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>> but when detective john o'brien and tyler bay learned about gavin's addiction, they had to consider a raft of new possibilities. >> he disappeared. maybe i overdosed. we didn't have any of those answers. >> driving all over the valley, we would have moments in the car of where we looked at each other and said i think this is a suicide. and then an hour later, we would interview something or somebody would happen and i say i think this is a murder. and our feelings and our gut instifkts were going different ways. >> that has to be unusual. >> it was very confusing. >> confusing for lisa, too...

>> and while were you kissing gavin, did something happen that caught your attention? >> yeah. >> what happened? >> something just popped up, just appeared. >> was that something the defendant john creech? >> yes. >> gavin didn't have a chance, she said. >> he repeatedly punched him in the face. >> so 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 creech wanted her to drive him back to the crime scene, help him take gavin to the hospital. a block and a half away, she...

Track her phone and followed her only because he was worried, he said. then he saw her car parked near gavin's and thought it best to talk to them. but he didn't sneak up on them, he said. >> i knock on the hood of the car. >> was chandy sitting on the lap of this guy? >> she was sitting on his lap. they kept talking. i walked over to the passenger side door and knocked on the window. >> chandy opened the door. >> what did she say to you? >> what you are doing here? >> he started to argue with chandy, he said. and then gavin joined in. >> i walked around the door and i'm leaning down to tell h...

I just kept hoping. i did everything i could. >> but even as she ran down leads herself, it seemed 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 possibility he was out there somewhere and lisa could. i wondered whether there were ever sort of dark nights in your soul that you thought i wonder if she had something to do with this. >> it crossed our mirndz all the time. it just d i did think she could ever be the one responsible, the physical sno no. but somehow it kept playing back why won't you search? why? the only wa...

>> he was calling multiple people, very intensely. >> so three, four, five calls to the same person over and over again? >> exactly. >> some of the calls were to creech's buddies from the power house gym. >> we did a multilocation search warrant and we hit everybody that we believed that might have helped on thatening auto. we hit all the houses all at once. >> one by one those buddies turned. they told detectives how a frantic creech showed up that night, how he persuaded one friend to get rid of gavin's cell phone. go the another friend to hide his car and body in his garage. and yet another...