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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, no charges, just conversation...

Hang himself. but i didnt think hed go out and try to murder again this soon. and i was shocked. we were shocked. >> yeah. >> reporter: but they still didnt know what happened to kenia. quickly, the lee family called a news conference and delivered a message to travis forbes. >> anybodys going to relay any messages to him, tell him, or if you guys talk to him, tell him weve got just one question. where is kenia? thats it. >> reporter: but travis wasnt talking anymore. so lee offered a radical id...

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 again by travis forbes. kenias family knew nothing of this, still holding out hope that she was somehow alive....

So lee offered a radical idea. >> i called assistant d.a. lombardi, and i said make a deal. >> you wanted a deal? >> yeah. i dont care what it is. i said i dont care. you could take it down to manslaughter. i didnt care. just make a deal. lets just -- we just want kenia. >> we really couldnt -- 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. >> reporter: but travis was now facing an attemp...

>> what was that like? >> that was the hardest thing ive ever done. then i -- >> she had been hanging on to hope. >> she had been hanging on to hope. >> you had to finally -- >> i had to snatch that rug out from under her. and she lost it. and there was nothing i could do for her because i had already lost it myself. >> reporter: then tony had to tell his children. kenias little sister and brother. >> and the first question out of both of their mouths at the different times, is she alive? and i ...

You being good. hey, youre not contacting me. >> the next morning the texts continued from kenias friends, all asking where was she? >> and then there was a dead area and the next text that came in was about 7:00 p.m. that night. >> but this one? this one jumped off the screen. was just plain weird. >> and the message said, hey, this is travis, the guy with the creepy white van, smiley face. did you get home okay. >> travis? who was travis? nobody in kenias circle of friends and family had ever ...

Person of interest. >> people do weird things in their normal life. how do we know that hes just not a weird guy? >> and then a few days later, gurules investigation turned up more surveillance video, which seemed to tell a whole new story because there was kenia with another man entirely. this caught the two of them in the lobby of an apartment building near the club where kenia had been drinking. was she going up to his place? well, if she was, she didnt stay long because a few minutes later k...

Outgoing. just a happy person. >> among the partiers, janet gomez, one of kenias closest friends. >> she loved to have fun. >> yeah, she loved to have fun. >> underage fun. no trouble sneaking in. they charmed the bouncers, flashed fake i.d.s. kenia and her crew had a kind of an 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 in there. >> ke...

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

We did it. hes charged. hes in jail. hes not getting out. >> i was relieved that now hes going to be in jail and he wont be able to hurt nobody. now we know where hes at, so i dont have to be searching for him. >> reporter: word of traviss arrest also traveled quickly to kenia monges family. >> i was shocked. i knew that he would eventually hang himself. but i didnt think hed go out and try to murder again this soon. and i was shocked. we were shocked. >> yeah. >> reporter: but they still didnt ...