they re shocked. that this is happened. they told him that the day before she was killed, crystal received a phone call at work that seemed to upset her. and then, they dropped a bombshell. that, a, she was pregnant. and, b, the person that she was pregnant by did not want her to be pregnant any longer. you couldn t tell crystal taylor s pregnant if you are lying on the ground? i couldn t tell. i couldn t tell. in fact, she was five months along. her unborn son died when she did. crystal had told friends the father of her child was a guy named derek smyer. so you won t find out where derek is? that s it. we want to find out everything about him right now. the detective learned crystal and derrick had a quick fling that only lasted a month or so. they met at anderson park, which is near both their jobs. by now, it was lunchtime. derek wasn t in his office. so williams drove to the park bringing crystal s work friends
he told derrick that sea styles had confessed and implicated derek. derrick denied everything. lopez thought he was lying. what he was not doing was cracking. i said, you are not a likable person. i do not know if anybody is going to believe you. but he did not seem to mind. of course it is possible that derek wasn t worried, because he wasn t worried how is derrick doing, does he seem like a guy was a cloud overhead? no he seems like a guy who is flourishing. derrick s sister danielle was shocked at the arrest. she says that the way that he the way she and eric grew up as a world away from a guy like sea styles, and guy crimes like murder. we played, we were into sports, we had two extremely active parents who are part of all of our sports leagues, who are taking us to summer camps. she said that directed go
families suspicions that derek was somehow behind crystal s murder. but he also knew he didn t have enough evidence to arrest him. i whisper to my wife, that s the guy. that s the guy who had crystal taylor killed. that s got to be like a knife in you. i mean, if that s what you think, if you think that s the guy who had crystal killed. well here he is, out free, breathing the same air you are. going on vacation just like you. are having a great time. he got away with. it or so it seemed. help was about to come from the last place anyone expected. on the day crystal was murdered, when detective robbie williams foresaw at anderson park, derek wasn t alone. there was a group of men sitting near a cement picnic area talking. you hadn t even heard the name c-styles? hadn t heard of c-styles. but much later, after he c-styles was arrested and detective williams got a good
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 one thing he is he is a manipulator of women. cops saw a pattern, one that was reinforced by something else they learned. as the investigation continued, we discovered that derek had been to prison for a federal offense of he was um, scamming money from a bank. it happened in 2004. here s derek in this fuzzy bank security photo stealing money from other people s bank accounts. turned out he had a girlfriend who worked at a credit union. he got account numbers from her and used them to move money into accounts he controlled. what happened to the $80,000 that they skimmed? the investigators, they didn t find it. and we tried to look for it, too, and we never found it. you heard about derek serving federal time on that bank charge. yes, yes. i wasn t surprised. and i wasn t surprised at who he used as an accomplice. his girlfriend. yes. why were you not surprised by that? because derek possesses that