account and recklessly blowing through his six figure salary and there were other signs of strains in the family. in april 2012, a month before gavin disappeared, his son evan wrote this message on twitter. thoughts and prayers out to my amazing mom and brothers, please. my dad decided to leave the family last night. real family sticks together. sister tara spoke with gavin at the time. he was struggling with losing what he had come to know and love for so many years. and that was his family unit. and he didn t want to hurt those boys. and that s what he kept saying. i don t want to be without them. but as much as he loved his boys, detectives learned, gavin add been unfaithful to his wife, had been seeing a woman named melanie and now that gavin had
evidence, the coverup, the truly appalling crime scene in gavin s car, but did it add up to first degree murder? gavin smith had been dead five years. he was killed in his mercedes benz in an act of almost stunning brutality by the defendant, john kreech who s sitting here in the courtroom. this became gavin smith s tomb. but it wasn t an outburst of rage. no, he said. kreech had been plotting for two years ever since he found out about chandy and gavin. back to december 2010 when at their mother s request gavin s sons met with john kreech at his house. we wanted to make sure that my dad was not in harm s way. were you sobbing and crying? yes. and what were you saying to the defendant? i was just begging him not to