would come forward with a clue. we kept putting our ears everywhere. we had to do it. she s our friend. it got nowhere. you just have to be strong. you just pray for the best. but now, family and friends were not alone in the search for kenya. a veteran denver police detective name nash started looking, too. to say that the detective is imposing is, perhaps, an understatement. he looks more like a character from the sopranos, that hates when children go missing. i wanted to find her, give her family closure, and give the city of denver closure. i was determined to bring her home. i was determined to bring her home. carrie lombardi was the deputy da assigned at the case.
coax travis for kenya monet. this time, kenya had been missing for several weeks. he was the person, and eliminated pretty much everyone else. just because the detective it closed in on travis, they were crying out a confession, or at least, evidence sufficient to lay a charge. he got a nasty little surprise. his friend dropped the charges on the stolen car. she was adamant, he didn t do anything wrong. why did that happen? i would talk to her sometimes, daily, and she was his biggest supporter. she would not believe he was a dangerous guy? absolutely not. not the travis that she knew. there was no way that he did anything to kenya. here is the problem. but, without the stolen car charge, there is no way to keep travis in jail. they had to let him go. deputy da, carrie, was
but now, family and friends were not alone in the search for kenya. a veteran denver police detective name nash started looking for her, too. to say that the detective is imposing is, perhaps, an understatement. he looks more like a director from the sopranos, but he hates when children go missing. i wanted to find her, give her family closure, and give the city of denver closure. i was determined to bring her home. i was determined to bring her home. carrie lombardi was the deputy da assigned at the case. time is of the essence, because they were still hoping she was alive, and certainly, there is always still that hope. i felt alone pressure, personally, to give the family some closure. i could not stand the thought of having a child out there. i don t know where they were
to say detective gurule is imposing is perhaps an understatement. looks more like a character from the sopranos. but hates when children go missing. i wanted to find her. i wanted to give her family closure. i wanted to give the city of denver closure. i was determined to bring her home. i was determined to bring her home. reporter: carrie lombardi was the deputy d.a. assigned to the case. i felt a lot of pressure personally to give this family some closure. i couldn t stand the thought of having a child out there and not knowing if they were alive or where they were. and i really wanted to be able to give them that information. reporter: they focused first of course on the good samaritan, the guy who d given kenia a ride, travis forbes.
wow. we send out bulletins. we put it on the news. and we didn t get anybody to come forward and say, yeah, i know this guy. reporter: but d.a. lombardi did get a search warrant for travis 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.