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Because i know she would have been with me, she would been safe. >> even her sister, kim, within who kenya texted constantly hadnt heard a word, but she did get a call from kenyas boiftd kenyas boyfriend. >> he was like, shes missing. i was like shut up. this isnt funny. tell me the truth. where is she? hes like, im being serious. you need to tell your parents and have them file a missing persons report. >> i called the family. maybe its a joke. and my sister got very worried. she said i dont th...

Caught the cops attention. >> we found some weeds underneath. we found some dirt. some dust. different things. >> hmm. whatd that tell you? >> hes been on a dirt road. at least that van has. >> reporter: so gurule and lombardi pored through traviss cell phone records to see where he was at 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 a...

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, concerned for kenya. so they let him go. as the meeting wrapped up, travis sidled up to tony and started talking. >> he was crying. hes telling me, you know, i promised i would take care of her. i feel responsible for this, you know, wish i could have done more. >> travis seemed sincere. his story, though strange, was consistent. maybe h...

>> reporter: the bogey man was travis forbes. the last person known to have seen kenia monge alive before she disappeared. 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 en...

Parking lot. and monica poole told one of the detectives, hey, thats my grease barrel. whats it doing down there? >> reporter: travis claimed he was using it to burn some moldy marijuana. the barrel was sent to the crime lab. >> we ran that for dna. we ran that for fingerprints. >> reporter: but nothing turned up. if there were any clues in that barrel, they had been burned. travis forbes, despite all his suspicious behavior and his strange story, was still just a person of interest. >> people d...

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 it. that was the only name in town. and i wanted to go talk to him about that interview. that was another time when she got down on her hands and knees and begged me not to go. and this time i didnt go. >> reporter: so tony and his family waited. let the investigation run its course, hoping, praying that kenia would wa...

And they spoke spanish. and that was it. that was the last -- that was it. then i went home. >> and thats the last you see her? >> yes. >> reporter: travis was cool, calm, even contrite about leaving kenia with that strange fellow at the gas station. >> if she had made the choice to -- to go back home or to get right in, i would have taken her home. i would not -- i mean, and if i had felt any sort of -- any sort of weirdness about her walking over with that guy, i would have done something. >> ...

19-year-old kenya, terrifying. >> i just kept calling her and calling her. we were all worried and scared. >> where was she? kenya was supposed to have met her friends at a downtown bar the night before. she didnt show. now she didnt answer her phone. >> we didnt know what happened. nobody knew nothing. >> kenyas friends, truly frightened now kept texting and calling. but not a single lead turned up. no tips, no clues. and no kenya. >> we were just trying to be strong, because we didnt want to t...

One of colorados top high schools and considering careers in tv production or criminology. here she is directing a student film. all the more remarkable, because just seven years earlier, kenya didnt know more than a word or two of english. and not a single person in denver. apart that is, from her maria, who had migranted from honduras afr few years before. and when she and kenya were finally reunited. >> it was the happy day of my life when i held her, hold here. oh, my god, i was so happy. an...