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. i think you re going to back out. and i think you re spineless. and i think it s all about you, it s a game. i said i think you re going to pull out. he says, no, i won t. i said, travis, you do what you say you re going to do, i ll be the first one to shake your hand. he knew the fort collins authorities would buy in. so all he needed now were the crossed ts and dotted is. the legal formalities. i left the jail, went out to my car, and thought to myself, did i just hear this right or am i dreaming? i even played the recording back to myself.
infectious smile on her face that she brought a gift for me. it s a bracelet. it s on may i open it? yes. an acronym for my name. ah. it says live your days inspired anew. which, of course, spells lydia. there is great sadness surrounding the story of travis forbes. unending sadness for kenia s family. for the unknown other families who, as many now suspect, may have been victimized by his past behavior. and then from that darkest place came the indomitable lydia who
reporter: all that. the cleaning, the cooler moving, happened two nights after kenia went missing. so detective gurule checked with several of the bakery s employees to see what else travis was up to that evening. he burns some stuff in a barrel. we found that barrel down the alley at the other end of the parking lot. and monica poole told one of the detectives, hey, that s my grease barrel. what s it doing down there? reporter: travis claimed he was using it to burn some moldy marijuana. the barrel was sent to the crime lab. we ran that for dna. we ran that for fingerprints. reporter: but nothing turned up. if there were any clues in that barrel, they had been burned. travis forbes, despite all his suspicious behavior and his strange story, was still just a person of interest. people do weird things in
nash, i think at this point i my lawyer should be present. reporter: 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. i m going to swab the inside of your tongue. reporter: and 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. reporter: 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 women there.
i was hoping that she would pop up and say here i am. but as time went by and she wasn t contacting anybody and i knew it was bad. reporter: he also knew that the key to finding kenia was finding travis forbes. the denver police had no idea where travis was, whether he was in hiding here in town or had left the city, left the state, left the country. he was just gone. wasn t much they could do. he was a person of interest but not officially a suspect. and then two weeks later out of the blue detectives got a call from austin, texas. and my lieutenant walked into the office and said, okay. i said what? she said austin p.d. just called our fugitive unit. we might have him in austin, texas. i m like, what? reporter: travis, it turned out, had borrowed a car from an old girlfriend in colorado.