come forward and say, yeah, i know this guy. reporter: but d.a. lombardi did get a search warrant for travis s white cargo van, to see if it held any clues. and inside it reeked of bleach. to the point where when you spray something like on a ceiling, a roof, and you spray it so much it drips down, that s how much bleach he d sprayed on this van. he was determined to erase something. everything. everything. so we re going through his van, we re taking off doors, we re vacuuming, we re crawling underneath it. reporter: the van for the most part was spotless. except for something odd that caught the cop s attention. we found some weeds underneath. we found some dirt. some dust. different things. hmm. what d that tell you? he s been on a dirt road. at least that van has.
we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off and we didn t know what to do first. so we were just trying to figure out what have we got to do. reporter: and then, one terrifying day later, the mysterious travis finally returned tony s calls. and travis had some rather stunning news about kenia s whereabouts and just who she might be with. coming up, tony on a mission that would leave his wife paralyzed with fear. i was so afraid. grabbed the 9-millimeter pistol, and i packed it in my waist, and i told her, i m on my way to meet this guy. when dateline continues.
travis forbes, despite all his suspicious behavior and his strange story, was still just a person of interest. people do weird things in their normal life. how do we know that he s just weirgu reporter: and then a few days later gurule s investigation turned up more surveillance video, which seemed to tell a whole new story because there was kenia with another man entirely. this caught the two of them in the lobby of an apartment building near the club where kenia had been drinking. was she going up to his place? well, if she was, she didn t stay long because a few minutes later kenia showed up in yet another surveillance video, weaving somewhat unsteadily across the lobby of a nearby hotel. and the way kenia was acting caught the attention of d.a. kerri lombardi. i think that from all the surveillance she was very obviously intoxicated. it was scary. she was someone that you would look at and think this is a victim waiting to happen.
the last person known to have seen kenya monhay alive before she disappeared. the man whose strange behavior had ramped up detective s suspicions even though the evidence did not warrant an arrest. weeks after kenya vanished, the detective had two two problems, kenya wasn t the only one missing, so was travis. he was gone, i couldn t find him anywhere. i was scrambling to find him. i was checking news, i would put out a teletype online with law enforcement, saying you know, you find any bodies, give me a call. this guy was that dangerous in your mind? i was calling everybody. i wanted to find out where he was. days passed. then a week, no sign of travis, detective guerlet was working the case almost 24/7. even his wife was involved. there was nights where i
happened to travis forbes that weekend. he apparently had second thoughts about his own second thoughts. and when i got back on monday, i got a call and they said the deal s back on, it s being finalized, we should be able to be going next week. sometimes taking a weekend away is quite profitable. yes. the weight of the world just got lifted from me. the deal with travis was quite straightforward. no death penalty, no sex crimes charges. and no exchange he would give them 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 2011 forbes found himself in a procession of police cars on a country road northeast of denver. investigators had been here many times before, searching the fields near the farm town of keenesburg looking for kenia. but this day travis had solemnly