The Murder of Kenia Monge

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03/31/19 • 37 min

On April 1, 2011 Kenia Monge vanished from a club in Lower Downtown Denver (Lodo). A bizarre text message is found on her phone by her stepdad and police soon zero in on a strange man named Travis Forbes, who has a history of assault on women. As police try to figure out what he did with Kenia, they cannot imagine the horror he would be involved in next.
Check out the Kenia Monge Foundation:
https://keniamonge.wordpress.com/
Music from Free Music Archive by Lobo Loco, Daniel Birch and Broke for Free.

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