some evidence that we could hold him on. at least vowed detective, they would not lose him, not again. we put surveillance on him for a couple days. and he went up to that area in keens burg. keens burg, that little town east of denver. he used his credit card and i had his bank records, so i saw that he swiped it at this gas station, so we went up there and got the surveillance tape and that s him trying to get gas. this was not travis s first trip to keenes burg. remember, he was tracked there soon after kenya disappeared. so what was he doing here? had he brought kenya out here? was there a body hidden somewhere on the high plains? deetives scoured the fields again and found nothing. and then he discovered travis was on the move again. this time he headed north 60
anything. i ve got to go. and i grabbed the phone and i called 911. reporter: tony roared over to that conoco station nerves on edge, gun close to hand, expecting what? a violent confrontation? a dangerous standoff? a weirdo? but it was none of those things. travis forbes was there, all right. patiently waiting. and he looked just fine. not scary at all. he was very thin. blond hair, blue eyes, good-looking guy. my first impression of him was, you know, looks decent enough guy, if you re going to have somebody pick up your kid, you know, and help them out, you know. seemed like a nice guy. yeah. reporter: and because maria called 911, the denver police were at the gas station, too. so the cops, not tony, did most of the talking with travis. he told them that same story that he told me on the phone, and it was very consistent. the story that he told them matched exactly. i told the officers, i said man, everything he s told me just don t sound right. it just don t sound ri
no death penalty, no sex crimes charges. and in exchange he would give them a complete confession. what he did to kenia and lydia. and one more thing. he would show them exactly where kenia was. and so on a humid morning in september 2011 forbes found himself in a procession of police cars on a country road northeast of denver. investigators had been here many times before, searching the fields near the farm town of keenesburg looking for kenia. but this day travis had solemnly promised he was going to show them. trailing a car behind travis was d.a. kerri lombardi, nervous, anxious, and pessimistic. i was worried he wouldn t follow through. because i felt like he sort of liked this game, i thought. so on the way what were you thinking? will he do this? will he not? will something spook him? will he change his mind? is this a big farce?
probably just having fun, she ll call tomorrow. she would always call me in the morning. did you ever worry about her when she went out like that clubbing? no, she was very smart. she wouldn t take chances? no. no, because though she loved to party, kenia was known as the responsible one. reliable, ambitious, hard-working, not flaky at all. she had recently graduated from one of colorado s top high schools, was now considering careers in tv production or criminology. here she is directing a student film. all the more remarkable because just seven years earlier kenia didn t know more than a word or two of english. [ speaking spanish ]. reporter: and not a single person in denver. apart, that is, from her mother, maria, who had migrated from honduras a few years before. and when she and kenia were finally reunited it was the happy day in my
ambulance and got in the back. looking awful? she had been beaten severely and she didn t have any clothes on. lydia, as paramedics discovered, had also been raped. but that was president all that happened. once she got to the hospital it was a massive stroke. it was because of her injuries that she suffered the stroke. she was severely beaten. she was stomped. some of her injuries were indicative of a high-speed car crash. lydia was airlifted to an intensive hospital in denver. her sister esther got the news and rushed to the hospital. she was unrecognizable. when i first saw her, i couldn t believe it was her. i would look at her and nothing looked like her. and then she has a tattoo on her calf. i knew it was her. lydia s condition was critical, quite possibly even probably terminal. the doctors induced a coma and attempt to keepary her alive,