wondered why his wife lisa wasn t doing more to find him. as the months turned into years, the mysterious disappearance would force lisa to reveal and uncover painful secrets about her husband and their marriage. here s keith morrison with dark valley. will is kind of peace here in the vast pacific company. what began in southern california in the san ver nondough valley, early may, 2012. something was really wrong. a lot more wrong than i could imagine.
i just kept hoping. i did everything i could. 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. i wondered whether there were ever sort of dark nights in your soul that you thought i wonder if she had something to do with this. it crossed our mirndz all the time. it just d i did think she could ever be the one responsible, the physical sno no. but somehow it kept playing back why won t you search? why? the only way somebody doesn t look for you is if you already know definitively they re no longer living. and you must have a reason for knowing that. that s what i would assume.
thing. he ended up saying that we saved his life by coming that day. you saw the statement? but there were rules. that s when chandy now divorced from john creech said when she finally took the witness stand. this mom, father stay away from me and had no communication whatsoever. their father would be fine. did he say what would happen if he didn t? that he would kill gavin smith. the affair ended but chandy said 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 on that secluded road. did the two of you become romantic? yes. did that include kissing? yes.
his dad was supposed to go to school. but after school? when i showed up at basketball practice, he said daddy didn t pick me up this morning. i said what? he said daddy didn t show up this morning. it can happen. busy families, people forget. the boy got to school some other way. he called a friend from around the corner. or sometimes things fall apart. love affairs, drug deals, it sounded too outlandish. how do they come together when they have flown apart? somebody is going to walk away from this who maybe you wish wasn t going to walk away. exactly. how do people sleep at night? how do they live with themselves? but that afternoon lisa smiblg knew instantly something must be wrong. her husband gavin was a dedicated father. nothing would keep him from
and so are we. john creech was sentenced to the maximum for manslaughter, 11 years in prison. the da in detroit, michigan, indicted mr. creech on federal drug trafficking charges. if it convicted, his exposure is anywhere from five to 40 years in prison. in june 2019, john creech was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. he was given ten years, ten months, a sentence he ll serve concurrently with his remaining time for manslaughter in a california state prison. and lisa smith has done her best to restart life. she and the broiz in hawaii now, far from the wreckage of that california life. that never was quite as perfect as it looked. it s painful to remain there. it is starting fresh.