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Prosecutor grace, is when they moved the mercedes into reina's storage locker where, months later, detective labbe noticed one crucial little detail that survived the attempted cover up >> i was looking at the license plate, and i see that it's not there. there should be a california license plate. it's not - >> you'd kinda think >> it's gone and i also see that there's 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, chandy's testimony, th...

>> reporter: but they didn't 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...

So she knew when he disappeared in may 2012. but made no connection between 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. >> reporter: 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 ga...

>> reporter: so they both got immunity same thing with chandrika, who helped burn bloody clothing and never called the police. >> it seems to me that everybody got deals and everybody got off. and that gavin was a victim long after he was murdered, and so were we. >> reporter: john creech is sentenced to the maximum 11 years foremans. >> the dea in detroit, michigan, indicted mr. creech on federal drug trafficking charges if convicted, his exposure is anywhere from 5 to 40 years in prison >> reporter: creech pleaded not guilty to the new charges. and lisa smith has done her best to restart lif...

18-years-old 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 creech. lauren used to work in the pro shop of the powerhouse gym in chatsworth, california and that's where she first met creech >> 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 >> reporter: 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 ...