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00:00.
00:04Lower downtown Denver was the happening place.
00:08It was ladies' night.
00:09They wanted to go out.
00:10Dressed up, cocktails, dancing, and spring break hookups.
00:14She can't find her friends.
00:16She doesn't have her phone.
00:19She's talking to this homeless guy.
00:21What was going on?
00:22I grabbed my pistol, and I got in my truck.
00:25He turned off the video surveillance.
00:27His phone was hitting off of the cell towers.
00:30There's soil in the wheel well
00:32and underneath the undercarriage of the van.
00:35Where and how and what happened to her?
00:37My gut feeling at the time was,
00:39we're so close and yet so far,
00:41but we can't prove it until we find her.
00:58.
01:04Known as the gateway to the Rockies,
01:06Aurora, Colorado is a sun-soaked city
01:09in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains,
01:10just 10 miles from bustling Denver, state capital.
01:14Aurora is also home to the Colorado Media School,
01:17CMS for short, a private college.
01:19The media school would bring the students there
01:23to learn in the media entertainment,
01:26behind the camera, in front of the camera type of work.
01:30Tony Lee's stepdaughter, 19-year-old Kenya Monhey,
01:33is one of those students.
01:36She enjoyed the directing.
01:38She enjoyed the telling the people what to do,
01:41when to do it, how to do it.
01:43That's Kenya.
01:44And there's no doubt in my mind
01:46that that's the direction she was heading.
01:48It's been a busy semester for Kenya,
01:51and she's ready for a spring break.
01:52Kenny had finished a student film
01:54and wanted to take a breath and pause
01:57and go have some social time with her friends.
01:59They wanted to go out to the Lodo area
02:01to have some drinks.
02:03Lodo is an acronym for Lower Downtown Denver.
02:07It's a rejuvenated area.
02:09They put in these high-end stores
02:11and these restaurants and bars.
02:12This was the happening place.
02:18Kenya gets into the car with two other friends,
02:21and they go and drive down to the Lodo area.
02:25Kenya and her two friends
02:26are all below Colorado's 21-year-old drinking age,
02:29but they all have fake IDs
02:30and plan to meet Kenya's best friend,
02:32Janet Gomez, at Lavish, a Lodo hotspot.
02:36Lavish was their go-to place.
02:39Lavish is like a place to hang out, listen to music.
02:42They had a DJ.
02:44People dress up to go or be casual to go in.
02:47It was known for having the clientele of college kids,
02:5020s to 30s working individuals.
02:53You could have a drink.
02:54You could also have bottle service.
02:56By the time Kenya arrives at Lavish,
02:58the best friend, Janet, is already inside.
03:01Kenya's 19 years old.
03:03Kenya had a fake ID,
03:04was trying to get into Lavish.
03:06They're a normal door guy,
03:09who they knew was not on the door at that time.
03:13There was another set of bouncers on the door.
03:15They obviously had fake IDs.
03:18So the bouncers on that door wouldn't let them in.
03:21Told them, no, these IDs are no good.
03:23Gotta go.
03:25Kenya texts Janet inside Lavish
03:27to let her know what's going on.
03:30She explains she can't get in,
03:31so she's going with another friend
03:33to try to get into 24K,
03:35a different club nearby.
03:39Kenya and her two friends go to 24K,
03:41and they're allowed to get in.
03:4324K is a nightclub similar to Lavish.
03:48It's more of an upper-scale bottle service.
03:54Kenya misses new texts from her friend Janet,
03:56sent from inside Lavish.
03:59Janet texts Kenya three times,
04:01then calls her twice,
04:03between 11pm and 11.20pm.
04:05Janet gets no response.
04:07Kenya's too busy having a good time
04:09on her spring break.
04:10Her other friends notice that she's
04:12at another table with a male,
04:15Niko.
04:16Niko and Kenya are dancing,
04:18but they're also kissing,
04:20showing a lot of public display of affection
04:22to the point that security noticed their behavior
04:26and at one point asked them to leave,
04:28and they were escorted out.
04:31According to the staff,
04:33Kenya appeared intoxicated,
04:35and that's why they were kicked out.
04:38Kenya left behind her cell phone
04:39and her purse that had her ID,
04:42her wallet, her credit cards,
04:43all of her credentials in it.
04:46Kenya and Niko are escorted out of the bar
04:48between 1 and 1.15 in the morning.
04:52Kenya's friends left 24K at closing time
04:56around 1.40, 2 o'clock in the morning.
04:59The girls waited for some time for Kenya
05:02because they had Kenya's phone.
05:05They had no way to get a hold of her.
05:07At that point, the girls left
05:08and took Kenya's stuff with them.
05:11Unable to contact Kenya,
05:13Janet Gomez and the other friends inside Lavish
05:15leave to drive back to Aurora at approximately 1.45 a.m.
05:19They assumed Kenya went home
05:20with the friend she was dancing with at 24K.
05:28The next morning, Kenya's ex-boyfriend Sean Galvin
05:30wakes up concerned.
05:32Although the two had split a month prior,
05:34Kenya was still sleeping on his pull-out sofa
05:36while she looked for a new place.
05:38But on April 1st, it appears to Sean
05:40her bed was never slept in.
05:41That morning, Kenya's ex-boyfriend had called
05:45my other daughter, Kimberly,
05:47asking if she had heard from her,
05:50seen her or anything like that.
05:52And I think the answer to the question is no.
05:55He was expecting her home that morning
05:58after she went out and he hadn't seen her.
06:00All of her friends were calling each other,
06:03trying to figure out what was going on.
06:06Where was Kenya?
06:07My wife called me, and she asked me had I heard from Kenya.
06:12And I told her no, but Kenya doesn't normally call me.
06:16I asked her, have you tried calling her?
06:18And she said yes, and she's not picking up.
06:21Then I went into high alert.
06:24I called my job, and I just said, look,
06:27I've got this weird thing going on.
06:29I didn't tell them what.
06:30But I need to go home.
06:31My wife, Maria, it was a habit of hers
06:34to have the phone numbers of anybody
06:36that Kenya was hanging around with.
06:37So she had the phone numbers of the friends.
06:40My wife calls Kenya's friends,
06:42and they're telling her the story
06:44about them not being able to hook up that night
06:47to go to this club called Lavish.
06:50And so it was over the next two or three hours, you know,
06:54that I'm finding out truly what they were doing
06:57in downtown Denver.
06:59Kenya's poor friends knew
07:01that she was with her acquaintances.
07:04Kenya's friends knew the phone number of these girls,
07:07and they gave it to me.
07:08And I called them.
07:11And I asked them what happened, you know,
07:13and they just told me that we were there,
07:16we were having fun, you know,
07:18and then all of a sudden she wasn't there anymore.
07:21I asked them, do you have her property?
07:24And they said, yes, we have her purse,
07:27and we have her phone.
07:28I gave them my address to bring her phone and her purse,
07:31and they did.
07:32I got into her phone because my daughter Kim
07:36knew the password.
07:37I'm looking at all of the activity
07:40from that night before up into it just kind of going dark
07:46where there's nothing going out, just everything is coming in.
07:50The phone shows that Kenya stopped sending texts around 11 p.m.,
07:54her last texts being to Janet Gomez.
07:56Then, between 11 p.m. and 11 a.m. the next morning,
08:00Kenya received a dozen or more texts and calls,
08:03which went unanswered.
08:05It was during this time I'm going through her texts.
08:07Kenya got a text message.
08:08This guy named Travis.
08:11The text said, hey, this is Travis,
08:13the guy with the creepy white van.
08:15Did you get home okay?
08:16I don't know who that is.
08:17So I started calling Travis,
08:20the guy who sent the message.
08:22He didn't answer me.
08:24I called the police.
08:25April 1st is when I put in the initial missing person report.
08:30I was informed by the police that we're dealing with an adult here.
08:35That 72-hour rule doesn't kick in until Monday,
08:39and we'll hook back up again on Monday as to how to proceed.
08:44I hung up the phone, and I was pissed.
08:47There was nothing they were going to do until Monday.
08:50I'm stuck in neutral on what my next step is.
08:54When Tony spoke to the police,
08:56the concern was mainly that this was out of character for her,
08:59not to come home, not to call anybody.
09:02The fact that her phone, none of her belongings,
09:06her credentials, her wallet was not with her.
09:09They're extremely worried.
09:11There was only one thing I needed to do,
09:14and I was dogged about it, and that was,
09:16I needed to talk to this creepy white van guy, Travis.
09:19So through that night and that next day,
09:21that's all I'm doing.
09:22I'm calling Travis, and only Travis.
09:25Finally, on April 2nd, the 8 p.m.,
09:28I get a call from Travis.
09:31She said, hey, look, man, you got a lot of questions.
09:33Meet me at this gas station.
09:35And I told him, I'm on my way.
09:38Told my wife, Maria, where I was going.
09:41Maria was against it.
09:43From the word first came out of my mouth,
09:44she said, just call the police.
09:47And I told her, Maria, I've already called the police.
09:49They can't do anything.
09:51I got to go.
09:53And I grabbed my 9-millimeter pistol,
09:55and I loaded it up, and I got in my truck,
09:57heading to meet Travis, creepy white van guy.
10:01Does Travis know something about Kenya?
10:05Did Travis harm Kenya?
10:16By the time I pulled up to the front of that gas station,
10:19and there were two police cars there,
10:21and I saw this white van.
10:23Officer Monaghan was the officer who I talked with.
10:26And he informed me, look, your wife called me and told me,
10:31you know, that you were coming down here
10:32to meet some individuals that's got something
10:35to do with your missing daughter.
10:37My wife, Maria, called the Aurora Police Department,
10:41told them that a black guy with a pistol
10:42heading to meet this guy at this gas station in Denver.
10:46This is what made them go there.
10:48The patrol officers learn when they get there
10:50that the missing persons report had been made,
10:53and they put it together while they're talking to Travis
10:57and to Tony there at the Conoco.
10:59I'm really getting a good look at Travis.
11:02He's slender, blonde hair.
11:04He's got blue eyes.
11:06Tall, clean-cut-looking guy.
11:08Travis Forbes is not alone.
11:10He's with a friend named Eddie Fajardo.
11:12Members of the Denver Police Department
11:14speak to Travis and Eddie.
11:16They obtained statements from them.
11:19Travis Forbes said,
11:21I was out that night with my friend, Eddie Fajardo,
11:24and I was going to drop him off at home.
11:27But on the way home, driving to his apartment,
11:30Kenya was standing in front of this building
11:33in downtown Denver.
11:36She was obviously intoxicated,
11:39and I knew that this didn't look right.
11:42So I got out, and I went over to her,
11:44and I talked to her.
11:45I asked her if she was okay.
11:48Kenya proceeds to tell Travis, as his friend is listening,
11:52that she was downtown.
11:54She got kicked out of the bar.
11:56She doesn't have her phone.
11:58She didn't know the name of the bar,
12:01but somewhat she knew the area where the bar was located.
12:05From there, Travis offered to help her find her friends
12:09by giving her a ride in his van.
12:15He said, I took her back over there.
12:17We drove around.
12:18We didn't see anybody was there.
12:21This was, you know, after 2 o'clock,
12:22so she didn't see her friend's car.
12:24She didn't see anything.
12:25Travis said, I asked her where she lived,
12:28and she told me what part of Aurora she was in.
12:31You know, I let her know I work about a mile away from there.
12:33Would you like a ride home?
12:35She said yes.
12:36As it turns out, Travis works at a bakery
12:39close to where Kenya still lives with her ex-boyfriend.
12:43So they proceeded to where she needed to go,
12:47which was her ex-boyfriend's house.
12:48Travis tells police that his friend Eddie Fajardo's place
12:51is on the way, so Travis dropped him off first.
12:54After dropping off Travis's friend,
12:58Travis and Kenya drive to the area towards the apartment
13:02that Travis is going to drop Kenya off at.
13:06Travis said, as they were leaving downtown,
13:09she asked for a cigarette.
13:12He informed her he didn't smoke,
13:14and he said, hey, there's a service station right there.
13:16You want to go buy, you know, some cigarettes?
13:18She said, yeah, let's go.
13:20He said they went to the service station,
13:22but it was closed.
13:24As they were making the decision
13:26about what their next move was,
13:28they saw this guy smoking a cigarette.
13:30She went up to the guy, bummed a cigarette from him.
13:34They started chatting to each other and smoking.
13:37Travis says, I went over to where she was at
13:39because I was concerned, you know, about her well-being,
13:42and that she was talking to this oriental guy.
13:46They were talking Spanish to each other,
13:47and his name was Dan.
13:49Travis describes Dan a bit more
13:51as a person with a medium build,
13:53wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt.
13:56Travis asked Dan some questions
13:59and learned that Dan was in construction
14:01or was a builder.
14:04She said, so I asked her, I said, what do you want to do?
14:07You want me to take you to your boyfriend?
14:09And she told him, no, I'm going to hang out here
14:13with this guy named Dan.
14:15You can go.
14:16And he just said, okay.
14:18He got in his van and he said he left,
14:19and that is the last time he's seen her.
14:23Travis arrived at his girlfriend,
14:25Carrie Humphrey's house,
14:27at around 2.45, 3 o'clock in the morning.
14:31Travis says that his girlfriend
14:32will corroborate his claim.
14:34He was home from 3 a.m. until the next day
14:36when he got up early
14:37to deliver the gluten-free granola bars
14:39he makes and sells to clients around town.
14:42Police finished taking Travis's statement.
14:45Since Kenya still isn't considered a missing person
14:47and no altercation took place at the gas station,
14:50no one is detained.
14:51Travis comes up and he says, hey, man, you know,
14:54I'm sorry.
14:55If I had thought that this would have happened like this,
14:58I would have just taken her on to her boyfriend's house
15:01and dropped her off.
15:02And I said, you know, man, I appreciate what you did.
15:05And I stuck my hand out.
15:09The case is assigned to missing persons.
15:12My gut feeling at the time I was briefed was,
15:15we're going to get her home.
15:17We're going to get her back safe to her family.
15:20Investigators ask friends and colleagues
15:21if they know anyone who wanted to hurt Kenya.
15:24They all say Kenya was a fun-loving woman with no enemies.
15:27And no one can confirm that Kenya had any association
15:30with a Spanish-speaking male named Dan.
15:34To identify Dan, investigators ask for security footage
15:38from the gas station where Travis said he dropped Kenya
15:41in the early morning hours of April 1st.
15:43While they wait for footage, investigators ask for a formal statement
15:47from the man who first reported Kenya missing,
15:50her ex-boyfriend and roommate, Sean Galvin.
15:52He said they dated for about two to three years.
15:56They had only been broken up a month when Kenya went missing
16:00before they had decided to split up.
16:03It started to become toxic.
16:05They were arguing more, and that's why they decided to split.
16:09But they still spoke and were still amicable with each other,
16:14even to the point that they talked that night prior to Kenya going out.
16:19Detectives ask Sean if he knows any of the last known men with Kenya,
16:24Travis, Eddie, or a Spanish-speaking construction worker named Dan.
16:28Sean claims he knows none of them.
16:31He was concerned for her whereabouts as well,
16:35cooperated with the family and cooperated with authorities.
16:38While Sean has no corroborating witness to confirm that he was home
16:43when Kenya disappeared, for now police have no reason to suspect he's lying.
16:48Investigators determined that there is no evidence connecting Sean
16:51to Kenya's disappearance.
16:52So they put him on the back burner and they let him go.
16:55They focus on locating Dan,
16:58the Spanish-speaking male Kenya last spoke to at a gas station.
17:02We canvassed the area for video surveillance,
17:05trying to find Dan as Travis described him.
17:10Unfortunately, the gas station didn't have video surveillance.
17:15There was nothing there.
17:16The CCTV camera at the gas station wasn't working,
17:19and so nothing was recorded at that time.
17:21We had asked certain units in the police department
17:25if they had interactions with someone fitting that description
17:28or going by that name, and we were unsuccessful with all of those.
17:31Talking to Kenya's friends and going through the phone analysis,
17:35there was no Dan that matched the description we were given.
17:40When we went to where Kenya was attending school,
17:43the Colorado Media School, none of that panned out.
17:47There was nobody associated to Kenya named Dan.
17:51Just days after Kenya's disappearance,
17:53her family decide to conduct their own search.
17:57Everybody in my family was downtown handing out flyers.
18:00Everyone knew that Kenya was going to come walk him through that door one day.
18:04We pushed out a bulletin through Crimestoppers asking for any information.
18:09It kind of blew up on that Tuesday, April 5th.
18:13It's when media got a hold of the story locally.
18:16There were just a couple of Crimestoppers leads that had come in
18:20about people saying they thought they saw Kenya over the weekend
18:23and thought that they saw Dan over the weekend.
18:26But nothing panned out.
18:30Detectives Canvas Club 24K talking to staff
18:33in an effort to identify Nico, the man Kenya got kicked out of the club with.
18:37He's known there as a regular.
18:40Police locate Nico at his home in the loft apartments
18:43at 15th Street and California Street in Lodo,
18:46about five blocks from the bar district.
18:49They bring him in for questioning.
18:51What we learned was that Kenya and Nico left the bar
18:56and walked to Nico's apartment about ten minutes away from the bar.
19:02It's 1 o'clock, 1.15 in the morning.
19:06Speaking to Nico, we learned that upon going to his apartment,
19:11he tried to kiss Kenya or start to make out with her just outside his apartment.
19:17Kenya just wanted to go home.
19:19She wanted to find her friends, didn't have her phone.
19:22When Nico realized this is going nowhere, escorted her downstairs to the lobby,
19:27and that was the end of their interaction.
19:31To confirm Nico's story, detectives ask his building management
19:35to provide security footage from the early morning hours of April 1st
19:39to see if, in fact, he's being truthful.
19:41The video corroborates Nico's story.
19:43He shows up with Kenya.
19:45They go out of camera view 10 to 15 minutes.
19:49Kenya's back in camera view.
19:51Kenya goes outside, and she goes out of camera view.
19:55We never see Nico come back down into the lobby again.
20:00It's possible he could have exited unseen and accosted her down the street.
20:04In the apartment building that Nico lived in, there were other ways to leave.
20:09There was a back door into the alley there.
20:12CCTV footage from another building nearby confirms Kenya was not followed
20:17before she approached another man on the street.
20:19She was out on the street downtown, alone, and she was talking to this homeless guy.
20:34Kenya's last seen on video at 1.30am on April 1st,
20:38speaking to a homeless man on the street in downtown Denver.
20:41And then she heads out of frame, her direction unknown.
20:44With Kenya's whereabouts still unclear after 48 hours, investigators become more concerned
20:50and call her family to prepare them for the worst.
20:53Detectives from the Denver Police Department said they needed to talk to me.
20:57And so they called me downtown.
21:00They told me that this is turning into something a little bit more than what they thought it would be.
21:06I'm thinking they needed to get as much resources on this as they possibly could.
21:13Circling back to Kenya's last known encounter, police still have no surname for the gas station stranger named Dan.
21:20But they do have the full name of the man who said he dropped Kenya there, Travis Forbes.
21:24Through our investigation, we learned that Travis did have a criminal past.
21:29But Travis's past wasn't a pattern of violence.
21:33He had been to prison for burglary, a low-level felony.
21:38But nothing violent, no weapons, no kidnapping, no nothing like that.
21:43We bring Travis in to do a formal interview.
21:47When confronted about his troubled past, Travis insists he's on a good path and he's an entrepreneur now,
21:54selling homemade granola bars for a bakery.
21:56He's happy to go over what he remembers about the ride he gave Kenya.
22:00His story is pretty consistent with what he reported to Denver Police,
22:07what he had told Tony Lee.
22:09Travis tells the story again about Dan.
22:22To confirm his story, police gather all available CCTV footage on the route Travis said he drove his white van.
22:28From Kenya's last encounter with a homeless man outside Nico's condo,
22:32to the gas station, then home for the night at his girlfriend's apartment.
22:35After Kenya spoke to the homeless man, it does appear that she encountered Travis and Eddie in Travis's white van,
22:42just as Travis described.
22:44At 2.30 a.m. after dropping off his friend Eddie, Travis claims he pulled into the gas station with
22:49Kenya to get cigarettes.
22:51But no CCTV footage is available at the Canoco gas station to corroborate his claim.
22:56Travis says I left that Canoco station about 2.45, 2.50.
23:02Kenya goes off with Dan, and then I go to my girlfriend's house, which was about 10 to 15 minutes
23:08away.
23:09Travis told the police that he was home with his girlfriend at 3 o'clock in the morning.
23:14So they have to confirm that information by speaking with his girlfriend.
23:17On the same day that we interviewed Travis, we interviewed his girlfriend Carrie Humphries.
23:24She told us that Travis came home about 3 o'clock.
23:28He had been out with some friends celebrating a mutual friend who had recently graduated from college.
23:36Travis's girlfriend couldn't go because she was studying for her own exams in school.
23:41Nothing seemed out of the ordinary or unusual.
23:44And that Travis left Friday morning at about 8 a.m. to go do his deliveries of his gluten-free
23:51bars.
23:52She corroborated his story of where he went that night.
23:56Travis and his girlfriend's stories strongly suggest Travis had nothing to do with Kenya's disappearance.
24:02He remains a person of interest since he was among the last to see Kenya alive, but detectives have no
24:08evidence to suggest he committed any crime.
24:15Police have one more person who can corroborate Travis's story.
24:18Eddie, the friend who rode with Travis when he picked up Kenya.
24:22Eddie tells detectives that Travis dropped him off at 2.15 a.m. at his friend Jay's, a downtown apartment
24:28he's couch surfing at.
24:29Following up his story of where he went after being dropped off, all those stories were matching up and seemed
24:38to corroborate what Travis was telling us.
24:41With no evidence that either Eddie or Travis hurt Kenya, investigators still have no idea where she is now, whether
24:47she's dead or alive.
24:52In spite of not knowing where Kenya is or what happened to her, her family still has to go on
24:57with their day-to-day lives.
24:58Kids still got to go to school.
25:01Dinner's got to be made.
25:02You cannot let the family dynamics get away from you during this time when you're looking for someone that's missing.
25:10You don't know how strong you are until you have to be.
25:13This is something I learned.
25:15I wasn't strong all the time.
25:16I had to let it go sometimes.
25:22And there was a local Walmart that I would go to and there was a back parking spot that I
25:28would go to.
25:29And I would lose it.
25:31Because I had to.
25:33Because you can't just carry that around.
25:37I couldn't let my family see that side of me.
25:43Wednesday, April the 6th.
25:45I had woken up that morning and got into my vehicle and I was driving to go to Walmart.
25:52And on the radio it came over the news that a body had been found in a field less than
25:57a mile away from where I live.
26:00I immediately directed myself to that area.
26:04I really need to know what they found.
26:07Is it my daughter Kenya?
26:18There were police presence.
26:20There was media presence.
26:21And it's like I had to know.
26:23And I got to the policeman's car and, you know, and I explained to him who I was.
26:28And he knew who I was.
26:30And he told me, it's not Kenya.
26:33And it took me to my knees.
26:35Oh my goodness.
26:36And I was like, okay.
26:37But that thing called hope carried me.
26:40The investigation into Kenya Monge's disappearance continues and new information surfaces.
26:46Several days after Kenya goes missing, the bakery owner who rents out kitchen space to Travis Forbes to make his
26:52granola bars,
26:53calls the Denver police about some suspicious activity in her bakery.
26:59The bakery owner proceeded to tell us that in looking at her video surveillance on Friday afternoon,
27:07which would have been the day that Kenya was reported missing,
27:12Travis had come in to the bakery in the back in the prep area with a cooler that was on
27:18a cart.
27:18And it was wrapped in duct tape.
27:21It was sealed up.
27:23Travis put the cooler into the walk-in cooler there in the back of the bakery,
27:28which seemed unusual because if Travis has been out delivering his product all day,
27:36what product does he have left that needs to be refrigerated?
27:39And normally his product didn't need to be refrigerated.
27:43We learned additionally that when Travis came in, he was asking each employee,
27:49what time are you leaving?
27:50Any time an employee went into the walk-in cooler, Travis made certain to follow them
27:55to make sure that nobody was touching or asking or looking at the cooler that was in the walk-in
28:00cooler.
28:00So it was odd behavior in odd circumstances.
28:04The cooler is actually large enough to fit the body of a woman of Kenya's size.
28:10Detectives now suspect that the remains of Kenya may be inside that cooler.
28:16The bakery owner also tells us that Friday night, the bakery owner sees Travis on video come into the office.
28:24He was wearing yellow rubber gloves.
28:27And the video surveillance goes out.
28:30It appeared in watching the video from the bakery that Travis disabled the entire video system.
28:37So when we see Travis come into the office and it goes black, we try to then look at the
28:44view from the bakery in the back, and that's black as well.
28:49By the time the bakery owner looked at her CCTV footage, the duct taped cooler was no longer there.
28:55Nonetheless, for detectives, that is a significant lead.
29:00Based on the video surveillance that we see at the bakery, we execute a search warrant for Travis's white Ford
29:09van.
29:10We see that there's soil in the wheel well and underneath the undercarriage of the van.
29:16There is a faint odor of bleach coming from the back cargo area of the van.
29:22There is new carpet in the van.
29:24We find a cooler that looks very similar to the one that we saw on the video at the bakery,
29:30and we process it.
29:33Police swab the cooler and send the samples to the lab for processing.
29:37Unfortunately, they find no physical evidence in the van to directly tie Travis to Kenya.
29:43However, detectives deduce from the mud that Travis's van has traveled to a rural area.
29:48So Denver PD access his cellular phone records, as well as the cellular records of his friend, Eddie, to confirm
29:54their location around the time Kenya disappeared.
29:57Eddie's cell phone records confirm that he had arrived at his friend's place at 2.15 a.m. on April
30:041st.
30:04But police can't confirm that Kenya was still alive by then.
30:10We re-interview Travis's friend, Eddie.
30:14We tell him that we don't believe Travis, that Travis has fabricated this story.
30:19The friend says, look, I wasn't there.
30:21He says, I can tell you I'll cooperate 100%.
30:24I did nothing.
30:25I was dropped off.
30:27That's the last I saw of the two of them.
30:29Travis's friend, Eddie, agrees to a polygraph test.
30:34And the results indicate that he was being consistent with what he told us, where he was.
30:41Eddie gets cleared.
30:43It is at that point Travis really moved up to the top of that investigative list.
30:51When we obtained Travis's call detail records, we learned a whole different timeframe and location for Travis's device, other than
31:01what he had told us and what his girlfriend had told us.
31:05Travis's cell phone put him up in Hudson and Kingsburg, Colorado area.
31:11It would have been approximately 50 miles away from where Travis said he was.
31:16This implied to us that, is it possible that Travis went up to the Hudson area in this rural agricultural
31:24area?
31:25Could that be mud or dirt from that area underneath the undercarriage of the van?
31:30The GPS data in Travis's phone and the mud under his van suggest he may have disposed of Kenya's remains
31:36somewhere in the Hudson-Kingsburg area.
31:39This was the first big break that we had that we were focusing on Travis.
31:46With Kenya now suspected murder, police need to pinpoint an exact location where Travis may have dumped Kenya's remains.
31:54We got to try to find Kenya.
31:56So we immediately went up to the Hudson-Kingsburg area.
31:59We go to the area exactly where his phone was hitting off of the cell towers up there.
32:06It's in a field.
32:07It's near some lakes.
32:08And while we were there, the Center for Missing and Exploited Children from Washington, D.C. arrived.
32:15And they assisted in the search.
32:18Foot, horse patrol, boat, ATV.
32:21It was a lot of terrain covered knocking on doors of ranches or farmers and asking them if they had
32:28seen anything.
32:29That went on really heavily for about two and a half weeks.
32:33And then we're not having any success finding her.
32:38Let's go back and let's re-interview people and let's start with Travis's girlfriend.
32:44We took her for her word initially.
32:47Yes, Travis came home at 3 a.m., left at 8.
32:50Everything seemed fine.
32:52We challenged her on the information we have now.
32:55When we told her, look, we have new information.
32:58We have Travis's call detail records.
33:01Tell us what happened, if you know.
33:04She says, look, I don't know what happened, but explained that all Travis told me was that this girl's missing.
33:10I need you to tell the police if they contact you that I came home at 3 a.m. and
33:15I left at 8 a.m.
33:17Travis's girlfriend is eventually charged with false reporting and attempt to influence a public servant.
33:23We get the lab results back from the cooler.
33:27No DNA.
33:28We had nothing.
33:34About mid-April, during the course of the investigation, Kenya's disappearance is starting to gain traction with the media.
33:43The media goes to the bakery and Travis does an impromptu interview with the media in the bakery.
33:50You know, I'm watching this interview, and she's asking, did you murder Kenya?
33:56And it was in that moment, he shook his head yes while he was saying the words no.
34:02And I said, did you see that?
34:05Oh, my God.
34:06He said yes.
34:07He shook his head yes.
34:10And I lost it.
34:11I wanted to go see him again, but I didn't know how.
34:15I had this phone number, and I called that number, and that number wasn't working anymore.
34:20We're frustrated.
34:22Travis did this and is responsible, but we can't prove it, and we can't find Kenya.
34:28Shortly after Travis does the TV news interview, he disappears from the Denver area.
34:32Denver police issue a national bolo, which instructs people to be on the lookout for the murder suspect.
34:43May 5th, I was notified that Travis had been arrested for stolen motor vehicle, and he's in custody in Austin,
34:51Texas.
34:52Travis had a friend who had an extra car.
34:55This friend was kind enough to let Travis use their car, and then Travis fled the state in that car.
35:03The friend says, I've tried to contact Travis with no response.
35:08And at that point, that friend made the stolen car report.
35:13With Travis now in custody, police are able to execute a court order to obtain his DNA.
35:22It was during that interaction to collect the DNA that Travis had stated how the media interview he did at
35:29the bakery really hurt him.
35:31He had told us he looked like the main suspect.
35:35Did you do anything there?
35:36No.
35:38You heard?
35:39No.
35:40We never touched.
35:41At all?
35:42Not even a hug.
35:44And I usually hug people.
35:46At that point, he didn't know what he was going to do.
35:48I think at this point, my lawyer should be present.
35:54He's hands off, and the interview is done.
35:57Travis was later extradited back to Colorado for the stolen motor vehicle, but was eventually released right around May 30th.
36:07And the stolen motor vehicle charge was dropped or dismissed.
36:11I got a call from the district attorney's office saying, we have to let Travis go because the girl who
36:18reported the car stolen has dropped the charges.
36:21So we have nothing to keep him on.
36:23And they told me, we have nothing at this point that we can tie to Travis in Kenya.
36:29We are still investigating it, but there is nothing that we have right now that would keep him in jail.
36:36I was like, I'm shocked.
36:41After being released at the end of May, Travis went up to Fort Collins, Colorado, where he was from.
36:48He worked on his grandparents' farm, and he stayed with his dad, who also lived in Fort Collins.
36:57I learned on July 5th that Lydia Tilleman, who lived in Fort Collins, had gone on July 4th that evening
37:04to the city park in Fort Collins to watch fireworks with friends.
37:09At the end of the evening, Lydia walked home by herself, just a few blocks from the park.
37:16Lydia prepared to go to bed when someone broke in, beat her, sexually assaulted her, and then doused her with
37:25bleach in an attempt, what we think, to destroy evidence.
37:31This person then set the house on fire and left, and Lydia Tilleman jumped out of a second-story window.
37:38Neighbors called 911. Lydia Tilleman was transported to the hospital.
37:44Lydia is still alive, but she's unable to speak due to an assault-related stroke she suffered in the ambulance
37:50on the way to hospital.
37:51A rape kit is administered to Tilleman, and DNA samples are collected from her body.
37:57Detectives in Denver, meanwhile, are briefed on the Fort Collins incident.
38:00They send Travis Forbes' DNA obtained during the stolen vehicle incident to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to compare it
38:08to the DNA found on Lydia Tilleman.
38:12On July 11th in the evening, I got a call from Fort Collins Police Department, and the words were, it's
38:18him. He did it.
38:20Travis's DNA was recovered from Lydia Tilleman.
38:23Travis was arrested on his parents' farm. We interview Travis in custody.
38:30Before the interview even gets started, Travis tells detectives that he wants to make a deal.
38:35He said he wants to confess to Kenya's murder, and he wants to show us where she is.
38:41But he had some requests that he wanted met, in turn, for the information he had to give us.
38:48Travis Forbes is booked and taken back to a Denver jail.
38:52I want to go to prison without being labeled as a sex offender.
38:56Okay. What else?
38:58That's it? That's it?
39:00You'll confess to everything if you go to prison without being labeled a sex offender.
39:05Is that what you're saying?
39:06Yes.
39:06Yes.
39:08Yes.
39:09He wanted the death penalty taken off the table.
39:12He basically said he would agree to a plea of first-degree murder and a sentence of life without the
39:20possibility of parole.
39:22I called the district attorney, and I told her this.
39:26Make a deal.
39:27Make any deal to get the information.
39:30We need to know where Kenya is, and he's the only one who can give you the answers to those
39:34questions.
39:35The DA agrees with Kenya's father and makes the deal.
39:39Travis Forbes confesses to the murder of Kenya Monge, as well as to the attempted murder of Lydia Tillman.
39:46On September 7th, five months after Kenya's disappearance, detectives accompany Travis to Keensburg, Colorado.
39:53Travis leads them to the place where he buried Kenya's remains.
39:57We went to the ravine.
39:59We went to the ravine.
40:00He said, it's down there.
40:01I went down, and I said, where from here?
40:04And he said the words, you're standing on her.
40:07I called Tony, and I told him that we found her.
40:10It was by the grace of God.
40:13That's the only reason why we got that confession from him, and that's how we found Kenya.
40:19Travis Forbes tells investigators what he did to Kenya Monge after she got into his van at
40:251.50 a.m. on April 1st, 2011.
40:30He told us everything I told you, how I met Kenya, was true.
40:36He told us that the Conoco was made up.
40:38That is not what happened.
40:39That is not even the direction we went.
40:42After Travis dropped off his friend Eddie around 2.15 a.m., Travis continued to drive around with Kenya.
40:48They went to an area just outside of the Lodo area to what we determined to be 20th Street and
40:56I-25.
40:58Travis pulled over at this time.
41:02They were making out in the back of the van, and then Kenya passed out.
41:08Travis had sexual intercourse with her.
41:10The sun was coming up now, maybe 5 o'clock, 5.30.
41:15Kenya woke up.
41:18She realized that her and Travis had had sexual intercourse, and that made her upset.
41:24Kenya started screaming and yelling and accusing him of raping her.
41:28Travis got scared that someone was going to hear her screaming, and he slapped her to tell her to calm
41:35down.
41:36When he slapped her, he said that that really upset her, and that in turn, she slapped Travis.
41:43And when she slapped him and started screaming again, Travis strangled her with his bare hands.
41:50And he said she stopped breathing.
41:52But he said he had his bars to deliver, and he was driving around with her in the back of
41:57the van.
41:58We stopped at a Walmart, and he got the black duct tape, put her in the cooler, and then sealed
42:03up the cooler.
42:04When he returned to the bakery, Travis put the duct tape cooler in the fridge until he could thoroughly dispose
42:10of Kenya's body.
42:11That's when he turned off the video surveillance.
42:13At that point, he says he drove her up to that Kingsburg, Colorado area, and he buried her there.
42:19Travis pleads guilty to first-degree murder and is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
42:25for the murder of Kenya Monge and the attempted murder of Lydia Tillman.
42:32During the time that Kenya was missing, I created a foundation.
42:35It's called the Kenya Monge Foundation.
42:38What it is for is to help families of the newly missing.
42:44The words closure and time heals all wounds.
42:47Those are made up words. They don't work.
42:49There's no such thing.
42:51I'm still looking to see Kenya alive.
42:53You know, and it's things like that that never go away, and they never will.
43:33When I was there, I'm if the elderly people and causes me to find out.
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43:38You think that there would poke them out on people's parents.
43:38I know.
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