remained evasive. i said, i ve been here a long time, travis, i m done. i m done playing chess with you. i said you move one way, i move another way. i said i m coming for you. i m telling you that. i said the next time you see me i ll be charging you for murder. i said what do you want out of this? what exactly do you want out of this? i want to go to prison without being labeled as a sex offender. okay. what else? that s it. that s it. you ll confess to everything if you go to prison without being labeled a sex offender? is that what you re saying? you re man enough to say that? yes. yes. yes. that s what i m saying. reporter: detective gurule was stunned. travis wanted to cut a deal? gurule used a little reverse psychology to make sure he meant it. i told him i think you re full of it, i don t think you re going to do this.
history of this police department has that ever happened. ever. reporter: finally, after frustrating months of knuckle-biting tension, disappearances, dead-end games of cat and mouse, detective gurule was about to get the answers he d been searching for. and he was exhausted. to celebrate and rest up gurule decided to take a few days off with his wife. so we re driving out of town. i get a call and they said he pulled out. chilling connections returns after the break.
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.
travis, this is detective gurule. reporter: he s a talker. very, very charming, very manipulative. i never met her before then. reporter: and talk travis did, reciting the very same story he 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 would take her home. she put his arm through his arm while they were sitting there smoking. and they spoke french. and they walked off and that s it. that was the last that was it. then i went home. that s the last you see her? yes. reporter: travis was cool, calm, even contrite about leaving kenia with that strange fellow at the gas station. if she had made the choice to go back home or to get back in, i would have taken her home. if i had felt any sort of
sound. and travis forbes remained free. not even aware, quite possibly, at what the detective and the d.a. were up to. we had a lot of conversations and we did a lot of warrants. we were poring through phone records, and they continued to interview people constantly, and we just were waiting for the one thing, something we could arrest him with. reporter: but even if they could arrest travis, first they had to find him. because not long after that tv interview, travis forbes disappeared. coming up, travis gone. i put out a teletype saying, if you find any bodies, give me a call. and then another surprise. my lieutenant said grab your search warrant for his dna. so i hop a plane that night. when deadly connection continues. he was the boogey man, and