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There is no nobility or honor in killing a lady whos pregnant. >> someone who is innocent. >> yes. >> not somebody in the life. >> right. it goes in line with building our resume. so if your resume as a gangster is that i go out and i put in work for my gang, including killing, including robbery, well, eventually youll have to prove that, okay, when was the last time you killed somebody? last time you did a robbery? well, this is his advertisement by taking claim for, yeah, i shot these guys. i ...

As crystal taylors family tried to figure out how to cope with her murder, detective robbie williams tried to figure out who might have wanted her dead. >> when we started re-creating that persons life, you know, were trying to find out who would have the motivation to do this. and oftentimes, you know, a civilian like she was, not involved in any criminal enterprise, we tend to focus on relatives or relationship partners. >> reporter: the 11-year-old girl whod seen the shooter running told cops...

Been a big, happy, close family kind of splintered? >> yeah. >> reporter: c-styles was convicted of the gang murder he had admitted to. his sentence -- life in prison. and crystal taylors murder remained officially unsolved. the sisters were sure c-styles had pulled the trigger. but they were sure of something else, too. c-styles had no reason to kill their sister. someone put him up to it. and they thought they knew who that someone was. coming up -- >> he did this to crystie. he did this to ...

Thats a fact, but its more true than not. >> if somebody is up and working at 7:00 or 7:30 in the morning, they -- >> their paths just wouldnt cross. not normally. not a hardcore serious type of person like a c-style. >> reporter: so, was he the man in the parking garage? on that question, c-styles wasnt terribly helpful. but then he did something surprising. after staring at crystals photo and floating theories about her killer, c-styles suddenly confessed to a different murder of a rival gang ...

>> theyre alleging multiple conversations, planning, without any proof of where, when, how. theres no emails between moore and smyer. theres no text messages. theres no phone calls. >> reporter: the defense portrayed derek as a man who loved his children. not one who would try to have them murdered. >> theres mr. smyer again in the hospital holding his baby. and i think its important when youre looking at this case that you evaluate his expression on his face in these photos. proud father or kil...

Crystals murder picked him out of a lineup. two months after crystal taylors death, skyler moore, aka c-styles, was charged with murdering her and her unborn baby jeremiah. justice seemed close at hand. it was not. coming up -- >> im looking for this guy day and night. >> and then you see him. and hes in court right in front of you. >> face-to-face with a confessed killer. >> you werent afraid to testify? >> oh yes i was. >> i was praying and asking god to make us strong enough. but i was real...

Would only get worse. because crystal taylor wasnt 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 men in crystals life. one, two, three of them. >> were trying to find out who would have the motivation to do this. >> when "dateline" continues. (burke) at farmers insurance, we know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. even a- (ernie) lost rubber duckie? (burke) you mean t...

And then we just started getting into the processing of a crime scene, making sure that we identify as many witnesses and if theres also other victims. >> reporter: but the only obvious victim was crystal. shed been shot in the head. paramedics took her to the hospital, and detective williams got straight to work finding witnesses. >> because this is early morning. theres kids walking to school. theres people preparing themselves for their day of work so a lot of people were up. a lot of people ...

Me. when he did, it just seemed like it was kind of for show, you know. if -- when people were around hed behave a certain way, and when those people left he would go back to his -- his ill temperedness and his kind of monstrous ways. >> reporter: to help explain how derek had crystal killed, prosecutors again called her sister michelle who had been through the emotional wringer when she testified in the first trial. >> do you solemnly state that the testimony -- >> i was afraid of what it was g...

Doing there, and then he told me he was waiting for someone. >> reporter: michelle had a bad feeling about him. >> i kind of got this instinct that said, remember what he looked like. and then i froze on what he looked like and went on about my business. >> reporter: and she warned crystie about the man. >> i called her to tell her that it was a strange guy that was on the stairs. just be careful when she came out. >> reporter: so was the man michelle saw on monday the same man witnesses saw on ...