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
on the outskirts of denver is normally quiet at night and on weekends. but in mid-july 2011, the colorado bureau of investigation crime lab was a beehive of activity. a team of technicians were working around the clock comparing a dna sample of lydia tillmans attacker to that of travis forbes to see if they matched. sixty miles away in fort collins, detective jaclyn shaklee couldnt sit still. detective jaclyn shaklee: i was high on adrenaline. it was a weighing game. i mean, i kept looking at the phone, hoping for the technician from cbi to call me. keith morrison : especially, because travis forbes who was being held in the fort collins jail was due to be released soon. very soon. detective jaclyn shaklee: he was given a bond and was about to bond out like ten thirty on monday night. keith morrison : the weekend was over. monday ticked by. detective jaclyn shaklee: its a long process. its not like a tv show where you can they do it in forty minutes and you have a hit. so i knew it wa
qulipta. keith morrison : travis forbes was right where they wanted him, behind bars. travis forbes was right where they wanted him, behind bars. they were holding him on suspicion of stealing a car, not for kenya s disappearance. but at least he was here back in colorado. getting him back, how important was that to you? very important. i wanted to know where he was. and you wanted him in your town? yes. detective nash was hoping to cash travis to tell the real story of what happened to kenya. by this time, kenya had been missing for several weeks. he was the person. we had eliminate the pretty much everybody else. but just as the detective was gearing up on travis, he got a nasty little surprise. his friend dropped the
keith morrison : but detective gurules murder case against travis forbes and his search for kenia monge had both stalled nearly five months after kenia vanished and still no sign of her. but one day he got a call from the crime lab requesting another dna sample of travis for the fbi. detective nash gurule: i drove up there to get his dna. i walked in, laid down my recorder. he didnt want to talk to any of the detectives in fort collins, anywhere. but he always talked to me. travis forbes (interrogation video): whats up, nash? why are you here? detective nash gurule (interrogation video): i am here because i have a warrant for you. keith morrison : and for the next two hours, like a couple of old college chums, the two shot the breeze about philosophy and books and religion, and of course, kenias case, about which travis remained evasive. detective nash gurule: i said, ive been here a long time, travis, im done. im done playing chess with you. i said, you know, you move one way, i move
i i couldnt sleep. there was no way it didnt really matter, i didnt care. and it was amazing because we had technicians at the colorado bureau of investigation who had no necessary buy in to this case. but they were working around the clock as well because they knew what a big deal this was. keith morrison : sixty miles away in denver, detective nash gurule was also awaiting those dna results anxiously. but he was also angry. detective nash gurule: at myself. keith morrison: at yourself? why? detective nash gurule: thinking to myself what else could i have done to prevent this? keith morrison: what other evidence could i have gathered that would had got him arrested? detective nash gurule: 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. keith morrison: you take this stuff personally? detective nash gurule: this one i did. and im thinking to myself, is he that smart? is he th