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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 that's 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 didn't stop chandy from calling lauren. >> she texted and called me and was very bow lidge rent and rude, upset that his husband was dating a high schoolgirl. she went to high school w...

>> and while were you kissing gavin, did something happen that caught your attention? >> yeah. >> what happened? >> something just popped up, just appeared. >> was that something the defendant john creech? >> yes. >> gavin didn't have a chance, she said. >> he repeatedly punched him in the face. >> so then she ran back to her car, terrified. >> i wanted to get away. i was scared. >> but before she drove away, she looked back. >> john had gavin pinned down. >> later she said creech wanted her to drive him back to the crime scene, help him take gavin to the hospital. a block and a half away, she...

>> he was calling multiple people, very intensely. >> so three, four, five calls to the same person over and over again? >> exactly. >> some of the calls were to creech's buddies from the power house gym. >> we did a multilocation search warrant and we hit everybody that we believed that might have helped on thatening auto. we hit all the houses all at once. >> one by one those buddies turned. they told detectives how a frantic creech showed up that night, how he persuaded one friend to get rid of gavin's cell phone. go the another friend to hide his car and body in his garage. and yet another...

Thing. >> he ended up saying that we saved his life by coming that day. >> you saw the statement? >> but there were rules. that's when chandy now divorced from john creech said when she finally took the witness stand. >> this mom, father stay away from me and had no communication whatsoever. their father would be fine. >> did he say what would happen if he didn't? >> that he would kill gavin smith. >> the affair ended but chandy said the threat remained. >> he did not want me to see gavin ever. >> still, attraction is a powerful thing, isn't it? early in 2012, john and chandy were separated bu...

That and something she noticed about her boyfriend john creech. >> i discovered he had scrapes on his hands and on his arms. >> she didn't think he had anything to do with the disappearance. >> but when detective o'brien heard about creech's scrapes, he immediately thought of gavin smith's wounds. he needed to talk to john creech again. and he found him in jail, serving eight years on a cocaine charge, his second conviction for dealing drugs. not exactly an upstanding citizen. but could they prove he murdered gavin smith? >> we went to him. didn't ask him any questions. just put a picture down...