Latest Breaking News On - Killing gavin smith - Page 1 : comparemela.com
Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline Extra 20201129 06:12:15
archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline Extra 20201129 06:53:30
archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
reporter: and in this case, they called in sheriff 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 the photo, and i said, oh, boy! reporter: the waitress corroborated the story. he was sitting here, she was sitting right here. reporter: gavin s sister tara raced up the coast to the restaurant. and i said, here s my brother s picture. did you see him? and? no. that was truly heartbreaking to
reporter: 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. 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 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 gavin s cell phone. got another friend to hide gavin s car and body in his garage. and yet another told detectives she saw chandy and john creech burning their own clothes in the fireplace after gavin was killed. this was a strange case. reporter: prosecutor bobby grace. you don t normally find a body two years later after somebody is killed. you don t normally have key witnesses who don t come forward until years later.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.