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To do this. she said, you talk in your sleep about it. kenias name or even travis name. youre obsessed. >> reporter: kenias family wasnt sleeping much, either. >> i thought that she might have been kidnapped and put in a basement, and, like, they werent letting her get any contact with anyone. i had dreams and things. i felt like i still had that sister connection that she was here somewhere, needing me to come help her, to save her and bring her back home. >> reporter: were you thinking about i...

Judge. its freeing for her. and i understand that. and i did the same. because were not going to live in that hatred, in that -- that state of mind that doesnt allow you to recover and to heal. >> shes amazing. to do what she did and to endure what she went through, i couldnt imagine. i couldnt imagine. she is -- shes a superhero in my eyes. >> reporter: and then there was one more surprise. no, not traviss sentence, life in prison. that was merely a formality. it was another gift. this time fro...

Independent, too, was kenia. after high school, she moved out to make it on her own. >> she always wanted to be something big. she always wanted to be a ceo or something. that was her goal in life, was to be somebody. >> she came from having nothing to being somebody, and on one of her calendars it said, like, study, study, study, and then it says party on the last day. she was balancing her job and she was balancing school, and she was balancing, like, her party life. >> reporter: but on the mo...

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. >> you were always kind of looking over your shoulder. >> definitely. >> reporter: 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. >> the similarities were definitely the bleach. i dont know what it...

Know is that kenia and the two other girls couldnt get in the club. the bouncers werent buying their fake i.d. cards. so they went to another club nearby, even took a few pictures. but they didnt tell anyone they were there. >> and i sent her the last message about 11:30 and nothing. >> reporter: so when the clubs closed, janet headed home without kenia, who she assumed was with some other friends. >> i thought, okay, theyre probably just having fun. shell call tomorrow. she would always call me...

Like i didnt really think she was going to be gone that long. >> reporter: but after 48 long hours -- whats that like, that feeling? >> the feeling of being, like, desperate to know where your sister is because that was not only my best friend. that was my sister, that was my other half. she was everything to me. >> reporter: that second night after kenia vanished, there was this call from a total stranger named travis. >> hello? travis called me back about 8:00 p.m. >> reporter: the guy that le...

Think negative or anything. we had a lot of thoughts. i dont know, maybe we shouldnt have done that. >> reporter: have done what? >> going out to -- you know, we were just 19, we were not 21. >> reporter: and you should have looked after her. >> yeah. she wasnt with me, because i know if she would have been with me, she would have been safe. >> reporter: even her sister kim with whom kenia texted constantly hadnt heard a word. but she did get a call from kenias boyfriend who had been talking to ...

Oh, it had more than started for kenia monge, swallowed up by whatever it was, some dark presence haunting the happy, tipsy streets of lodo. coming up, kenias family starts to worry. had that dark presence, whatever it might be, come for their own daughter? >> thats when i went into high alert. amazon prime video is now on xfinity x1.

Kenia disappeared, and gurule had good reason to worry. >> our detectives are watching. he goes out to the bar district in fort collins, and hes acting like a fool. jumping on peoples cars, you know, raising -- just trying to get a lot of attention. >> reporter: so fort collins police, unaware that travis was the subject of a denver investigation, pulled him aside there in the bar district, had a little talk with him, nothing serious, no charges, just conversation. >> after they finished the con...

>> travis, this is detective gurule. >> reporter: hes a talker. >> very, very charming, very manipulative. >> i never met her before then. >> reporter: and talk travis did, reciting the very same story he told tony lee about picking up a lost and distressed kenia downtown, then stopping for cigarettes at that gas station where she met another man who said he would take her home. >> she put his arm through his arm while they were sitting there smoking. and they spoke french. and they walked off a...