caption disappeared_status disappeared_place birth_place body_discovered nationality disappeared_date birth_date alt known_for image article_title name occupation alma_mater
picture help find smith distributed by la county sheriff 's department to declared legally dead 2014 05 01 1954 12 10 oak park , california san fernando valley , california palmdale , california ; october 26 , 2014 usa may 1 , 2012 -lrb- aged 57 -rrb- december 10 , 1954 a smiling blond man with sunglasses around his neck , member ; single-season scoring record at hawaii of 1975 ncaa champion men 's basketball team gavin smith.jpg gavin smith -lrb- film studio executive -rrb-
 gavin smith executive at 20th century fox ucla , hawaii
gavin smith -lrb- film studio executive -rrb-

gavin smith -lrb- born december 10 , 1954 ; disappeared may 1 , 2012 ; declared legally dead may 1 , 2014 ; body recovered october 26 , 2014 -rrb- was an american film studio executive , formerly a regional manager of distribution for 20th century fox .
prior to his 18 years in that position he played basketball at ucla , where he was part of the 1975 team that won that year 's ncaa championship , the last for legendary coach john wooden .
he later played at hawaii , where he set the school 's still-standing single-season scoring record of 23.4 points per game .
he had a small role as a bartender in `` cobb '' , the 1994 biopic of baseball legend ty cobb .
on the night of may 1 , 2012 , smith left a friend 's house in oak park , california , where he had been staying due to reported marital difficulties .
it does not appear as if he had planned to be away for an extended period .
when he failed to pick up one of his sons for school the next morning , his family reported him missing .
the los angeles county sheriff 's department has been investigating .
two years later , with smith still missing and no evidence of his presence anywhere past the night of his disappearance , he was retroactively declared legally dead .
on october 26 , 2014 , over two years after his disappearance , hikers found the remains of gavin smith near palmdale in the antelope valley .
in january 2015 , john lenzie creech , a convicted drug dealer who had begun an eight-year prison sentence on that charge shortly after smith disappeared , was arrested again and charged with the murder .
his wife had reportedly been romantically involved with smith .
creech 's attorney said the death was a `` tragic accident . ''
