touchdown irish! [cheering] that was awesome. and, the hits won t quit, with peacock premium included at no additional cost. all that entertainment built in. xfinity. a way better way to watch. april 1st, 2011. dawn in denver, colorado. bright, spring-like. and for the friends of kenia monge, terrifying. i just kept calling her and calling her. we were all worried and scared. reporter: where was she? kenia was supposed to have met her friends at a downtown bar the night before. didn t show. and now she didn t answer her phone. not like kenia. not at all. we didn t know what happened. nobody knew nothing. reporter: kenia s friends, truly frightened now, kept
i couldn t sleep. there was no way. it didn t really matter. i didn t care. and it was amazing because we had technicians at colorado bureau of investigation who had no necessary buy-in into this was but they were working around the clock as well because they knew what a big deal this was. reporter: 60 miles away in denver detective nash gurule was also awaiting those dna results, anxiously. but he was also angry. at myself. at yourself? why? thinking to myself, what else could i have done to prevent this? what other evidence could i have gathered that would have got him arrested? did i miss something that could have kept him there? i could have had something concrete to arrest him on. what did i miss? and i threw that around in my head. you take this stuff personally. this one i did. and i m thinking to myself, is he that smart? is he that smart? reporter: and now forbes was out here, somewhere. friday night, dark now. it was warm in fort collins.
kenia monge was at a downtown denver nightclub with her friends one week ago. reporter: kenia monge s disappearance was big news in denver. she was last seen wearing a black skirt, black jacket, and red high-heeled shoes. reporter: kenia s family was frantic, desperately hoping she was still alive. i couldn t sleep. i d pray. i d get on my knees every day, god, please, bring kenia home. please. reporter: janet gomez and kenia s other close friends kept looking, hoping someone would come forward with a clue. we kept just putting flyers everywhere. we had to do it. you know, she was our friend. and got nowhere. you just have to be strong and just pray for the best. reporter: and now family and friends were not alone in the search for kenia. a veteran denver police detective named nash gurule started looking too.
i was hoping that she would pop up and say here i am. but as time went by and she wasn t contacting anybody and i knew it was bad. reporter: he also knew that the key to finding kenia was finding travis forbes. the denver police had no idea where travis was, whether he was in hiding here in town or had left the city, left the state, left the country. he was just gone. wasn t much they could do. he was a person of interest but not officially a suspect. and then two weeks later out of the blue detectives got a call from austin, texas. and my lieutenant walked into the office and said, okay. i said what? she said austin p.d. just called our fugitive unit. we might have him in austin, texas. i m like, what? reporter: travis, it turned out, had borrowed a car from an old girlfriend in colorado.
reporter: he went on camera with a denver tv station. i mean, it s been two weeks. nobody s heard from her. there s been no trace of her. like it s it s surreal. i don t even know what to think of it. since you re a person of interest, let me ask you this. did you do something with her? no. did you kidnap her? no. did you sexually assault her? i did not. did you murder her? i did not. no. no. and you know, having that on you, you know, having that energy on you is very stressful. reporter: detective gurule was watching this, of course. but he focused as much on travis actions as his answers. he lied. it was in his demeanor. it was in his body language. it was it was all there. man. i m sorry that i that i was indifferent. that i didn t think anything.