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 family, and crickets were chirping. crickets were tripping? critics crickets were chirping. it was a who done it. nobody would do this to her, we can t imagine this would happen. the crime scene. offering very little clues. it was so destroyed from the fire, especially where the actual assault, and sexual assault, police in her bedroom. it was so burned. you could basically make out where the bed was. fingerprint, footprint, any forensic evidence, all up in smoke. or, destroyed by something else, discovered in the apartment. he did a good job of cleaning up. he did quite the job with the bleach. bleach? the apartment, still, smelled of it, despite the smoke. but, in spite of all of that bleach, they did find microscopic evidence that the attacker had left behind.
from the cbi. we have a hit. wow. yes. 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 in tears. we did it, he s charge, he s in jail, he s not getting out. i was relieved that now he is going to be in jail and now he can t hurt anybody and now i don t have to be searching for him. where travis s arrest also traveled quickly to kenia s family. i was shocked. i knew he would eventually hang himself. but i didn t think he would go out and tried to murder. and i was shocked, we were shocked. yeah. but they still didn t know what happened to kenya. quickly, the league family called a news conference and delivered a message to travis
. stimuli. try yesterday. she has rocked my world. doctor jill armor. i think lydia has the ability to make a full recovery, and i think she is tenacious and perseveres enough that, chevy may just do that. and so, a proper introduction. just ten months after the attack that nearly took her life, lydia spoke in her own words. people or amazed that you survived at all, frankly. yeah. i am amazed, to. what has been, in the long recovery process, the most difficult thing to do? re-learning how to speak. was, still difficult.
she didn t look like her. then, there is a tattoo on her calf, and i knew it was her. lydia s condition was critical. possibly, even, terminal. 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.
travis told them how he spotted her on the street, how he raped her, how he strangled her, how he stuffed or in his cooler. drove around with the body in his white van for a whole day, and then stored in the bakeries freezer while he cleaned out his van with bleach and burned her clothes. and then, early next morning, he buried her body near a clump of trees. after we were done with our interview, i walked up to him and stuck out my hand and said thanks. and he stood up, shook my hand, and said i told you i would do it. i said, you did. he said, you just would not give up. and i looked at him and said, you are right. later that day, travis also confessed to the attempted murder of lydia tillman. soon he will be sentenced separately for both crimes.