quick. this go opposite to the theory of what he thinks might be possible. at some point of the interview he talks about her being involved with other people. did you mention this at all? she did mention that sometimes he would pop up at her apartment. sometimes she would say, man i wish this guy would stop calling me, you know. i just at least the same person of all i got. she might be trying to make me jealous or something? i don t know. you know what i m saying? people see things. they re not always true. did he acknowledge that crystal was pregnant with his child? should he acknowledge that she was pregnant. but short of acknowledging that the child is his. you re the father of her child, or she thinks you are? well anyway. you had a basic description of some of that witnesses all running from the scene. yes, african american male wearing a dark colored for the, with a scarf around his head, or handkerchief around his
as opposed to just say, no, i didn t do any murder. i don t know who is. this i don t know what you re talking about. exactly. that seemed rather strange. but so did this, there was no obvious reason for c-styles to kill crystal taylor. true that if you re was warning about being a victim of gang violence, you re probably safest in the morning? because these guys will stay very late and roll out of bed until late morning or noon? i m not going to say that s a fact, but it s more true than not. if somebody is up and working at seven or 7:30 in the morning, they their path just wouldn t cross. not normally. not a hard-core serious type of person like a c-styles. so, was he the man in the parking garage? on that question, c-styles wasn t terribly helpful. but then he did something surprising. after staring at crystal s photo and floating theories about her killer, c-styles simply confessed to a different
look at him, he thought the gang banger look familiar. you think the first time you saw derek smyer, you think he was with c-styles? yes, i think he was in the company of c-styles. so if you are right, they were hanging out together just a couple hours after the murder. yes. if only you have known. if only i had known. and now, a decade later, there was no way to prove who the man in the park might have been. and crystal is dead, c-styles serving time for another murder, and nothing s happening today. nothing is happening to derek that i can see. but i m a believer of karma. either in this life or the next. you re going to pay for what you ve done wrong. i m guessing you are preferring that is this life? yes. maybe it was karma. maybe it was luck. maybe it was a good police work. but whatever it was, on june 15th, 2011, l. a. sheriff s detectives richard lopez and his partner beth smith, found
the 11-year-old girl who had seen the shooter running told cops that just before the shot rang out, she heard a man and woman arguing. was that a clue? detective williams learned crystal had a boyfriend named dino. just a hardworking guy. was in a relationship with crystal on and off. and this is coming from the family and friends that knew about dino. and there was kenneth woods, father of krystal s ten year old, javonte. javonte s but has got to be somebody s father going to look that look at. most definitely. kenneth wasn t helping with javonte, but there had been conflict over child support in the past. crystal had obtained a court order requiring kenneth to pay. so, two possible leads. and a third surfaced when williams went to crystal s office. we get to her place of employment. we talked to several young ladies that identified themselves as being her friend.
is going to kill mama too. nothing worse than bearing your kids. no. when you are already so sick. i remember when i was talking to my mom i was like, don t you leave me. telling crystal s ten year old son was even harder. we sat next to him like, javonte, your mom died. and he crossed his arms like this. and screamed. and he just kind of lean back. your mom died. they didn t see how. you all kind of shielded javonte from what had happened. yes. we were older and couldn t grasp what had happened to her. so, why give it to him? so in one day, his whole world goes away. no more mom, no more home, no more life as you know. and he taught himself to just not even talk about it. you don t even know javonte is in a room. he learned it to just, i don t know, he just shut down. even now, javonte seems almost numb when talking about