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janet gomez: she was like, are you with kenia? and i said, no, i thought she was with you. >> somehow she disappeared. >> she was, like, are you with kenya? and i say u no, i thought she w with you. >> where was she? and clues on the surveillance tape and strange stories from a witness. and then another beauty. this one left for dead. >> she was unrecognizable. >> was evil stalking young women? >> both dark haired. both pretty girls. it was chillingly similar. >> a place that led to unheard of t places. and then finally, far from the city, the truth revealed on a quiet country road. ...

Parking lot. and monica poole told one of the detectives, hey, that's my grease barrel. what's 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 do weird things in their normal life. how do we know that he's just not a weird guy? >> reporter: a...

For the missing car and then travis forbes. >> so my lieutenant said, grab your search warrant for his dna and head to texas. so i hop a plane that night. >> reporter: a few hours later gurule was face to face with travis forbes again. >> you know what? they sent me to texas because they think you're running to mexico. >> i was thinking of mexico. >> and you he'd call me nash. i'd call him travis. it was similar to you and i just talking. i wasn't confrontational with him. if he asked me a question i'd give him an honest answer. one of the questions he asked me on one of the interviews i did w...

They're not going to do anything. i got to go. >> and i got the phone, and i called 911. >> tony roared over to that conoco station, nerves on edge, gun close to hand, expecting what? a violent confrontation, a dangerous standoff? a weirdo? it was none of those things. travis forbes was there all right, patiently waiting, and he looked fine. not scary at all. >> he was very thin. blond hair, blue eyes, good-looking eyes. my first impression of him was looks decent enough guy, if you're going to have somebody pick up your kid and help them out, you know. >> seemed like a nice guy. >> yeah. >> a...

>> reporter: kenia's father tony made himself a public fixture on local media. but privately, he conducted his own very lonely investigation. >> i went dumpster diving. i was looking at trash cans for her body. up and down the alleys, all over. >> and yet you couldn't tell maria. >> i couldn't tell her. i could not share what i was feeling because that early in would have removed the only thing that right now everybody had. and that one thing that everybody had was hope. i was hoping that she would pop up and say here i am. but as time went by and she wasn't contacting anybody and -- i knew it...