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Title: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 05, 2012, 07:59:07 PM
OAK HILLS, Calif. (KABC) -- A search is under way for a 20th Century Fox studio executive who went missing several days ago, and sheriff's deputies are asking for the public's help to find him.

Gavin Smith, 57, was last seen between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tuesday leaving his home in the 500 block of Callwood Court in Oak Park, along the southeastern border of Ventura and Los Angeles counties near Agoura Hills.

Smith left his home in a black 2000 Mercedes-Benz 420E with storage racks on the roof, tinted windows and California license plate number 6EKT044. He has not been heard from since, and family members are concerned.

He is described as 6 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 210 pounds with green eyes, gray hair with blond streaks and a goatee. He has a 5-inch scar on his calf and a 4-inch scar on his inner right wrist. Authorities said he was last seen wearing purple pants and black and gray shoes.    ::snipping2::  

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/ventura_county&id=8649624
Edit to add name to subject line.  MB


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive reported missing
Post by: Red on May 06, 2012, 09:41:47 AM

57 Year Old 20th Century Fox Studio Exec Gavin Smith Missing Since 5/1/2012 in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties California

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2012/05/06/57-year-old-20th-century-fox-studio-exec-gavin-smith-missing-since-512012-in-ventura-and-los-angeles-counties-california/

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Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 06, 2012, 01:43:59 PM
Studio exec Gavin Smith missing for five days

AGOURA HILLS - A 20th Century Fox distribution executive and former UCLA basketball player remained missing today, five days after being reported missing near a family home in Ventura County's Oak Park neighborhood.

Gavin Smith, 57, who works out of a Calabasas office, was reported missing Tuesday night after last being seen driving away from a family home in the 500 block of Callwood Court in a black 2000 Mercedes-Benz 420E with tinted windows and a roof rack, according to sheriff's deputies, who apparently were contacted by someone at Fox.

The license on the car is 6EKT044.

Smith, who is white, about 6 feet 6 inches and 210 pounds, has green eyes and gray hair with blond highlights; he has a roughly 4-inch scar on his right, inner wrist and a 5-inch scar on one of his calves, according to sheriff's deputies.

He was a member of UCLA's 1975 national championship men's basketball team, the last title won by legendary Bruin head coach John Wooden.

Smith's sister, Tara Addeo, came to Los Angeles from from Nevada to aid in the search.

"This is so surreal," Addeo told KCAL9 Saturday. "There are no words to describe how you feel when you're in this situation. My flight here was very sad. I wish I wasn't here under these circumstances. But we are here and we're trying our best to deal with this as a family."

Smith's son, Evan Smith, was a forward on USC basketball team this past season.   ::snipping2:: 


http://**/california/ci_20561390/studio-exec-gavin-smith-missing-five-days


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 06, 2012, 08:58:52 PM
Search for missing Fox movie executive continues

The family of a missing 20th Century Fox movie executive continued to spread word of his disappearance Sunday, five days after the 57-year-old was last seen near his Oak Park home.

Gavin Smith, a former UCLA basketball player who has worked in the studio’s movie distribution department for almost 18 years, was last seen in the 500 block of Callwood Court between 9 and 10 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said.

Smith’s son, Evan, who plays basketball at USC, spent much of Sunday tweeting news about his father’s disappearance.

“All of the love and support you all have given my family has been the greatest,” Evan Smith wrote. “Still looking for him. I'll never stop.”

A sheriff's spokesman said the investigation was ongoing Sunday.

Fox distribution President Chris Aronson told the Hollywood Reporter his department was “actively doing what we can” to assist authorities.

“We are very concerned about Gavin,” he said.  ::snipping2:: 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/search-for-missing-fox-movie-executive-continues.html


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 07, 2012, 11:09:03 PM
CBS) LOS ANGELES - Gavin Smith, a 20th Century Fox movie executive, has been missing since Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Although police say they do not suspect foul play, CBS Los Angeles reports that they are baffled by his disappearance

Smith, 57, who has been an executive in Fox's movie distribution division for more than 18 years, was last seen driving his black Mercedes 420E sedan Tuesday evening near his Oak Park home in the 500 block of Callwood Court.

He was supposed to pick up one of his sons on Wednesday morning but he never showed up. His sister, Tara Addeo, says this was very uncharacteristic: "He would not do this. We don't want to think the worst. We can't imagine he would just leave."

According to CBS Los Angeles, Smith's son, Evan Christian Smith tweeted Sunday "Still looking for him. I'll never stop."

He also tweeted, "If my faith hasn't crumbled nobody's should. #GodisGood."

Addeo, who flew in from Nevada this weekend, told the station that she spent six hours puttng up flyers all over Los Angeles Sunday. "We just want my brother back," she said. "We just want to see him again."  ::snipping2:: 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57429208-504083/gavin-smith-disappearance-20th-century-fox-movie-executive-missing-since-last-tuesday/


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: MuffyBee on May 08, 2012, 08:26:47 AM
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-usa-hollywood-missingbre846115-20120507,0,267678.story
Son of missing Hollywood executive says few clues so far
May 7, 2012

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The son of a Hollywood studio executive who has been missing for a week said Monday that his father had not used his cellphone or credit cards, leaving no clues to his disappearance.

Gavin Smith, a 57-year-old film distribution executive for 20th Century Fox, was last seen on Tuesday night driving away from a friend's house in the community of Oak Park, north of Los Angeles, in his black Mercedes.

Police have issued a missing person bulletin for Smith - also known for playing on UCLA's 1975 national championship basketball team under legendary coach John Wooden - and asked for the public's help in finding him.
 ::snipping2::
Smith said that family members first became concerned when his dad failed to turn up at the film studio, a job he loves.

"My dad's a good guy, a very responsible man, and it all really took hold for us when he didn't show up for work," he said. He added that his father, who stands 6 foot, 6 inches tall, with an athletic build and "looks like a movie star" should be easy to spot.

He said family members have since been unable to "ping" the missing man's cellphone, which appears to be off, and that his credit cards have not been used since Tuesday night.

"We are extremely worried about our friend and colleague Gavin Smith and are actively doing what we can to assist the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in their search for him," Chris Aronson, vice president of domestic distribution for Fox, said in a statement.
 ::snipping2::


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: KittyMom on May 08, 2012, 11:06:04 AM
Was he having any medical issues? 


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 08, 2012, 01:53:07 PM
Missing Hollywood Exec Gavin Smith's Family Pleads for Help

The mystery of what happened to Hollywood executive Gavin Smith began last week, when Smith was staying at a friend's house and drove off, without a word, in his black Mercedes around 10 p.m. and never came back.
 
Smith, 57, was reported missing by his wife on Wednesday morning when he failed to pick up his son to take him to school and then did not call into work or his family. Smith's wife, children, and sister told ABC News that the former UCLA basketball star and 20th Century Fox movie executive would never abandon his family.
 
"He would never do anything like that. He's a great father. My dad had no reason to leave. No reason at all," said Evan Smith, Gavin's eldest son and a star basketball player at USC.
 
The family would not say why Smith, an 18-year veteran in the movie industry who has helped distribute movies such as "Avatar" and the "Star Wars" trilogy, was staying with a family friend in Oak Park, Calif., Tuesday night. He had returned earlier that that day from a movie convention in Las Vegas and was supposed to stay the night there, but the family said it was unusual that he left that home at 10 p.m. without warning.
 
"They had already gone to bed," Lisa Smith said. "So, he was still downstairs watching TV when our friend went to bed. And he was going to be coming up to bed shortly."
 
The Smiths told ABC News that Gavin Smith's cell phone charger, shaving kit, and other belongings were all at the friend's house where he was staying. He was last seen wearing purple workout pants that had belonged to his teenage son, which the family says is a sure sign he had no intention of going out anywhere in public.
 
 "That's what he was wearing, you know? It doesn't sound like he was going anywhere, you know?" Evan Smith said.
 
Lisa Smith said she last spoke to her husband Tuesday during the day to arrange plans for Wednesday morning for him to come pick up his son and take him to school. Lisa Smith was busy taking care of her mother, who is battling cancer, she said.
 
"As soon as I heard that he had not picked up Austin from school, that's when I said, 'There has to be something wrong.' What that is, I don't know. I don't know," said Tara Addeo, Smith's sister.  ::snipping2:: 

http://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-hollywood-exec-gavin-smith-staying-friends-night/story?id=16301889
 


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Nut44x4 on May 09, 2012, 11:50:53 AM
http://findgavinsmith.com/


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 10, 2012, 02:30:07 PM
Search for missing Hollywood movie executive now classified as homicide investigation after a week of no clues

The Los Angeles sheriff's department has changed the status of the case of the missing 57-year-old father and film executive to a criminal homicide investigation.
Gavin Smith has been missing for one week and in spite of the shift in classification, there have been no clues released to the public to explain the change.
Smith, a married father of three, was reported missing on May 1 when he failed to show up for his job at Twentieth Century Fox.
Deadline reports that the search has intensified in recent days, but the spokesman for the sheriff's office said Tuesday that there has been no evidence found suggesting foul play.
Mr Smith's family says that, after returning to Los Angeles after a business trip, he had planned to spend the night at a friend's house.
'He was still watching TV downstairs when our friend went to bed, and he was going to be going up to bed shortly,' his wife Lisa told ABC News.  ::snipping2:: 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142215/Gavin-Smith-missing-Hollywood-movie-executive-search-classified-homicide-investigation.html#ixzz1uUbGya8S


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 10, 2012, 07:44:20 PM
Mystery deepens in disappearance of Hollywood exec Gavin Smith


The 57-year-old, who works in distributon for Fox, was reported missing by his family May 1 after he failed to pick up one of his sons for school.
 
His family declined to say why Smith was staying at a friend's house, but on Thursday, E! News reported that Smith’s eldest son, Evan, said last month his father had left the family.
 
"Thoughts and prayers out to my amazing Mom and bros plz," the USC basketball player wrote in an April 14 message, according to E! "My dad decided to leave the family last nite. Real family sticks together."   
 
The tweet has since been deleted, but Evan Smith told E! his parents were not separated.
 
“They were just going through normal stuff couples go through,” he said.
 
Evan Smith told The Times on Thursday morning that his family was “devastated” by his father’s disappearance.
 
“We’re staying strong as a family unit,” he said. “We’re praying and hoping for the best. It’s all in God’s hands.”
 Authorities said that for now the disappearance remains classified as a missing persons case.
 
“It’s an adult missing persons case, not a homicide,” said sheriff’s Homicide Bureau Lt. Wes Sutton, noting that missing persons investigators are assigned within his bureau. “At this point, there’s nothing criminal [related] to his disappearance.”
 
Sutton said the department has added extra resources to the investigation, but there is still “nothing substantial” in the way of significant clues to solve the mystery of what happened to the movie executive.   ::snipping2::

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/detectives-say-fox-executive-still-considered-missing-person-.html


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 16, 2012, 11:57:54 AM
Public search Saturday for Fox executive Gavin Smith

- The family of Gavin Smith, the 20th Century Fox executive who went missing on May 1, is enlisting the public's help in a search for the 57-year-old Smith this weekend.
 
The search, which will take place Saturday, is being undertaken at the suggestion of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, family spokesman Howard Bragman told TheWrap. Members of Smith's family will be coming in from out of town to help the effort as well, Bragman said.
 
Details are still being solidified but will be announced on FindGavinSmith.com, which was set up by his family.
 
Smith, an 18-year veteran at Fox, was last seen on the night of May 1 in Oak Park, Calif., according to a bulletin released by law enforcement officials.
 
According to law enforcement, Smith's black 2000 Mercedes 420E bears the license plate number 6EKT044. According to the bulletin, Smith stands 6 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 210 pounds, and has grey hair with blond highlights, green eyes and a goatee.   ::snipping2:: 

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/public-search-saturday-fox-executive-gavin-smith-011403618.html


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 16, 2012, 11:09:28 PM
Gavin Smith Family Calls Off Weekend Search for Missing Fox Executive

Family spokesman Howard Bragman said the decision came after consultations with the LA County Sheriff's Department.

A search for missing 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith scheduled for this weekend has been canceled. The family’s public relations counselor, Howard Bragman, said the decision came after consultations with the LA County Sheriff's Department and the Smith family.

“There is not a specific area of defined interest to make this effort productive at this time,” Bragman said in a statement released Wednesday evening.  ::snipping2:: 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gavin-smith-missing-fox-executive--325748


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 25, 2012, 11:16:30 AM
Breakthrough in hunt for married Hollywood executive missing for a month as he’s spotted having dinner with woman in California

A missing studio executive for Fox has been spotted in California with a woman, it has been claimed.
Gavin Smith, 57, failed to pick his son up for school or turn up to work on May 1 and has not been heard from since.

His distraught family launched a media campaign hoping that a member of the public would come forward with news of his whereabouts.
But it has now emerged that Mr Smith was seen having dinner with a woman on May 7 at Taco Temple in Morro Bay, according to a diner sitting nearby.
David Brill said that he saw the executive with a tall woman at the Mexican restaurant but didn't realise who it was until the next day.

He said: 'I noticed on the Yahoo main page that there was a news link to a missing Hollywood executive,' Brill told news station NBC LA.
'I happened to click on the link, saw the photo, and said, "Oh boy, that's the guy I saw in the restaurant the previous night".'
A waitress at the restaurant confirmed Brill's account saying she served the quiet couple who said they were from 'down south'  ::snipping2:: 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149743/Breakthrough-hunt-Hollywood-executive-missing-month-s-spotted-woman-California.html#ixzz1vtWMv94T


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 25, 2012, 12:02:14 PM
Gavin Smith Spotted: Missing Fox Executive Reportedly Seen At Morro Bay Restaurant (VIDEO)

.Is Gavin Smith really missing?

The 20th Century Fox executive who was last seen May 1 in Oak Park, Calif., has reportedly been spotted at a restaurant on the central coast.

Locals and a frequent visitor in Morro Bay told NBC LA in exclusive interviews that they remember seeing Smith and a tall female companion at Taco Temple, a popular restaurant on Highway 1.

"They were kind of quiet when they first came in and then once I got them talking, they seemed real friendly," said waitress Marcy Carney, who remembers the pair because of the big tip she received at the end of the meal.

"I'm pretty sure they said they were headed north," Carney recalled.

David Brill, a businessman from Madison, Wis., told NBC LA he noticed Smith because of his height and unusually white teeth. The next morning at the office, said Brill, he read a news story about a missing Hollywood executive and recognized Smith in the accompanying photo.

Brill said he contacted the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department after making the connection, but claims they have not called him back yet.

The Huffington Post reached out to the LASD for comment and will update this story when we get a response.   ::snipping2:: 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/gavin-smith-spotted-missi_n_1543801.html?ref=tw

Video at link.


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 27, 2012, 02:54:16 PM
The Personal Trials of Missing Fox Movie Executive Gavin Smith
His marriage was in turmoil. His son had stopped speaking to him. His house was underwater. And then he disappeared.


Nine days before 20th Century Fox film executive Gavin Smith disappeared, he met his close friends for coffee, a twice-a-week date he’d kept for the last five years. Over their caffeine fixes, the group of middle-aged professionals—sometimes as many as 20—bonded over parenting and their love of sports and the outdoors.
 
Smith, 57, was someone they all looked up to—and not just because of his statuesque 6-foot-6, muscular frame or his ranking as a former college basketball star. The father of three had a close and enviable relationship with his sons, and his friends longed to be like him.
 
“The bond we had was fatherhood. And you know what else? Self-improvement: ‘How could I have done a better job in that situation?’” says Dr. Gordon Van Tassell, who went to Van Nuys High School with Smith. “We were all committed in that way to finding out how to be better men and fathers. For many years, that’s been the focus of our discussions.”
 
On April 22, the last time his buddies saw him, Smith was looking forward to a work trip to Las Vegas the next day. But weighing on him was an argument he had had with his eldest son, Evan, over problems Smith was having with his wife, Lisa. On April 14, Evan tweeted that his father had decided to leave the family.
 
“Evan stopped talking to his dad,” Van Tassell says. “He was pissed at him and didn’t want to talk to him, and that really hurt Gavin’s feelings. That was really painful. Now, was he heart-broken enough to drive off a cliff? No way. He was hurt; he was concerned. All of the things we feel when our kids are mad at us. But I know that Gavin really wanted to be with his family and he always had hope that it would work out.”
 
It’s been three weeks since Smith disappeared, and Los Angeles County Sherriff’s Department detectives admit they still don’t have “any really great theories or clues in the case.” Smith’s 2000 black Mercedes has not been located, and he hasn’t used his credit cards or cell phone, or withdrawn money from his bank accounts.
 
“If he is alive, we want to find him,” says Chief of Detectives Bill McSweeney. “He is still missing and we don’t have any hot clues. We don’t have any great direction. We really just don’t know. A guy with an interesting life, and we don’t know if it will ever explain his disappearance. It is a big sad family situation.” Smith’s family has stopped talking to the media and has hired a publicist who acknowledges that “there were certainly family issues,” but he declines to discuss them.
 
Smith’s friends knew his marriage had been on the rocks for four or five years.  Speaking to The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity, Smith’s friends say his wife had become very religious, which caused a rift in their relationship. But while she turned to religion for comfort, his friends acknowledge he turned to other women.  “A lot of couples survive that and move through that,” Van Tassell says. “We weren’t sure if it was going to happen. I know he wanted to reconcile and fix things with his wife. But understand this: Gavin was a chick magnet. They were everywhere for him. But it wasn’t like there was an ocean of them either. It was a couple and it was only out of the darkest frustration. Maybe just looking for relief or tenderness or something. It wasn’t like he was a sex machine.”  ::snipping2:: 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/24/the-personal-trials-of-missing-fox-movie-executive-gavin-smith.html


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: MuffyBee on May 31, 2012, 09:33:57 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/05/31/missing-la-fox-exec-is-still-missing-one-month-later/
Missing LA Fox Exec Is Still Missing, One Month Later
May 31, 2012

Gavin Smith, a former college basketball star from Southern California, and an executive with 20th Century Fox, is still officially missing. The 57 year old and his Mercedes disappeared from a friend’s house on May 1st.
 ::snipping2::
On May 7th, someone in Morro Bay on the Central Coast of California, reported seeing Smith and a tall blonde woman. Since then, there is nothing.

Smith’s eldest son, Evan, also a USC college basketball star, set up a website. But there have been no updates since May 17th, when the family called off a search.

Evan, meantime, is constant user of Twitter. Back on April 14th he Tweeted this father had left the family. That Tweet was soon erased.

Evan’s most recent entry on May 26: “A rightcheous [sic] man may have troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all. -Psalm 34:19″

On May 18th, he wrote: “I am my brothers’ keeper. Forever & Always. They are the reason I’m here. I know that now.”

But it’s pretty clear the Smiths knew something was happening with Gavin in mid April. On the day after the scrubbed Tweet, Evan wrote on April 15: “Thank you Lord for giving me the strength to lead my family out of the darkness and back into the light of your love.”
 ::snipping2::
The Daily Beast reports that the Smiths were in “Financial distress” and their home may have been facing foreclosure
 ::snipping2::
See Police Video at Link


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: KittyMom on June 05, 2012, 09:33:57 AM
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/missing-fox-movie-executive.html
New push to find missing Fox movie executive
Quote
Sheriff's officials say they do not suspect foul play at this stage.

Smith's family said he hasn't been to his Calabasas office since he disappeared. They declined to elaborate on why he was staying with the friend instead of at the family home in West Hills, but Evan Smith tweeted last month that his father had left the family.

"Thoughts and prayers out to my amazing Mom and bros plz," he wrote in an April 14 message. "My dad decided to leave the family last nite. Real family sticks together."

The tweet has since been deleted, but Evan Smith told E! News his parents were not separated.

"They were just going through normal stuff couples go through," he said.
 


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Northern Rose on June 05, 2012, 01:55:14 PM
Gavin Smith, Missing FOX Executive: Family To Announce $20,000 Reward For Information (VIDEO)
06/05/2012 1:39 pm Updated: 06/05/2012 1:39 pm

The family of missing FOX executive Gavin Smith will reportedly announce Tuesday a $20,000 reward for information that will help bring him home, CBS reports.

Smith was last seen May 1 in Oak Park, Calif. Believing their father may have driven off a cliff, Smith's three sons joined the police in their search of the canyons. They also covered the city with missing person posters of their father and started a website, findgavinsmith.com, to encourage others to help.

However, a couple individuals told NBC that they saw Smith and a tall female companion at Taco Temple, a popular restaurant in Morro Bay, on May 7.

 ::snipping2::

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/gavin-smith-fox-executive-20000_n_1571256.html


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Northern Rose on June 08, 2012, 03:30:48 PM
Warrant served in Chatsworth in case of missing Fox executive Gavin Smith
06/08/2012 11:28:52 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES -- Deputies today served a search warrant in the Chatsworth area in connection with the May 1 disappearance of 20th Century Fox executive and former UCLA basketball player Gavin Smith.
The warrant was served in the 8600 block of Santa Susana Place, Steve Whitmore of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.

"Information led us to this location in relation to the investigation into this missing-persons case," Whitmore said. "This is an ongoing investigation."

 ::snipping2::

http://**/news/ci_20814271/urgent-possible-break-chatsworth-search-missing-fox-executive?source=rss


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Northern Rose on June 08, 2012, 09:10:56 PM
L.A. Home Searched for Missing Studio Exec Gavin Smith
June 8 2012

(LOS ANGELES) -- The search for missing Hollywood executive Gavin Smith took a twist Friday as detectives searched the home of a family in the San Fernando Valley in connection to his disappearance.

Smith, a 57-year-old father and husband who worked in film distribution in Hollywood, went missing on May 2 from the house of a female friend at around 10 p.m.

Friday’s search of a house in the San Fernando Valley began around 7:30 a.m. as authorities served a search warrant on the home.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the home belonged to a family of four on a quiet cul-de-sac. When SWAT cars arrived Friday morning, a woman and two children emerged from the home to allow the search to be completed. The family was not identified.

 ::snipping2::

http://www.kgoam810.com/rssItem.asp?feedid=118&itemid=29860888


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on June 09, 2012, 08:12:20 PM
Man Puzzled Why Police Looking For Missing Fox Exec Served Search Warrant At His Home
June 8, 2012 11:59 PM

CANOGA PARK (CBS) — A man said it was “highly unusual” that police served a search warrant at what is believed to be his home Friday — with guns drawn — in connection with the investigation into the disappearance of 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith.
 
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies served the warrant the 8600 block of of Santa Susana Place in Canoga Park at 7:30 a.m., according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.
 
The unidentified man told CBS2 and KCAL9 reporter Suraya Fadel that he had no idea why his home was targeted. “Your guess is as good as mine,” he said.
 
Gavin Smith has been missing since Tuesday. (credit: The Smith Family)
 
Whitmore said, “We still do not have any indication of any wrongdoing. This was just a location where our investigators believe there may be some information that could lead us to the whereabouts of Mr. Smith.”
 
Whitmore would not specify what items if any were recovered in the search.
 
The possible homeowner said “We have great officers. And I hope the situation resolves.”
 
Fadel asked him if he was shocked, and he said “Naturally.”
 
He would not comment on what police told him or what items may have been seized.
 
LAPD Lt. Dave Dolson said, “We’re following up on leads.”
 
No one at the home was arrested.  ::snipping2:: 

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/06/08/man-puzzled-why-police-looking-for-missing-fox-exec-served-search-warrant-at-his-home/


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on June 10, 2012, 01:05:24 PM
Missing Fox Movie Executive: Homicide Detectives Search Valley House Twice – LAT
 Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 4:37am PDT

Missing Twentieth Century Fox film distribution executive Gavin Smith’s family recently offered a $20,000 reward for information to find him. But his whereabouts since May 1st remain a mystery. Still authorities keep on searching. Now the Los Angeles Times reports that homicide detectives and a SWAT team at 7:30 AM on Friday morning descended on a West Hills house in the San Fernando Valley as part of the probe. ”Investigators remained at the home for more than five hours before leaving the cul-de-sac with boxes and a computer. They also towed away a black Audi SUV.” The paper quoted a lawyer as saying this was the second time in a month that LA County Sheriff’s deputies had searched this same residence.  ::snipping2:: 

http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/missing-fox-movie-executive-homicide-detectives-search-valley-house-twice-la-times/


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: melisb on June 10, 2012, 04:01:28 PM
Just runnin' at the mouth....bad business between the two men, if married maybe his wife was seeing Mr. Smith?  Maybe Mr. Smith's estranged wife hired this man to do away with him or maybe this man was seeing Mrs. Smith?  So many possibilities but I do feel so bad for his children.  I would go nuts if one of my parents disappeared under any circumstance!  My first thought was he committed suicide but I don't feel now that is what happened.


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on June 13, 2012, 05:28:30 PM
'The guy was a player, he was a big flirt': Was missing married Hollywood executive murdered by jealous boyfriend of one of his paramours?
June 13 '12

Los Angeles homicide detectives believe that the 20th Century Fox executive who went missing six weeks ago may have been murdered by a jealous boyfriend of one of his many lovers.
Gavin Smith, the muscular, 57-year-old former basketball player for UCLA, had recently separated from his wife, Lisa, the mother of his three children.
‘He had several affairs,’ a source close to the investigation told The Daily. ‘The guy was a player. He was a big flirt. He was a ladies’ man.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158848/Gavin-Smith-Was-Hollywood-executive-murdered-jealous-boyfriend-paramours.html#ixzz1xi7xbWwe


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on June 21, 2012, 05:05:53 PM
Drug dealer lives in home searched in missing Fox executive case
June 21, 2012

A man who lives at the West Hills home searched in connection with the disappearance of Gavin Smith said Thursday he had never met the missing 20th Century Fox executive.
 
John Creech lives at the home along with his wife, Chandrika Creech, who is listed in public records as the property owner. Chandrika Creech met Smith in therapy, according to a source familiar with the case who did not want to be named because the investigation is ongoing.
 
Detectives have long emphasized that their probe of Smith's disappearance is a missing person investigation and that there are few clues in the case.
 
But the tone of the investigation appeared, at least from the outside, to change June 8 when a SWAT team searched the West Hills home belonging to the Creeches.
 
The cover pages of a sealed search warrant affidavit that referenced the address of the home, signed by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on May 21, said detectives had probable cause that an unspecified felony had been committed at the residence.
 
Investigators left the home, located in the 8600 block of Santa Susana Place, with boxes, a computer and a black Audi SUV, but no arrests were made.
 
When asked Thursday why his home was searched earlier this month, John Creech said: "I would love to tell you but I can't. I am told I cannot make any comments."
 
He added that he has "never met" Smith.
 
John Creech made the statements to Times reporters at Los Angeles County Superior Court, where he was scheduled to be sentenced on a single count of selling and transporting drugs. Instead, Judge Clifford Klein ordered that Creech remain in custody without bail pending a new sentencing date of July 26.

 Creech faces up to 10 years in state prison.
Authorities have not divulged how the Creeches relate to the Smith case.
 
When the search of the home was conducted, Lt. Dave Dolson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department homicide division said the warrant was one of several that have been served in the hunt for Smith.
 
Daniel Teola, an attorney for the Creeches, said this was the second time in a month that deputies had searched the house, but refused to discuss the case.
 
Smith, a former UCLA basketball player who works in Fox's movie distribution department, left a friend's home in Ventura County's Oak Park neighborhood the night of May 1. Wearing purple athletic pants belonging to one of his sons, Smith drove away in his Mercedes, leaving behind his cellphone charger, shaving kit and other items.
 
"It doesn't sound like he was going anywhere," his eldest son, Evan, told "Good Morning America."
 
Search teams have combed the areas where Smith was last seen, and his family spread word of his disappearance online and on local movie screens. He was reportedly spotted at a Morro Bay restaurant in May, but Dolson later said it proved “not to be a credible sighting.”  ::snipping2::

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/gavin-smith-missing-fox-executive-1.html


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on June 21, 2012, 08:31:26 PM
Sources: Missing Fox Exec Gavin Smith Had Affair With Woman Whose House Was Searched by Police
June 21 '12

The Gavin Smith disappearance plot thickens.
 
Two weeks ago, homicide investigators and crime-lab analysts from the L.A. Sheriff's Department searched the home of John and Chandrika Creech in connection with the case of the Fox executive, whose family reported him missing early last month.
 
And now we know more about Smith's connection to the Creeches.
 
Sources tell E! News that Smith, who has been missing since May 1 and is married with three children, had been having an affair with Chandrika.
 
"Chandrika and Gavin first met in 2008 in therapy," a source tells E! News. "They had a relationship and in 2008, when Mr. Creech found out about it, he told his wife to stop it." However, the source says Gavin and Chandrika started their relationship up again.
 
Sources said that Gavin's wife, Lisa, and her sons knew about Gavin's relationship with Chandrika, who, according to to public records, is listed as the owner of the Canoga Park home she shares with her husband.
 
A source adds, "Mr. Creech has never met Gavin Smith and has never seen Gavin Smith, but they did have an email exchange in 2008."  ::snipping2:: 
.

Read more: http://www.eonline.com/news/sources_missing_fox_exec_gavin_smith/325213#ixzz1yTe0n47S


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on June 22, 2012, 07:18:53 PM
Gavin Smith's Relationship With Chandrika Creech Explored (VIDEO)
June 22 '12

A convicted drug dealer named John Creech was back in jail Thursday evening, arrested on a warrant issued in 2010. But it's his wife that investigators may be more interested in.

Chandrika Creech was reportedly having an affair with 20th Century Fox Executive Gavin Smith before he went missing May 1, according to E! News sources.

The pair met in 2008 while they were in therapy, the source said to E! News, and when Creech's husband found out about the affair, he asked her to put an end to it. But the affair soon heated up again.  ::snipping2::

In the video below, CBS2/KCAL9 questions Smith's sister about her knowledge of his alleged affair:  ::snipping2::

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/22/gavin-smiths-relationship_n_1619094.html


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on July 09, 2012, 03:08:28 PM
'No new information' in Gavin Smith disappearance, official says
July 9, 2012 |  9:16am

Investigators have "no new information" to report on the disappearance of 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith, a sheriff's official said on the day of the family's latest push to find the 57-year-old.
 
Smith's wife, Lisa, told CBS-2 on Sunday that volunteers were posting fliers showing Smith and his missing Mercedes based on information from detectives.
 
"We wanted to find out what we could do hands-on," she said. "Obviously we can't search for Gavin but they told us that we could put posters up. They directed us to a good area and this is it."
 
Smith's sister, Tara Addeo, told the television station that investigators said the last ping from her brother's cellphone came from the Sylmar area.
 
"The police have led us specifically to this area," she said.
 
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said detectives have kept in contact with Smith's family — giving "general directions, advice, information, things like that" — but said the area canvassed had "no significance" to the investigation.
 
"There is no new information," he said of the case.
 
Instead, he said, detectives advised the family on high-visibility areas to post fliers and recommended they start in the north end of the San Fernando Valley before working their way south.
 
"They certainly are active and we appreciate that," he said of the family's efforts to find Smith.  ::snipping2:: 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/07/no-new-information-in-gavin-smith-disappearance-official-says.html


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Northern Rose on September 11, 2012, 12:56:52 PM
Something 'Just Not Right' in the Investigation of Missing Gavin Smith
Authorities tell FoxNews.com that certain elements in the missing person's case "are just not right."

August 17, 2012

Authorities investigating the disappearance of a 20th Century Fox executive and former UCLA basketball player say foul play is being "strongly" considered, with a detective telling FoxNews.com that elements in the case "are just not right."

Gavin Smith, 57, who worked out of a Calabasas office, hasn't been seen since the evening hours of May 1, when he left a friend's Oak Park home in a black Mercedes. Certain circumstances surrounding his disappearance "are just not right," a law enforcement source told FoxNews.com on August 2. His family agrees.

"I know that he would never leave his boys," Smith's sister, Tara Addeo, told the website. "There’s no way my brother would kill himself."

Smith and his car have not been found, the law enforcement source said, and there has been no activity on his bank accounts, according to the report

 ::snipping2::

http://agourahills.patch.com/articles/something-just-not-right-in-the-investigation-of-missing-gavin-smith


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Northern Rose on September 11, 2012, 12:58:10 PM
Sentencing Delayed for Drug Dealer Whose Home Was Searched in Gavin Smith Case
John Creech faces up to 10 years in jail for drug case unrelated to disappearance of Fox film executive
Wednesday, Aug 29, 2012

The sentencing of an admitted drug dealer caught up in the investigation of a missing Fox film executive has been delayed again.

John Creech's new sentencing date is Sept. 25

The 39-year-old pleaded guilty in a two-year-old drug case and faces up to 10 years in jail.

The West Hills man was arrested by Glendale Police, who observed Creech make a drug drop in Chatsworth during a 2010 surveillance operation.

On June 8, authorities investigating the disappearance of Gavin Smith executed a search warrant at the house where Creech was living. Creech has not been charged with any crime in connection with Smith.

Creech has said he's never met Smith. However, his wife Chandrika met Smith in therapy, according to an unnamed source cited by the Los Angeles Times.

 ::snipping2::

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Missing-Gavin-Smith-John-Creech-Sentencing-167862075.html


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Northern Rose on September 12, 2012, 07:50:50 PM
Sister of Missing Fox Exec Wonders if 'Foul Play' Was Involved in Disappearance

Tara Addeo—sister of Gavin Smith, who vanished without a trace in May—and Lisa Smith, Smith's wife, talk with 'The Hollywood Reporter' about the case.
 
12 Sep 2012

As the personal belongings of West Hill's Gavin Smith, the Fox executive who went missing from an Oak Park home on May 1, were removed from his Calabasas office and delivered by the studio to his West Hills home, Smith's wife, Lisa Smith, and sister, Tara Addeo, spoke with the The Hollywood Reporter about the ongoing investigation.

"It's been tough to bring them into the house," Lisa Smith told the magazine.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department still considers the Smith investigation a missing person's case and not a homicide probe, according to department spokesman Steve Whitmore, said the report. But Addeo told THR that while she has hope, her optimism is waning.

 ::snipping2::

http://woodlandhills.patch.com/articles/sister-of-missing-fox-exec-wonders-if-foul-play-was-involved-in-disappearance


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: MuffyBee on September 19, 2012, 10:02:24 PM
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/americas-most-wanted-gavin-smith-missing-371740?google_editors_picks=true
'America's Most Wanted' to Air Feature on Missing Fox Exec Gavin Smith
September 19, 2012

America’s Most Wanted will air a feature on missing 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith, a producer for the show tells The Hollywood Reporter.

The episode of Lifetime's venerable crime news program will air in early- to mid-October, according to Angeline Hartmann, who is producing the segment for AMW. Hartmann says that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which has revealed little about its investigation, is participating in the making of the feature.

“The sheriff's office has not really spoken out in detail publicly about this case, but the good news is we are dealing directly with the investigators assigned to the case — they are ready to talk a little bit more about it,” says Hartmann, adding that AMW is still conducting interviews and researching the disappearance of the studio exec.
 ::snipping2::
Hartmann says it has not been determined what format the AMW feature will use. She said the show could present the case with a re-enactment or by using "all interviews."

"There are several avenues we could go," she says. "Do we make a mini Hollywood movie?"
 ::snipping2::


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on October 05, 2012, 02:32:55 PM
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
10/05/'12

It is a story that has all the ingredients of a Hollywood whodunit. A movie executive, devoted to his three sons, vanishes without a trace. Detectives uncover affairs, money woes and links to a drug dealer.
 
For Lisa Smith, the agony of the double life of her husband Gavin slowly unravelling adds to her heartbreak. As she lies alone and sleepless in the middle of the night, she tries to remember the happy times they shared. But in the darkness, all she can do is cry.
 
Gavin, a muscular 6ft 6 ins tall sports fanatic who worked for 20th Century Fox, was last seen on May 1. Lisa reported him missing the following day when he failed to pick up their eldest son Evan. She says she knew instinctively that something bad had happened to him.

“I think he was murdered,” she says, in an exclusive interview with Mail Online. “And I am terrified that whoever did it is going to come after me and our boys.”
 
Lisa is not allowed to name the person she believes could be involved in her husband’s disappearance. But law enforcement sources believe Gavin unwittingly got out of his depth as he juggled affairs with married women, financial problems and a prescription pill addiction.
 
In June detectives searched the home of one of Gavin’s mistresses, Chandrika Creech. They took away an Audi SUV, several cardboard boxes and a computer.
 
Her husband John was taken into custody on an unrelated drug matter. He faces 10 years jail after admitting he was the middleman in a ring that provided drugs to Hollywood producers.
 
Speaking for the first time about the problems in their once perfect marriage, Lisa struggles through tears to explain her 57-year-old husband’s midlife crisis.
 
Gavin earned $180,000 a year at Fox, distributing hit movies including the Star Wars and Terminator series, Avatar and Titanic.  But they were struggling to pay the mortgage on their three-bedroom home in the Los Angeles suburb of West Hills.

 As Lisa, an accountant who supported her husband during the early years of their marriage while he struggled as a bit-part actor, went through their tax papers she discovered Gavin had taken money from his pension fund and squandered his year-end Fox bonus.
 
“He’d gone through $30,000,” she says. “He was hopeless with money at the best of times but he’d been talking about buying our sons cars. I’d talked him out of that but the money had gone anyway.
 
“That’s when I discovered a new mistress called Melanie. He seemed to be setting her and her kids up in a new home. We had furious rows.  ::snipping2:: 


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Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Nut44x4 on October 08, 2012, 11:28:22 AM
Interesting---Thanks Toler


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: KittyMom on October 08, 2012, 04:23:32 PM
Wow.  Can you imagine how it feels to find out that someone you've been with for so long has this whole other life without you or your children?  How does a person ever trust again?


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Sister on October 15, 2012, 08:34:28 AM
Wow.  Can you imagine how it feels to find out that someone you've been with for so long has this whole other life without you or your children?  How does a person ever trust again?
Good question!


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: MuffyBee on October 20, 2012, 11:44:20 PM
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gavin-smiths-wife-talks-affairs-378384
Wife of Missing Fox Exec Gavin Smith Acknowledges Extramarital Affairs, Suspects Foul Play
October 11, 2012

The mystery of missing 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith continues, with his wife finally speaking out on the gritty, “not so pretty details” of their relationship.
“I know him well. There’s nothing on earth that would keep him from coming back to take care of his family,” says Lisa. “I just don’t picture him walking in and saying, ‘I’m sorry; I just needed a breather.’ I’m prepared for the worst.”

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter last month, Gavin’s sister also said that she suspects foul play. “Where could he possibly be?” Tara Addeo wondered. “I know that Gavin would not hurt himself, and I have a hard time believing that Gavin would ever walk away from his sons. The only other alternative is that there would have been foul play.”
The case appeared to take on a hopeful direction in June, when authorities searched the home of Chandrika Creech, a woman with whom Gavin was alleged to have had an affair, and her husband John Creech, an admitted middleman in L.A.’s illicit drug world.
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Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: MuffyBee on February 01, 2013, 02:25:56 PM
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-la-hummer-missing-fox-executive-gavin-smith-drug-house-20130124,0,5011926.story?obref=obinsite
Hummer found at drug house may be tied to missing Fox executive
January 24, 2013

Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide detectives have found a Hummer they sought in the disappearance of missing 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith outside a marijuana grow house in Granada Hills.

Detectives took the vehicle Wednesday after federal drug agents investigating the grow house notified them of the vehicle's presence.

The vehicle is registered to John Creech, a convicted drug dealer whose wife had ties to Smith and whose West Hills home was searched in June 2012 as part of the investigation, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore confirmed. Investigators were expected to use a search warrant to examine the vehicle's interior for evidence.

Whitmore said authorities have been looking for the Hummer since the search of Creech's home and believe it may be tied to Smith's disappearance.
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Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: MuffyBee on March 14, 2013, 03:58:54 PM
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/03/gavin-smith-car-found-homicide-case.html
Missing Fox executive Gavin Smith's car found; homicide suspected
March 14, 2013

os Angeles County sheriff's investigators now believe missing Fox executive Gavin Smith was killed after finding his vehicle in a Simi Valley storage facility connected to a convicted drug dealer last month, officials said.

After finding the Mercedes Benz on Feb. 21 in a facility linked to John Creech, who remains jailed for his drug conviction, investigators served "several search warrants" in the San Fernando Valley as part of their investigation, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

"Based on the vehicle’s condition and information developed from persons cooperating in the investigation," Smith's disappearance is now being investigated as a homicide, a sheriff's statement said. It had been publicly characterized as a missing persons case.

No body has been recovered, Whitmore said.
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Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: MuffyBee on March 14, 2013, 04:01:25 PM
http://**/news/ci_22790327/breaking-missing-fox-executive-gavin-smiths-car-found
Missing Fox executive Gavin Smith's car found in Simi Valley, homicide suspected
March 14, 2013

LOS ANGELES -- Authorities say they've found the car of a 20th Century Fox executive who vanished nearly a year ago and they now believe he is dead.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says a Mercedes-Benz registered to Gavin Smith was found Thursday at a Simi Valley storage facility.

Authorities say that the storage facility was linked to a man who's jailed on an unrelated drug conviction.

A sheriff's statement says detectives are now investigating the case as a homicide, although Gavin's body hasn't been recovered.
 ::snipping2::


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: MuffyBee on March 14, 2013, 06:13:33 PM
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/03/gavin-smith-case-motive.html
Police say they have motive for alleged killing of Gavin Smith
March 14, 2013

Investigators have identified a possible motive in the alleged killing of Fox executive Gavin Smith, sheriff's officials said, but declined to elaborate further because of the ongoing investigation.

On Thursday, authorities announced a major development in Smith's mysterious disappearance. The Sheriff's Department said it had found Smith's Mercedes Benz last month at a Simi Valley storage facility linked to convicted drug dealer John Creech.

The condition of the car and other witness statements led authorities to conclude Smith had been killed. His body has not been found.

Sheriff's Lt. Dave Dolson told The Times that Smith was not believed to be involved in any drug transactions. They declined to disclose the nature of the relationship between Smith and Creech.

Officials have only said Smith and Chandrika Creech knew each other and met in rehab. When asked whether their relationship was romantic in nature, Dolson declined to comment.
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Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on March 15, 2013, 12:50:56 AM
'This was in fact a murder': Missing movie executive WAS killed, say police, as they find his Mercedes in the garage of his mistress' drug dealing husband
3/14/13

Missing Hollywood executive Gavin Smith was murdered, the Los Angeles sheriff said last night, as they found his car in the garage belonging to a person of interest in the case.

Smith went missing on May 1, 2012, and though investigators had a number of leads, they never found concrete proof of the 20th Century Fox executive's death.

That all changed last night when the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says the Mercedes-Benz registered to Gavin Smith was found at a Simi Valley storage facility that belonged to John Creech.
 
Mr Creech is the husband of Smith's purported mistress, Chandrika Creech, and he is now in jail on unrelated drug charges.

Though Mr Smith's body has not been found, police have officially declared the case a homicide investigation rather than that of a missing person.

'We found the car and the car itself indicates preliminarily, that this was, in fact, a murder,' sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore told local station KNBC.

In June, detectives searched the home of one of Gavin’s mistresses, Mrs Creech. They took away an Audi SUV, several cardboard boxes and a computer.
 
Her husband, John, was taken into custody on an unrelated drug matter and faces 10 years jail after admitting he was the middleman in a ring that provided drugs to Hollywood producers.   ::snipping2:: 


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Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Red on March 15, 2013, 07:13:53 AM
Missing 20th Century Fox Movie Executive Gavin Smith’s Car Found at Storage Facility Linked to John Creech in Jail on Unrelated Drug Conviction … Police Suspect Homicide

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2013/03/15/missing-20th-century-fox-movie-executive-gavin-smiths-car-found-at-storage-facility-police-suspect-homicide/

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BREAK IN THE CASE OF MISSING GAVIN SMITH …

Gavin Smith, a 20th Century Fox movie executive has been missing since May 1, 2012 when he was last seen leaving a friend’s house in Oak Park, CA. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is saying that the Mercedes-Benz registered to Gavin Smith has been found Thursday, March 14 at a Simi Valley storage facility. The storage facility was linked to John Creech who is currently in-custody at Men’s Central Jail on an unrelated narcotics conviction. Authorities believe now that Gavin Smith is dead and a victim of a homicide.
::snipping2::

The following is a Recipe for disaster and to go missing ... Add one part drugs, one part drug dealer and two parts alleged affair with a drug dealers wife.


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on March 16, 2013, 03:08:10 PM
Fox executive homicide investigation progressing 'vigorously'
2/16/13

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials said it's likely to take some time before they close the homicide probe of Fox executive Gavin Smith.
 
Officials declared Smith's disappearance a homicide case earlier this week. But they said it's unclear when detectives will present evidence to prosecutors for possible charges.
 
Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said additional evidence still needs to be examined. More than two dozen search warrants have been served in connection with the case, he added.
 
"So there is still evidence that needs [to be] processed and analyzed," he said. "They are not putting a time frame on that, but it's moving forward vigorously."
 
Their person of interest remains behind bars on an unrelated drug conviction. John Creech — whose wife, authorities said, had a relationship with Smith after meeting him in rehab — is serving an eight-year sentence.
 
Even if Creech were to be released early for "good-time, work-time" credit, Whitmore said Friday, he would still spend four years in jail — a place "where he can be interviewed at any time."
 
"He's a captive audience," Whitmore said.
 
Creech has not spoken to investigators while in jail, sheriff's Lt. Dave Dolson said, but his wife has talked to detectives on multiple occasions. Dolson declined to elaborate on what Chandrika Creech said or what the nature of her relationship with Smith was.
 

Smith, a former UCLA basketball player who worked in Fox's movie distribution department, was last seen leaving a friend's home in Ventura County's Oak Park neighborhood the night of May 1. Wearing purple athletic pants belonging to one of his sons, Smith drove away in his Mercedes, leaving behind his cellphone charger, shaving kit and other items.
 
In the months after Smith was last seen, officials insisted the case remained a missing person investigation, even as Creech's home and vehicle were searched. But Thursday, they announced they believed Smith had been killed, though no body has been found.
 
Officials also revealed that Smith's Mercedes Benz, missing since his disappearance, was found last month in a Simi Valley storage locker linked to Creech.
 

"The condition of the vehicle in conjunction with cooperating witness statements indicates he was killed," Dolson said. "At this time the evidence leads us to believe he was murdered."
 
Dolson said investigators received a tip leading them to the storage facility where Smith’s car was recovered. The locker wasn’t registered to Creech, Dolson said, but to someone close to him.
 
Creech was picked up by Glendale police in a February 2010 drug bust, when he allegedly sold bricks of cocaine to a man whose car contained more than 2,500 oxycodone tablets. Subsequent searches of Creech’s home and business yielded drugs, cash and other items.
 
Creech later admitted to police that he was a middle-man between drug producers and lower-level street dealers, and pleaded no contest last year to one count of selling and transporting cocaine.
 
In January, authorities searched his Hummer after it was found at a marijuana grow house in Granada Hills. Creech’s West Hills home was also searched at least twice last summer.
 
Dolson said officials do not think that Smith was involved in any drug transactions.
 
Investigators believe Smith had already been killed by the time his Mercedes-Benz was moved from Porter Ranch to the storage facility about a week after his disappearance, but have not said why the car was in Porter Ranch.   ::snipping2:: 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/03/gavin-smith-homicide-fox.html


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Toler on May 02, 2014, 12:24:49 AM
Possible Homicide Charges Imminent in Fox Executive's Death
5/1/14

In the sunshine of Southern California, where so many aspire to stand-out, a San Fernando Valley native, never even had to try.

"He had a million-dollar smile," said Tara Addeo, the sister of Gavin Smith, a father and hoopster on John Wooden’s 1975 national championship team.

Gavin Smith, a hoopster on John Wooden’s 1975 national championship team. Gavin Smith, a father of three boys.

I knew how much he loved them," said Addeo, his sister.

   

But Smith, a former movie actor turned movie executive, suddenly and completely vanished.

"He was a striking individual, tall, fit and, I think the idea of a person that goes missing out of nowhere is intriguing and tragic," said Lt. Dave Dolson, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

The 57 year old is long-believed to be dead. Now, the Sheriff’s Department reveals for the first time that it’s official.


"A judge has ruled a death certificate for Gavin," Dolson said.

NBC4 has learned this murder mystery may finally be solved.

"He died on the night of his disappearance," Dolson said.

Smith's sister believes she knows who it is.

In Minden, Nevada, one of Smith's three siblings, Tara Addeo, his only sister, braces for May 1.

"Just talking about it, I know, helps," she said, through tears. "That's the day two years ago when Gavin disappeared.

"But you can't ever be prepared for something like that because it just doesn't seem real."

Smith was last seen that night in Oak Park. From then on the 6 foot 6 20th Century Fox film distributor and his Mercedes-Benz were nowhere to be found. Until last year when detectives caught a break.

"That was probably the worst day," Addeo said.

In February 2013, Smith's Mercedes was found tucked away in a storage facility in Simi Valley.

Back in Nevada, Addeo's phone rang. It was a detective.

"He said I don't know how to tell you this but Gavin isn't coming back," Addeo said. "There was enough biological evidence to prove that Gavin was killed."

Dolson said the evidence found was a "major piece of the puzzle" without elaborating.

The man linked to the storage facility is named John Creech.

"He is a person that we are looking at," Dolson said.   ::snipping3:: 

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Fox-Executives-Death-Could-Be-Solved-257450521.html


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: klaasend on November 06, 2014, 10:11:11 AM
http://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/06/missing-fox-execs-remains-found-death-remains-mystery/18587471/ (http://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/06/missing-fox-execs-remains-found-death-remains-mystery/18587471/)

Missing Fox exec’s remains found, but death remains mystery
Richard Winton and Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times (TNS) 10:14 a.m. EST November 6, 2014

The case has all the makings of a movie: Drugs, a shallow grave and a possible affair

LOS ANGELES – Authorities may never know how 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith was killed or how his remains turned up in the desert outside Palmdale, Los Angeles County coroner’s officials said today.

“It could be months, if ever, worst-case scenario,” Los Angeles County coroner’s Lt. David Smith said.

People familiar with the case said the hikers who came across the remains Oct. 26 found a shallow grave, some bones and a skull. the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office said in a statement that the remains were found near Palmdale in the rural desert area of Antelope Valley in Southern California. The coroner’s office confirmed late Wednesday that the remains were positively identified.

Gavin Smith, 57, who disappeared more than two years ago, was with Fox’s movie distribution department for nearly 18 years and was a branch manager for several theaters. He had not been seen since May 1, 2012, and was legally declared dead on May 1, 2014.
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Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Sister on November 06, 2014, 10:45:50 AM
http://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/06/missing-fox-execs-remains-found-death-remains-mystery/18587471/ (http://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/06/missing-fox-execs-remains-found-death-remains-mystery/18587471/)

Missing Fox exec’s remains found, but death remains mystery
Richard Winton and Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times (TNS) 10:14 a.m. EST November 6, 2014

The case has all the makings of a movie: Drugs, a shallow grave and a possible affair

LOS ANGELES – Authorities may never know how 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith was killed or how his remains turned up in the desert outside Palmdale, Los Angeles County coroner’s officials said today.

“It could be months, if ever, worst-case scenario,” Los Angeles County coroner’s Lt. David Smith said.

People familiar with the case said the hikers who came across the remains Oct. 26 found a shallow grave, some bones and a skull. the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office said in a statement that the remains were found near Palmdale in the rural desert area of Antelope Valley in Southern California. The coroner’s office confirmed late Wednesday that the remains were positively identified.

Gavin Smith, 57, who disappeared more than two years ago, was with Fox’s movie distribution department for nearly 18 years and was a branch manager for several theaters. He had not been seen since May 1, 2012, and was legally declared dead on May 1, 2014.
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I would think John Creech or his wife know a lot more than they're saying.



Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: MuffyBee on November 06, 2014, 02:02:53 PM
http://www.khou.com/story/entertainment/2014/11/06/remains-found-of-missing-fox-movie-executive/18588569/
Remains found of missing Fox movie executive
November 6, 2014

(http://i.imgur.com/zV7x7d0s.jpg) (http://imgur.com/zV7x7d0)
Gavin Smith
(Photo: L.A. Sheriff's Department)

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The remains of a 20th Century Fox executive who disappeared more than two years ago have been found in a rural desert area of Southern California, authorities said.

Lt. Larry Dietz of the Los Angeles County coroner's office confirmed early Thursday that the remains of Gavin Smith have been positively identified.


Smith, 57, was last seen May 1, 2012, in Ventura County's Oak Park neighborhood after leaving a friend's home, and his disappearance has been investigated as a murder.


Hikers discovered the remains near Palmdale in the Antelope Valley on Oct. 26, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's office said in a statement.


Results of an autopsy have not been finalized. Sheriff's officials planned to discuss the case further during a news conference Thursday.


Authorities said earlier they had found his Mercedes-Benz at a Simi Valley storage facility, and its condition and witness statements led them to believe Smith was killed.


The storage facility was linked to John Creech, a man who was serving an eight-year prison sentence for sales or transport of narcotics, sheriff's Lt. Dave Dolson said last year. Creech was named a person of interest but has not been charged with Smith's murder.


Dolson said then that Smith had "some kind of relationship" with Creech's wife, Chandrika, after meeting her in rehab several years previously. Dolson declined to provide details.
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Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: MuffyBee on November 06, 2014, 09:32:47 PM
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/article3595449.html
Remains of missing Fox movie executive found
November 6, 2014
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Authorities said earlier they had found Smith's Mercedes-Benz at a Simi Valley storage facility nine months after his disappearance. Its condition along with witness statements led them to believe Smith was killed.

A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation said Thursday the car contained Smith's blood and body tissue, including skin stuck to a seat.


The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the case and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Sheriff's Lt. Dave Dolson said investigators are optimistic they will solve the case.

"We believe we know what happened" and why, he said without elaboration.

Dolson said the remains were crucial to the case and were found in an area where investigators believed they would be located.

Forensic examination of the remains may help provide critical details that help detectives fill in the blanks and strengthen their case, said Capt. Rod Kusch.

"Even if we have the how and why part ... there's other evidence that can come to surface with forensic examination of the remains," Kusch said.

A previous search had been unsuccessful, and authorities discouraged Smith's family and friends from conducting a search for him for their own safety, Dolson said.

The storage facility where Smith's car was found was linked to John Creech, a man who is serving an eight-year prison sentence for sales or transport of narcotics, Dolson said previously. Creech was named a person of interest but has not been charged with Smith's killing.

Police have said Smith had "some kind of relationship" with Creech's wife, Chandrika, after meeting her in drug rehabilitation several years earlier. Dolson declined to provide details.

The official who spoke anonymously said the relationship was believed to be romantic.

Investigators served dozens of search warrants mainly in locations around the San Fernando Valley and involving Creech's home and Hummer.

Detectives believe Smith's car was in the Porter Ranch area of the San Fernando Valley about a week after his disappearance and it was eventually moved — possibly by multiple people — to the Simi Valley storage facility, Dolson said previously.

"We think we know an area in which he was at, or where the murder may have taken place," Dolson told the AP earlier this year. He declined to elaborate further.
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"This case is complex," said sheriff's Chief of Detectives Bill McSweeney. "We've kind of known what happened for a long time ... many, many months."

The body, he added, "gives us proof that he was killed."


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Nut44x4 on November 07, 2014, 01:58:48 AM
RIP Gavin...you can go home now.


Title: Re: 20th Century Fox studio executive Gavin Smith reported missing
Post by: Sister on November 11, 2014, 08:08:35 AM
RIP Gavin...you can go home now.

yes, finally.