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>> a baffling disappearance, where was he? >> dad is not just a missing person. he has three sons a wife. >> i got scared.hr >> clues a missing mercedes, a handprint in blood and secret affairs. >> multiple love affairs. s a >> more women and lovers involved in this thing. >> was this beauty hiding something deadly? >> i wanted to get way, i was scared. >> how would this hollywood story end? >> like who are these people? ♪♪ hello and welcome to "dateline." gavin smith was a larger than life kind of guy who lived life to the fullest. he was not the type to slip quietly into the night.

Everywhere.m >> because he kind of stands out in the photo, big white smile, tan face, tall guy, pretty much every tall, tan, blond-haired man was getting spotted as being gavin smith. ll >> reporter: weeks, months passed.in no sign of gavin. there was no answers. lisa was forced to reveal something publicly.no something painful. and maybe crucial. coming up, what had happened to gavin smith? >> it didn't make sense to me. >> we said, i think this is a suicide. then we go, i think this is a murder. our gut instincts were going different ways. >> reporter: you wondered if she had something to...

Retirement account and recklessly blowing through his six figure salary and there were other signs of strain in the family. in april, 2012, a month before gavin disappeared, his son evan wrote this message on twitter. thoughts and prayers out to my amazing mom and brothers, please. my dad decided to leave the family last night. real family sticks together. sister tara spoke with gavin at the time. >> he was struggling with losing what he had come to know and love for so many years and that was his family unit. and he didn't want to hurt those boys and that's what he kept saying. i don't want t...

Of calls detectives found in creech's cell phone from the night gavin 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 from 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 buddies turned. they told detectives how a frantic creech showed up that night and p...

>> he asked if he can come over and put the car in my garage. >> is the body in the car at that point? >> yes. >> he allows it to be at his house for five-to-six days. >> reporter: really? >> yes. >> reporter: that's when creech turned to reina lynn, the nurse that lived with him. and creech got her to rent a van. >> then he uses a van to drive up to the angeles national forest and he finds a secluded area to bury gavin smith's body. >> reporter: where buddy the dog later found out. but the mercedes benz was still in the garage. >> did that upset you? >> very much so. >> reporter: so two weeks...