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The park might have been. >> and crystal is dead. c-styles is serving time for another murder and nothing is happening to derek. >> nothing was happening to derek that i could see. but i'm a believer of karma. either in this life or the next. you're going to pay for what you've done wrong. >> i'm guessing you were preferring it was this life? >> yes. >> maybe it was karma. maybe it was luck. maybe it was good police work. but whatever it was, on june 15th, 2011, l.a. sheriff's detectives richard lopez and his partner beth smith found themselves at a northern california prison with a few hours ...

Really concerned about that. >> reporter: the d.a had his own concerns. the testimony of a schoolgirl, and the sister of the victim, didn't seem enough to convict. and that's about all the evidence they had. police never found any dna, fingerprints, or forensic evidence that linked c-styles to the garage of crystal taylor's apartment. and while they found a .38-caliber bullet lodged in crystal's brain, they never found the gun that fired it, let alone linked that gun to c-styles or anyone else. if c-styles went to trial and was acquitted, that would be the end of it. and so, rather than take t...

By 2011, for the taylor family, crystal's murder was an ugly scar that was never going to heal. >> we had almost stopped being as obsessed with it. >> but you still wanted answers. >> but we still wanted answer. >> reporter: then the phone rang. detectives shared the big news about their prison interview with c-styles. >> they said, "well, the shooter confessed." >> reporter: and told them it was derek smyer who put him up to it. >> reporter: in his confession, mr. styles said he saw another woman on the stairs and thought maybe that was crystie. that was you. >> uh-huh. and he said he conside...

Forward in the ukraine scandal on sunday. this time with firsthand knowledge of some of the allegations outlined in the original complaint. president trump denounced the new whistle-blower allegations on twitter. at least seven more people were killed in iraq amid ongoing anti-government protests bringing the death toll to 104. the demonstrators were gather forward the sixth consecutive day demanding jobs, better services and an end to corruption. now back to "dateline." sometimes the things people have to deal with after a loved one is murdered only intensify the agony. there was the bloo...

In improbable ways and end up happy. >> right. >> reporter: is what she wanted? >> yes. >> i know she wanted love. i know that she -- she wanted a fairytale life. i know she always talked about it, but, you know, she was happy with the life that she had. >> reporter: 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" in labor, like shaking the bed. >> reporter: crystal called her little boy javonte, against the wishes of the boy's father. >> he came in the room when we...