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He says, yeah, i know the name. >> she lived with chandy and she said she knew something, something important. >> and he goes i think she knows where the car is. >> reporter: the elusive mercedes. detectives drove out to see reyna. >> we waited until she showed up. we kind of surprised her. >> reporter: it's what you guys do in. >> you know, sometimes it works better that way, yeah. she was nervous and startled. ultimately she provided us the paper for the storm locker. >> reporter: reyna's storm locker, it was a big one, ten feet by 20. we rolled the door up. the only thing in it was a black ...

That you can't be shocked, but you can be, is all i can say about that >> reporter: but - if gavin was dead, and certainly it looked that way, where was his body how did his car wind up in the storage locker and above all, who would have wanted him dead? reina lim certainly seemed an unlikely suspect she told them she had rented the storage unit for someone else. meanwhile, detectives looked further into chandy's affair with gavin and discovered the two had met in rehab and in december 2010, less than two years before gavin disappeared. lisa found out about it. >> i was heartbroken >> reporter...

On the face of it, it looked like a solid case. the phone evidence, the coverup, the truly 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's sitting here in the courtroom. this became gavin smith's tomb >> reporter: but what happened wasn't merely an outburst of rage, said prosecutor bobby grace. no, he said, creech had been plotting for two years ever since he found out about chandy and gavin after that day back in de...

And so i just kept, no, it can't be it can't be. i just kept hoping i did everything i could >> reporter: 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 and i wondered whether there were ever sort of dark nights to your soul where you thought i wondered if she had something to do with this >> it crossed our minds all the time it just did. i mean, did i think that she could ever be the one responsible, the physical? n...

Grave nearby >> that's where they found him >> reporter: him the coroner soon confirmed it. after two and a half years, here was the body of gavin smith. >> the clothing was still intact and he had been wrapped in his own blanket that he had in the trunk of his car >> reporter: the coroner also found the cause of death and it was grim blunt craniofacial trauma, that is multiple blows to his face. he was beaten to death >> it was repeated hitting in order to do that much damage very violent >> reporter: there were also fractures to the right forearm possibly defensive wounds. gavin had tried to...