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Welcome back. nearly three years after gavin smith's disappearance john creech was charged with his murder. police ble believe john carried out the killing as revenge with the affair with his wife khanchan c. one person could give the truth to them directly. so they figured out a way to get it. once again, here's keith morrison. >> reporter: detectives john o'brien had a problem. an important witness who wouldn't talk, chandrika creech had clammed up. but there's more than one way to get a story. they found an associate of john creech's, someone who knew chandy. they convinced him to wear a wi...

Tryst, that is. met for sex or confident or -- something. quite a lot to learn from those phone records, but there was more. a third phone. john creech's phone. in the same spot, on the same night. and this was eerie, creech's phone seemed to be moving in sync with gavin's. >> john creech's phone and gavin smith's phone paralleled each other. >> together together. >> together. sometimes hitting off the exact same towers or parallel towers. >> wow. what was that like? >> that was an eye-opening moment. >> reporter: but when they interviewed john creech. >> he denied ever meeting gavin smith. he...

I threw it behind my house where i knew it would be all right. >> why would you do that, sir? why wouldn't you just leave it where it was? >> well, i can play armchair quarterback all day about things, but at the time it seemed like the right decision. >> reporter: creech admitted he made some wrong decisions too. like asking friends to help him dispose of gavin's phone and car and body. >> i take full accountability for everything after fact. if i could change it, i would. >> sir, actually you never took full accountability because you never came forward to the police, did you? >> not on advi...

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 didn't 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. >> reporter: detectives were suspicious too. remember, chandy told them she didn't see gavin that night. but there was evidence to the contrary. cell phone records showed that gavin's phone and chandy's were in the same place that night. a...

And that gavin was a victim long after he was murdered, and so were we. >> reporter: john creech is sentenced to the mx ma'am for manslaughter, 11 years in prison. >> the d.a. in detroit, michigan, indicted mr. creech on federal drug trafficking charges. if convicted, his exposure is anywhere from 5 to 40 years in prison. >> in june 2019, creech was found guilty. he was given ten years, ten months, a sentence he will serve concurrently with his time for manslaughter in the california state prison, and lisa smith has done her best to restart life. she and the boys are in hawaii now, far from th...