I burst did in tears because that, to me, is a true example of humanity. Two families torn apart by one devastating crime. A young mom named Crystal Taylor murdered on her way to work, five months pregnant. This is breaking me. She gave her whole life just trying to raise me right. Being a mom is who she was. Police zeroed in on the man in her life. One, two, three of them. We were trying to found out who would have the motivation to do this. To help find crystals killer, her sisters would turn amateur detectives. I couldnt even sleep. I needed an answer. Bye that was my baby sister. The twist that stopped Everyone Cold . There had been another attack on another pregnant woman. She was assaulted and her neck was cut. Who is targeting moms to be . In this life for the next are going to pay for what youve done wrong. How does this happen . In the mega sprawl of los angeles county, the city of hawthorne occupies about 6 mi. 2. One of them, especially glamorous. For decades, local pride centered on the beach boys. They grew up here and quickly left. Nowadays, it is tech giants like spacex, with headquarters at the local airport, but the Heart And Soul of hawthorne was and is working families, strivers who stay close and look out for each other. This is a story about one of those families. They faced ups and downs like everyone else, and always worked through them together. Until one moment, one mormon morning, one bullet came to tear them apart. Growing up, sisters crystal, michelle, and Monica Taylor were always there for each other. We have this tradition of having a Family Support group. It was their mother, known as momo, who set the tone. I thought it was the most wonderful family there was. You know, my mom and i were best friends. My little sister and i were best friends so i thought life was great. I am the oldest, michelle is the middle and crystie is the baby and she was every bit the baby. She was my moms baby. Crystal taylor was the youngest by six years and both older sisters thought momo loves kristi a little extra. Spoiled her, too, say michelle and monica. She talked to her every day and as soon as she started talking to my mom she started talking like an eightyearold come all the time. Her niece remembers crystie is a romantic dreamer. She was just really down to earth happy to be at home watching movies or she would watch the same movie all the time and she would love love stories. Hope floats, ever after those of are all stories that have women who find love in improbable ways and end up with a happily ever after. I know she wanted a fairytale life. She always talked about it but you know, she was happy with the life that she had. 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 and labor and shaking the bed like what . Crystal called her little boy javonte, against the wishes of the boys father. He came in the room and we were in there and hes like i want his name to be junior and shes like and labor. Stop labor. No. She said well, no, because im not marrying him and if i get married to somebody else i dont want to have two juniors. So she made the decision she was having the baby that she was not going to be his wife. But that was crystie. She made a decision, there was no changing her mind. Wrapped in the big blanket of her family, crystal knew she and javonte would do just fine. We love babies. Strangers babies, anybody baby. Anybody say thats too young to be having a baby . No. We all had babies young. We still said it. It would still be said but it was always followed by your stuck in a finish school. You made your life harder but youre going to have this baby. Everybody finish school, started a career and raise their children on their own successfully. As javonte grew, crystie grew up. She really took care of her baby, went to work and like brought her lunch because she was never spending any money. If she went to the movies with her son, he knew not to ask for snacks. She would not spend any money. Money was for the important things like javontes education. She always talked about his promise when he goes to college, what she wanted him to do with his life and how she wanted him to be different so she took her job as a mother really seriously. By 2001, michelle, crystie, and their kids were living in two separate apartments in the same Apartment Building in hawthorne. Even moore lived there until her health began to fail and she moved to texas for her sisterinlaw, a nurse, could take care of her. But soon came word, momo is in bad shape. Come quick. That day was easy to remember. It was september 11th, 2001. They could not fly. No one in the u. S. Could, so they drove from hawthorne to texas. Crystie would not leave momo is side the entire time they were there. Shes like am sorry but i came here to see mom. She wasnt leaving her room, like she was just focused on her. And that worked. Your mom came around. Oh, yeah. After two weeks, the family drove back to los angeles, arriving in the middle of the night on september 23rd. Two days later, this family learned a difficult truth. No matter how much you love and how much you care, sometimes you cant help your loved one when harm is headed their way. Yes, i would like to report a gunshot. There is a woman laying on the floor in the garage. Soon after, a neighbor of crysties called tia with some brutal news. She had screamed the most harrowing screen. Coming up, a family in anguish. I broke down crying. I just cried myself to sleep that night. M, the first clues to the mystery. Whats going on here . That was her question. When dateline continues. Tio when dateline continues. Oooh i cant wait for this Family Getaway shingles doesnt care. 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It appeared that she may have suffered a Gunshot Wound to the head. Williams arrived and quickly sized up the scene. There were officers already trying to revive her. She is laying down in the lobby area of her Apartment Complex, at least from the upper stairs, which are the apartments and to the garage area and then we just start getting into the processing of the crime scene, making sure we identify as many witnesses and whether there are also other victims. But, the only obvious victim was crystal. She had been shot in the head. Paramedics took her to the hospital and Detective Williams got straight to work finding witnesses. This is early morning. There are kids walking to school, people preparing themselves for their day of work so a lot of people were out and a lot of people reported hearing a gunshot. A Father Making Breakfast for his kids looked out the Kitchen Window when he heard the shot. He saw a man running. An 11yearold girl on the sidewalk in front of the building also herded and saw a man holding a shining object. He jumped a fence and ran north. Anybody actually see the shooting . No, and no Surveillance Cameras captured it either. Was she rubbed . The evidence does not support a robbery. Her purse was still intact. The amount of time between someone hearing a shot and someone else seeing someone running away from the crime scene does not necessarily support a robbery. Was she sexually assaulted . No evidence supported that. Her clothes appeared to be intact. Was anything amiss in her apartment . No. It did not appear that there was a conflict, no sign of any physical confrontation. So, what is going on here . That was our question. It was the first of many questions Detective Williams would have. Crysties family was gathering at the hospital. Later, they would have questions, too, but right now, they were all in shock. I got there first. They were like, go in this room that was off to the side. I had already been to the hospital a lot with my mom so i know they took the family to a side room so i told them no, i dont want to go in there. I want to see about my sister, so then the doctor came out and he told me he was like well, she didnt make it. Im driving on the freeway and all of a sudden i just felt like she wasnt here. The news that they had lost their baby sister was unbearable. Crystal taylor was just 27. When i got in, michelle was on the floor. I tried to hug her. Now, they had to tell their ailing momo her baby was gone. When i had to call my mom and say somebody killed crystie, she screamed the most harrowing screen and i just know, this is going to kill mama, too. Theres nothing worse than burying your kids. No. When you are already so sick i remember when i was talking to my mom i was like dont believe me. Telling crystals 10year old son was even harder. We kind of sat next to him like javonte, your mom died. He crossed his arms like this and he just kind of leaned back. Your mom died. They did not say how. You will kind of shielded javonte from what had happened. Yes. We were older and cannot grasp what had happened to her, so why give it to him . So, in one day his whole world goes away. No mom, no more home, no more life as he knew it. He taught himself to like not even talk about it. Like he learned to just i dont know, he just sat down. Even now, javonte seems almost numb when talking about the worst day of his life. That day, i pretty much broke down crying. I cried myself to sleep that night. You remember that . Yes. Do you remember what she looked like . Yes. I heard you cant remember The Sound Of Her voice. Does that bother you . A bit, yes. This Family Tragedy would only get worse, because Crystal Taylor was not the only one killed by that bullet. Coming up , police drill down in the search for a suspect. 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Just a hardworking guy, was in a relationship with crystal on and off, and this is coming from the family and friends that knew about dino. And there was kaz woods, father of crystals 10yearold son, javonte. He was not helping with davon tate and there had been conflict over Child Support in the past. Crystal had obtained a court order requiring kenneth to pay go, so two possible leads and the third surfaced when williams went to crystals office. We get to her place of employment and spoke to several young ladies who identified themselves as being her friend and they are shocked that this has happened. They told him the day before she was killed, crystal received a phone call at work that seemed to upset her, and then they dropped a bombshell. That a, she was pregnant and b, the person she was pregnant by did not want her to be pregnant any longer. You couldnt tell she was pregnant when you saw her lying on the ground . I couldnt tell. In fact, she was five months 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 out everything about him right now. The detective learned crystal and derek had a quick sling that only lasted a month or so. They had met at Anderson Park which is near both their jobs. By now, it was lunch time. Derek was not in his office, so williams drove to the park, bringing the crystals work friends with him and one of them immediately noticed something. She points out a car that derek drives. s car was easy to spot. It had Vanity Plates that said my quit, slang for a fancy car, then crystals friend pointed out derek and detectives brought him in for a talk. What is your last name, sir . Do you have a middle name, derek . He freely answered your questions . He did not ask for an attorney . No. He never requested an attorney during my Interview Time with him. Was the last time you saw her that you can recall . The last time was not recently. I havent seen her, physically, and a couple of months. About two months. He discounted it as yeah, we were on and off really quick. Does derek offer any theory of what he thinks happened to crystal . At some point in the interview he talks about her being involved with other people. Sometimes she would say man, i wish this guy would stop