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Or it didn t sound bad enough. you re all kind of beating yourselves up for not listening to crystie s warning. exactly. even though it sounds to me like you would almost have to be a mind reader to know that she was really concerned. yeah. the years started to pass. and this family thought a lock about derek smyer. we crystal had said if something happened to her it was derek. they believed he was the only one who had something to gain from her death. as they had done with c-styles, michelle and monica now tried to find derek. i didn t know derrick s name. i thought his name was myers. and i was spelling derek the wrong way. and looking for him just forever. if they had managed to derek. they would ve found a guy who seemed to fit the profile of a color. he was doing well, says his sister danielle. he had gotten his bachelors degree in business. he had went on to start his own company. he was doing great. he was always happy. he was always in good spirits. he was drive ....
Second. the speed of justice is not nearly as fast. crystal taylor was killed september 25th, 2001. ten years later, her unsolved murder was still an open case. detectives believe that skylar more, aka c-styles was the person who shot her. but they didn t have enough evidence to try him. and they thought that the father of her unborn child might have been involved as well. but there was nothing linking him to see styles except for possibly the alleged trigger man himself and now l.a. sheriff s detectives, richard lopez and ben smith, where at a california prison sitting right across from c-styles. remember we had arrested you in that case where that woman was killed who was pregnant? in hawthorne? later there was that other murder? i need a little bit more ....
as opposed to just say, no, i didn t do any murder. i don t know who is. this i don t know what you re talking about. exactly. that seemed rather strange. but so did this, there was no obvious reason for c-styles to kill crystal taylor. true that if you re was warning about being a victim of gang violence, you re probably safest in the morning? because these guys will stay very late and roll out of bed until late morning or noon? i m not going to say that s a fact, but it s more true than not. if somebody is up and working at seven or 7:30 in the morning, they their path just wouldn t cross. not normally. not a hard-core serious type of person like a c-styles. so, was he the man in the parking garage? on that question, c-styles wasn t terribly helpful. but then he did something surprising. after staring at crystal s photo and floating theories about her killer, c-styles simply confessed to a different ....
Detail. you don t remember when we arrested you? usually people at least remember when i arrested them. nothing like that. c-styles was saying even less than he did back in 2001. so detective lopez gave it a try. he questioned a lot of gang members and he knew that sea styles had enemies in prison. you re 28 years old, and you re really tired looking over your back. because that s why you re in the whole. because you can t go in the main yard right? okay well, we re looking for some help in some cases. now one hand washes the other. if you tell us something that you remember, truthfully remember, and we can corroborate it. we can get you moved out of california. like, to wear though? arizona, illinois, tennessee. detective lopez assured c-styles that this wasn t your typical police interrogation. we didn t read to your miranda rights, right? so anything you say cannot be used against you. ....
Look at him, he thought the gang banger look familiar. you think the first time you saw derek smyer, you think he was with c-styles? yes, i think he was in the company of c-styles. so if you are right, they were hanging out together just a couple hours after the murder. yes. if only you have known. if only i had known. and now, a decade later, there was no way to prove who the man in the park might have been. and crystal is dead, c-styles serving time for another murder, and nothing s happening today. nothing is happening to derek that i can 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 are preferring that is this life? yes. maybe it was karma. maybe it was luck. maybe it was a good police work. but whatever it was, on june 15th, 2011, l. a. sheriff s detectives richard lopez and his partner beth smith, found ....