paid off. and he was able to get him extradited back to a colorado jail, but the smooth talker wouldn t stay there long. here again is keith morrison. reporter: travis forbes was right where they wanted him, behind bars. they were holding him on suspicion of stealing a friend s car, not for kenia monge s disappearance. but at least he was here, back in colorado. getting him back, how important was that to you? very important. i wanted to know where he was. and you wanted him in your town. yes. reporter: detective nash gurule was hoping to coax travis to tell the real story of what happened to 19-year-old kenia monge. by this time kenia had been missing for several weeks. he was the person. we had eliminated pretty much everybody else. reporter: but just as detective gurule was closing in on travis, as he geared up to pry out a confession, or at least evidence sufficient to lay a charge, he got a nasty little
he decided to go public. you know, the truth is all we have. 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 s actions as his answers. he lied. it was in his demeanor. it was in his body language. it was it was all there.
reporter: it was now july 1st, exactly three months since kenia disappeared, and gurule had good reason to worry. our detectives are watching. he goes out to the bar district in fort collins, and he s acting like a fool. jumping on people s cars, you know, raising just trying to get a lot of attention. reporter: so fort collins police, unaware that travis was the subject of a denver investigation, pulled him aside there in the bar district, had a little talk with him, nothing serious, no charges, just conversation. after they finished the contact with him, our detectives go up and say hey, we re watching him, he s a person of interest on our case, you might have heard of the case, explained the case to them. they re like, okay, okay, i ll let everybody know. reporter: denver police kept an eye on travis, hoping he might lead them to kenia s body. but he stayed in fort collins, crashed at his grandparents
surprise. his friend dropped the charges on the stolen car. she was very adamant that he didn t do anything wrong. why did that happen? i would talk to her sometimes daily, and she was his biggest supporter. she wouldn t believe that he was a dangerous guy. absolutely not. not the travis forbes she knows. there is no way that he did anything to kenia. but here was the problem. without the stolen car charge there was no way to keep travis in jail. they had to let him go. deputy d.a. kerri lombardi was nervous. i mean, i was really worried about what he would do. it was very stressful because i really wanted to be able to find her and we really wanted to get some evidence that we could hold him on. reporter: at least, vowed detective gurule, they would not lose him. not again. we put surveillance on him for a couple days. and he went up to that area in
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