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>> reporter: prosecutor danette meyers told jurors crystal's murder, and the attacks on derek's other girlfriend traci williamson, were no coincidence. >> he has a motive to do it because he doesn't want to have the kids. he doesn't want to pay child support. >> reporter: the prosecution claimed that while derek may have failed to stop traci from having her two children, he found the right man for the job of stopping crystal. his basketball buddy, c-styles. >> he's a gang member, he's a killer. and mr. smyer knew who to go to when he wanted crystal taylor taken care of. >> go right over there,...

Served. you feeling any better about the beginning of the second trial than you were at the beginning of the first trial? >> i did. i think because we kind of knew what to expect, we knew what they were going to say, we knew what we had. >> and what you didn't have. >> right. and we had hoped that, you know, whatever mistakes were made from the first trial they'd learn from them and prepared for them and do better. >> reporter: two big differences this time around. first, skyler moore, aka c-styles, was on trial along with derek. although each defendant had his own jury. and second, derek's ju...

>> she became so obsessed. it worried me how obsessed she was with -- and she would say, "he's not gonna get away with doing this to my baby sister." >> reporter: tia was afraid her mom and her aunt were putting their own lives in danger. >> i threatened to tell the police. like, "you guys are not supposed to be doing that. like, you guys don't have weapons. what are you going to do if -- what are you looking for, and then what are you gonna do if you find it?" >> reporter: but there's no arguing with success. michelle and monica's amateur detective work paid off. after showing the sketch arou...

As well. but there was nothing linking him to c-styles, except possibly the alleged triggerman himself. now detectives were at a prison sitting right across from c-styles. >> remember we had arrested you in that case where that woman was killed? that pregnant woman in hawthorne? later with that other murder preliminary hearing? >> um, just -- i need a little more 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'd questio...

Verdict on all counts. thank you very much. >> reporter: crystal's family was worried. they could only hope the jury believed c-styles' video confession, and not his recantation of it. the wait for a verdict was agonizing. >> that was painful. >> reporter: one day passed. then two. three days in. >> i'm nervous. i don't want to do this again. i can't do this again. it's not easy. >> reporter: then it was a week. then one week turned into two. >> i'm like i'm just praying. i just keep praying, no matter what i see or what i hear. i keep praying. >> reporter: every day the waiting was harder. th...