FishbowlLA reached out to America’s Most Wanted to find out whether an October 12 segment about the case elicited any solid leads. We’ve also tried, without success at press time, to get comment from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective overseeing the investigation. If we hear back from either party, this item will be updated below.
Smith’s 58th birthday just around the corner December 10.
I just can't believe it has been 8 months with nothing to go on. He is either hiding or someone hid him really well……and the car. He was such a big man, I just can't understand how he was overtaken if someone killed him. I don't believe one person could do that alone. He would've had to be in a secluded location where no one else could witness it. The car would have been taken and his body hid. This wasn't a small child but a very tall, strong man.
Unfortunately, people's personal behaviors sometimes get them (and therefore their families as well) into dire straights. The wife, more than the sister, would know more about Gavin's personal behaviors.
After all, they lived together for many years up to two weeks before he disappeared and he's not likely to let on to his sister that he had two lovers outside his marriage, given how religious she is and he wasn't. The main reason that Lisa knew was, she snooped into his computer, etc.
The entire TRUTH is important to come out in order to find out what happened, never mind Gavin's reputation as the perfect husband. Tara was not living with her brother. Lisa was.
It would depend on when Gavin told Chandie that he was going to be setting Melanie up in a home with her kids if that is what he did. I do not understand this at all, since he was unable to keep paying the mortgage on his own home with wife and kids, but some men will promise anything to keep a woman on a string for favors.
Chandie has known for several months that her husband, John, would be going back to prison for the drug charge and that she would be alone again with her kids for 4-10 years. If she had planned on Gavin moving in with her after John went back to prison, but then Gavin told her no because of Melanie, then there might have been a potentially MAJOR anger issue between them.
I'm new here, so I am reading all of this at once and trying to piece things together. Just a thought, but, it seems to read that Gavin and Chandie had a relationship several years ago. That may all be well in the past. Something I haven't seen discussed is that maybe the relationship between Chandie, John and Gavin was of another nature. Somewhere I read that Gavin and Chandie had met in rehab or at some sort of rehab meeting group. Could John's drug dealing business be the missing link here? Maybe Gavin was buying drugs from John and Chandie. Or could Gavin have been trying to make money to save his house from foreclosure and gotten in business with John or selling drugs for him? Could there be drugs missing or money owed? This may have nothing to do with a love triangle, jealousy or any emotional tie. It is easy to focus on that because it is more tabloid type interesting, but is this possibly a business or drug deal gone terribly wrong? Just trying to think outside the box.
I'm new here, so I am reading all of this at once and trying to piece things together. Just a thought, but, it seems to read that Gavin and Chandie had a relationship several years ago. That may all be well in the past. Something I haven't seen discussed is that maybe the relationship between Chandie, John and Gavin was of another nature. Somewhere I read that Gavin and Chandie had met in rehab or at some sort of rehab meeting group. Could John's drug dealing business be the missing link here? Maybe Gavin was buying drugs from John and Chandie. Or could Gavin have been trying to make money to save his house from foreclosure and gotten in business with John or selling drugs for him? Could there be drugs missing or money owed? This may have nothing to do with a love triangle, jealousy or any emotional tie. It is easy to focus on that because it is more tabloid type interesting, but is this possibly a business or drug deal gone terribly wrong? Just trying to think outside the box.
For anyone interested, Gavin's sister, Tara and brother, Greg, along with other family and friends are going to hold a candlelight vigil in honor of Gavin, on the eve of his birthday, this Sunday, December 9th, at 7pm. It will be held on Fallbrook Ave, north of Roscoe, in West Hills, Ca. They are welcoming all who have prayed for Gavin and their family and followed this case. Apparently this location was chosen because it has some significance to this case, but what the significance is has not been disclosed at this time.