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A hearing in open court to try to determine exactly how this had happened. he wanted all the citizens of new orleans to see. >> at the hearing, attorneys questioned the key prosecutors involved with thompsons case including jim williams, the man with the little electric chair on his desk. a colleague testified that williams was given the blood results, but williams denied it. >> williams story is that he never received it, that he never saw it, and so at the end of the day, the choice is between...

So were saying he can get away with murder? what makes him so special? the only thing he was hiding behind, a district attorney badge. >> unfortunately, the thomas opinion is the law of the land and it gives me great concern. >> make no bones about it, prosecutors are now a lot less accountable for what they do, because they know that if they dont produce evidence theres virtually no sanction for them or the office. >> john thompsons activism continues to sound the alarm against the supreme cour...

>> gypsy jillian willis? >> yeah. i mean, at first we had no idea we thought maybe it was a stripper. but anyway, my mom with that information, with the ladys name went to my dad and confronted him. >> martin denied everything, said alexis. and then the very next day he made a suggestion. >> my father came to my mom and told her that she needs a facelift. >> that is -- i mean, lots of women decide they want facelifts. >> yeah. >> but when their husband comes and says, you need one -- >> yeah. it...

From happening, and changed her plea. she admitted to first degree premeditated murder, even her own attorney was stunned. >> i believe morgan saw the hand writing on the wall. she realizes that whatever actions she took, resulted in his death and resulted in shappell killing him. >> steve was sentenced to 40 to 80 years. and morgan, life without parole. for the mengele family, there was finally some justice, they said, in knowing morgan will remain behind bars forever. >> i want her to be in ja...

They expanded their investigation. >> my sister put a blog up and was asking anyone with any information about my father to contact her. we discovered he had had so many different affairs. there were a lot of things that came out. >> with their aunt linda, they took all of the information that they had gathered on martin and brought it to the authorities. >> pushing and pushing to get them to investigate. >> the local police had never investigated micheles death as a crime, not from the very fir...

Supposed to talk to the police, i know that. but everybody does, dude. you know that. >> youre told from when theyre young kids, you know, "snitches get stitches." and you dont talk to the police. so when they finally break that barrier and they come and you open the floodgates, they have a tendency to talk then. and all the things that bothered them when they were in the life begin to come out. >> and thats what happened here? >> yes. >> bit by bit, c-styles started to talk. turns out, that was...

The conversation chan -- turned into "dont worry about him." "dont worry about him helping with the baby." >> reporter: they thought thats all it was, derek didnt want to help raise his child. now they replayed that moment over and over. >> we shouldve said, "wait, what did he sa -- what did he say to you?" but instead of that we were like, "we dont need him. like, just hang up. dont even talk to him." you know, that kind of just -- >> yeah, thats exactly what we said. >> showing her the kind of...

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 ...

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...

>> reporter: even so, the sisters were still afraid to face him at the preliminary hearing. tough to be in the courtroom and see him? >> oh, yeah. we were crying, as soon as we walked through the door in court, but we thought like, "oh, i dont know what im gonna do when i see him," you know, the shooter. >> im looking for this guy day and night. >> reporter: and then you see him -- >> im obsessed -- >> reporter: finally. >> -- with him. >> reporter: and hes in court right in front of you. >> and...