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Outgoing. just a happy person. >> reporter: among the partiers, janet gomez, one of kenias closest friends. she loved to have fun. >> yeah, she loved to have fun. >> reporter: underage fun. no trouble sneaking in. they charmed the bouncers, flashed fake i.d.s. kenia and her crew had a kind of unwritten safety rule. go together and leave together. look out for each other. but on this particular night things didnt go as planned. >> we had planned to meet at lavish. we went in there, and she wasnt ...

Epte this according to family and good friends was not like kenia. she didnt drink to excess. she would never run off with a strange guy and leave her purse and phone and keys behind. in fact, when tony saw this video, he was convinced. kenia wasnt drunk. something was done to her. >> i absolutely believe 100% that she was slipped a date rape drug because everything that she did in that club that night was against anything that shes ever done before. >> reporter: gurule tracked down the young ma...

And thats when it all started. >> reporter: started? oh, it had more than started for kenia monge. swallowed up by, well, whatever it was. some dark presence haunting the happy dipsy streets of lodo. >> coming up, kenias family starts to worry. and that dark presence, whatever it might be, had it come for their own daughter? >> something is wrong. something is wrong. >> thats when i went into high alert. >> when "chilling connections" continues. n "chilling connectio" continues. shield℠ annuit...

At first when the messages suddenly stopped -- >> i didnt really take it seriously, like i didnt think she was going to be gone that long. >> reporter: but after 48 long hours -- >> whats that like? that feeling. >> its a feeling of being like desperate to know where your sister is. because that was not only my best friend, like that was my sister. that was my other half. that was everything to me. >> reporter: and then that second night after kenia vanished there was this call from a total stra...

>> reporter: but she was 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 of something. that was her goal in life, was to be somebody. >> ah! >> she came from having nothing to being somebody, and on one of her calendars it says 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...

>> man. im sorry that i -- that i was indifferent. that i didnt think anything. i didnt think anything. i didnt think she was going to disappear. >> when the reporter asked him -- >> did you murder her? >> i did not. no. >> he says "no." >> reporter: then as the interview was wrapping up, travis, who seemed to remember every little detail that night, had trouble recalling one small but rather critical fact. >> um. whats her name? >> kenia. >> kenia. yeah. >> and we were all watching. and we lost...

Courtroom including the judge. its freeing for her. i understand that. i did the same. were not going to live in that hatred. in that state of mind that doesnt allow you to recover and 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 super-hero in my eyes. >> reporter: there was one more surprise. not traviss sentence. life in prison. that was merely a formality. it was another gift. this time from kenia. to lydia....

Hearing. lydia met kenias family. >> i wished it was kenia. i hate to say that. im glad she was able to escape the monster. overwhelming to see the amount of her strength and her will to live. and what she did during her court proceedings on the day that he was sentenced for what he did to her. >> reporter: what she did that day? a simply amazing. hard to believe. sitting just feet away from the man who raped her. smashed her face and body. doused her with bleach. set her on fire. lydia tillman ...

Frontier, i think, as well as elih, you mentioned the findings of the mueller investigation. thank you-all so much for being here. that will do it for us this year on "kasie d.c." well be back next week but for now, good night from washington. now, good night from washington. a gorgeous evening. girls night out. >> she loved to have fun. >> yeah, she loved to have fun. >> kenia was bright, pretty, adored by everyone. >> i felt like she was like my twin. >> partying with friends. somehow she di...

Keenesburg. >> reporter: keenesburg. that little farm town an hour east of denver. >> he used his credit card. and i had his bank records. so i saw that he swiped it at this gas station. so we went up there and got the surveillance tape, and thats him trying to get gas. >> reporter: this was not traviss first trip to keenesburg. remember, he was tracked here soon after kenia disappeared. so what was he doing here? had he brought kenia out here? was there a body hidden somewhere on the high plain...