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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 at 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 and persuaded one friend to get rid of gavin's cell phone. another friend to hide gavin's car and body in his garage and yet another told detectives she saw chan...

>> when they came out, they were both crying. >> reporter: they told their mom creech threatened to kill gavin if he doesn't stay. though 17 months later he disappears, lisa had a bad feeling. >> everything changed right then for me. >> reporter: detectives were suspicious, too, remember, chandy told them she didn't see gavin that night. but there was evidence to the contrary. cell phone record showed gavin's phone and chandies were in the same place that night. a little triopening lakes narrowed down just where in. >> we came down this street and this was the likely spot. >> reporter: a likel...

>> reporter: in january, 2015, nearly three years of gavin smith disappeared, creech was charged with first degree murder. he had pleaded not guilty. and chandy, well -- >> we didn't know if she set it o up or she had something to do with it. >> coming up, an under cover sting and chandy is the target. >> and i was like, stop it. >> then a stunning moment in the courtroom. >> i wanted to get away, i was scared. i was afraid of what i would see. >> when "dateline" continues. with this one little nexgard chew comes the confidence, you're doing what's right, to protect your dog from fleas and tic...

Tan face, tall guy, pretty much every tall, tan, blond haired man was getting responsibilitied as being gavin smith. >> reporter: weeks, months passed. no sign of gavin. there was no answers. lisa was forced to reveal something publicly. 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 this i this is a murder. our gut instincts were going different ways. >> reporter: you wondered if she had something to do with this in. >> it crossed our minds all the time. somehow it kept pl...

When we were able to get closer and saw our entire crime scene in our opinion was in that car. >> reporter: crime scene, yes, suddenly all other theories seemed to fall away. >> the passenger's seat was completely covered in blood and at one point it was very eerie where you looked at the blood and you can see a hand mark of gavin smith as he died in that seat. >> reporter: soon the news reached the family. tara devastated. there is no going back from that? >> there is no going back. >> reporter: you accepted it? >> you know, you're forced. you know trauma happens to people all the time. you d...