foreign, but he was obsessed with bleach. we heard from pasco friends that he, would ve cecily, clean his house with bleach. there was bleach used in kenya s case, as well. the fact that they were both dark haired, pretty girls, around the same age, it was chillingly similar. the frightening fact he was out of the suspect was out there, are on the street, at large, and potentially targeting his next victim, it would stay that way unless detectives could prove the attacks were, both, the work of travis for. there was one possibility, and really, only one. sitting at the denver police crime lab or several swabs of travis s dna, which, detective nash, had obtained from the two top texas. we needed that, obviously, quickly, to compare to what had been collected from lydia, when she was transported to hospital. which she had been sprayed with bleach, and everything. she had been burned. was there any dna left? there was. it was pretty amazing. it s amazing how resilient dna
i called assistant da lombardi and said, make a deal. you want to deal? yeah, i don t care what it is. you can take it down to manslaughter. i didn t care. just make a deal. we just want kenya. we really couldn t i mean, at that, we were getting there. we were still investigating. where i really wanted was for tell us where she was, so we could give closure to this family. but travis was now facing an attempted murder charge for the assault on lydia. and as his case started working its way toward child, he sat silently, mute, especially when detective shaq lee paid him a visit. he s looking at me like a caged animal. his eyes were huge. it was really creepy. obviously i wanted to talk to him. i wanted to get an interview with him and see if he would tell me something. and he immediately said, i m not talking to, you get out of here.
they induced a coma, and the intent to keep her alive, stabilizer, and treat her horrendous injuries. her jaw was crushed. her eye sockets, her wrist, broken, shattered. then, she had broken ribs, probably more than we even knew. what is the emotion that comes with that? i didn t want to lose my sister. i wanted her, in my life. what did we need to do to help her? to get her back to us? lydia was single, attractive, very popular. but now, here she was, raped, and beaten, and then burned to death in their own home. they were beaten severely, and it just sounded very personal. for sure, it was somebody who is in the inner circle that was close. for the next few days, they cloned fort collins, checking with anybody who knew lydia. we talk to exploit friends, to who she had dated, with her
got lifted from me. they deal with travis was quite straightforward. no death penalty, no sex crime charges. and in exchange, he would give a complete confession, what he did to kenia and lydia. and one more thing, he would show them exactly where kenia was. and so, on a humid morning in september of 2011, forbes found himself in a procession of police cars on a country road northeast of denver. investigators have been here many times before, searching the fields near the farm town of keensberg looking for kenia. but today, winds da carry lombardi, nervous, anxious, and pessimistic. i was worried he wouldn t follow through. because i felt like, he sort of like this game, i thought. so, along the way, where you are thinking will he do, this will he
tillman was coming home. [applause] because of the stroke, speech was still practically impossible. but the fact she was walking at all truly amazing, some kind of miracle, said her doctor. i believed that lydia should not have survived that day. she went through so much. and she probably should not have made it, but she did. and it was because of her determination and her joy. soon after that, at travis forbes sentencing hearing, lydia met kenia s family. i looked at lydia and wished she was kenia. i hate to say that. but i m glad she was able to escape the monster. yeah. it was overwhelming, to see the amount of her strength and her will to live. and what she did during her court proceedings that day, that he was sentence for what