As we've discussed before, this does seem similar to Kenia Monge's murder. Kenia was intoxicated so "good samaritan" Travis Forbes was giving her a ride to her car (although she had never met him before).
The next morning Forbes texted her phone (which she had left with friends at the bar) asking if she got home ok (if he had been in possession of her phone I'm sure he would have sent a text from it like probably happened in this case). Which shows you how dumb these guys are when they get stressed thinking that somebody will find them out, that's how he was connected to Kenia.
He agreed to meet with her dad after her dad saw the text and contacted him, and he did TV interviews too.
His suspicious story was that he left her at a gas station (that was closed in the middle of the night) with some guy who was hanging out outside of the gas station.
Unfortunately he wasn't arrested until after he attacked another woman. He had troubling incidents in his past too, getting arrested for throwing rocks at female joggers and, when he was 17, breaking into homes and stealing women's underwear.
Very much so....
It was a puzzle - the five-month long quest to find 19-year-old Kenia Monge after she disappeared in downtown Denver.
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"This isn't TV," Nash Gurule, detective with the Denver Police's Missing and Exploited Persons Unit, said. "We don't come to work and get a case at the beginning of our shift and in an hour we have it solved - the guy is in prison."
A 20-year police vet, Gurule got assigned the case of the missing Aurora teen April 5, four days after the she vanished.
"I didn't believe him. I just had a weird feeling about him. I felt that he was lying," Gurule said about his first interview with 32-year-old Travis Forbes.
Forbes admitted to police he was the last person to see Monge alive. He said texted her phone asking is she got home OK and later set up a meeting with Tony Lee, Monge's stepfather, who asked Forbes about his daughter's whereabouts. At the time, patrol officers were on-hand to help.
Back then, Forbes stuck to his story.
He told police he picked her up right here at a loft building downtown and offered to help her find her car.
"He said she wanted a cigarette," Gurule said.
Forbes said he took Monge to the closed Conoco station on Speer Boulevard near Logan Street.
"Why would you take a girl to a closed Conoco, from across the river you can see the Conoco's closed?" Gurule said.
Forbes said he left her with a man who was at the station.
Gurule and his partner on this case, Louis Estrada, a detective from homicide, didn't believe Forbes. Why would he leave the girl with a homeless man at a gas station?
That first interview was on April 5 and it was the last time Gurule would see Forbes for a while.
"At that time, we let him go because we had nothing we could hold him on," he said.
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