backstory on Josh Powell.  Blink analyzes the analysis that should have prevented the horrific murders of Charlie and Braden Powell.  Part I featured Here.

Sandusky Pretrial Begins- Curley and Schultz To Plead The 5th.

At a pretrial hearing Thursday afternoon, defense attorney Joseph Amendola told the court if called, former Penn State Administrators Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, currently facing perjury charges, will invoke their fifth amendment rights.

Sandusky, through Amendola expects to refile a motion to dismiss all charges against him when prosecutors add to the thousands of discovery documents they have already been given.   Follow the Nittany Nightmare Series Here.

Blink Reviews Criminal Profiler and Psychological Mystery Author Pat Brown’s New eKindle Book: Only The Truth

Pat Brown,  criminal profiler,  true crime author and frequent national guest expert releases her first fiction work.

Blink reviews Only The Truth,  eKindle version of Pat Brown’s latest release.

69 year old Patrick Sullivan retired from law enforcement with the prestigious honor of Sheriff Of The Year.

In an undercover drug sting 5 months ago,  Sheriff Sullivan’s real life Breaking Bad episode went from bad to worse when he was arrested for trading methamphetamine for sex with a male prostitute.

Sullivan threw the “ice” on the bed, and undressed in a manner that investigators believed was not his first time.

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Retired in 2002 from Arapahoe County,  In 2001 Sullivan was named Sheriff Of The Year by the National Sheriffs Association.

He served on former President Bill Clinton’s National Commission on Crime Prevention and Control in 1995.

The plea deal shocked locals following the case, as  shortly after Sullivan posted bond, he referred to himself as having “Armadillo Skin” and being tough until the truth comes out.

* A tweaker resembling a woman waiting outside in the parking lot who frequently delivered hamburgers to the hourly rate motel guests,  overheard Sullivan say that he was positive that the ice rock fell out of his pants he just picked up from the laundry and that his relative is a Senator.   As he was being arrested she recalls him chanting something about a headed turtle in the desert to all if they dare lock him up .*

Shortly after those comments,  a task force investigating Sullivan grew from 11 to 18, and included the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

Deputy Attorney General Michael Dougherty called Sullivan a disgrace to the badge:

“..The defense painted this individual as helping individuals.  I respectfully differ.  He was using meth to obtain sex from individuals and he used he used his authority and former prestige as a sheriff…”

Sullivan pled guilty to one count of felony drug possession and two counts of misdemeanor solicitation of a prostitute.

He was sentenced to 38 days, with a credit for the 8 days served prior to posting bond, and 2 years probation.

Sullivan was remanded to the Sullivan Correctional Facility, named after him,  yesterday.

The current Arapahoe Sheriff Grayson Robinson has asked the county commission to rename the jail.

*This paragraph only is parody for Breaking Bad fans, and did not actually occur.  Like it matters in this one.*

She knew.  No way around it ever again.  Susan Cox Powell knew her husband Josh, father of her toddler sons Charlie and Braden might kill her one day.  Eighteen months prior to her disappearance Susan opened a safety deposit box and in an almost metaphoric gesture, she stapled all the edges of her prophecy shut.

As if to insure the words sealing her fate could not escape, they remained in the cold steel secret until they rang true.

The release of unsealed warrants in the pending voyeurism and child porn possession case against Susan’s deviant father in law Steven read like a Cornwell novel.  The non-fiction version.

Unsealed, Unsavory NOT Unavoidable

If I tried hard I could not come up with a sicklier, skeevier fictional plot of an aging government corrections and furniture employee splitting time between surreptitiously taping his sons wife in her under things for his collection of “ things to jack-off to while recording it” collection and taping innocent neighbor children taking a bath through the window.

That same paternal perv was the recipient of the last phone call made on Josh Powell’s cell December 6, 2009  before it was turned off for an extended period.   In contrast, the last call made from Susan’s cell at 2:29 on the same day was to her friend Jovanna Owings, whom she invited over to an impromptu dinner of pancakes prepared by Josh.

Immediately after eating,  Susan was overcome with fatigue, went to bed by 5 PM and left her guest unraveling yarn while Josh announced he was preparing to take the children sledding.  In the dark.

In retrospective fantasy our minds create the conversation as we wish it had played.

Hi J, It’s Susan.  Come for dinner.   I am having Susan’s sleepcakes.    Come save my life.

Or, should have been, so as to unravel the other yarn that seemingly bound the fate of Susan and her beloved boys.

On June 28, 2008 Susan wrote what she titled The Last Will and Testament of Susan Powell with express instructions that whoever located the document in her safety deposit box, it was not to be shown to or shared with Joshua Powell.

Susan went on to describe the couples marital strife over the last four years  and threats made to her should she divorce him.  Susan requests the reader speak to her sister in-law Jennifer Graves and cautions if her death appears to be an accident, it most likely is not.

According to the Interpleaded suit filed by New York Life in an effort to have the court decides it’s beneficiary designation and obligation, that letter was written exactly one year to the day after Susan became insured by a $500,000  5 year term life policy on June 28, 2007.

The policy had an additional rider to increase the face value of the policy added on May 15, 2008 to $1,000,000.

On August 7, 2007 Joshua Powell became covered under a separate NY Life police for $1,000,000 with 2 additional riders on both Powell children totaling an additional $500,000.

On February 4, 2009, also according to NY Life, Josh and Susan Powell executed a revocable trust and designated same as the secondary beneficiary on both policies with Susan named as the sole trustee. Only a portion of the Declaration of Trust was provided to NY Life, the details of the entire revocable trust have not been made public.

On February 5, 2012 Joshua Powell attacked his sons Charlie and Braden with a hatchet after locking the court appointed social worker out of the house, and set the home he was renting ablaze, killing all 3. (more…)