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Gavin met chandy on that secluded road. >> and the two of you became romantic? >> yes. >> did that include kissing? >> yes. >> and while you were kissing gavin, did something happen that caught your attention? >> yeah. >> what happened? >> something just popped up. appeared. >> was that something the defendant, john creech? >> yes. yes. >> gavin didn't have a chance, she said. >> he repeatedly punched him in the face. >> 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, ...

Dedicated father. >> nothing would keep him from picking up his kid, ever. >> reporter: because gavin was so good at these things, his sister, he was so impressive, so tall. t you both got the tall gene? >> we did. >> reporter: whole family? >> whom family. >> whole family. >> reporter: gavin was the tallest, 6'6". >> he walked in the room, you wanted to gravitate to him. he was like a magnet. >> reporter: he played at ucla 1975, he was a forward.ed tte it was the final championship team from wooden.he >> just to be on that team was pretty fantastic. it was a once in a lifetime. >> reporter: a...

Be. it can't be. i just kept hoping. i did everything i could. >> reporter: but even as she ran down leads, herself, it seem to tara that lisa, her sister-in-law, gavin's wife, wasn't searching. so he disappeared and you couldn't give up on the possibly he's out there somewhere and lisa could. and i wondered whether there were ever dark nights in your soul, i wonder if she had something to do with this. >> it crossed our minds all the time, i mean, it just did, did i think she could ever be the one responsible the physical, no, but somehow it kept playing back, why won't you search? why? the o...

There was no use of it. we checked his bank accounts from the time he was missing. we checked his medical insurance to see if he check into a hospital. >> that never showed any activity. he was completely dropped off the face of the earth. >> reporter: but then, out of nowhere, a sighting. hundreds of miles north of los angeles, a businessman visiting the central coast says he saw gavin smith and a beautiful woman at a cash only taco restaurant in morro bay. >> i happened to click on the link saw the photo and oh, boy. >> reporter: the waitress corroborated the story. t >> he was sitting right...

>> that's where we found him. >> reporter: him. the coroner soon confirmed it, after 2 1/2 years, here was the body of gavin smith. >> the clothing was still intact and he had been wrapped in his own blanket he had in the truck of his car. >> reporter: the coroner also found the cause of death and it was grim. blunt craniofacial trauma, that is, multiple blows to his face. he was beaten to death. >> it was repeated hitting in order to do that much damage, very violent. >> reporter: there were also fractures to the right forearm, possibly defensive wounds. gavin had tried to fight, but clearly,...