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Finally cut a deal with travis forbes to reveal what happened to kenia monge. but just hours later, gurule got a call. the deal was dead. >> i was devastated. i was devastated. i hung up the phone. my wife looked at me. and she says, you okay? and i looked at her, and im crying. i said, theres nothing more i could do. i got him there. i led him there. i led him to the trough. >> reporter: gurule and his wife went on their trip anyway, and for three long days he was left twisting in the wind once...

>> yeah. >> and because maria called 911, the denver police were at the gas station, too, so the cops, not tony, did most of the talking with travis. >> he told them that same story that he told me on the phone and it was very consistent, the story that he told them matched exactly. i old the officers, man, everything he told me it just dont sound right. it just dont sound right. >> didnt sound right to the cops either. but they had nothing to hold travis on. hed been cooperative, forthcoming, c...

In the freezer it has granola bars in it. they dont need to be frozen. so that seemed really strange. >> all that, the cleaning, the cooler moving happened two nights after kenia went missing, so detective gurule checked with several of the bakerys employees to see what else travis was up to that evening. >> he burns some stuff in a barrel. we found that barrel down the alley at the other end of the parking lot, and monica poole told one of the detectives, hey, thats my grease barrel. whats it d...

My van, i would have taken her home. like, i would not -- i mean, if i felt any sort of -- any sort of weirdness about her walking home with that guy, i wouldnt -- i would have done something. >> he was really worried about this whole investigation of this missing girl, but we believed him, he didnt do anything. >> in fact, there was no evidence travis did anything wrong. he certainly wasnt a suspect, barely a person of interest. he even had an alibi for his whereabouts after he dropped off keni...

Ring? no, im leaving myself a message because i need to do this. she said you talk in your sleep about it. kenias name or even travis name. youre dreaming about this. >> youre obsessed. >> tenacious. >> kenias family wasnt sleeping much either. >> i thought that she might have been, like, kidnapped and put in the basement and, like, they werent letting her get any contact with anyone. i had dreams and things that i still felt like i had that sister connection that she was just here somewhere nee...

The man whose strange behavior had ramped up detective gurules suspicions even though the evidence did not warrant an arrest. but now weeks after kenia vanished gurule had two problems. kenia wasnt the only one who was missing. so was travis. >> he was gone. i couldnt find him anywhere. i was scrambling to find him. i was checking news. i put out a teletype online for law enforcement saying, you know, you find any bodies give me a call. >> this guy was that dangerous in your mind, that there cou...

>> we ran around like chickens with our heads cut off. we didnt know what to do first and what to do. were just trying to figure out, what do we got to do? >> and then one terrifying day later the mysterious travis finally returned tonys calls. >> hello? >> and travis had some rather stunning news about kenias whereabouts and just who she might be with. coming up -- tony on a mission that would leave his wife paralyzed with fear. >> immediately i was so afraid. i said, oh, my god. >> i grabbed...

And all the family. i said maybe its a joke. my sister got very worried, she said, i dont think its a joke. >> when i got the call from my daughter kim and she said she had not heard anything from her that day, thats when i went into high alert. >> but when tony called kenias friends, they werent exactly straight with him about their underage bar hopping the night before in those lodo nightclubs. >> it was very, very, very confusing because these girls were -- they were not telling me the truth ...

And youve got to turn in all these sightings because you dont know. >> reporter: but then something happened to travis forbes that weekend. he apparently had second thoughts about his own second thoughts. >> and when i got back on monday, i got a call and they said the deals back on, its being finalized, we should be able to be going next week. >> sometimes taking a weekend away is quite profitable. >> yes. the weight of the world just got lifted from me. >> the deal with travis was quite straig...

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 she did in that club that night was against everything shes ever done before. >> gurule tracked down the young man from the apartment lobby, and he admitted dancing with kenia at the club and ...