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Decision she was gonna have a baby but not gonna be his wife? >> that was christy, she made a decision. there was no change in her mind. >> wrapped in the blanket of her big family, crystal knew she and javonte would do just fine. >> we are some baby whispers in a sense. we love babies. strangers babies, anybody's babies. >> anybody say, too young to be having a baby? >> no, we all had babies young. >> we still said it. it was still be said. but it was also be followed by you're still going to finish school. your life isn't over. you made your bed harder, but you're going to lay in. and we're ...

Was shot? >> absolutely. >> the defense suggested javonte's father killed crystal. never mind that police had cleared him early on. derek's lawyer told the jury his client was an innocent man. >> but this tragedy, it will be compounded if you convict a person that is not involved. and i'm asking for a not guilty verdict on all counts. thank you very much. >> 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. >> one day passed. then two. three days in. >> i'm ne...

He was always happy. he was always in good spirits. he was driven. >> he still had that silver mustang convertible, with a custom plates, my wig. although monica initial never spotted the car, tia did. >> i stopped at a light and dark pulled up next to me in a car, top down, listening to music. i just felt like this was so unfair that it's a nice, sunny day and he's going on with life. it just tripped me out. like, this guy really just did this to my family. he did this to crystie, he did this to momo, to my mom, michelle javonte -- >> and he got away with. >> and he got away with. >> even det...

Innocent of crystal's murder, said the defense. maybe c-styles was too. there was no physical evidence placing him in that parking garage. maybe, they said, this wasn't a hit after all. >> several of the witnesses testify to hearing an argument. and then all of a sudden the argument ended, there was a pause, and a gunshot. it is absolutely inconsistent with a hired hit. >> if not a hit, then what happened? the defense had a theory. it involves this photo of crystal's son javonte, found near her body. >> it's obvious that miss taylor was holding that picture when she got shot. >> schneider wasn...

For snacks. she just wouldn't spend any money. >> money was for the important things like javonte's education. >> she always talked about his prom or when he goes to college, or what she wanted him to do with his life. and you know, how she wanted him to be different. she took her job as a mother really seriously. >> by 2001, michelle and crystie and their kids were living in separate apartments in the same apartment building in hawthorne. even momo lived there until her health began to fail and she moved to texas were her sister in law, a nurse, can take care of her. >> the soon came word mom...