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TONY LEE: I went upstairs, and I got my pistol.
And I'm going down the stairs.
You know, and Maria was on her hands and knees,
begging me not to go.
She says, Tony, don't.
Don't do this.
Let's just call the police.
I said, Maria, we've done that.
And so I pulled my arm away from her,
you know, and got in my truck, and I left.
My mom, she knows my dad more than anything.
So she calls the police, and she goes,
you need to meet my husband right now because he's
meeting up with this man.
And I don't think it's going to end well.
So before my dad gets there, the police are already there.
NASH GURULE: The officers are dispatched there
because Mr. Lee's wife says, hey, he's going to go there,
and he has a gun.
And he's going to confront this guy.
As I'm pulling in, I see two police cars.
And as I'm getting out, one of the officers came over,
and he knew my name.
He said, Mr. Lee, I'm Officer Monihan,
and I'll tell you why we're here.
We got a call from your wife, you
know, and his first question-- where
is your firearm at, Mr. Lee?
I said, it's in my truck.
And he told me, leave it there.
I says, OK.
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There was no evidence.
There was no signs that Kenia had ever been inside
of that van, front or back.
So he had no choice but to take a statement and let him go.
He says, hey, would you be interested in talking
to Travis?
He would like to talk to you before he goes.
And I says, yeah, I'd be happy to.
He was tall, thin, clean cut, blond hair and blue eyes.
Very clear to me.
You know, and in my mind, it's like, I'm thinking,
you know, he's a nice enough looking guy,
you know, that this-- if somebody picked up
your daughter and they picked them up off the street,
this is kind of what I would want that guy to look like.
He sees Travis and he's like, OK, good-looking man.
Doesn't look like a boogeyman.
You know, he's like, OK, well, if my daughter
is going to get picked up by someone, hey, why not this guy?
He looks pretty trustworthy.
TONY LEE: And he tells me, look, you know,
I'm sorry I didn't follow through with what I intended
to do by taking her back to her boyfriend's house,
and you know.
And I told him, look, man, thanks.
KIMBERLY MONGE LEE: I do remember my dad telling us
that Travis felt bad for leaving my sister with Dan
because he knew that if she would have stayed with him,
she would have been safe.
TONY LEE: By Monday morning, I got
a call from missing persons.
Have you heard anything?
I said, no one's heard anything.
They said, there is something here.
Later that day, we got a call from the FBI.
They said we feel that our resources
can help in finding Kenia.
That really just kind of threw us.
And, OK, this is big, big now.
All around that van was the smell of bleach.
And I just--
I've watched enough true crime stories and whatnot,
but bleach means something.
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As I look back on things now, in my mind,
it all goes back to that handshake
that night at the gas station.
As I was shaking his hand, he was trembling inside of him,
and it wasn't visible.
I mean, he wasn't visibly shaking or anything.
It was just in that handshake.
I could not share that with my family, friends, public,
or anybody like that, because everyone involved in what was
going on with Kenia had hope.
And it is what got everyone up every day with the passion
to continue looking for her.
When I needed to let it go, I'd go to my Walmart,
and I would park way out front, and I'd lose it.
Hey, I got to go to the store.
I'll be back.
Go pick up a pack of gum just to show
that I had went to the store, but that's
where I went because I could not do it in my wife's arms
or in my children's presence because I
was the rock in all this thing.
And, you know, and I had to maintain that.
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