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

. so it seemed on the night he disappeared he met chandrik chandrika creech for sex for cost or to talk. something. quite a lot to learn from those phone record. 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. >> gavin myth and john creech were running parallel. >> reporter: what was that like? >> it was an eye opening moment. >> reporter: but when they interviewed john creech. >> he denied ev knowing meeting him. he said he knew who he was. he knew they were having an affair ...

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 for manslaughter, 11 years in prison. >> 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 told us he plans to plead not guilty to the new charges. and lisa smith has done her best to restart lif...

Stretched across two days. then, the verdict. >> we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant john creech not guilty of the crime of first degree murder of gavin smith. >> reporter: not guilty of first degree murder! but the jury wasn't done. >> guilty of the crime of voluntary manslaughter. >> reporter: the verdict, guilty of voluntary manslaughter. in other words, they believed john creech killed gavin smith in a moment of blind passion. >> i was devastated by the verdict. i am still devastated by the verdict because he did absolutely plan on murdering my husband and thought a...

Prosecutor, is when they moved it into reyna's storage locker, one month later the detective noticed one detail that saved the cover up. >> i was looking at the license plate, i see it's not there. it should be there. >> that kind of thing? >> i see there is one screw missing and one crew screwed back if halfway and that screw came back positive dna to john creech. >> reporter: bingo, the unasalable link to pull together e together all of that evidence, phone records, chandy's testimony the friend the dna and it all condemned john creech. but a surprise was coming. for everyone. >> raise your ...