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At first, when the messages suddenly stopped. i didn t take it seriously, and didn t know that they would be gone that long. but after 48 long hours what is that like? that feeling? it s a feeling of being desperate. to know where your sister is. she was not only my best friend, that was my other half. she was everything to me. then, the second night after kenya vanished, there was a call from, a total stranger name travis. travis said call me back to 8 pm. a guy who left that message on kenya s phone, to see if she got home safely from the nightclub. he told me the story. yes, i saw her out there, i asked her if she needed any help because she seemed like she was drunk, and out of it. so i said, i should help her. she got in my van. travis told kenya s dad, as ....
He was driving her home, she asked to stop at a gas station for cigarettes. and there, something strange happened. she met another guy, who said, he would take her home. so, said travis, he left them there. that s the last he saw of her? that s what he said. i got off the phone, and i thought to myself, that is the most fantastic story i ve ever heard. not one word of what he told me made any sense. tony called the denver police to report that, but was told, remember, the cops couldn t open an investigation because kenya had not been missing long enough. i m pissed, saying, i can t believe this. and i took matters into my own hands. i had called travis back in and said, travis, i have questions i want to ask you. tell me, again, were you last saw her? he said, well, i was at this place and i said tell you, what only you there, i m on my way. immediately, i was so afraid. ....
Just seven years earlier, kenya didn t know a word or two of english. and, not a single person of denver. apart from her mother, maria, who had migrated from honduras a few years before. when she and kenya were finally reunited? it was the happiest day of my life. when i would have her, and hold her, oh my god, i was so happy. we went home, and i told her how much i missed her, and now, we are together. nothing will separate us. by the time kenya came to colorado, she was married to tony lee. together, they had two children. now, kenya made three. remember meeting her for the first time and, the first words that she said to me was, thank you daddy. i will never forget that and she hugged me. connecting with the family, ....
Phone ring? and i said, no, i need to leave a message, because i have to do this. she said, you talk in your sleep about it. kenya s name, travis s name. you are dreaming about this. you are obsessed. tenacious. kenya s family, wasn t sleeping much either. i thought she might have been kidnapped, or put in the basement and, weren t letting to get any contact with anyone. i had dreams, and felt like i had that sister connection, that she was still here somewhere, needing me, needing to help her, or save her, or bring her back home. we think about it all the time? it s hard going from talking to someone every day, and not being able to talk to them anymore. it breaks your heart. handmade himself a public fixture on media, but privately. ....
all weekend, surveillance teams followed him, as he cruised the nightclub district. he had a bottle of whisky he was carrying around him all night. he didn t go into any bars. he just walked around. he was trolling? yes, trolling. that s a good way to put it late at night, the undercover cop spotted travis following a young woman, walking, home alone. so, without revealing the surveillance tape, one of the cops approached him, and asked a question or two. travis gave a fake name, calling himself travis kennedy. the officer let him go. but, travis did not go home. and, before long, began to follow a second woman. she appeared to be drunk, and travis closed in. they said, discussed or much of a danger, we need to figure out how to get him off the street, so they ended up arresting him for false reporting, for giving a false name. in fact, the detectives husband was part of that surveillance team, and, actually, put the cuffs on travis. what was it like when ....