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Knew c-styles and thought he saw him loitering in the area. except, all those witnesses were afraid to testify in open court. against a known gang member. all except one, the school girl. who may not have known enough to be afraid. miss hall, who was a child essentially, when she saw someone running away of the scene at crystal taylor's murder. she was willing to testify? >> yes she was. >> but her family was hesitant. >> yes, her mom was really concerned about that. >> the da had his own concerns. let's test a phone mooney of a school girl and the victim of the sister, didn't seem enough to c...

But you didn't hear it. 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 nam...

Photo and floating theories about her killer, c-styles simply confessed to a different murder of a rival gang member. >> i don't do this for a living but, he was even being charged with that and you were even asking him about that. >> i didn't even know there was a murder. >> so why would he blew that out? >> you have to understand c-styles mentality. c-styles mentality is that there is no ability in killing the enemy. there is no nobility our honor in killing a lady who is pregnant. >> someone who's innocent? >> yes. >> not somebody in the life? >> right. because it goes right in line with bu...

>> the back seat of detective williams' police car. the woman derek saw was jana poletto, crystal's friend from work, who'd accompanied detective williams. derek said he saw her quite clearly. >> the look on her face was she was totally distraught, that's what he said. >> which gave detective lopez an idea. >> if he is that close to see that she is totally distraught, then she should have a pretty good look at who he was talking to. >> at the time no one had thought to show jana poletto a photo of c-styles, but now they did. and she said -- >> that's who derek was talking to in the park. >> th...

Michelle and monica couldn't resist going back to prowling the streets, looking for clues. cagney and lacey shift their focus to derek? >> we never thought he should get away with it. >> when the police said, "come in. we want to talk to you, we're going to reopen the case," i have a notebook now. i'm like, "oh smyers." so i wrote it down, and then i go back and i found, like, businesses they had. >> reporter: they also figured out where derek lived. you're regularly driving by his house? >> no, we were, you know, back on the job. making sure since the case was reopened, we, they had enough ev...