Page 12 - Kill Gavin Smith News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> he clearly stopped using. he was feeling healthier than he felt in years. >> reporter: but when detective learned about his addiction, they had a to consider a raft of new possibilities. >> he disappeared, maybe overdosed. we didn't have any of those answers. >> we would have moments in the car where we looked at each other and said, i think this is a suicide and then an hour later, we'd interview somebody and something would happen and we'd go i think this was a murder and our feelings and our gut instincts were going different ways very early on very fast. >> reporter: that's got to be pr...

>> do you recall how many times you hit him? >> four or five. >> when you were doing that? >> i'm thinking how did i get in this situation? i was scared for my life. >> then gavin got out of the mercedes, said creech, there was something in his happened. >> there was a 10 to 12 inch stainless steel thing, i thought it was a knife. we went at it. exchanging punches. >> at some point, did you get that weapon? >> i kept punching him. >> what did you do with it? >> i threw it over the back wall of my property. >> such a weapon was never recovered by the way. he insisted it was one and gavin provok...

Station to report gavin missing and waited and waited. days later, gavin's family went on nbc 4 in los angeles to plead for help. >> i'm not going as to stop until i find him. so please help me find him. >> you guys want to pick one of these streets. now i'm in panic mode. we got to do something. >> reporter: what did it feel like to be in that spot? >> oh, it was surreal. >> reporter: the smith family put together a $20,000 reward for any information leading to gavin's whereabouts. nothing turned up. i would think that every hour that went by, it would be more dire and darker for you, right? ...

Spot? >> it is. >> reporter: so it seemed on the night he disappeared he met chandrika creech for sex for comfort or just to talk, something. quite a lot to learn from those phone records. 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. >> john creech's phone and gavin smith's phone were running parallel. >> reporter: together, together? . >> together, sometimes hitting off the exact staim same towers or parallel towers. >> reporter: what was that like? >> it was an eye openin...

>> i was just begging him not to harm my family. >> reporter: but, they testified, creech told them they did the right thing. by coming that day. >> he ended up saying 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 didn't? >> that he would kill gavin smith. >> the affair ended, but chandy said the threat remained. >> he's no...