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In there. they met her husband. his name was john, john kreech, not pleasant. >> when they came out they were both crying. >> they told their mom kreech threatened to kill gavin if he didnt stay away from chandy. so 17 months later he vanishes after calling chandy. lisa had a very bad feeling. >> everything changed right then for me. >> detectives were suspicious too. chand told them she didnt see gavin that night but there was evidence to the contrary. gavins phone and hers was in the same plac...

Having an affair with his wife. but the defense was about to present a very different story. heres keith morrison with the conclusion of "dark valley." >> how did a defendant, a man like john kreech, well said the defense attorney said kreech never intended to kill gavin. it was self-defense. >> he was an intruder, an intruder into his marriage. >> and she said only one person could tell that story. >> who is your first witness youll call on behalf of the defense >> my client, john kreech. >> hi...

Immunity. same thing with chandy who helped burn bloody clothing and never called the police. >> everybody got deals and got off. and forgot about a victim who was murdered. >> john kreech was sentenced to maximum for manslaughter. 11 years in prison. >> the d.a. in detroit, michigan indicted mr. kreech on federal drug trafficking charges. if convicted his exposure was anywhere from five 240 years in prison. >> kreech pleaded not guilty to the new charges. and lisa smith has done her best to res...

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Out the drivers side. >> kreech burst in like a machine, she said. started slugging, wouldnt quit. >> and i was like stop it, youre going to kill him. i was like screaming my head off and then he comes out of the car and hes like youre next and then i drove off. >> she was terrified, she said. afraid he would kill her too or tell the cops she set the whole thing up. did she? >> i believe 100% that she did not know that was going to happen and she did not set it up. but they wondered, did she hel...

Into the storage locker. >> i was looking at the license plate and i see that its not there. there should be a california license plate, its not -- >> youd kind of think. >> its gone. and i also see that theres one screw missing and one screw screwed back in halfway and that screw came back positive dna to john kreech. >> bingo, the link to pull together all that evidence, phone records, chandys testimony, the friends, the dna and it all condemned john kreech. but a surprise was coming for every...

>> when you were doing that, what were you thinking? >> i was thinking [ bleep ] how did i get in this situation. >> then gavin got out of the mercedes said kreech and this was something in his hand. >> lick this 10 to 12-inch steel thing that i thought was a knife. we fell to the ground. >> at some point did you get that weapon? >> i kept punching until he let go of it. >> what did you do with the weapon? >> i threw it over the back wall of my property. >> such a weapon was never recovered. kre...

Harm my family. >> but they testified kreech told them they did the right thing. >> he ended up saying that we saved his life by coming that day. >> but there were rules. thats what chandy now divorced from john kreech said when she finally took the witness stand. >> as long as their father stayed away from me and had no communication whatsoever, their father would be fine. >> did he say what would happen if they didnt? >> that he would kill gavin smith. >> the affair ended but the threat remain...

Surprising. john kreech was on the phone a lot. >> he was calling multiple people, very intensely. >> so like three or four or five calls to the same person. >> exactly. >> some of those calls were to kreechs buddies from the power house gym. >> we did a multilocation search warrant and we hit everybody that we believed might have helped on that evening. >> one by one, they turned. they told detectives how he persuaded one fwrend to get rid of gavrns cell phone. got another friend to hide gavrns...

Back then asked us not to use her last name. not after she found herself in the middle of a homicide investigation. when police came across her while doing surveillance on john kreech. lauren used to work at the pro shop of the power house gym in california. and thats where she first met kreech. >> he was beautiful. he was tall and he was muscular and a lot of women especially wanted to date him, a lot of men wanted to be him. >> lauren fell for him. he told her he was separated from his wife ch...