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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 that something the defendant, john creech >> yes, yes. >> reporter: gavin didn't have a chance, she said >> he repeatedly punched him in the face >> reporter: so then she ran back to her car, terrified >> i wanted to get away. i was scared >> reporter: but before she drove away, she looked back. >> john had ga...

Cell phone from the night gavin vanished john creech was on the phone, a lot. >> he was calling multiple people very intensely. >> so like three or four or five calls to the same person over and over >> exactly >> reporter: some of those calls were to creech's buddies from the powerhouse gym >> we did a multi-location search warrant and we hit everybody that we believed might have helped on that evening. we hit all those houses all at once >> reporter: one by one, those buddies turned they told detectives how a frantic creech showed up late that night how he persuaded one friend to get rid of ...

Goes -- and i just like pushed myself out this way. got out the driver's side. >> reporter: creech burst in like a machine, said chandy. started slugging, wouldn't quit. >> and i was like stop it, you're going to kill him -- i was like screaming my head off and then he comes out of the car and he's like, "you're next. and then i drove off >> reporter: she was terrified, she said afraid he'd kill her too or tell the cops she set the whole thing up so did she again and again the detectives listened to the undercover tape. >> i believe one hundred percent that she did not know that was going to h...

>> and what were you saying to the defendant? >> i was just begging for him not to harm my family. >> reporter: but they said, creech told them that they did the right thing. >> he ended up saying that we saved his life by coming that day. >> reporter: but there were rules. that's 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 did? >> that he would kill gavin smith. >> reporter: the affair ended. but...

Been plotting the rage-fueled killing for year to seek revenge on gavin smith for having an affair with his wife the defense is about to present a different story. here is keith morrison with the conclusion of "dark valley." >> reporter: 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 was a case of self-defense >> he had to defend himself against this intruder, an intruder into his marriage >> reporter: and, she said, only one person could tell that story. >> who is the first witness that y...