especially when detective shackley paid him a visit. >> he was looking at me like a caged animal.k to him. i wanted to get an interview with him and see if he would tell me something, and he immediately said, i'm not talking to you. get out of here. >> reporter: but across town, someone was communicating. after spending five weeks in icu, lydia tillman was transferred to a local rehab hospital, and a long, slow recovery began. >> hi, lydia. >> i showed her a video of my kids saying hello to her, because they missed their aunt lydia. >> i want you to get better soon. >> she got to the part where my four-year-old started to talk and she laughed when he said, hi, lydia. the first time i got to see her laugh, and i went, she's got memory, she can laugh. >> reporter: but detective gurule's murder case against travis forbes and his search for kenia monge had both stalled nearly five months after kenia vanished and still no sign of her. but one day he got a call from the crime lab requesting another dna sample of travis for the fbi. >> i drove up there to get his dna. i walked in, laid d