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Refused to go further. refuse and dropped him off. >> why didn't you take him all the way in. >> i was afraid of what i was going to see. >> reporter: gavin wasn't going to the hospital. he was setting up recruits for his cover up. >> first he called was jorge. >> reporter: did you ask any of these people what were you thinking in. >> they all ultimately said they were trying to help johnny. >> because he's such a nice man? >> because he was a nice guy. >> reporter: nice, when he showed up at jorge's, he was driving the black mercedes and jorge saw something in the passenger's seat. >> he had ...

Same thing with chandrika, who helped burn bloody clothing and never called the police. >> it seems to me that everybody got deals and everybody got off. and that gavin was a victim long after he was murdered, and so were we. >> reporter: john creech is sentenced to the maximum for manslaughter, 11 years in prison. >> the dea in detroit, michigan, indicted mr. creech on federal drug trafficking charges. if convicted, his exposure is anywhere from 5 to 40 years in prison. >> reporter: creech told us he plans to plead not guilty to the new charges. and lisa smith has done her best to restart lif...

>> and when you were doing that, what were you thinking? >> i'm just thinking how in the [ bleep ] that i get in this situation. you know, i was scared for my life. >> reporter: and then gavin then got out of the mercedes, said creech. and there was something in his hand. >> it was like a ten to twelve-inch stainless steel thing that at the time i thought was a knife. we fell in the ground, and we went at it for about ten or fifteen seconds exchanging punches. >> at some point did you get that weapon? >> i kept punching him until he let go of it. >> okay. and what'd you do with the weapon? >> ...

Why would you get rid of it? >> well, i didn't get rid of it. i threw it behind my house where i knew it would be all right. >> why would you do that, sir? why wouldn't you just leave it where it was? >> well, i can play armchair quarterback all day about things, but at the time it seemed like the right decision. >> reporter: creech admitted he made some wrong decisions too. like asking friends to help him dispose of gavin's phone and car and body. >> i take full accountability for everything after fact. if i could change it, i would. >> sir, actually you never took full accountability because...

An american pastor was on his way home when the turkish court ordered the release yesterday and ordered him to leave the countries immediately. that's what's happening. now back to "dateline." [ music playing ] . >> 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 printen 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 stil...