janet gomez: she was like, are you with kenia? and i said, no, i thought she was with you. somehow she disappeared. she was, like, are you with kenya? and i say u no, i thought she w with you. where was she? and clues on the surveillance tape and strange stories from a witness. and then another beauty. this one left for dead. she was unrecognizable. was evil stalking young women? both dark haired. both pretty girls. it was chillingly similar. a place that led to unheard of t places. and then finally, far from the city, the truth revealed on a quiet country road. he got out of the car. and let out this scream. and an act of courage from a woman who refused to be a victim. and i won. and i won. the woman barely alive. her jaw shattered in a dozen pieces. aaten once-beautiful face unrecognizable after the brutal beating, the rape, the fire, the fall, the massive, nearly-fatal stroke. someone thought she would be deadgh now. someone who fled into the night
on the outskirts of denver is normally quiet at night and on weekends. but in mid-july 2011, the colorado bureau of investigation crime lab was a beehive of activity. a team of technicians were working around the clock comparing a dna sample of lydia tillmans attacker to that of travis forbes to see if they matched. sixty miles away in fort collins, detective jaclyn shaklee couldnt sit still. detective jaclyn shaklee: i was high on adrenaline. it was a weighing game. i mean, i kept looking at the phone, hoping for the technician from cbi to call me. keith morrison : especially, because travis forbes who was being held in the fort collins jail was due to be released soon. very soon. detective jaclyn shaklee: he was given a bond and was about to bond out like ten thirty on monday night. keith morrison : the weekend was over. monday ticked by. detective jaclyn shaklee: its a long process. its not like a tv show where you can they do it in forty minutes and you have a hit. so i knew it wa
esther hartsky: it was really scary. and since we didnt know who had done this, i kept looking out of the hospital room and seeing if someone would come to finish the job. and so we had to keep her completely anonymous in the hospital. we had a code that we had to say to go see her. only family members and only ones that were listed. keith morrison: so you were always kind of looking over your shoulder? esther hartsky: definitely. keith morrison : lydias family was quite unaware that police did have a prime suspect, travis forbes, who was also a suspect in the disappearance of a girl lydias family had never heard of, kenia monge. detective jaclyn shaklee: the similarities were definitely the bleach. i dont know what it is about forbes but he has an obsession with bleach. and we had actually heard that from his past girlfriends as well that he would obsessively clean his house with bleach, and there was bleach used in kenias case as well, the fact that they were both dark haired, both p
working its way toward trial, he sat silently, mute in his cell. especially, when detective shaklee paid him a visit. detective jaclyn shaklee: he was looking at me like a caged animal. his eyes were huge. he it was really creepy. o obviously i wanted to talk to him. i wanted to get an interview with him and see if he would if he would tell me something, and he immediately said, im not talking to you. get get out of here. keith morrison : but across town, someone was communicating. after spending five weeks in icu, lydia tillman was transferred to a local rehab hospital, and a long, slow recovery began. boy #1 (home video): hi, lydia. esther hartsky: i showed her a video of my kids saying hello to her because they missed their aunt lydia. boy #2 (home video): i want you to get better soon. esther hartsky: and she got to the part where my four-year-old started to talk and she laughed and he said, hi, lydia. boy #3 (home video): hi, lydia. esther hartsky: its the first time i got to
biting tension, disappearances, dead-end games of cat and mouse, detective gurule was about to get the answers hed been searching for. and he was exhausted. to celebrate and rest up, gurule decided to take a few days off with his wife. detective nash gurule: so were driving out of town, i get a call that said he pulled out. keith morrison : coming up will he or won t he? detective nash gurule: i looked at her and im im crying. i said, theres nothing more i could do. keith morrison : then, the moment of truth detective jaclyn shaklee: his whole demeanor changed and he let out this scream, just this blood curdle it made me jump. i wasnt expecting it at all keith morrison: when dateline continues. type 2 diabetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone. i got the power of 3. i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it.