no, it can t be, it can t. the he was so big in my life that the thought that anything bad could ve happened to him. it didn t make sense to me. he glamorous, good-looking, golding. the dashing hollywood movie executive. he was more like a movie star in real life. just show charismatic. perfect southern california family. i he completely dropped off the face of the earth. a baffling disappearance. where was he? not just a missing person. as has three sons, he has a wife. i was very afraid that something terrible had happened. and i got scared. the clues, missing mercedes. a hand prints and blood. and a musical chairs of secret affairs. he had multiple of affairs. there s more women, there s more lovers involved in this whole thing. was his beauty hiding something deadly? i wanted to get away, i was scared. how will this hollywood story? and i just fear for my family. i it hurts to lose my dad. who are these people? i gavin smith was a larger than lif
so, did she? again and again, detectives listen to the undercover tape. i believe 100% that she did not know that was going to happen. she did not set it up. but they wondered, did she help cover it up? it is a serious business covering up a crime that awful. but chandy had a card to play. she agreed to testify. members of the jury. and in 2017 john creech went on trial. on the face of it, it looks like a solid case. the phone evidence, the cover-up, the truly appalling crime scene in gavin s car. but did it add up to first green murder? gavin smith had been dead five years. he was killed and his mercedes-benz, in an act of almost stunning brutality by the defendant, john creech, who is sitting in the courtroom.
tara was devastated. there s no going back from that. there s no going back. you accepted it? you know, you re forced. you know, trauma happens to people all of the time. you don t think it s gonna happen to you, but it does. you know, when you already expect the worst, you think you can t be shocked, but you can be. it s all i can say about that. but if gavin was dead, and certainly look that way, where was his body? how did his car end up in the storage locker? and above all, who would ve wanted him dead? rain ellen certainly seemed an unlikely suspect. she told them she had rented the storage unit for someone else. meanwhile, detectives looked further into chandi s affair with gavin. discovering that the two had met in rehab and in december 2010, less than two years after
they don t normally call a couple of seasoned homicide detectives to call in for a missing person? they do when they re suspicious circumstances. in this case they called in sheriff the texas tyler, and his partner gianna bryan. his phone was missing, there was no use of it. we checked his bank accounts from the time he was missing. we checked his medical insurance. to see if he checked himself into a hospital. that never showed any activity. he was completely dropped off the face of the earth. 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, and a cash only taco restaurant. i happen to click on the link, saw the photo. and i said oh boy. the waitress corroborated
this became gavin s tomb. what happened wasn t merely an out burst of rage, said prosecutor bobby gray, no, creech have been plotting for two years. ever since he found out about chandy and gavin. after that day in september 2010, when at the mother s request, gavin sense met with john creech at his house. we just wanted to make sure that my dad wasn t in harm s way. were you sobbing and crying? yes. and what resetting to the defendant? i was just begging him not to harm my family. but, they testified, creech told them that they did the right thing. he said that we saved his life by coming that day. but their rules. that is why it chandrika, now divorced from john creech, said as she finally took a witness sent. 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 he didn t?