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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 ....
reporter: kenia s father tony made himself a public fixture on local media. but privately, he conducted his own very lonely investigation. i went dumpster diving. i was looking at trash cans for her body. up and down the alleys, all over. and yet you couldn t tell maria. i couldn t tell her. i could not share what i was feeling because that early in would have removed the only thing that right now everybody had. and that one thing that everybody had was hope. i was hoping that she would pop up and say here i am. but as time went by and she wasn t contacting anybody and i knew it was bad. reporter: he also knew that the key to finding kenia was finding travis forbes. the denver police had no idea ....
I was hoping that she would pop up and say here i am. but as time went by and she wasn t contacting anybody and i knew it was bad. reporter: he also knew that the key to finding kenia was finding travis forbes. the denver police had no idea where travis was, whether he was in hiding here in town or had left the city, left the state, left the country. he was just gone. wasn t much they could do. he was a person of interest but not officially a suspect. and then two weeks later out of the blue detectives got a call from austin, texas. and my lieutenant walked into the office and said, okay. i said what? she said austin p.d. just called our fugitive unit. we might have him in austin, texas. i m like, what? reporter: travis, it turned out, had borrowed a car from an old girlfriend in colorado. ....
Own, very lonely, investigation. i went dumpster diving. i was looking in trash cans for her body. up and down the alleys, all over. reporter: yet you couldn t tell maria. i couldn t tell her. i couldn t share what i was feeling because that early in would have removed the only thing that right now everybody had, and that one thing that everybody had was hope. i was hoping that she would pop up and say, here i am! but as time went by and she wasn t contacting anybody i knew it was bad. reporter: he also knew that the key to finding kenia was finding travis forbes. the denver police had no idea where travis was, whether he was in hiding here in town or had left the city, left the state, left the country. he was just gone. there wasn t much they could do. he was a person of interest, but ....
Own very lonely investigation. i went dumpster diving. i was looking in trash cans for her body. up and down the allies, all over. and yet you couldn t tell maria? i couldn t tell her. i could not share what i was feeling because that early in would have removed the only thing that right now everybody had, and that one thing that everybody had was hope. i was hoping that she would pop up and say, here i am. but as time went by and she wasn t contacted anybody and i knew it was bad. he also knew that the key to finding kenia was finding travis forbes. the denver police had no idea where travis was, whether he was in hiding here in town or had left the city, left the state, left the country. ....