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Friendly. outgoing. just happy person. >> among partiers, janet gomez, one ofet kenya's closest friendo she loved to have fun. >> yeah, she loved to have fun. >>ha underage fun. no trouble sneaking in. theyne charmed the bouncer. flashed fake i.d.s. kenya and her crew had a kind of unwritten safety rule. go together and leave together. look out for each other. but, on this particular night, things didn't go as planned. >> we had planned to meet at lavish. we went in there, and she wasn't in there. >> kenya had gotten a ride downtown with two otherte girls she didn'th know very well. her plan w...

Building near the club where kenia had been drinking. was she going up to his place? well, if she was, she didn't stay long because a few minutes later kenia showed up in yet another surveillance video, weaving somewhat unsteadily across the lobby of a nearby hotel. and the way kenia was acting caught the attention of d.a. kerri lombardi. >> i think that from all the surveillance she was very obviously intoxicated. it was scary. she was someone that you would look at and think this is a victim waiting to happen. >> reporter: this according to family and good friends was not like kenia. she did...

>> reporter: gurule tracked down the young man from the apartment lobby, and he admitted dancing with kenia at the club and showing her his loft. but she left right away, he said. the video confirmed it. he was cleared. so that left only two possible suspects -- the mysterious man at the gas station and travis forbes. >> i did not. >> reporter: and apparently, travis was feeling the heat. >> i've -- man. >> reporter: so out of the blue he decided to go public. >> you know, the truth is all we have. >> reporter: he went on camera with a denver tv station. >> i mean, it's been two weeks. nobody'...

Scare her. i'd jump out of bed, grab the phone. she'd say did you hear the phone ring? i'd say i'm leaving myself a message because i need to do this. he she said i'd talk in my sleep about it, kenia's name or travis's name. she said you're dreaming about this. >> you're obsessed. >> tenacious. >> reporter: kenia's family wasn't sleeping much either. >> i thought that she might have been like kidnapped and like put in the basement and like they weren't letting her get any contact with anyone. i had dreams and things i still felt like i had that sister connection, that she was just still here s...

Me were, thank you, daddy. i'll neverer forget that. and sheor hugged me. >> so connecting with the family took no time at all. >> i always thought about the bradyt family, how we all came together and became a family. it was pretty much how it worked out. and it clicked from day one. >> and there's all the girls, all the wonderful women in my life. >> thanknd you, daddy. >> and for kenya's little sister kimberly, it felt like the best thing that ever happened. >> tomorrow kenya marks one whole year in america.e >> i thought she he was going t be the big sister everybody dreams of. it was bett...