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Detective williams, who ran the name through a gang database and discovered, unfortunately, there was more than one c-styles. >> there's big c-styles, there's a little c-styles. >> reporter: eventually williams found a c-styles who'd been on probation at the time of the murder. >> our first goal was to identify the connection between the c-styles and crystal taylor. any gang affiliation, any relatives? was he a boyfriend, ex-boyfriend? the sisters say no. her friends say no. there's no evidence to support that they even knew each other. >> although maybe they knew each other and she didn't tel...

There is no nobility or honor in killing a lady who's pregnant. >> someone who is innocent. >> yes. >> not somebody in the life. >> right. it goes in line with building our resume. so if your resume as a gangster is that i go out and i put in work for my gang, including killing, including robbery, well, eventually you'll have to prove that, okay, when was the last time you killed somebody? last time you did a robbery? well, this is his advertisement by taking claim for, yeah, i shot these guys. i shot this guy. i killed him. but i wouldn't do her. i wouldn't kill her. >> reporter: detective wi...

Been a big, happy, close family kind of splintered? >> yeah. >> reporter: c-styles was convicted of the gang murder he had admitted to. his sentence -- life in prison. and crystal taylor's murder remained officially unsolved. the sisters were sure c-styles had pulled the trigger. but they were sure of something else, too. c-styles had no reason to kill their sister. someone put him up to it. and they thought they knew who that someone was. coming up -- >> he did this to crystie. he did this to all of us. >> and he got away with it. >> the chilling clue that crystal had given her family. >> y...

That's a fact, but it's more true than not. >> if somebody is up and working at 7:00 or 7:30 in the morning, they -- >> their paths just wouldn't cross. not normally. not a hardcore serious type of person like a c-style. >> reporter: 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 suddenly confessed to a different murder of a rival gang member. i don't do this for a living, but he wasn't even being charged with that, and you weren...

>> they're alleging multiple conversations, planning, without any proof of where, when, how. there's no emails between moore and smyer. there's no text messages. there's no phone calls. >> reporter: the defense portrayed derek as a man who loved his children. not one who would try to have them murdered. >> there's mr. smyer again in the hospital holding his baby. and i think it's important when you're looking at this case that you evaluate his expression on his face in these photos. proud father or killer? >> reporter: not only was derek smyer innocent of crystal's murder, said the defense. ma...