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On the other side of the court, michelle youngs bereaved mother and sister wept. fiona at home got the news from a friend. they said, "hes guilty." i was like, "what? what?" >> reporter: jason young received a life sentence. chose not to address the court. even as the bailiffs led him away, he remained expressionless. the prosecutors were, they told us, relieved. >> i was very emotional. you have family members there who youve been working with for 5 1/2 years. and they finally had justice, you ...

Challenge the evidence. it made a provocative claim, that chris wright was the victim of a conspiracy. a conspiracy hatched right here in the loft by former neighbor david novak to protect the real killer by setting up chris to take the fall. a conspiracy the prosecution brushed off as nonsense. >> you would have to believe, for it not to be chris wright, that it was somebody that looked like chris wright, sounded like chris wright, had the phone bought by chris wright, used the gun bought by ch...

Odd. then as the interview went on, he said, chris voice began to sound familiar. the voice mail that police believed help lure ken to his death. >> hey, ken, this is robert. >> reporter: to me, that was chris voice on that phone. >> reporter: the detectives pulled out a search warrant. bianca was home when the police arrived. >> its surreal. theyre like roving gangs of toddlers who are ripping everything apart. they took apartment the sofa and took out the lining. they took apart my toaster. th...

With "suspicion." strange times around the loft building in downtown salt lake. so shocking that one of their own chris wright had been arrested and charged with killing wealthy businessman ken dolezsar. >> all the evidence that we obtained led up to chris wright being the triggerman. >> reporter: in the suv ken drove to his fatal morning meeting, for example. the killer used that vehicle to flee the scene. and when the cops found it and scoured the interior, they got a hit. chris dna. >> we h...

His friends still coming to terms with it. >> and i just think, what if, all the fun we could have had if he hadnt been taken. >> >> reporter: until now, the investigation seemed to be going nowhere. then as detective carriger was about to leave novaks apartment he showed novak the surveillance photo from that cell phone store. >> he looked at it and said, thats chris wright. hes my neighbor. he lives two floors below. >> reporter: chris wright, his good friend and husband of the irrepressible b...

Was there shell casing or anything in that gun case? >> reporter: turns out the guns manufacturer includes a test-fired shell casing with each gun it sells. so the detective went to the evidence locker, he said, retrieved the gun case. >> looked inside and there was a casing. >> reporter: big moment. >> big moment. >> reporter: big moment because when ballistics tested that shell casing -- >> it was a match. that shell casing was fired from the same gun as the shell casings recovered at the scen...

Her accusation, the sandy police must have planted the shell casing in order to link chris missing gun to the crime scene. you think it would be hard for people to accept the idea that this detective would do something as unethical as plant evidence. >> it was not there. i know that. >> reporter: the sandy police department categorically denied the accusation. but as those loft friends heard more of chris wrights side of the story from bianca, they became convinced he was innocent. >> there were...

Everything, she said. and he assured her the mistake would soon be rectified. she believed him. >> i didnt want to be married to a murderer. i would not fool myself if there was a seconds doubt in my mind he did not do this. >> reporter: but some of their friends in the loft werent so sure. >> i started to feel sorry for her thinking, oh, my gosh, she poor, knee eve girl. youre going to be crushed by this. >> reporter: at the sandy, utah, justice center, the case that police turned over to the a...

So tomorrow morning 7:00 a.m. so tomorrow night i should know more. >> reporter: police confronted dee in prison. recorded the interview. in it she claimed the stress of losing her husband caused her to forget about that phone call. and then she dropped a bomb shell. she said she knew who the friend was ken was supposed to meet, and it wasnt chris wright. she never heard of him before. >> david novak. thats who i believe he was meeting. >> reporter: chris defenders wanted to know why the police ...

And fugy conditions in texas. foggy conditions over the holiday. winter storms bring snow that rockies and freezing rains in the upper midwest. now back to "dateline." ♪ welcome back to "dateline." chris wright was under arrest, charged with the murder. this would create a damming new discovery but for friends and family, just didnt fit. was it possible chris-been set up to take the fall for a crime he didnt commit? once again heres keith morrison