Deborah Roberts

So this was a young girl out drinking with her friends.

The big tip off was her belongings were left behind at a nightclub.

It wasn't that she decided to ditch her friends.

Nobody seemed to think that was the case immediately, right?

Especially teenagers.

I've got kids and I remember my daughter, a teen daughter, you know, going out and so forth and being worried.

It was devastating for her family, of course.

Anna, talk to us a little bit about her family.

You mentioned her stepfather got involved.

Her mom was so devastated by this.

Give us a sense of what the family was going through while all of this was playing out.

Yeah, and I like that you avoided saying closure because there's no closure.

Forbes eventually pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in September of 2011.

He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

You know, it's always hard to know what's in their minds, and you want to hear from these folks.

Sometimes they agree to an interview.

Sometimes they don't.

In this case, actually, our team was able to reach out to Travis in prison.

He sent one of our producers an email, Anna.

Let me tell you a little bit about it and read a little bit from what he wrote that viewers and listeners didn't get to hear on Friday night.