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
quickly, the lee family called a news conference and delivered a message to travis forbes. tony lee : if anybody is going to relay any messages to him, tell him, or if you guys talk to him, tell him we got just one question, where is kenia? thats it. keith morrison : but travis wasnt talking anymore, so lee offered a radical idea. tony lee: i called assistant da lombardi, and i said, make a deal. keith morrison: you wanted a deal? tony lee: yeah, i dont care what it is. i dont i said, i dont care you can take it down to manslaughter. i didnt care. just make a deal. its just we just want kenia. kerri lombardi: we really couldnt at that i mean, we were getting there. we were still investigating. what i really wanted was for tell us where she was so we could give closure to this family. keith morrison : but travis was now facing an attempted murder charge for the assault on lydia, and as his case started
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
esther hartsky: it was really scary. and since we didnt know who had done this, i kept looking out of the hospital room and seeing if someone would come to finish the job. and so we had to keep her completely anonymous in the hospital. we had a code that we had to say to go see her. only family members and only ones that were listed. keith morrison: so you were always kind of looking over your shoulder? esther hartsky: definitely. keith morrison : lydias family was quite unaware that police did have a prime suspect, travis forbes, who was also a suspect in the disappearance of a girl lydias family had never heard of, kenia monge. detective jaclyn shaklee: the similarities were definitely the bleach. i dont know what it is about forbes but he has an obsession with bleach. and we had actually heard that from his past girlfriends as well that he would obsessively clean his house with bleach, and there was bleach used in kenias case as well, the fact that they were both dark haired, both p
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