Certainly it looked that way, where was his body? how did his car wind up in this the storage locker? and above all, who would have wanted him dead? reina lyn certainly seemed an unlikely suspect. she told them she rented the storage unit for someone else. meanwhile, detectives hooked further into chandy s affair with gavin and discovered the two had met in rehab. and in december 2010, less than two years before gavin disappeared, lisa found out about it. i was heart broken. so she took an extreme step to save her family. she and two of her sons then 14 and 20 went to the house to speak to the them family to family. i was really upset when driving there. so i stayed in the car. i let my sons go in the house. but they didn t meet chndy in the chandy in there, they met her
Husband. john. not pleasant. when when they came out, they were both crying. they told their mom creech threatened to kill gavin if he didn t stay away from chandy. so 17 months later he vanishes after calling chandy. lisa had a very bad feeling. everything changed right then for me. detectives were suspicious too. remember, chandy told them she didn t see gavin that night. but there was evidence to the contrary. cell phone records showed that their phone were in the same place that night. a little triangulation narroweded down just where. we came upon this street here. we thought this is a likely spot. unlikely spot for a trist that is. parking lot would be empty at night. yes. so this is pretty lonely spot. it is. so the night he dispaerd, he
Movie inside moves. then as a bartender in another movie. when he met lisa, he was acting but also waiting tables. he twinkled. he was just charming. i was thrilled he asked me for my number. they married, had three sons together and with a growing family to support, gavin gave up acting and took a job on the business side at 20th century fox. eventually as a film distribution executive. fox is a wonderful company to work for. and he loved it. it was film. first place lisa called when gavin failed to pick up their son. was he at work that day? they told me he just hadn t shown up to work. gavin in 18 years had never, ever not shown up to work. so then lisa very worried now went to the sheriff s station to report gavin missing and waited and waited. days later, gavin s family went
In the photo, you know, big white smile, tan face, tall guy, pretty much every tall, tan, blond haired man was getting spotted as gavin smith. weeks, months passed. no sign of gavin. there was no answers lisa was forced to reveal something publicly. something painful. and maybe crucial. coming up, what had happened to gavin smith? it didn t make sense to me. we said i think this is a suicide. and then we go, i think this is a murder. our gut instirvegts were going different ways. you wonder if she had something to do with this. it crossed our minds all the time. somehow it kept playing back why won t you search? when dateline continues. when dateline continues chu] so, what are some key takeaways from this commercial? did any of you hear the bundle your home and auto part?
but when detective john o brien and tyler bay learned about gavin s addiction, they had to consider a raft of new possibilities. he disappeared. maybe i overdosed. we didn t have any of those answers. driving all over the valley, we would have moments in the car of where we looked at each other and said i think this is a suicide. and then an hour later, we would interview something or somebody would happen and i say i think this is a murder. and our feelings and our gut instifkts were going different ways. that has to be unusual. it was very confusing. confusing for lisa, too. because here was another secret. the smith s were underwater on their mortgage in, position of losing their home. lisa discovered before he disappeared, gaffer inhad been taking money from his retirement account and recklessly blowing