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Find out what happened to gavin. and nine months after gavin vanished, they finally got the break they were looking for. >> i said im here to talk you to about your daughter? and he started crying. he said she saw everything. >> coming up -- >> she was very nervous and startled. >> a new witness and a game changer of a clue. >> i kiss mid partner on the cheek. pretty exciting. a big piece of evidence. >> huge moment. >> you think that you cant be shocked. but you can be. >> when "dateline" conti...

Reporting to vaping for illness. and doctors should monitor them after theyre sent home from the hospital. now back to "dateline." welcome back to "dateline." it had been over two years since gavin smith, a charismatic entertainment executive had vanished. detectives had a major break in the case when they discovered gavins missing mercedes and his bloody hand print on the passenger seat. there was also a person of interest, the jealous husband of the woman gavin was having an affair with. but...

Heres keith morrison with the con kru conclusion of dark valley. >> how did a friend like john creech? well, said defense attorney, it was all very simple. creech never intended to kill gavin smith. this was a case of self-defense. >> had to defend himself against this intruder, an intruder into his marriage. >> and she said only one person could tell that story. >> who is the first witness that you want to call on behalf of the defense? >> my client, john creech. >> his attorney began by asking...

Met chandry for sex or comfort or just to talk, something. quite a lot to learn from the phone records. but there was more. a third phone. john creechs phone in the same spot on the same night and this was erie. creechs phone seemed to be moving in sync with gavins. >> their phones paralleled each other. >> together. hitting sometimes off the exact same towers or parallel towers. >> what was that like? >> that was an eye opening moment. >> but when they interviewed john creech -- >> he denied ev...

Cheek. thats a true story. thats a big piece of evidence. and when we were able to get closer and saw that our entire crime scene was inside that are ka. >> crime scene, yes. suddenly all other theories seemed to fall away. >> the passenger seat was completely covered in blood. and the one point very erie when you looked at the blood and you could see the hand mark of gavin smith as he died in that seat. >> soon the news reached gaffe uns family. tara was devastated. >> theres no going back from...

Through his six figure salary. and there were other signs of strain 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 didnt want to hurt t...

Certainly it looked that way, where was his body? how did his car wind up in this the storage locker? and above all, who would have wanted him dead? reina lyn certainly seemed an unlikely suspect. she told them she rented the storage unit for someone else. meanwhile, detectives hooked further into chandys affair with gavin and discovered the two had met in rehab. and in december 2010, less than two years before gavin disappeared, lisa found out about it. >> i was heart broken. >> so she took an ...

Machine said chandy, started slugging, wouldnt quit. >> and i was like stop, youre going to kill him. i was screaming my head off. and then he comes out of the car. hes like youre next. then i drove off. >> she was terrified, she said. afraid hed kill her too or tell the cops she set the whole thing up. so did she? they listened to the undercover tape. >> i believe she didnt know that was going to happen and she did note set it up. >> but they wondered, did she help cover it up? its a serious bu...

Detectives john obrien and tyler bay had a problem. an important witness that wouldnt talk. chandy creech clammed up. there is more than one way to get a story. >> they found an associate of john creechs, someone who knew chandy, and convinced him to wear a wire and meet with her. it worked. >> do you want to know the story? >> yeah. >> once chandy felt safe, she spilled it. all of it. how she and gavin met in secret at that secluded cul-de-sac. got close in gavins car. >> and then all of a sudd...

Homicide investigation when police came across her while doing surveillance on john creech. lauren used to work at the pro shop of the power house gym in california. and thats where she first met creech. >> he was beautiful. he was tall and 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 chandy. but that didnt stop chandy from calling lauren. >> she texted and called me and was very bow l...