Man orders hit on pregnant girlfriend who refused to get abortion
Murder
A Los Angeles jury on Saturday convicted a soon-to-be-father of hiring a hitman to murder his girlfriend and unborn child. Prosecutors alleged that Derek Smyer, 36, was responsible for the 2001 contract killing of his pregnant girlfriend at the time, 27-year-old Crystal Taylor, because she wouldn’t have an abortion, the Mirror reports. Jurors found Smyer …