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bureau of investigation who had no necessary buy-in into this was but they were working around the clock as well because they knew what a big deal this was. reporter: 60 miles away in denver detective nash gurule was also awaiting those dna results, anxiously. but he was also angry. at myself. at yourself? why? thinking to myself, what else could i have done to prevent this? what other evidence could i have gathered that would have got him arrested? did i miss something that could have kept him there? i could have had something concrete to arrest him on. what did i miss? and i threw that around in my head. you take this stuff personally. this one i did. and i m thinking to myself, is he that smart? is he that smart? reporter: and now forbes was out here, somewhere. friday night, dark now. it was warm in fort collins. a college town, remember. in the old town bar district
he never puts it in the freezer. it has granola bars in it. they don t need to be frozen. so that just seemed really strange. 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.
outgoing. just a happy person. reporter: among the partiers, janet gomez, one of kenia s closest friends. she loved to have fun. yeah, she loved to have fun. reporter: underage fun. no trouble sneaking in. they charmed the bouncers, flashed fake i.d.s. kenia and her crew had a kind of unwritten safety rule. go together and leave together. look out for each other. but on this particular night things didn t go as planned. we had planned to meet at lavish. we went in there, and she wasn t in there. reporter: kenia had gotten a ride downtown with two other girls she didn t know very well. her plan was to meet janet and some other friends at lavish, but she didn t show up. i started texting her, and no response. and i called her three times.
reporter: but she was independent, too, was kenia. after high school she moved out to make it on her own. she always wanted to be something big. she always wanted to be a ceo of something. that was her goal in life, was to be somebody. ah! she came from having nothing to being somebody, and on one of her calendars it says like study, study, study, and then it says party on the last day. she was balancing her job, and she was balancing school, and she was balancing like her party life. reporter: but on the morning of april fool s day 2011 nothing was balanced. something was wrong. her friend janet gomez desperate to hear from kenia dove for her phone the moment it rang. but it wasn t from kenia. it was another girlfriend. she s like are you with kenia? and i say no. i thought she was with you.