place, but they didn t find much. travis was there so they took him downtown for questioning. travis, this is detective gurule. how s it going? he s a talker. very, very charming. very, very manipulative. i never met her before then and and talk travis did, reciting the very same story he d told tony lee about picking up a lost and distressed kenia downtown then stopping for cigarettes at that gas station, where she met another man who said he d take her home. she put her arm through his arm, like while they were while they were sitting there smoking and they spoke spanish and they walked off. and that s it. that was the last that was it. and i went home. that s the last you ve seen of her? yes. travis was cool, calm, even contrite about leaving kenia with that strange fella at the gas station. if she had made the choice to to go back home or to get in
little farther, but if she expected to see travis stealing, she got a surprise. it looked like he had been scrubbing. so as he s coming into the office with these gloves on his hand, now, they re not just like little gloves you wear when you re handling food, they re cleaning glub cleaning gloves, rubber latex, the kind that go all the way up to your elbows. i thought, what in the world is he wear those for? monica called the tapes who took a good look at the whole security system and found this intriguing scene of travis, this time with his granola bar cooler. he actually unloads the cooler, puts it on a little cart and it s taped shut with black duct tape. he puts it in the freezer in the bakery, and there s employees walking around. detective gurule consulted monica. police asked me, did he store the cooler in the freezer? i said, no, he never put it is
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 place, and so from an already overstretched police department a decision.
matched. 60 miles away in fort collins detective jaclyn shaklee couldn t sit still. i was high on adrenaline. it was a waiting game. i mean, i kept looking at my phone, hoping for the technician from cbi to call me. reporter: especially because travis forbes, who was being held in the fort collins jail, was due to be released soon. very soon. he was given a bond and was about to bond out like 10:30 on monday night. reporter: the weekend was over. monday ticked by. it s a long process. it s not like a tv show where you can they do it in 40 minutes and you have a hit. so i knew it was going to take a while. i just kept praying that it would happen earlier. reporter: and then, just minutes before travis s release, a call from the cbi. we had a hit. wow. yes. reporter: the man who attacked lydia tillman was, the dna confirmed, travis forbes. it was the biggest adrenaline dump ever. and of course i called detective gurule in tears.
nash, at this point i think i i my lawyer should be present. so travis refused to talk anymore, but he didn t have a choice about providing his dna thanks to that warrant detective gurule brought from colorado. just going to swab the inside of your mouth. though a stolen car charge seemed hardly enough to warrant extradition, it was in the end just enough, and a few weeks later travis was back in a colorado jail. i didn t want him in texas, i wanted him here. i wanted to have access to him. where you can continue the conversation? absolutely. but detective gurule was in for a big surprise. slippery guy, that travis forbes. coming up, the story moves on to another chapter, a different city and another young woman. fort collins is a college town and it has a lot of young