but travis was about to be released, and there was still no word from the lab. would the suspect be free to roam the streets yet again? with more of our story, here s keith morrison. brown brick building 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 round the clock, comparing a dna sample of lydia tillman s attacker to that of travis forbes to see if they 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
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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.
but travis was about to be released and there was no word from the lab. would the suspect be free to roam the streets yet again? with more of our story, here s keith morrison. brown brick building 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 round the clock, comparing a dna sample of lydia tillman s attacker to that of travis forbes to see if they 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.
fields near the farm town of keenesburg looking for kenia. but this day travis had solemnly promised he was going to show them. trailing a car behind travis was d.a. kerri lombardi, nervous, anxious, and pessimistic. i was worried he wouldn t follow through. because i felt like he sort of liked this game, i thought. so on the way what were you thinking? will he do this? will he not? will something spook him? will he change his mind? is this a big farce? you know, i didn t know if, you know, there was even if we were even going to the right place. reporter: travis was in the lead car, which included detectives nash gurule and jaclyn shaklee. it was really quiet for the first like five or ten minutes. he was sitting right next to me. i had an air cast on my foot because i had a running injury. he looked down and said what did you do to your foot? i said it s a stress fracture from running.