Evil at the Door

"Now, well, what do we do to emergency? We just walked in the door and there's blood in the foyer."

“For the next two decades, the case remained unsolved.”

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It's July 4th. An attractive young woman has just finished watching a fireworks display in a four-colonest park. And she starts walking home to her apartment. What she doesn't realize, though, is that she is being followed. This man breaks into her apartment.

Before the night is over, the apartment is on fire.

Massive flames coming out of the second story.

This is a huge fire. Neighbors are calling 911. 911, what the address of the emergency? Out of the fire going on, looks like the hot floor. People barely have time to process the fire when a person comes flying out of the window.

But she's alive. When paramedics get here, she is running towards them, naked, trying to get them to help save her life. The media had no idea that she had been beaten and left for dead. She was attacked so brutally that she couldn't speak. She couldn't say what had happened.

She goes in a coma. It's horrible. But just 30 miles away, in Denver, another woman's gone missing.

“Now, everyone is wondering, could these two crimes speak an acta?”

This can't just be a coincidence. Families plea for help. Their teenage daughter is missing and their hope is fading for 19-year-old Kenya Monham. There's no book. What you do when this kind of stuff comes up for, a family have the missing.

There ain't no book. This is the unthinkable. You don't know what he looks like till it comes knocking on your door. My name is Tony Lee. Locksmith work.

It's a very exact business. You can't be 100's of an inch off.

“If you're a 100's of an inch off, this lock won't work.”

I have to keep my mind on the task at hand.

It gets me away from the task because the thought's really never ever go away.

Keep your thinking and it keeps you not thinking at the same time. For Tony, working in his locksmith shop and focusing is a way of not thinking about the moment that changed his and his daughter's lives forever. One night in downtown Denver. Lower downtown Nicknamed Lotto was the place to be. All the bars are down there, all the kids run, go down there.

It's filled with people going out, having fun with their friends. So it's March 31st. It's springtime. It's a beautiful night. People are out and about. As far as the crime, very average of what you would see. Maybe a bar fight, maybe somebody lost their ID, maybe somebody's phone got taken. Nothing like a violent or major crime.

But now police have something very different on their hands. Disappearance of a 19-year-old woman who was last seen leaving one of those clubs. Her name was Kenia Monjit. This is me and Kenia. This was night in with our friends.

We met in high school. We met one day and we never let go of each other.

We were attached at the hip. I want half my face on the hip. She was always just happy and laughing and cracking jokes. People were naturally just drawn to her beauty and kindness. Kenia was from Honduras.

Kenia's mom was married to a gentleman named Tony Lee.

“From that day forward, there was never any question about our relationship.”

That was daddy. We used to go on our little road trip. We sing along. She liked boys to men and to the road. To the end of the road till I can't let go. We did a lot together.

Kimberly and Tony Junior have siblings. They love her. They adore her. They look up to her. Well, she had graduated from Cherry Creek High School and was going to MSU Denver. She had her whole life in front of her. She was just that typical young 19-year-old girl having fun.

She was always listening to the latest songs.

Her ringtone was of a chat to song "Dubineno" by Aventura. And so anytime I hear that song, I just think of her. [music]

“Me and another one of our friends were planning to meet with Kenia that night.”

And we made plans to just meet up downtown somewhere. I didn't know who she was with. She's out with two other girls. This was not her normal group of friends. This was a new group of friends that maybe didn't know her as well. Eventually we were able to talk to Kenia's friends that she went out with that night.

And they told us everything. [music] So this is the bar that used to be called 24K. Where Kenia and her friends came that night. I want to say it was about 10 or 11 o'clock.

We texted Kenia and she never responded.

So we figured she's having fun. We'll run into her later. They met some guys when they walked in. They sat down. One of the booths had bottle service.

Started drinking.

“We even have a picture of them all together on that booth.”

There's Kenia at the table talking to these young man. They pour them drinks. They're drinking. Kenia was 4,100 pounds. Drinking any amount of liquor affected her. Kenia gets up goes to the bathroom when she comes back.

She's with some guy. The friends don't know who he is. They go back out to the dance floor. They start dancing. Kenia was dancing with someone and was just enjoying this person's company. They're definitely flooring having a good time.

Meanwhile, she's left all of her belongings with her friends. Her purse, her keys, and most importantly her phone. Police are told that security at the bar warn Kenia and the man that they're getting out of hand and to try and cool things down. But soon after, the two of them are actually kicked out of the club

and Kenia's friends don't see it happen. They don't know where she went. She just kind of disappears. They're looking for her. Her friends that she came with. They're looking for her. They can't find her. They didn't know that they were asked to leave.

They don't know what happened to her. For whatever reason, they continue to hang out at the bar. And so she was really in the most vulnerable spot she could be in. Have no way to communicate, have no identification, no money, and you're dressed to be out at the bars.

You know, it's just a bad combination. The girls that were out with Kenia, they can't find her. They were hoping she was home, but she hadn't come home. In the morning, her other best friend called me and asked. Have you seen Kenia? She's not answering her phone.

I haven't heard from her. Have you talked to her? I'm worried. This isn't like her. And so we know pretty quickly. This isn't just somebody that ran away or hasn't gotten home yet or ended up somewhere else and that this is not good.

Especially when surveillance video of Kenya walking into this building

that immediately raises alarm bells.

“The text message leads to everything else that follows.”

Kenya becomes a missing person.

The officers did an incredible job of going just

scouring that whole area for surveillance at any bar restaurant. Anything they could find. We don't know who she left with or where she went until we find surveillance here at this at the lofts at 15th of California. They're basically apartments.

The text goes there and they download surveillance and they see Kenya walking into the lobby with this person that she left with. Eventually we learned who the stranger at the bar was, Chad Davis. It was his apartment building they walked into at around 1 a.m. He gives us an interview. He talks to us.

Chad, he was on and she was struggling to walk in him. She just took him off and was walking and I was carrying him. He was kind of head over this adventure.

“From 24 k bar to the lofts is a good 10-15 minute walk.”

It's a waste.

They come in, they talk here in the lobby,

and they go into the elevator. Hello, you guys have been apartmentizing like 10 minutes. And then she realized that she left her purse or something to get us at the bar and needed to go get it. But instead of going back to the bar,

what follows is a chaotic series of events. Over the next hour or so, Kenya and Chad appear on a number of recordings. Sometimes with each other, other times a part. Here, Kenya turns back from following Chad. Moments later, Chad reappears running back after her.

And yet another time, Chad seems to have run downstairs to wait for Kenya at the elevator. We go to the other door times. We go and up and out the stairs.

“Then I think she was behind me and she wasn't me.”

I mean, like I said, she was really drunk. It was really difficult to do with you. Chad at that point, escorted Kenya back downstairs. She's standing right here, he's in the elevator. And they're kind of, I don't know what they're saying.

He says that he asked her to go back to his apartment. She says no. She starts to walk out of the building. Two guys walk in. And he's still saying something to her.

But we don't know exactly because there's no audio to it. So she bumps into these two guys and they start talking to her. She tells them something they confront Chad and then there's a scuffle that happens. He leaves up the elevator.

Then we see her on video. Kenya was alone in that lobby. And she walked out those doors alone. Everything that Chad explained to us, we verified through the video.

We ran back around on him for any red flags, for anything that stood out. There was nothing that it was a closed door and every avenue that we took with Chad. On the counter, I've seen that on him.

Didn't even go where there was. I understand my place. It's about 2.15 a.m. Kenya walks across the street to the high at hotel. Only about a minute away.

Kenya is seen on video walking in the lobby, going in the direction of the women's restroom. She didn't appear to be stumbling, but walking in the main thing where she was by herself. Then she proceeds to walk alone on the street.

But walk on the street to where? It's a huge mystery until a development that changes the entire case. Her phone is everything in this story. The next day, Kenya's friends bring her phone to her family.

That was my first time knowing about it.

And I said, "None of you know what happened to her." She said, "No." That's terrifying. Your child is missing. Maria was absolutely heartbroken.

She just was in so much agony for her daughter. Tony, he was very determined to try to figure out what happened to her.

And I'm seeing all these names, you know,

“and I'm calling the friends that I know and I'm saying,”

"You know, this is what I'm at. This is what's going on." And none of them had heard anything from her. Her parents became pretty worried because that was odd for Kenya to do that.

Just vanish should not call, not show up, not say, "Hey, here, here, this is where I'm at." Tony has the phone, has Kenya's phone. When a text comes in, I'll say, "I get this message."

And the message said, "Hey, this is Travis. Guy and creepy white men. Did you get to your car, okay?" It's just chilling. Of course, it's a creepy white man.

It's just ugh. That's my biggest nightmare.

“Whatever you relate, creepy white van to,”

it's never a good thing. None of her family, none of her friends knew who this Travis was. I started calling him. I've left a message after a message after a message because to me, this is the last person who saw Kenya.

Finally, someone calls him back.

And Travis has a story about what happened. He saw this girl there on the sidewalk, but she looked drunk. And she looked like she was talking to this homeless guy. And I decided to try to help her.

He picked her up and he was going to take her home. While they're on the way home, she wants to stop at a gas station and get some cigarettes. So they pull into this gas station. There's a man there.

“Travis says that Kenya left with this man,”

and that's the last time he saw her. And I said, "Where's this?

Where's this conical station exactly?

Where did they go?" And he said, "Listen, why don't you meet me there?" And I said, "I'm on my way." And when he went to leave, he went and grabbed his gun.

Travis actually tells Tony that he will show him where he last saw Kenya. So they agreed to meet up at this conical gas station. I live Maria by wife note that I am going down to meet this guy. And when he went to leave, he went and grabbed his gun.

I don't know what he planned to do, but Maria was concerned. And when he left the house, Maria contacted the police. I pulled in, I parked over here. I saw the two police cars that were out front.

The cops are there, just to make sure, you know, immediately make sure nothings get violent. The officer came and kind of met me. He made mention of the firearm that he was told I had and I told him it was in my vehicle.

I left it in my vehicle. By the time Tony gets there, Travis and his white man are already there at the conical. And he is talking to police. Travis was sort of an average normal looking person.

Travis did not look like somebody that you would be afraid of. Travis was in his early 30s, just a free spirit appeared to be grounded. Travis had his own business and he was making these gluten-free granola bars. Clean cut, tall, blonde hair, blue eyes, you know. And I thought to myself, well, you know,

can you going to be with someone? You know, this is what I hope that they would look like. And the story Travis tells is similar to the one he told him on the phone. He portrays himself as a good Samaritan. He found Kenya, downtown, talking to or being harassed by some homeless person

or transient person. And so he offered her a ride. Travis volunteers to take her home. Travis says that they get into the van. She says she wants a cigarette.

He pulls into the gas station and the gas station is closed. That she saw this gentleman walking by and was smoking a cigarette. Kenya immediately jumped out and started talking to this individual. And he gave her a cigarette. Travis tells police that this man's name is Dan.

With the lip piercing, he may have been a construction worker.

“Well, when he was explaining it to the officers, you know.”

I'm overhearing it. You know, he said that Dan and her sitting down on the curb right there by the little bush. And they were talking in Spanish, smoking, you know. And they walked up to her and he said, hey, you know, to take your home, you know, and she said she was fine.

She was going to just walk this way with Dan. And he said, well, okay. And better go, you know, it's that she's grown. And he said he took off. That's the last time he saw it.

Travis's story is not adding up for Tony. It gets even more suspicious when he joins the police to examine the van. Travis was very eager. Looking my van. You can look in the van.

Here it is. I'll open it up for you.

“This is one of those white vans that you see on every TV show that there is.”

It involves that stuff. He just came straight to the back compartment over here. Open the doors. It's double door. And when it's swung open.

The smell of bleach just washed out of there. You know, just the smell was heavy. The walls had been washed. And you could see that it was washed so much with this bleach. You could see where it was running down.

There was a new carpet in there. Why was there this newer carpet? In fact, so new. It smelled like new carpet in there. One of the things in law enforcement is that you don't want to jump to conclusions.

Just don't. Yeah. It's weird that vans smells like bleach. It's weird that he has new carpet.

“But how do we know she just did leave with this guy?”

We don't know. Police say they have to consider the possibility that this mysterious Dan could be responsible for Kenya's disappearance. But as Tony is about to leave the gas station. He says that something chilling happens. We went to shake.

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It's hard. It's hard to accept that my best friend is gone. Maria was just devastated. Maria never gave up hope. My father's praying for you in a way here for you and you know you welcome home.

I remember that one. It hope is in my opinion an emotion that carries you through stuff. You know their hope was 100% mine was 0.01%. And that point of 1% of hope is still hope. And there's no book on what you do when this kind of stuff comes up for a family of the missing.

There ain't no book. I would say I was determined. I wanted her home. This family needs closure. After Travis gave the information at the Connecostation.

It was crucial to interview.

We wanted to take the crew away for follow-up questions that we as the investigators has. Tell me what happened. There was a night in the Friday morning.

We want everybody talk to.

Get them in video. We lock them down to a statement. That's when, you know, we met. He came in and spoke to the police voluntarily. He was very cordial and cooperative.

“The last thing I need in my life is to be successful at missing persons.”

You know, being the next Con. And I'm a probationary enough for a domestic violence case. We find that Travis is somebody who's been arrested a few times. Did some time. So it's nothing that jumped out and said, hey, this guy murder is killing people.

We don't. It's nothing like that. You know, you go through your mind. All the things that you should have done. All the things you could have done.

He's laid back. He's easy-going. He's charming.

Remember, before meeting Travis, Kenya is seen on surveillance video first at the apartment building

of the man that she'd met at the bar. Then she's crossing the lobby of the Hyatt Hotel across the street. Police say soon after that. Travis sees her outside. On the night that Travis met

and ran into Kenya. He wasn't alone. He was with a friend. When they drive up, they see Kenya talking to this guy. Kenya is crying.

She's upset. They get out. They talk to her. They're weird. They're sketching.

So we intervened. Hold the skylocked off. Okay. Then we have. You know,

to get her home, take her somewhere.

“Travis is coming across like a good Samaritan.”

He is concerned about Kenya. He gave the same version of events really that he'd given at the Conaco that he picked her up, those protecting her, taking care of her. Travis drops off his friend

and drives away alone with Kenya. They were here. Okay. She asks me for a cigarette. I tell her I don't smoke.

I don't have any cigarettes. I saw a Conaco on the other side. So I turned around. This is the big moment in his story. They pull up to the gas station

and this mysterious man, Dan, is there. There was a guy, a man that was walking by. He was smoking this cigarette. She asked him for a cigarette and asked him to sit and smoke with her.

She immediately attacked yourself to this guy. She put her arm through his arm while they were sitting there smoking. And they walked off. And that's it.

That was the last. That was it. And I went home. I went to my girlfriend's house. We'll turn you.

Carry on free. So we contact Keri Humphrey and bring her in for an interview. Thursday night into Friday morning. Travis came home.

Some time between us.

“If you told me, you rolled over the clock.”

Said 333 a.m. And he left some time before 8. Okay. You sure about that? Hmm.

Keri Quabrates would Travis said he came home at 3 a.m. He left for work at 8 a.m.

Before I woke up, I never saw him again.

That day. She certainly did give him an alabine. Travis is telling us that he's just a good Samaritan trying to help out somebody. No one's trying to say you did anything wrong

by letting her walk off of this guy. Not at all. But I mean, we're just trying to eliminate everybody who's ever kind of came in contact with her. That's all.

We don't have anything that says that he's lying. We have no evidence that says he's lying. So now we need to find this Dan. And nobody came forward. We sent it out on the media.

We sent out crime stoppers. And we never found out who this Dan was. So this case has to be investigated. And that investigation soon leads to a woman who worked closely with Travis.

My name is Monica Pool. And I own Blue Hummingbird, gluten free bakery. It used to be called debbies. Travis came to me with a concept about granola bars. He made them in my space.

So that's same day that Kenya disappears. Something unusual happens at the bakery. Monica comes in and she suspects that Travis might have taken money from her office. We had a security system installed in the bakery

when we opened it. There are six cameras. One in the office, two in the kitchen, two in the front lobby and one in the back and back story room. She sees that the money's gone.

And she sees Travis had disconnected the video.

When I came into the bakery, I did my normal counting back the door. And it was short. I called the police and I said, "Look, I have someone renting from me. He's dealing money out of my cash register."

And he said, "Can you prove it was him?" And I said, "No, he turned off the camera." In talking to Monica, we learned that her video had been cut off coincidentally around when can you went missing. I'm Friday evening.

He has the bakery trip himself. When you can see him at the end of the office, and he uploads my video surveillance. So that all the cameras go out. The only thought I had about that was,

I don't know why he's wearing yellow plastic gloves,

because he never cleans up after himself.

So that was the extent of what I knew was on the tape.

“What time is the first time on Saturday that you see Travis?”

I call him several times and he finally called me back. And he said, "I needed the money. It was an emergency. I've only back $100." And then he came back with the money. He said, "I'm not talking to all the police.

You're looking for me because this girl that I met now she's missing." And they want to question me, "But I didn't do anything." And then I noticed the cut on his arm. And he said, "Yeah, that was from the glass from my band.

Window being broken." He seemed very tired, disheveled, and somewhat overwrought. It's like something had happened. And I thought he was in that frame of mind

because I had to threaten to call the police and had him arrested. Since Monica left the bakery around five o'clock on Friday, she had only been interested in watching the latter part of the tape. But when police go to the bakery

“and they review all of the security camp footage from earlier on Friday,”

they discover something shocking. When we back up even further on Friday afternoon, we see Travis enter through the back door of the bakery on a cart is a white cooler with black duct tape sealed up around it.

And Travis goes to the walk in cooler with the cart and the cooler and walks out. The lid is taped down. And we asked Monica about that.

And I said, "No, he would never put a cooler in my freezer.

He did not have access to freezer space at that time in our contract. Because Travis had switched to granola bars and they didn't need to be frozen. Nothing he was doing needed ice."

There also was other video of Travis carrying in a carpet and so that was really alarming and chilling, honestly, to see that. And Travis is seen on camera with a bottle of bleach as well.

“I think for us, it was more like out of a horror movie”

where we saw it. All of our bells and whistles are going off. This is the next night after Kenny had been missing. So the news obtained a search warrant showing police searched this bakery in a rabbit hole county.

It's here where the man who says he helped Ken, your rent space. We swab several places that look like blood. They were jelly. We took a computer, any in all video

that we could steep in from the workers there. No clue who was gone. But there were also reports coming into police from people who saw someone burning something in a barrel behind that very same bakery.

And somebody was burning that right after the time that Ken you went missing. A man who works nearby that bakery says he saw a white cargo van park nearby. A deputy head gone and actually spoke to Travis

and Travis said he was burning old tax returns. There was no unusual odor just the fire. They told me he had to put it out. Travis complied. We're now in the rear of unit A.

It's an upside down barrel. Here's to be burn residue. The bottom of the barrel. We found the material that was similar to Ken's dress with a zipper on it.

But it was so badly burned and melted down. We tried to match it, we tested everything. Everything that you can imagine we tested. With no conclusive results from the burn barrel, police turned their attention to Travis's white van.

I do a search warrant on the van and we tear the van apart. But when we hit the van with luminal, bleach fluorescence and you can see

People used bleach for different things, obviously, to clean.

“It's out of the ordinary, especially in a van.”

But is it the smoking gun? No. At this point, Travis is looking very suspicious. But there is simply not enough to arrest Travis. But then Travis is spotted on yet another surveillance tape

this time way up to Denver, raising more questions and even more new suspicions. Travis had no friends or family out there. Why is he up there? What does he do?

So I do a search warrant on Travis's phone. When I started tracking him through cell towers, it showed him coming from Denver.

And basically, he's recording the track all the way up here

to Kingsbury. The cell phone records and where Travis has been confirms he wasn't with his girlfriend. And also that he had gone outside of Denver

“shortly after Kenny went missing to Kingsbury.”

So he was out in this general area for hours. We just didn't know what he was doing. Travis had no friends or family out there. At one point, we learned that Travis started to get gas. Why is he up there?

What is he doing? So a team of detectives come up here and they start to search in the area, up in these fields all over here. We were searching a lot and found no evidence of anything.

Not at all.

Kenny's parents are just completely devastated at this point.

Tony starts looking for her himself. Going around Denver. I learned how to search a dumpster. You need a big stick, the dig, but you can't reach the bottom.

I was very purposeful on what I was looking for.

“What I went dumpster diving as I called it.”

I looked for Kenny's body. It's it. Nothing else. I've looked for Kenny. And tonight, a family's plea for health. About two weeks after Kenny disappeared, her family goes public.

They are begging people to come forward with information. They sent out flyers to the media. They've checked local hospitals. They've talked to her friends. I covered this case. I remember talking to the family.

It was heartbreaking. Kenny's mother has this message for her missing child. I just want to tell you. The mommy and grandma she's praying for you. I owe my family's praying for you in a way here for you.

And you know you're welcome home. I really had hope. It's almost like this blind faith. I genuinely believed that Kenny was going to make her way back to us. Travis himself is hardly hiding.

He too goes public agreeing to an interview with a local news station. Travis Forbes says he only knew missing 19-year-old Kenny Monet for 20 minutes. Man. I'm sorry that I, that I was indifferent. I didn't think she would choose.

Gonna disappear. I could have, I could have walked with them. I could have been more. I could have been like no, you know, no. You know, I'm going to take you home. I could have intervened more, you know, and not just it okay.

And, uh, and gone home, you know. Travis continues in fanatically denying any wrongdoing. Do you kidnap her? No. Did you sexually assault her?

I did not. Did you murder her? I did not. No. No.

And when he answers, he says no. And he nods his head up and down. It was kind of this strange moment where we were all like, "Oh, well, that was pretty telling." Yeah, it's just one more piece of the puzzle.

And then other people would come forward after that to say, "That's exactly how he acted when he was lying." A next girl from the Travis's reaches out to my counterpart, Detective Lou Astrada. And they sit down for an interview.

Turns out, there had been a few former ex-girlfriends and Travis's life. You're so now we're finding more and more out about Travis Forbes and who he is and what he likes and doesn't like.

She basically explains to Detective Astrada that Travis

actually likes women dressed in the same kind of outfit as Kenya was wearing that night. It was a black jacket, black skirt, and red high heels.

when we were intimate.

Travis was into choking, but I knew every night

that we would go out on the town. If I wore a black outfit and red high heels, that later turned out to be rough intimacy. But most importantly, she told us that when the reporter asked Travis, "Did he have anything to do with

Kenya's disappearing?" Travis answered, "No." She said, "I caught Travis in so many lies. I would ask him, "Did you hook up with somebody?" "No, I didn't do that."

“Those same mannerism, she's like, "That's how I know he's lying."”

The investigation continued trying to figure out what happened, where Kenya was, because we couldn't charge Travis, because we didn't have a body, and we didn't have any DNA that we could show that she was with him after the conical, so what else can we find?

Everyone's looking at Travis forward. He knows he's a suspect. He's telling everyone. He's a suspect. The pressure's on. Poof. He's gone. We didn't know where he went. He just kind of vanishes.

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His phone is shut off now. Travis may be out of sight,

“but he is not out of mind just before leaving town.”

He had borrowed his friend Siva's car, and now she can't reach him. Siva had become a close friend of his, while he'd been living in Denver. I would call and check on her and ask her hey,

and she gets your four-runner back, and she reached out to you, she said no. When he's in line with her reported, it's someone who's because the last thing I wanted is for her, there'd be more stress in his life about a car,

because I didn't want him to get in trouble. I just think that she thought he was this nice guy, and people were afraid to make him look bad.

He's just always been very close to me.

I just consider him like a brother. You could just tell that he was a little stressed, and that's not uncommon for him. He's very high-strong. Siva also tells police that right before disappearing,

Travis told her that he was being questioned about a missing girl. He said, I never knew that 20 minutes with a complete stranger would change my life like this. He started crying. I could just tell that this really affected him on a deep level.

Not only the stress of, "Oh my God, this poor girl is missing, but now I'm being under a microscope of what happened." So when I speak to his friend Siva, she just didn't understand why we were looking into him. And to me, it's a witch hunt.

I understand that I expect that. In my opinion, one answer is that he is not capable of murder. Absolutely not. I bet my life on it. It's an outstanding human being that wants to help people.

But sometimes it winds up biting him in the ass. I know he tried giving two guys right home. Two months prior to this, and they tried carjacking him. But Siva gets more frustrated about her missing car. And now, Travis is not returning her calls.

So she gives police her license plate number. I wish someone knew something about him.

Regardless, but no, he's pissed me off about what he got.

That responding is not like him. Ms. Siva, for Grease to Filey, we're still in order to be a code. There is a warrant issued a four Travis for the out of theft. The police put out and be on the lookout for this vehicle. And once it goes into the system, a few hours later,

an officer is going through a parking lot of a motel, run and lie some plates for stolen cars, and Siva's car gets tagged. And that motel is hundreds of miles away from Denver all the way down south in Austin, Texas. So it looks like he's trying to start a new life in Austin. He is using a different name.

He runs an apartment on Craigslist. He's within hours of signing the lease when the police show up. All of a sudden, he's surrounded Travis tries to flee on a bike. But police catch up to him, knock him off that bike, and place him under arrest. He wasn't caught from murder, but he was caught for auto theft.

“I think I had Travis a little on his heels when I showed up to Texas.”

Do you know what? I walked in this room, and you looked at me so shocked. It looks like somebody walked over your grave. I didn't think you were going to get here that fast. We still needed to finish talking to Travis. So when I first initially interviewed Travis,

we asked him to come back the following day, and he never did.

Why would you not, if you're the good Samaritan as he said? I talked to a lot of people, and actually they think you're trying to, you're making yourself look more guilty than what it is. I did a good job of that. Oh, yeah, you did. Yeah, I mean, you're running like a guilty guy, dude.

During this interview, he sticks to his story. Nothing changes about what he says happened to Kenya. Toward the end of the interview, when I'm asking him direct questions about Kenya,

“he says, "Nash, I think I need a journey."”

To none of this, most good. I know Texas. Well, you can Texas. We didn't force you to film the Texas? No, I know. Nash, I need this point. I... My mother is she present. I should not be saying another word or interviews done.

I'm no offense. No. You know the game. But there was still one last thing that detective Gurulin needed before the interview was really done. We all chose.

I know we talked a lot. I appreciate that. I wish you would have explained a lot of things to me. It's a warrant for your day. You guys have my day in there. We go.

So, just fine, gentlemen, here with forensics, I was going to take your day in there.

“And to take if Gurulay got his DNA sample, which I think was unnerving for him also.”

Because I think he always was wondering what did we have, what did we find,

and why are you getting my DNA? Because Travis stole the car in Colorado and fled to Austin, they were able to press charges in Colorado. And that gives police the opportunity to expedite Travis back to Colorado. He's in Jefferson County, jail.

It's probably mid June to late June. See, but his friend basically says that she wants to drop charges. As she just wants her car back, she feels bad for Travis. Charges are dismissed and Travis is released. I understood it because it was her friend,

but it was frustrating for us because we have to worry about you know, where is he going now and who to see kind of in contact with next? Well, by this time, we've eliminated everybody else that Kenya's coming contact with. I don't want him on the streets.

However, we don't have nothing to keep him in jail, but there's nothing I can do about it. Just work the case. It had been approximately 16 weeks, 17 weeks, since Kenya had been missing or has last seen.

And Travis goes to Fort Collins. A couple of weeks later, there's another horrific attack on a woman. Firefighters responded to an apartment fire here in Fort Collins. Police say a woman had been beaten, but the victim survived.

The 19-year-old disappeared after getting a ride home.

“And they just wanted her to come for it.”

I couldn't afford a prom dress, so Kenya let me borrow one of hers. I hate that Kenya's constantly painted as this party girl when that was just one tiny window into her life. It wasn't any fault of her own. Just absolutely in the wrong place at the wrong time.

And then no one was there to help her. Breaking new details now in the disappearance of a routine agent Kenya Monhey. Seven news is learned police are searching for evidence in several different locations. I feel like people in Colorado were really glued to their TVs.

They wanted to know what happened to this girl.

Suddenly, it wasn't a safe place to go out. People were very concerned about this young woman and what happened to her. I know Tony was doing his own investigation in search and places. I got in contact with a local printing company. They printed me 500 of the high gloss, the ones he saw in the mansion.

We're going out heading fires. Their family is putting up missing posters everywhere. They can't desperate to get those answers.

“I think those were some really long frustrating months”

where it felt like her case was at a standstill. Months of past, there have been no new leads in the Kenya Monhey case. The trail is going cold. The family is desperate for answers. And the only person who really seems to know anything is Travis Forbes.

Forbes admitted to giving her a ride home from this nightclub April 1st. He's the top of the suspect list and he's the only home we're focusing on right now because he's the last one that's had contact with her. As fishy as his story is, their simply is not enough to arrest him. Remember Forbes is being held by Colorado police on that car theft charge.

But he's released after his friend Siva decides not to press charges. He gets released from jail. We put surveillance on Travis when he gets released and he goes to poor Collins. We have surveillance on him.

“He's out of the community with this cloud of suspicion hanging over him.”

And police are watching him. But then the surveillance stopped. They couldn't watch him 24/7. Needs back on the street. And then we have to worry about where is he going now and who to see kind of in contact with next. And it's in Fort Collins that another horrifying case will soon unfold.

Fort Collins July 4th. It's night time. So this young woman had gone to see a fireworks display at a nearby park. And on her way home, she doesn't realize she's being followed by someone. This man breaks into her apartment here and he brutally beats her.

That man then uses bleach. All over her, all over her apartment. And then sets her apartment on fire at dawn to try to destroy the evidence. Neighbors actually see the flames and they call 911. 911 was the address of the emergency.

Oh yeah, there's a fire going on. Looks like the top floor. Amazingly she survived and she is fighting for her life. She actually had to jump back to this building. The second story window to see from being burned alive when permits got here. They see a naked woman running towards them trying to get them to help save her life.

They eventually learn her name is Lydia Tilman. Lydia Tilman's single was by herself works for a liquor distributor in the Fort Collins area.

She's listening critical condition.

You don't think nothing like that can happen. It's scary. Yeah, but I mean, this is the real world. This was a brutal attack. Lydia's jaw was broken in multiple places so she can't describe her attacker to police.

And then the trauma is so serious that she suffers a massive stroke. And then she slips into a coma. It is clear to everyone in that hospital room that Lydia fought for her life. And in that fight, she captured evidence. DNA evidence from her attacker underneath her fingernails.

Police actually take DNA swabs underneath her fingernails to try to figure out who the attacker is.

And there's some similarities in that there was bleach all over this apartment and that it was set on fire. I get a call from Jacqueline Shackley and she's a detective on Fort Collins. And she tells me what her case is. You have these two cases involving women, bleach. People are starting to ask, could these be connected?

She tells me, well, we have DNA from our case and I said, I have DNA and we arrange to have the DNA given to her. Investigators say that they are now faced with a terrifying possibility. If Travis Forbes is the attacker and is still out there, could he strike again?

“My advice is get eyes on him as soon as you can, you need to get eyes on him.”

And now to have developing slidious case was all over the news in Denver all over Colorado.

Police say a woman had been beaten and sexually assaulted before she jumped from her second story bedroom window.

This was such an unusual story. Strangled her job broken Lydia Tillman fought off her attacker through sheer determination. I heard about Lydia's attack on the day of her attack. A woman was brutally beaten, allegedly doused in bleach, and her apartments sat on fire. And to me it was like, well, it's weird I wanted to look at looking at, looking at Travis.

After Lydia Tillman is attacked, the Denver police began connecting the dots between these two cases. And they team up with the Fort Collins Police to resume following Travis Forbes. Our civils team talks this Fort Collins police and tell him, hey, this guy's a person interested in this case. We're looking at him. We try to keep tabs on him and you know what he's doing or is he worries at?

Because we didn't want him to disappear.

Fort Collins is a college town.

It's about an hour north of Denver. Lots of college kids. It's a popular place to hang out. The night life is fun. Travis is on the prowl.

I think he was involved in and I think it was a new opportunity for him to just, you know, be a predator. One night Travis is in a bar and he has seen leaving the bar with another young woman. Police are able to intervene. The police stop Travis in this young lady. They put her in a patrol car.

“They kind of cornered her and said, you need to leave like right now.”

And she did, thankfully. And then they ask him his name and he gives them another fake name. Fort Collins police can't arrest Travis forums without probable cause in Lydian Tillman's case. So they arrest Travis for giving police a false name. Fort's Game Officers of fake name said he didn't have a phone and couldn't remember his address and acted nervous.

Within an hour, Fort's Game Officers, his real name was arrested for false reporting. So they take him into custody and he's brought to jail. And it's the detective from Denver. Ready to interview him again. I actually drove to Fort Collins and met with him.

And we start talking and it's all on auto recording because there was no video in this room. Hey there. Thanks. Detective Gurley had a really good rapport with Travis and did most of the interviews with Travis. I want to keep that going.

I've seen what's going on. More right here. And he goes, okay, review my rights. So I'd advise him of his rights and we start talking. Well, Kenya and Lydian's case and all these different things.

What's in comes. I'm into the right thing. I don't think you will. You hear them going back and forth. Travis is giving them a little but not what they need.

I can see what I don't have faith in me. I don't play that. It was like playing chess. I'd move one piece one way. He'd move his piece a different way.

I don't think you know.

“I think you have a two-day video with that.”

I've done the game. I'm confessing to you.

It was always a chess match.

We were always maneuvering. I've said guilty. I've said it back up to you. You like that control. You like you.

I explain to him. I said Travis. I'm going to use every word you've ever told me that we've talked against you.

I'm going to use everything. I'm going to use everything. And he just kind of laughed. Absolutely. Trying to, you know, give this persona.

I guess he was hardcore criminal.

“The detective is grilling Travis in the interrogation room.”

And Travis is just getting more and more defensive. And just when it seems like detectives are getting nowhere. Forbes offers this revealing glimpse into how he may see himself. Something I need to do is I need to find out the definition of social path. Is that pretty sure if it is real?

Yes. Social path has no anything. They can actually kill somebody and not feel anything about it. That's a social path. Do you think you fit into the social path?

I can just go for something. I'm with him probably. I want to say maybe three hours. We need to have hours talking to him. He has a light and steady perfect.

Her Highness. And in this video. You can make me think stress. When we take a healer that caught up.

“And he confessed to that detected me in advance.”

I'm in fact so bad.

Finally, I just tell him.

You know, I'll try this. I said the next time I come. But I'm going to arrest you for first screamer. And we'll see what happens when I. Outside the interrogation room, time is running out.

Investigators have the suspects DNA profile. We're covered from underneath Lydia Tillman's fingernails. And they need to match it to Travis Forbes in order to charge him in the Lydia's case. Everybody was on pins and needles. I mean, we were very concerned about him getting out.

We were up against this timeline of we can't hold him forever. He could bond out any minute. Travis is about to walk out of custody again and be a free man. When the DNA test results come back. The DNA comes back from Lydia.

It matches Travis. The DNA match confirms everything that we had thought for months. I said, this is your one time that you have an opportunity to be in control of what happens to you. Because you're not in control anymore. Travis is back to the corner.

He knows the game is up. And now he wants to make a deal. I think that he probably knew pretty quickly that he was not going to talk his way out of this. I don't know about the chair. Okay.

“The only way to cut it with me is pertain to the Denver.”

I said, what do you want? He said, you don't sense me to death row. He don't label me a sex offender. We would not seek the death penalty. If he showed us where Kenya was and gave a full confession.

I don't care what the deal is. I don't care if you will let him walk, but you just want to know where Kenya is. I want to bring Kenya home.

There's always a little bit of hope in the back of your mind.

I thought Kenya was coming back. I thought she was coming home. This is sort of a good stop. So literally it's the edge. I am right there.

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And he says he will lead them to Kenya.

I actually told him, I think you're a coward. I don't think you're going to, I think you're going to back out of this. I don't think you're going to fall through. I was so at that point nervous was he going to bail out at any time.

“Which I thought that's what he's going to do.”

There is September 7th, 2011. It's now 9.36. We pick up Travis at the Larmor County Jail. I'm driving Lewis Trottis sitting behind her. Travis is sitting in the middle.

Next to Travis is Jacqueline Shackley from Fort Collins, PD. We pick him up and we head this way. We go based off of his directions.

We're heading out from the attention center here.

We're going to have this video run as we drive. That's your location where you're going to direct us to us. It seemed to be pretty calm. It wasn't like he was freaking out or anything. During that long drive, detective say that Travis was relaxed.

And that he was talking so casually about everything from running Marathon's to movies. About five years ago I ran at home over. I told you to run. I actually got this close by. He was just being himself.

He was just talking. He likes to talk. It was just kind of odd. No idea what he was talking about.

That's the first story he's ever done.

So we are in North Eastern Colorado. Farms, fields, cattle.

“I mean, that's what this area is known for.”

He directs us onto I76. We drive up and we go through Kingsburg. And then he starts directing us into the County Road. Investigators were familiar with this area. Travis's phone had been pinging in that area for eight or nine hours.

The day after can you disappeared. So when they're driving there, it all is starting to make sense. So we knew he was up here. We just didn't know what he was doing up here. We then turned North on a county road.

16 and went north to Mar53. But then we stopped and Travis said, "I think this is it." No, this isn't right. Going straight. He says, "Backout, this isn't it."

I'm like, "Okay, he's going to play games."

“We back out, he says, "Go a little bit more west."”

We said, "Okay, turn right." We went right. And then we saw the railroad track. And he said, "Turn left and here." She's right there.

Is this where you dressed up? Do you hear him left? Yes. And he started to get really amped up. His body language changed.

He's sitting there. He's giving antsy. He said, "Okay, we stopped. We need to get out and show us." So Travis brings us here.

We pull into this open area between the tracks and the scrubatories. We walk up to the top of the ravine. We're all standing here. I'm standing next to Travis.

I said, "Where's she at?" Right there. He just said you're standing on top of her. After that, he lets out this like whale like he's crying.

He's leading up against the car. He's crying mostly screaming. Crime scene comes in. Everybody else starts descending onto the area. We rope it all off.

Crime scene tape. And they start doing their excavation. We just confirmed that Travis Forbes, the man suspected all along, led them to this location this morning.

When the helicopter started showing up, we had to put canopies up to cover up what they were digging up, because no one needs to see that.

“Detectives have now been digging in this area”

for about two hours.

So when they start excavating and basically digging her up,

she's about five feet down. And when we find her, she is covered in plastic. And she has rocks to hold down the plastic. When they find her body,

it's so badly decomposed. They can't determine the cause of death. But what they can see is that she's wrapped in duct tape and plastic in the fetal position. Perfect.

I mean, it's just, it's horrifying to think about what she must have been through. I said I wouldn't get emotional. I just can't imagine a family. I was losing a daughter like that, just vanishing.

And then not knowing where she's at.

“And then to find out that she was buried here.”

After we found her, we drove back to poor constiplyse department. And he said, hey, Nash, because I told you I'd take you to her. I told you I would.

And I said, okay, I said, but we're not done yet. They're still other things that need to be talked about. He said, I know. Upon getting back to Fort Collins,

Detective Grulei and myself, he sat down with Travis. He said, okay,

this is the second part of this agreement.

Tell us what happened. Travis, let's start from the end. I will be true for you. The footage is everywhere on the news. There's a tent set up.

Where Kenya was buried. Officers are canvassing the area for clues. Most pretty horrific. I stepped away to call Tony Lee. [music playing]

There's a tent set up. Where Kenya was buried. Officers are canvassing the area for clues. Most pretty horrific. I stepped away to call Tony Lee.

As a mom, I thought there's just no way. I'm going to let them hear this somewhere else. I got the news from D.A. Lombardia. A, uh, found, you know, remains. I remember getting a call from Tony.

And I remember hearing crying in the background. And he said they found her. [music playing] I call home Maria sleep, wake up. And I said, to her, um, they found Kenya.

And the first words that came out of her mouth was, uh,

Is she okay where she. [music playing] And I said, uh, she's dead. [music playing] The family's worst fears have been confirmed.

[music playing] So now police need to know what happened to Kenya. And the only person who knows that is Travis Forbes. The question is, will Travis Forbes live up

“To his part of the deal and give a full confession?”

[music playing] And you signed this room, correct? Yes. Let's start from the beginning. I believe it's California 15th or whatever street it is. [music playing]

She was crying. She was hysterical and crying and very upset. Just crying, she's upset. He gets out, asked for what's happening, what's wrong. And she got in his van and he agreed to drive her to her home in Aurora.

[music playing] He says he really was going to be a good Samaritan. [music playing] He had called her phone, trying to find her friends. She was being very flirty with me and she was very drunk.

At some point Kenya passed out in the van and that's when he decided to rape her. And I definitely advantage of her being drunk. I had sex with her while she was in the past home. She wakes up and is pissed at him because he had sex with her without a condom. She started hitting me.

And I started hitting her back. When you say it by hitting, will you punch her?

And I strike her there.

“And I told her, I think I'd made a broken back.”

She was so tiny. [music playing] He says that he drives around. He does his deliveries of his granola bars. And he's in Alabama and he had to be somewhere.

He was driving up north to do his deliveries. And in his mind, he said he could hear Kenya talking to you. Forbes tells detectives that Kenya's voice was still haunting him. So even after she was dead, he pulled over, bought duct tape, and wrapped it around her mouth as if he could somehow silence her.

She kept talking to me. So I put tape around her mouth. The whole time, I had to dead girl in the back of my van. He just killed a human being. [music playing]

“Then Travis Forbes says that he hides Kenya's body and tries to erase”

every trace of what he's done to her. He goes back to the bakery, and that's the video we see of him. Putting the cooler on this little cart and wills it into the freezer. But, bleach, bought a spray bottle. I sprayed the van, topped the bottom.

Spray it all down. Spray the coolers. Spray it hurt. Spray myself. I cut Kenya's clothes off.

I burned them. I burned all my clothes. I burned everything that she touched. That's a story you told us. I'm an explain later.

I made a poor decision I never meant to kill her.

So after Travis confesses to Killing Kenya, he then confesses to sexually assaulting Lydia Tillman in her apartment and leaving her to die in that fire. I don't know how I ended up in her apartment. I proceeded to rape her. I hit her violently. And I set her bedroom on fire.

I remember him being very calm and almost methodical when he was explaining it. He didn't seem to show any emotion. He was describing these horrific things that he did. And it just seemed like he could have been ordering lunch. You don't know what he will look like till it comes back on your door.

You're confronted face to face with it. It comes in many different shapes, sizes, appearances, and he's definitely evil. It wasn't until her body was found and Travis was ultimately in jail. That Kenya's family realized just how much effort was put into solving this crime. I publicly went out and said, "I don't think the police are doing a damn thing."

You know, they're not telling me nothing. It's hard to keep things from parents or loved ones when you're investigating things.

“They want answers. You have to just be like, "Look, one day we'll sit down."”

And it ain't going to be today, but one day we'll sit down." I went around that table and I said, "I'm sorry." I asked him how'd you get that confession. And he said, "I was only by the grace of God." And his fate would have it Lydia Tillman awakens from her coma.

Lydia is a very remarkable woman, her will to live and her fight is amazing.

But will she be able to confront Travis Forbes? I can't even imagine how she must have been feeling, looking into the man who tried to kill her. And then she says something that nobody can believe. Tonight, closer for the family of Canyon Mohn has. I opened my phone and I saw that he was arrested.

Travis Forbes admits to killing the teen and dumping her body. I ran out of school, sobbing crying, just... It was devastating. Finally, I got to truth. And I know I have a name you're having.

I prepared myself for this day. Didn't do any good. We got to take this girl home. We got to put her in rest. We've done for today.

We've got to do anything.

Now the Kenya is finally laid to rest.

Tony Lee has another chance to confront his daughter's killer. Canyon Mohn has family stayed close together as they walked into the courtroom. We went into the courtroom. I gave my impact statement because I was able to talk to Travis directly and look at it.

It was crying.

“And that is how he looked the last time I seen him in person.”

It was just like that. Now when I did shake his hand, it was that trembling that was inside of him. It wasn't a visible trembling. It was an internal trembling. And that's what I knew.

Travis put guilty to murder and was sentenced all at the same time. He's going to get life without the possibility of parole.

But Tony and Marie will never have grandchildren from Kenya.

They'll never get to see her walk down the aisle. They'll never get to see her fall in love.

“All that was taken away by Travis sports.”

The Denver authorities agreed not to charge Travis Forbes for rape in the Kenya Mohnhade case in exchange for him taking them to her body. But he still faces sexual assault, arson, and attempted murder charges on the attack of Lydia Tillman. At some point after that, we went to Fort Collins and he was taken up there to plead guilty in that case. Lydia appears in court. It is clear that she has been badly beaten.

She is severely burned. Lydia was there and the whole thing was pretty remarkable. That same year, the Travis was convicted and sentenced.

2020 sat down with Lydia Tillman to document her story for the first time.

And because Lydia struggled to speak at the time, it was her father William who read her victim impact statement for court. Travis Forbes, you caused me no harm.

“My spirit, my soul and my mind remain untouched.”

May you find peace in this life. Lydia Tillman. I hope to live my days inspired. New. Over the years, Lydia has publicly shared parts of her recovery journey and interviews and speaking appearances,

offering insight into the lasting impact of trauma and survival. Life is better than ever for me. Right now, it's really hard to put in it towards. I couldn't have that evidence without everybody. After Travis Forbes sentencing, Kenya's parents had the opportunity to meet Lydia Tillman for the first time.

Maria had this ring on. This Kenya's Mary was crying. She just took it off and went over to Lydia and said, "This is from Kenya and just put it on her finger." And they hugged. I glad that you're here for me to give you this from Kenya. I dug all this out.

This spot where Kenya's body was discovered has become a place where her loved ones returned to reflect on all that they have endured and all that they have lost. On that plaque is all of our hand prints.

Coming back here to visit, I'm always thrown back.

That'll never stop. I carry Kenya with me. She is still alive through me. You can never die of the people you love. Carry you. Tony Lee has created a foundation in honor of his late-step daughter.

It provides support to families of victims of violent crime. David asks for Lydia Tillman. She is now on a wellness journey. She says to try and heal from her traumatic experience. She's now working as a yoga instructor. That's our program for tonight. Thanks so much for watching. I'm Deborah Roberts.

And I'm David Nure from all of us here at 2020 and ABC News. Good night.

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