> reporter: travis certainly seemed sincere. he was telling me i promised i'd take care of her, i wish i could have followed through on what i'd done, i feel responsible for, this i wish i could have done more. as the meeting wrapped up, travis sidled up to tony and started talking. he'd been cooperative, forthcoming, concerned for kenia. > reporter: it didn't sound right to the cops either. i told the officers, i said man, everything he's told me just don't sound right. the story that he told them matched exactly. > he told them that same story that he told me on the phone, and it was very consistent. she met another guy, who said he'd take her home. > reporter: travis told kenia's dad that as he was driving her moment she asked to stop at a gas station for cigarettes. asked her if she needed any help because she seemed like she was really drunk and she was really out of it, you know.
> reporter: the guy who left that rather odd text message on kenia's phone to see if she'd gotten home safely from the nightclub. > travis? > travis called me back about 8:00 p.m. > reporter: and then that second night after kenia vanished there was this call from a total stranger named travis. because that was not only my best friend, like that was my sister. > it's a feeling of being like desperate to know where your sister is. > reporter: but after 48 long hours - > what's that like? that feeling. > it was very, very, very confusing because these girls were - they were not telling me the truth about what they were doing and where they were at because they were covering their asses. > reporter: but when tony called kenia's friends, they weren't exactly straight with him about their underage bar hopping the night before in those lodo nightclubs. > when i got back home from my daughter kim and she said that she had not heard anything from her that day, that's when i went into high alert. > i started calling my sisters and my - all the family. like where is she? and he was like, i'm being serious, you need to call your parents and tell them to call the police and file a missing persons report. he was like, have you talked to her? i was like, no. I’m evil,” Forbes said in court.And i was like, no. I am so thankful that Lydia Tillman survived because if I hadn’t been caught, I probably would have done this again because deep down I’m f**ked up. I think we commit violent acts because deep down we find hatred of ourselves. “Why did I do this? I have been searching for that also in my heart and soul. “We wanted 48 more years on top of that to make sure that there’s no chance that for the rest of his life he’d ever get out,” Larimer County District Attorney Larry Abrahamson told Denver’s CBS affiliate at the time. He received a life sentence without the possibility of parole for Monge’s death and a 48-year sentence for Tillman’s attack.
In September 2011, Forbes agreed to plead guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Kenia Monge and attempted first-degree murder in the attack on Lydia Tillman in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty. Travis Forbes is serving a life sentence for Monge’s murder, escaped the death penalty by pleading guilty and leading investigators to Monge’s body.
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