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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 want to find out where derek is. >> most definitely. we want to find everything about him right now. >> the detective learned crystal and derek had a quick fling. it only lasted a month or so. theyd met at anderson park, which is near both their jobs. by now, it was lunch time. derek wasnt in his office. so williams drove to the park. bringing crystals work friends with h...

>> javontes fathers got to be somebody youre gonna look at. >> most definitely, and we did. trying to identify if there was a ongoing conflict. >> kenneth wasnt helping with javonte and there had been conflict over child support in the past. crystal had obtained a court order requiring kenneth to pay. so two possible leads. a third surfaced when williams went to crystals office. >> we get to her place of employment and we talk to several young ladies that identified themselves as being her frien...

She made a decision. theres no changing her mind. >> reporter: wrapped in the blanket of her big family, crystal knew she and javonte would do just fine. >> we are some baby whisperers in the sense. we love babies. strangers babies, anybody baby. >> reporter: anybody say thats too young to be having a baby? >> no, we all had babies young. >> wed still said it. it would still be said, but it would also be followed by, "youre still gonna finish school. you know, life isnt over. you made your bed h...

Waiting on the staircase, does that match the description of the guy people say were running away after the shooting? >> almost identical. >> reporter: heres the sketch drawn from both their descriptions. >> were you happy with the final sketch? it looked like the guy? >> oh, yeah. it looked like him. >> reporter: but he didnt look like any of the men in crystal taylors life. not derek. not dino. and not javontes father kenneth. cops would have to figure out who he was and where to find him. mon...

Instantly, derek smyer had to be an adult. >> he dropped out of high school so that he could get a full-time job. even though he wasnt making much, he was still doing what he could to support that baby. >> that changes your life? >> it does change your life. and that forestalls a lot of your options? >> absolutely. but derek was a hard-working guy. >> reporter: in 2002, the year after crystal died, derek smyer had another daughter with the same woman. >> if i fall, all this footage is being dele...

The park might have been. >> and crystal is dead. c-styles is serving time for another murder and nothing is happening to derek. >> nothing was happening to derek that i could see. but im a believer of karma. either in this life or the next. youre going to pay for what youve done wrong. >> im guessing you were preferring it was this life? >> yes. >> maybe it was karma. maybe it was luck. maybe it was good police work. but whatever it was, on june 15th, 2011, l.a. sheriffs detectives richard lope...

Really concerned about that. >> reporter: the d.a had his own concerns. the testimony of a schoolgirl, and the sister of the victim, didnt seem enough to convict. and thats about all the evidence they had. police never found any dna, fingerprints, or forensic evidence that linked c-styles to the garage of crystal taylors apartment. and while they found a .38-caliber bullet lodged in crystals brain, they never found the gun that fired it, let alone linked that gun to c-styles or anyone else. if c...

By 2011, for the taylor family, crystals murder was an ugly scar that was never going to heal. >> we had almost stopped being as obsessed with it. >> but you still wanted answers. >> but we still wanted answer. >> reporter: then the phone rang. detectives shared the big news about their prison interview with c-styles. >> they said, "well, the shooter confessed." >> reporter: and told them it was derek smyer who put him up to it. >> reporter: in his confession, mr. styles said he saw another woma...

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In improbable ways and end up happy. >> right. >> reporter: is what she wanted? >> yes. >> i know she wanted love. i know that she -- she wanted a fairytale life. i know she always talked about it, but, you know, she was happy with the life that she had. >> reporter: 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 singing "it never rains in southern california" in labor, like shaking the bed. >> reporter: crystal c...