janet gomez: she was like, are you with kenia? and i said, no, i thought she was with you. somehow she disappeared. she was, like, are you with kenya? and i say u no, i thought she w with you. where was she? and clues on the surveillance tape and strange stories from a witness. and then another beauty. this one left for dead. she was unrecognizable. was evil stalking young women? both dark haired. both pretty girls. it was chillingly similar. a place that led to unheard of t places. and then finally, far from the city, the truth revealed on a quiet country road. he got out of the car. and let out this scream. and an act of courage from a woman who refused to be a victim. and i won. and i won. the woman barely alive. her jaw shattered in a dozen pieces. aaten once-beautiful face unrecognizable after the brutal beating, the rape, the fire, the fall, the massive, nearly-fatal stroke. someone thought she would be deadgh now. someone who fled into the night
for the missing car and then travis forbes. so my lieutenant said, grab your search warrant for his dna and head to texas. so i hop a plane that night. reporter: a few hours later gurule was face to face with travis forbes again. you know what? they sent me to texas because they think you re running to mexico. i was thinking of mexico. and you he d call me nash. i d call him travis. it was similar to you and i just talking. i wasn t confrontational with him. if he asked me a question i d give him an honest answer. one of the questions he asked me on one of the interviews i did with him, he said, what do you think of me? i said i think you re a creep. i think you re a jerk. i think you re a monster. how did he respond to that? he just looked at me and said, yeah, you re probably right.
when he didn t return it, she went to the police and filed a report. which more often than not would have led nowhere at all. except a policeman in austin with a little time on his hands decided to check up on an out of state license plate he just happened to notice. and discovered first the report for the missing car and then travis forbes. so my lieutenant said, grab your search warrant for his dna and head to texas. so i hop a plane that night. reporter: a few hours later gurule was face to face with travis forbes again. you know what? they sent me to texas because they think you re running to mexico. what would i do in mexico? he d call me nash, i d call him travis. it was similar to you and i just talking.
but by now family and friends were not alone in the search for kenya. a veteran police detective named nash started looking, too. to say that the detective is imposing is perhaps an understatement. he looks more like a character from the sopranos with but he hates when children go missing. i want find her. give her family closure, the city of denver closure, and i was determined to bring her home. i was determined to bring her home. gary lombardi was the deputy d.a. assigned to the case. we had to do something and time was sort of the essence because they were hoping that she was alive. the focus of course on the good samaritan the guy who had given kenya a ride, travis forbes who was 31 and had a rap
for his dna and head to texas. so i hop a plane that night. a few hours later how are you doing, travis? gurule was face-to-face with travis forbes again. you know what? they sent me to texas because they think you re running to mexico. i don t know what i d do in mexico? i don t know, get a tan. he d call me nash, i d call him travis. it was similar to just you and i talking. hmm. i wasn t confrontational with him. if he asked me a question, i gave him an honest answer. you didn t fly out all this way just to ask me some questions. well, actually i did. did you do anything to her? no. did you hurt her? no. we never touched. not at all? not even a hug. and i usually hug people. gurule questioned him for more than three hours, but travis stuck to his original story. so did she have sex with you?