then detective beth smith testified about two key pieces of evidence that the first jury never saw. first, a photo of derek on his high school basketball team, proving he did play basketball. an important detail because police believed derek met skyler moore on the basketball court. the second new piece of evidence was security footage from the night before crystal s murder that placed derek at a 7-eleven near both crystal taylor s home and skyler moore s. it proved, they said, derek had lied about his whereabouts back in 2001 when he told police he was miles from crystal s hawthorne home that night. did he ever tell you that he went to the 7-eleven? no. as the evidence was mounting against him, derek s defense went on offense, portraying the mother of his two children as a lair whose testimony couldn t be trusted. have you lied to your family
but it was a story they couldn t tell in court. not yet, anyway. coming up that dynamic duo of sister detectives wasn t done yet. cagney and lacy shift their focus to derek. we never thought he should get away with it. when dateline continues. h when dateline continues -kee-on-oh. -nope. -co-ee-noah. -no. -joaquin. -no. it just takes practice. give it a shot. [ grunts, exhales deeply ] -did you hear that? -yeah. it s a constant battle. we re gonna open a pdf. who s next? progressive can t save you from becoming your parents, but we can save you money when you bundle home and auto with us. no fussin , no cussin , and no
of all of our sports leagues that were taking us to summer camps. she says derek did go off track in high school. he was just 16 when his girlfriend traci got pregnant. it was news their parents were not happy to hear. they were in shock, especially my dad. my dad is very traditional, you know, believes that children should be born in wedlock, as derek and i were. derek s daughter sydney was born in april of 1998 and instantly derek smyer had to be an adult. he dropped out of high school so that he could get a full-time job. and even though he wasn t making much, he was still doing what he could to support that baby. that changes your life. that does change your life. and that forestalls a lot of your options. absolutely, absolutely but derek, he was a hardworking guy. in 2002, the year after crystal died, derek smyer had another daughter with the same woman. if i fall, all this footage is being deleted. for the most part he wasn t a
brother growing up. as young, child he was my best friend. when we reached high school, he was more of a protector for me. i was really quite in school. but everyone knew who derrick smyer was. he had your back? he had my back and there was no doubt if anything happened he would be there to take care of me. so she when she heard police were interviewing her brother about a murder, she questioned him herself. i asked derek, what is this? he said, i don t know. he what happened. so he didn t say so he didn t say he knew anything about crystal taylor s death? he did nothing about krystal taylor s death. it sounds to me like your fixated on their pretty early. he was one of our top three. because remember, we re looking at the sun s father. we ve got her love interest on enough guy, dino. and we re looking at now derek. how did javonte you s react when you told him crystal had been murdered? his reaction was shock. he was shocked. and her boyfriend dino was
would go back to his ill-temperedness and his kind of monstrous ways. 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. i was afraid of what it was going to do to me mentally the second time. i was afraid for myself. nevertheless, michelle mustered the courage to take the stand and testify to seeing the alleged gunman c-styles, in their apartment complex the day before her sister s murder. what did you say to the defendant mr. moore? i told him that he startled me and i asked him what he what was he doing there? the jury also heard from chavonna hall, in middle school at the time, now an adult, who said she still 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.