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Up, and on it her father would discover a mysterious text from a stranger. who was he and could he lead them to kenia? here again is keith morrison. >> april 1st, 2011, dawn in denver, colorado, bright, springlike, and for the friends of 19-year-old kenia monge, terrifying. >> i just kept calling her and calling her. we were all worried and scared. >> where was she? kenia was supposed to have met her friends at a downtown bar the night before. didnt show. and now she didnt answer her phone. not ...

Me were, "thank you, daddy." ill never forget that as she hugged me. >> so, connecting with the family took no time at all. >> i always thought about the song from the brady family, how we all came together and became a family. it was pretty much that was kind of how it worked out and it clicked from day one. >> and theres all the if girls, all the wonderful women in my life, im so -- >> thank you, daddy. >> and for kenias little sister kimberly, it felt like the best thing ever happened. >> tom...

Welcome back. travis was the main person of interest in the disappearance of kenia. during a about hbizarre tv inte he proclaimed his innocence. then just as they were closing in, travis vanished. now, detectives were determined to find him. but where to even start looking? here again is keith morrison. he was the bogey man. and thats what we called him. everybody was looking over their shoulders, looking who was behind them, looking who -- they were afraid of him. as long as he was on the str...

Fields near the farm town of keenesburg looking for kenia. but this day travis had solemnly promised he was going to show them. trailing a car behind travis was d.a. kerri lombardi, nervous, anxious, and pessimistic. >> i was worried he wouldnt follow through. because i felt like he sort of liked this game, i thought. >> so on the way what were you thinking? >> will he do this? will he not? will something spook him? will he change his mind? is this a big farce? you know, i didnt know if, you kno...

>> reporter: but then it all came out. 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 ...

She would call me and say i just want to say i love you. >> she was independent, 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. >> she came from having nothing to being somebody, and on one of her calenders it says study, stud, study and then "party on the last day." she was balancing her job and balancing school and she was balancing, like, her ...

Through travis cell phone records to see where he was around the time of kenias disappearance and they noticed he made and received several calls from a rural area near a little place called keenesburg, about 40 miles northeast of denver. not exactly one of the stops along travis granola bar delivery route. >> we sent probably 25 detectives up there looking in fields, running the gulches, checking the ponds, talking to neighbors to see if they saw a white van. we were checking everything. >> but...

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 definitely the bleach. i dont know wh...

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

Again, 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 town. >> yes. >> reporter: detective nash gurule was hoping to coax travis to tell the real story of what happened to 19-year-old ...