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Gavin. and nine months after gavin vanished, they finally got the break they were looking for. >> i said, i'm here to talk to you about your daughter and he started crying and he said, she saw everything. >> coming up. >> she was very nervous and startled. >> a new witness and a game changer of a clue. >> i kissed my partner on the cheek, it was pretty exciting. it was a big moment. >> you think you can't be shocked but you can be. >> when "dateline" continues.

Her boyfriend, john creech. >> i discovered he had scrapes on his hands and on his arms. >> she didn't think he had a eng to do with the disappearance. >> reporter: but when detective o'brian heard about creech's scrapes, she thought about gavin smith's wounds. he needed to talk to him again. he found him in jamie serving eight years on a cocaine charge, his second conviction for dealing drugs. not exactly an upstanding citizen. could they prove he murdered gavin smith. >> he went to him. didn't ask him questions, put a picture down in front of him with the shallow grave. >> reporter: how'd he...

Then as a bartender in "cob." >> congrats, al. >> reporter: when he met lisa, he was acting, but also waiting tables. >> he twimpgled. he was just charming. i was thrilled that he asked me for my number. >> reporter: they married, had three sons together and with a growing family to support, gavin gave up acting and took a job on the business side of 20th century fox eventually as a film distribution executive. >> fox is a wonderful company to work for. he loved it, it was film. >> reporter: the first place lisa called when gavin failed to pick up his son. >> they told me he never shown up to ...

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, you would be more dire and darker for you, right? >> it's very dark. it's very, very dark. >> reporter: it wasn't just the family having...

Now back to "dateline." >> welcome back to "dateline." it had been over two years since gavin smith a charismatic executive and family man had vanished. detectives had a major break in the case when they discovered gavin's missing mercedes and his bloody hand print on the passenger's seat. there was also a person of interest, the jealous husband of the woman gavin was having an affair with. but there was still no bodies in the an inquisitive dog buddy bounded onto the scene. here's keith morrison with "dark valley." >> reporter: rocky rama liked to drive his truck up to the outskirts of the an...