face of the earth. a baffling disappearance. where was he? my dad is not a missing person. he has three sons, he has a wife. i was wor thinked that something was terribly wrong. i was scared. a missing mercedes, a hand print in blood and a musical chairs of multiple affairs. there s more lovers and more women involved in this whole thing. was this beauty hiding something deadly? i wanted to get away. how would this hollywood story end? i just feared for my family. i m too young to lose my dad. like, who are these people? hello and welcome to dateline. gaven smith was a larger than life kind of guy who lived life to the fullest m he was not the
when you were doing that, what were you thinking? i was thinking [ bleep ] how did i get in this situation. then gavin got out of the mercedes said kreech and this was something in his hand. lick this 10 to 12-inch steel thing that i thought was a knife. we fell to the ground. at some point did you get that weapon? i kept punching until he let go of it. what did you do with the weapon? i threw it over the back wall of my property. such a weapon was never recovered. kreech insisted there was one. it was gavin who provoked the fight. i think he lied about everything. on cross-examination, the prosecutor went straight for that so-called multi-purpose tool. so the tell us why in the world would you get rid of this weapon that gavin smith had used to attack you with.
harm my family. but they testified kreech told them they did the right thing. he ended up saying that we saved his life by coming that day. but there were rules. that s what chandy now divorced from john kreech said when she finally took the witness stand. as long as their father stayed away from me and had no communication whatsoever, their father would be fine. did he say what would happen if they didn t? that he would kill gavin smith. the affair ended but the threat remained. he did not want me to see gavin ever. still, attraction is a powerful thing, isn t it? early in 2012, john and chandy were separated but still living together and gavin and lisa were separated too and that old magnetic force, gavin met chandy
found a shallow grave nearby. that s when they found him. 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. the coroner also found the cause of death and it was grim. blunt cranial facial 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. there were also fractures to the right forearm possibly defensive wounds. gavin had tried to fight but clearly he was no match for his killer. whoever did this was strong. very strong. power house gym was very gossipy, so your secret would be all over the gym. lauren, just 18 years old
disappeared without a trace we went to talk to her and to see if she had any information. did she? no. their relationship had ended and she had not talked to him and she had no idea where he was at. but though melanie was the reason why gaichb moved out of he house a month before he van shed she was not his first affair. there was also a woman named chandy. phone records showed gavin called her on may 1st, the day before he disappeared. skops tracked her down too. what did she tell you. she acknowledged the prior affair and she said she had not been in contact with them for some time but they started communicating via e-mail. and that would explain why he called her on the phone. yes. but she hadn t heard from him since. a colleague saw him driving his black mercedes.