GUILTY CA - Gavin Smith, 57, Oak Park, 1 May 2012

[SuziQ]

Look at my message #587 where I quoted an article which said that that for all the summer months
John Creech has been sitting in jail, the police CHOSE to NEVER interview or question him about
the missing status of Gavin Smith.

But he was a POI at the time at the search warrants? Or did I just assume he was? Thanks.

 

[SuziQ]

And I'm not sure if LE can choose to interview someone if they are jailed for a crime. I'm sure an attorney would not allow that at all.

 

[2rose]

But he was a POI at the time at the search warrants? Or did I just assume he was? Thanks.

Many just assumed he was because of the search warrants executed on his place of residence
... but the police never did officallly name him as a POI.

 

[2rose]

And I'm not sure if LE can choose to interview someone if they are jailed for a crime. I'm sure an attorney would not allow that at all.

If you read the article I linked to, the lawyer Teola was surprised that LE never asked him to interview Creech about Gavin.

 

[2rose]

LE had been interested in talking to John Creech back at the beginning of summer. <modsnip>

 

[SuziQ]

Thank you 2rose!

 

[Libralove]

From all the articles I've read since about May 3, and there have been many, John Creech was NEVER a POI. That residence was raided based on some info that LE had along with the fact that Gavin and Chandrika Creech had had an on-off-on affair since meeting in drug rehab 4 yrs ago according to that last, The Hollywood Reporter, article. If they were interested in anyone in that house, it is obvious that it was Chandrika, especially since they've never even bothered to ask John's lawyer, Teola, anything about it.

<modsnip>.

Are we all on the same page now? :woohoo:

 

[shana]

I also posted about Creech not being named a POI, repeatedly. LE never named him as a suspect nor as a POI, altho some MSM may have 'reported' such at the start, and then said the opposite in recent months. I posted those refs too. Oh well, what.it.is.

Moving-on...

Where is Gavin Smith?

~jmo~

 

[JodyMT]

Well, if there was no foul play between Gavin and John we are kind of back to square one. Did he run off to Mexico? Did he somehow drive off a cliff? I really don't think he drove off a cliff on his way to Sylmar, but maybe he left there and went for a drive.

Will we ever know?

 

[JodyMT]

Well, the police know who last spoke to Gavin on his cell phone. If he got a call leading him away from his friend's house that night, I really hope the police are looking at that person very closely.

I just don't think Gavin decided to take that long drive to Sylmar because he wanted a cheeseburger, you know??

 

[Libralove]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/americas-most-wanted-gavin-smith-missing-371740

America's Most Wanted feature on Gavin to air October 12, 2012.

 

[SuziQ]

Real-life Hollywood whodunit: Wife of movie executive who vanished five months ago reveals his sordid double life of affairs and drugs . . . and how she fears he's been murdered

Lisa Smith says she believes her husband was murdered
Complicated web of two mistresses and drug rehab
Fox Executive vanished on May 1

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rugs----fears-hes-murdered.html#ixzz28SpdLDYf
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[JodyMT]

Well, she went from not wanting to talk at all to talking about really inappropriate things like their sex life. I have no doubt the Mail gave her a licensing fee for the story and photos, but what else was she going to do. It sounds like she needs the money.

Gavin was making really good money, <modsnip>.

Sorry to hear about the boys injuries. I do hope Evan has spoke to the financial aid department to try and get a grant or something so he can stay in college.

I'm sorry, but aside from the money,<modsnip>?

<modsnip>.

<modsnip>.

 

[shana]

I don't know what to make of Lisa's reveal to DM (consider the source). Surely she would have told this info to LE when Gavin first went missing. Why she supposedly aired publicly such detail all these months later could be considered a last desperation move...who knows. I do not think the quotes cited are directly from her, btw.

I'd like to read his sister's take, in response.

This case of a missing person remains a mystery (and not one confined to or even defined as "Hollywood" The man just had a job, distributing product to the Midwest).

I hope that more exposure will lead to more tips, although I doubt it.

Lesson: When a person goes missing, there should be no holds barred at the start in an effort to find him.

I still think there is a possibility he went over a cliff on a drive to clear his head or whatever. His would not be the first by any means to be found later (years?).

~jmo~

 

[katydid23]

I don't know what to make of Lisa's reveal to DM (consider the source). Surely she would have told this info to LE when Gavin first went missing. Why she supposedly aired publicly such detail all these months later could be considered a last desperation move...who knows. I do not think the quotes cited are directly from her, btw.

I'd like to read his sister's take, in response.

This case of a missing person remains a mystery (and not one confined to or even defined as "Hollywood" The man just had a job, distributing product to the Midwest).

I hope that more exposure will lead to more tips, although I doubt it.

Lesson: When a person goes missing, there should be no holds barred at the start in an effort to find him.

I still think there is a possibility he went over a cliff on a drive to clear his head or whatever. His would not be the first by any means to be found later (years?).

~jmo~

Initially I thought he drove off a cliff at Kanan or Malibu Canyon, but that would not explain his cell pinging in Sylmar. But I guess he could have made the trip to Sylmar, then driven to the beach afterwards and driven off the road. If his cell was turned off by then he may not be found for awhile.

 

[Libralove]

<modsnip>

But Gavin was having an affair with Mrs. Creech & those 2 were in drug rehab together ...
So an affair & drugs & a late night phone call & a rendezvous are still in play.

Other possible suspects to look at are Gavin's girlfriend or drug dealer.
We really don't know much about what other things Gavin might have been involved with ...
For instance, we know Gavin had some money problems ...
so might he have been indebted to a loan shark ?

These scenarios are far more possible, IMO, than his driving off a cliff. If he owed someone a bunch of money in Texas and did not pay up, they would off him in a second and drive his body and the car to Sylmar to be chopped. I have to assume that the same kind of people in CA do the same. Unless it was a jealous lover who got a 'friend' to teach him a lesson.

He was obviously out of control in a couple of addictive arenas from Lisa's statements. I believe she's telling the truth. She would have held this info back earlier for fear people would not have sympathy to look for him as much.

My thoughts are, he was in the deep financial pockets of some loan shark, and they were sick of him and his inability to pay them back. He had already tapped his retirement fund. He was set up and killed, IMO.

 

[JodyMT]

I believe that he either was into someone for a lot of money, or possibly had become a drug dealer himself. Maybe he was taking the drugs instead of selling them and got caught, or was skimming money off the top.

Lisa sounds like she knows more than she is willing to say. She definitely seems to think he is dead. Maybe the police told her a lot more than is in the media&#8230;which is nothing.

 

[Libralove]

In my opinion, LE should have been onto something when they raided Chandrika's house, or they would not have been given search warrants. I think she may have been the last person to see Gavin. He may have also owed her money and he may have told her he was going back to his wife OR to be with Melanie. In my opinion, Gavin was lured someplace where an argument took place and he was killed, probably that same night.

There's so much data for surveillance available to LE these days -- traffic cameras where license plates are recorded into a data bases. Highway traffic cameras. Stop light cameras. Cell phone pings, etc. They must know the last person(s) he spoke with or texted. In LE, the last person to communicate with a missing person is always someone they wish to follow up on and seek an alibi.

It's after 10 pm on a Monday night and many people/& kids are gone to bed... Then until 4 am in Sylmar. That's the time frame -- 5 hours. A lot of surveillance recordings need to be reviewed. Do they have the manpower to connect all the pings up to the traffic cameras? That seems like a monumental task -- even just for 5 hours.

 

[2rose]

Real-life Hollywood whodunit: Wife of movie executive who vanished five months ago reveals his sordid double life of affairs and drugs . . . and how she fears he's been murdered

Lisa Smith says she believes her husband was murdered
Complicated web of two mistresses and drug rehab
Fox Executive vanished on May 1

So details are finally being revealed ... WOW!

These 2 statements from that article make me think AGAIN that he could have disappeared on purpose
... when Lisa is talking about how Gavin asked about his being gone from the family ...

"in February he started mulling over early retirement"

"I provided them with our recent text messages.
He had asked if we would be better if he was dead,
I told him the kids and I would be devastated, that we all loved him.
He wrote back saying he’d never be that much of a coward to hurt himself.

 

[Seek&Find]

In today;s latest article, a new piece of info for me, is that even though
John Creech sits in jail & is easily accessible to LE, he has NEVER yet
been questioned about the missing status of Gavin Smith !

So this would seem to corroborate, that the June 2012 search of his home, car & computer
contained absolutely NO leads about Gavin for them to follow up on.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gavin-smith-missing-fox-exec-369719

`Teola notes that his client was not questioned by police and has not been contacted by the investigators since his house was searched. "I'm just letting sleeping dogs lie; they haven't asked me anything, requested anything," says Teola'.

Also from the link:

Smith's sister, Tara Addeo, and John Creech's attorney, Daniel Teola, tell THR that it's their understanding that nothing has come of the search.

Forensic pathologist Michael Baden says that even though investigators have not publicly named a suspect, they could have people in their sights -- assuming foul play was involved. "The police are waiting to get some information," he says. "Pieces of clothing, somebody who saw him walk into the woods and never come out -- and that might be sufficient to bring charges."

Baden says that an affair would catch investigators' attention, "but that doesn't prove anything," he adds. According to Addeo, who says that she speaks with detectives on the case regularly, the search of the Creech residence didn't reveal anything. "That was very frustrating," she says.

Whitmore would not confirm Addeo's account of detectives' investigation of the Creeches. "They wouldn't release that [information] if indeed that were true because it is an ongoing investigation," says Whitmore.