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>> they're no longer living. >> and you must have a reason for knowing that >> that's what i would assume. >> reporter: it turned out lisa did know something just not what tara suspected there were secrets, which lisa and gavin kept hidden. >> i was the love of gavin's life he adored me our family was exactly what he wanted to have he just got lost >> reporter: lost. it all started in the early 80's, even before she met gavin, when he was a stuntman on the tv series "remington steele." he played a shooting victim, falling from a second story window the stunt went wrong and he broke his back >>...

Gavin met chandy on that secluded road. >> did the two of you become romantic >> yes >> did that include kissing? >> yes >> and while you were kissing gavin, did something happen that caught your attention? >> yeah. >> what happened >> just something like popped up, like appeared. >> was that something the defendant, john creech >> yes, yes. >> reporter: gavin didn't have a chance, she said >> he repeatedly punched him in the face >> reporter: so then she ran back to her car, terrified >> i wanted to get away. i was scared >> reporter: but before she drove away, she looked back. >> john had ga...

That before he disappeared, gavin had been taking money from his retirement account and recklessly blowing through his six-figure salary. and there were other signs of strain in the family in april 2012, a month before gavin disappeared, his son evan wrote this message on twitter. "thoughts and prayers out to my amazing mom and brothers please. my dad decided to leave the family last night. real family sticks together. sister tara spoke with gavin at the time >> he was struggling with losing what he had come to know and love for so many years, and that was his family unit. >> mm-hm >> and he d...

Would you get rid of this weapon that gavin smith had used to attack you with? 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 chan...

Cell phone from the night gavin vanished john creech was on the phone, a lot. >> he was calling multiple people very intensely. >> so like three or four or five calls to the same person over and over >> exactly >> reporter: some of those calls were to creech's buddies from the powerhouse gym >> we did a multi-location search warrant and we hit everybody that 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 late that night how he persuaded one friend to get rid of ...