have to deal with after a loved one is murdered only intensify the agony. there was the bloody mess left at the crime scene. crystal s pastor and a family friend stepped in to clean it so the family wouldn t have to. the sisters were asked to donate crystal s organs. that proved too difficult a question to answer quickly. and there was one more thing. somebody told you you had to name the baby? she was already going to name him jeremiah. so we just stuck with it. jeremiah taylor was it supposed to be born for 20 more weeks. he never got a birth certificate, only a death certificate. then the coroner released his body, along with his mother s. so their family could say goodbye. it was an open casket. i remember i wanted to reach out and touch her. i just sat in the tier looking
we didn t read you your miranda rights, right? so anything you say cannot be used against you. we are not trying to put a case on you, but we are just trying to get the truth. then detective lopez showed c-styles some photos of crystal taylor and derek smyer. i ve got a sneaky suspicion he might recognize some of them faces. okay, okay? you re skyler, you re she, from what we know you know what s up, okay? it s a good act though. it s survival. and you know, no one s supposed to talk to the police, i know that. but everybody does, dude. you know that. you re told from when they re young kids, you know, snitches get stitches. and you don t talk to the police. so when they finally break that barrier and they come and you open the floodgates, they have a tendency to talk then. and all the things that bothered them when they were in the life begin to come out. and that s what happened here? yes. bit by bit, c-styles started to talk. turns out, that was him in the park
this family tragedy would only get worse because crystal taylor wasn t the only one killed by that bullet. coming up police drill down in the search for a suspect. we tend to focus on relatives or relationship partners. the man in crystal s life. one, two, three of. them for trying to find out who had had the motivation to do this. when dateline continues. n dateline continues topic de under control? hide our skin? not us. because dupixent targets a root cause of eczema, it helps heal your skin from within, keeping you one step ahead of it. and for kids ages 6 and up, that means clearer skin, and noticeably less itch. hide my skin? not me. by helping to control eczema with dupixent, you can change how their skin looks and feels. and that s the kind of change you notice. hide my skin? not me. don t use if you re allergic to dupixent.
in his confession, mr. styles said he saw another woman on the stairs and thought maybe that was crystie. that was you. uh-huh. and he said he considered killing me. that was devastating. you were that close to getting killed. getting killed. uh-huh. yeah. the detectives still had to figure out how to use c-styles off the record con investigation to make an on-the-record case against derek. in the meantime, sisters michelle and monica couldn t resist going back to prowling the streets, looking for clues. cagney and lacey shift their focus to derek? we never thought he should get away with it. when the police said, come in. we want to talk to you, we re going to reopen the case, i have a notebook now. i m like, oh smyers. so i wrote it down, and then i go back and i found, like, businesses they had. they also figured out where derek lived. you re regularly driving by his
knew c-styles and thought he saw him loitering in the area. except, all those witnesses were afraid to testify in open court. against a known gang member. all except one, the school girl. who may not have known enough to be afraid. miss hall, who was a child essentially, when she saw someone running away of the scene at crystal taylor s murder. she was willing to testify? yes she was. but her family was hesitant. yes, her mom was really concerned about that. the da had his own concerns. let s test a phone mooney of a school girl and the victim of the sister, didn t seem enough to convict. and that s about all the evidence they had. police never found any dna, fingerprints or forensic evidence. that linked c-styles to the garage of crystal taylor s apartment. and while they filed found a 30 caliber bullet, they never