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I did everything i could. >> reporter: but even as she ran down lead, herself, it seem 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 possibly he's out there somewhere and lisa could. and i wondered whether there were ever dark nights in your soul, i wonder if she had something to do with this. >> it crossed our mind all the time, i mean, it just did, did i think she could ever be the one responsible the physical, no, but somehow it kept playing back, why won't you search? why? the only way somebody doesn't look for you i...

We checked his medical insurance to see if he check into a hospital. >> that never showed any activity. he was completely dropped you've the face of the earth. >> reporter: but then, out of nowhere, a sighting. hundreds of miles north of los angeles, a businessman visiting the central coast says he saw gavin smith and a beautiful woman at a cash only theco restaurant in morro bay. >> i happened to click on the living and saw the photo and said, oh boy. >> reporter: the waitress corroborated the story. >> he was sitting right here, she was sitting right there. >> reporter: his sister raced up t...

Appalling crime scene in gavin's car. but did it add up to first degree murder? gavin smith had been dead five years. >> he was killed in his mercedes benz in an act of almost stunning brutality by the defendant john creech who is sitting here in the courtroom. this game became gavin smith's tomb. >> reporter: what happened wasn't merely an outburst of rage, said the prosecutor, no, creech had been plotting for two years, ever since he found out about chandy and gavin. ever since that day in december, 2010, when at their mother's request, gavin's sons met with john creech at his house. >> we j...

>> reporter: then gavin got out of the mercedes, said creech, there was something in his happened. >> test a ten or 12 inch stainless steel thing, i thought it was a knife. we went at it. >> 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 company. >> reporter: such a weapon was never involved. he insisted it was one and gavin promoted the fight, i was defending my life. i didn't go there to promote a fight. i was protecting mine. >> i think he lied for everything. >> reporter: on cross examination, the prosecutor w...

Defendant john creech not guilty of the crime of first degree murder of gavin smith. >> reporter: not guilty of first degree murder. but the jury wasn't done. >> guilty of the crime of voluntary manslaughter. >> reporter: a verdict, guilty of voluntary manslaughter, in other words, they believe john creech killed gavin smith in a moment of blinded passion. >> i was devastated by the verdict. i am still devastated by the verdict. because he did absolutely plan on murdering my husband and thought about it for years and did it. >> what about creech's friends, jorge and stan who helped creech cove...