we were watching cold case and criminal files , so we thought we were real detectives. too much tv can be a dangerous thing. or maybe this was the dynamic of the taylor family. the sisters who were going to together, al crystal resource on, we re now helping solve her murder. so, sketch in hand, they canvassed the neighborhood. you, not the police? she became so obsessed, it worries me halep says she was. she would say, he s not gonna get away with doing this to my baby sister. tia was afraid her mom and her and were putting their own lives in danger. i threatened to tell the police. like, you guys are not supposed to be doing that. you guys don t have weapons. what are you going to do if or what are you looking for? what s gonna do if you find? it bothers no arguing with
fixated on derrick pretty early. he was one of our top three. because remember, we re looking at the sun s father. we ve got her love interest on and off guy, dino. and we re looking at now derek. how did javonte you s react when you told him crystal had been murdered? his reaction was shock. he was shocked. and her boyfriend dino was devastated, police said. more important, both men had alibis. witnesses put them nowhere near crystal s apartment at the time of the murder. the same was true of derek smyer. his neighbor saw him at 7:30 that morning. meaning he couldn t have shot crystal. does it sound like there s a whole lot of anybody at that point? no. but soon enough, there would be another person police would be looking at. coming up i came around the corner and there was a guy sitting on the stairs. he startled me a little bit. i kind of got this instinct
and you think that is what you? shot absolutely. the the defense suggested javante s father killed crystal, never mind that police had cleared him early on. there is lawyer told the jury that their client was an innocent man. this tragedy would be compounded if you convict a person that is not involved. and i am asking for a not guilty verdict on all counts, thank you very much. krystal s family worried that they can only hope that the jury believed styles confession and not his recant asian of it. the await for a verdict was agonizing. that was painful. one day passed, then two, three days in. i am nervous, i do not want to do this again. i cannot do this again. it is not easy. then, it was a week, then one week turned into two. i m just praying, no matter
spoiled her, to. c michelle and monica. they talked every day and she would immediately start winning as soon as she talked my mom. she could be a grown-up and as soon as the phone rang, she went right back to be an eight year old. all the. time tia, her niece, remembers crystie as this both as a homebody and romantic dreamer. she was a flashy. she was at someone who shocked a lock. she was just a really down to earth, simple. just happy to be at home watching movies. she watched the same movies all the time. she loved love stories. hope floats , ever after love jones . those are all stories of women who find love in improbable ways and end up. happy right. is that what she? wanted yes. i know she wanted love. she wanted a fairytale life. i know she always talked about it. but, you know, she was happy with the life that she had. the life she had, working, being with family. and raising a son who was born the very day she turned 17. i went in and she was seeing
but they kept going over the last days of crystal s life. reminding to that trip when they visited their ailing mother in texas. they arrived back in los angeles in the middle of the night, saturday into sunday. yet crystal still woke up very early the next morning. she insisted on going to church. we were all thinking to sleep in. but she got up and she prayed and then she cried. she was going through something, she just was it sharing it with us. the next day was monday. the morning michelle saw a suspicious man on the stairs of the apartment building. she warned krystal who went a different way to the garage which might have saved her life, for 24 hours. what they didn t learn until much later was that crystal left work crying on that last day of her life. she didn t say anything to her family that night, but she did act differently. she went around the room and she hugged everyone. i think she just didn t want to worry anyone. and i think she cry and of hope