Deborah Roberts

It's the heartbreaking story of Kenya Monhae, who went missing after a night out dancing with friends in downtown Denver back in April of 2011.

She was only 19 years old, and she could have been the sister or the daughter of somebody you knew.

I mean, a young girl whose life was really just all before her.

She was active in her church, close to her family.

And as I said, her life was unfolding.

She had graduated high school and was about to go off to college.

The only thing that made Kenya a target, it seems, was that she was a young, unsuspecting woman.

Well, Anna Garcia, a frequent 2020 contributor whom you've seen on many of our episodes, brought us this story.

She's here with me today to give us some exclusive details from Kenya's family and detectives whom you met in our reporting and more that we weren't able to share on Friday night.

Anna, so good to see you.

I see you on the air all the time.

We don't get a chance to talk face to face like this.

But before we do, I mean, folks here know you as a hard charging reporter.

You've been a serious news reporter for a long time.

You've been in true crime for a long time on podcasts.

And certainly they may have seen you on our reporting.

And I'd love for folks to hear a little bit more about you and what it is that intrigues you about this kind of reporting, because all of us have come to it in different ways.

And you always do it so poignantly, too.

Well, let's talk about what happened after this, because her stepfather, Tony, jumped in.

He managed to get a hold of her phone.