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>> reporter: but if gavin was dead and certainly it looked that way, where was his body? how did his car wind up in the storage locker, and above all, who would have wanted him dead? reina lynn certainly seemed like an unlikely suspect. she tells them she rented the storage unit for somebody else. meanwhile, they looked into the affair with gavin with chandy and discovered they met in rehab. less than two years before gavin disappeared, lisa found out about it. >> i was heart broken. >> reporter...

Plotting the rage-fueled killing for years to seek revenge on gavin smith for 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 to defend a man like john creech? well, said defense attorney irene nunez, it was all very simple. creech never intended to kill gavin smith. this was a case of self-defense. >> he had to defend himself against this intruder, an intruder into his marriage. >> and...

And i was like, i pushed myself out this way, got out the drivers side. >> reporter: creech burst in like a machine, said chandy, started slugging, wouldnt quit. >> i was like, stop it, youre going to kill him. i was like screaming my head off. he comes out of the car and he goes, youre next and then i drove off. >> reporter: she was terrified, he said, afraid hed kill her, too, or tell the cops she set the whole thing up. so, did she? again and again the detectives listened to the under cover t...

>> i was just begging him not to harm my family. >> reporter: but, they testified, creech told them they did the right thing. by coming that day. >> he ended up saying we saved his life by coming that day. >> reporter: but there were rules. thats what chandrika now divorced from john creech 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 he didnt? >> th...

Without a trace -- >> we went to talk to her to see if she had any information in. >> reporter: did she? >> no, their relationship had ended. she did not talk to him. she had no idea where he was at. >> reporter: but, though melanie was the reason gavin moved out of his house the month before he vanished, she was not his first affair. there had also been a woman named chandy. it was years in the fast, but phone records show he called her, may 1st, a day before he disappeared. cops tracked her do...

Thought she might be drink and driving. so he installed an app on his phone that allowed him to track her phone and followed her because he was worried, then he saw her car parked near gavins and thought it best to talk to them. he didnt sneak up on them, he said. >> so i knock on the hood of the car. >> was chandy sitting on the lap of this guy? >> sitting on his lap, they just kept talking. i walked over to the passengers side door, knocked on the window. >> what did they do? >> chandy opened ...

Where months later the detective noticed one detail that saved the cover up. >> i was looking at the license plate, i see its not there. should be a california license plate, that kind of thing, its gone. i also see there is one screw missing and one screw screwed back in halfway and that screw came back positive dna to john creech. >> reporter: bingo, the unassailable link to pull together all that evidence. phone records, chandys testimony, the friends, the dna and it all condemned john creech...

>> reporter: but they didnt meet chandy in there. they met her husband, his name was john. john creech. not pleasant. >> when they came out, they were both crying. >> reporter: they told their mom creech threatened to kill gavin if he didnt stay away from chandy. though 17 months later he vanishes after calling chandy, lisa had a very bad feeling. >> everything changed right then for me. >> reporter: detectives were suspicious, too, remember, chandy told them she didnt see gavin that night. but ...

Like a solid case, the phone evidence, the cover up, the truly appalling crime scene in gavins 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 creech who is sitting here in the courtroom. this became gavin smiths tomb. >> reporter: what happened wasnt merely an outburst of rage, said the prosecutor, no, creech had been plotting for two years, ever since he found...

>> reporter: still, attraction is a powerful thing. isnt it? early in 2012, john and chandy were separated, but still living together. and gavin and lisa were separated, too. and that old magnetic force, gavin met chandy on that secluded road. >> did the two of you become romantic? >> yes. >> did that include kissing? >> yes. >> and while you were kissing gavin, did something happen that caught your attention? >> yeah. >> what happened? >> just something like popped up, like appeared. >> was tha...