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Paid off. and he was able to get him extradited back to a colorado jail, but the smooth talker wouldnt stay there long. here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: travis forbes was right where they wanted him, behind bars. they were holding him on suspicion of stealing a friends car, not for kenia monges 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 tow...

Recorded in the days just after kenia went missing, police wondered had the camera captured the young man covering up a crime? again is keith morrison. the trouble started before kenia monge went missing. trouble at this denver bakery, that is. the one where travis forbes rented space to bake his granola bars. somebody was pilfering money from the bakery cash register. owner monica poole was at first puzzled by the discrepancy, then gradually became sure there was a thief in the shop. fortunat...

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. >> 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 defi...

Nothing. >> reporter: what janet didnt know is that kenia and the two other girls couldnt get into 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, shel...

She had recently graduated from one of colorados top high schools, was now considering careers in tv production or criminology. here she is directing a student film. all the more remarkable because just seven years earlier kenia didnt know more than a word or two of english. >> [ speaking spanish ]. >> reporter: and not a single person in denver. apart, that is, from her mother, maria, who had migrated from honduras a few years before. and when she and kenia were finally reunited -- >> it was th...

Travis told them how he spotted kenia on the street. how he raped her, how he strangled her, how he stuffed her in his cooler, drove around with the body in his white van for a whole day, then stored it in the bakerys freezer while he cleaned out his van with bleach and burned her clothes. and then early the next morning he buried her body near a clump of cottonwood trees. >> after we were done with our interview i walked up to him and stuck out my hand. i go, thanks. and he stood up, shook my h...

Especially her cell phone. and she certainly wouldnt just leave it with two people she hardly knew. >> something is really wrong. something is wrong. >> reporter: the night after kenia was last seen here in lodo one of the girls she was drinking with showed up at the lees house to drop off her belongings. kenia was happily dancing till about 1:00 in the morning she said with some guy and then she disappeared. they looked for her but couldnt find her, she said. and when the bar closed, they took ...

Jtsds taking sex crime charges and the death penalty off the table, he led authorities to the ravine where he buried kenia monges body. he later confessed to kenias murder and to the attempted murder of lydia tillman. all that was left was the sentencing. but unbenounsed to travis, there was one more surprise in store. here with the conclusion of the story. is keith morrisson. >> reporter: she was home now. after five long horrible months. kenia monge fg given a proper burial. >> we needed her h...

>> reporter: it was now july 1st, exactly three months since 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, ...

Surprise. >> his friend dropped the charges on the stolen car. she was very adamant that he didnt do anything wrong. >> why did that happen? >> i would talk to her sometimes daily, and she was his biggest supporter. >> she wouldnt believe that he was a dangerous guy. >> absolutely not. not the travis forbes she knows. there is no way that he did anything to kenia. >> but here was the problem. without the stolen car charge there was no way to keep travis in jail. they had to let him go. deputy d....