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Detective williams, who ran the name through a gang database and discovered, unfortunately, there was more than one c-styles. >> theres big c-styles, theres a little c-styles. >> reporter: eventually williams found a c-styles whod been on probation at the time of the murder. >> our first goal was to identify the connection between the c-styles and crystal taylor. any gang affiliation, any relatives? was he a boyfriend, ex-boyfriend? the sisters say no. her friends say no. theres no evidence to s...

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 ...

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...

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...

Be able to do it, whatever it is we needed to do. i -- but i was really scared. >> reporter: michelle testified she saw c-styles at crystals building the day before the shooting. it was up to other witnesses to place him there the day crystal was killed, and there were several who could. the man making his kids breakfast. a neighbor who saw a man who looked like c-styles around 1:00 that same morning, watching the building. another neighbor who actually knew c-styles and thought he saw him loite...

Remembered seeing c-styles fleeing the crime scene. >> and what did you hear? >> it was like a, um -- like a gunshot, like a big noise basically. >> what next occurred? >> we seen somebody running past us. >> reporter: prosecutors then had to connect c-styles with derek smyer. for that they relied on two eyewitnesses. detective williams told the jury he was pretty sure c-styles was with derek at the park on the day crystal taylor was ambushed and murdered. >> it wasnt until you actually saw him ...

Worked out a deal. c-styles would pull the trigger. and derek smyer would owe him a favor. >> did he promise you money or did he promise you dope? >> it was just a mixture. he basically promised me loyalty or whatnot so thats why i say money wasnt really a factor cause it was gonna be more beneficial down the line. >> thats how this works? i always thought that when you wanted somebody killed, you had to pay money for that. >> everybody glamorizes it and thinks its that way. but in skylers mind,...

>> they brought in c-styles. legal name skyler moore. you say to him, "what do you have to do with the murder of crystal taylor?" and he says? >> "i dont know her. i did not do this." but hes studying her photo. >> reporter: and then, c-styles continued to talk. >> hes coming up with an analysis of the person who would have done this. and he refers to the person as, "this person had a lot of rage. this person has a lot of rage in them to do that." >> as opposed to just saying, "i didnt do any mu...