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Prosecutor grace, is when they moved the mercedes into reina's storage locker where, months later, detective labbe noticed one crucial little detail that survived the attempted cover up >> i was looking at the license plate, and i see that it's not there. there should be a california license plate. it's not - >> you'd kinda think >> it's gone and i also see that there's one screw missing, and one screw screwed back in halfway, and that screw came back positive dna to john creech >> reporter: bingo the unassailable link to pull together all that evidence -- phone records, chandy's testimony, th...

Had been seeing a woman named melanie. and now that gavin had disappeared without a trace. >> we went to talk to her and to see if she had any information >> did she >> no. the relationship had ended and she had not talked to him and she had no idea where he was at >> reporter: but though melanie was the reason gavin moved out of his house a month before he vanished she was not his first affair there had also been a woman named chandy that relationship was years in the past, but phone records showed gavin called her on may 1st, the day before he disappeared. cops tracked her down, too >> what ...

Instantly, something must be wrong. her husband gavin was a dedicated father >> nothing that would keep him from picking up his kid ever >> reporter: because gavin was so good at these things, said his sister tara addeo. he was so impressive so tall. >> you both got the tall gene, right? >> we did. >> whole family. >> whole family. >> reporter: gavin was the tallest, 6' 6. >> he walked in a room, you noticed him. you wanted to gravitate to him he was a magnet. >> reporter: he played basketball for legendary coach john wooden. ucla, 1975 he was a forward it was wooden's final championship team....

Prosecutor, creech called a friend from the powerhouse gym, stan mcquay. >> he asked if he can come over and if he can park his car in my garage >> was the body still in it at that point >> yes >> reporter: mcquay allows creech to keep the body and the car at his house for five to six days >> really? >> yes >> reporter: and that's when creech turned to reina lim, the nurse who lived with them and took care of chandy's grandmother. creech got reina to rent a van >> and then he uses the van to drive up to the angeles national forest and he finds a secluded area to bury gavin smith's body. >> rep...

Detectives ty labbe and his partner john o'brien >> his phone was missing. there was no use of it we checked his bank accounts from the time that he was missing. we checked his medical insurance to see if he had checked himself into a hospital. that never showed any activity he was completely dropped off the face of the earth. >> reporter: but then, out of nowhere, a sighting. hundreds of miles north of los angeles, a businessman visiting california's central coast, said he saw gavin smith and a beautiful woman at a cash-only taco restaurant in morro bay >> i happened to click on the link, saw...