type of selfish type of what can you do for me type of mentality. manipulative. manipulator, self-centered, and arrogant. maybe that s why derek never shied away from talking with the cops and why he never asked for a lawyer, or maybe he just wasn t guilty. definitely he thought he was smarter than we were, anyways. i mean, you know, what did we have. when derek was briefly arrested, detectives asked him who he was with at anderson park on the day crystal was murdered. remember, detective williams thought later it was probably c-styles, but cops had no way to prove it. and then under questioning, derek gave them one. he said he goes, i saw a woman in the back seat.
decision she was gonna have a baby but not gonna be his wife? that was christy, she made a decision. there was no change in her mind. wrapped in the blanket of her big family, crystal knew she and javonte would do just fine. we are some baby whispers in a sense. we love babies. strangers babies, anybody s babies. anybody say, too young to be having a baby? no, we all had babies young. we still said it. it was still be said. but it was also be followed by you re still going to finish school. your life isn t over. you made your bed harder, but you re going to lay in. and we re going to love this baby. those were rules set down by momo. everyone finish school, started as career and raise their children on their own, successfully. as javonte grew, crystie grew up. she just released took care of her baby, went to work and brought her lunch, because she wasn t gonna spend any money. if you went to the movies with her son, no, he knew not to ask
before he answered it, he would give a preamble as to why his answer was this. lopez pushed him. told derek that c-styles had confessed and implicated derek. derek denied everything. lopez thought he was lying. but what he was not doing was cracking. i said, you know, you re not a likeable person. i don t know if anybody s going to believe you. and he just didn t seem to mind. of course, it s possible derek wasn t worried because he wasn t guilty. during those ten years from 2001 to 2011, what s derek doing and how is he? does he seem like a guy with a cloud over his head? no. he seems like a man who s flourishing. derek s sister danielle was shocked by the arrest. she says the way she and derek grew up was a world away from people like c-styles and from crimes like murder. we played, we were into sports, we had two extremely active parents that were a part
and it all offense. you and your thinking, what is our? turn yeah. i m like, what is our. turn momo died six months after her daughter crystal. her family says the cause was as much heartbreak as heart disease. and all of that took a huge toll on the tailors. everyone was hurting, so no one really wanted to be around what would bring up that sadness again. and that was us in being together. so we separated for a while. so what had been a big, happy, close family, kind of splintered? yeah. c-styles was convicted of the gang murder he had admitted to. his sentence? life and presents. and crystal taylor s murder remained officially unsolved. the sisters were sure it was c-styles who pulled the trigger. but they were sure of something else, to. c-styles had no reason to kill their sister.
was shot? absolutely. the defense suggested javonte s father killed crystal. never mind that police had cleared him early on. derek s lawyer told the jury his client was an innocent man. but this tragedy, it will be compounded if you convict a person that is not involved. and i m asking for a not guilty verdict on all counts. thank you very much. crystal s family was worried. they could only hope the jury believed c-styles video confession and not his recantation of it. the wait for a verdict was agonizing. that was painful. one day passed. then two. three days in. i m nervous. i don t want to do this again. i can t do this again. it s not easy. then it was a week. then one week turned into two. i m like i m just praying. i just keep praying, no matter