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Strange times around the loft building in downtown salt lake. so shocking that one of their own chris wright had been

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 bianca. >> this is definitely somebody we want to talk to. >> reporter: carriger arrived unannounced at chris office. almost before he asked a question, he sai...

And he went over there and novak was there with ken dolezsar and he introduced them. >> reporter: ken dolezsar lived in a wealthy enclave just south of salt lake city. a very nice guy by all accounts with a big extended family and money to invest. truckloads of money. hed already loaned novak 1.85 million to make a movie about his prison consulting business. and soon ken and chris began working on a real estate deal. >> they spoke sometimes and they had contacts back and forth. im really -- im a...

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 had a dna result from the inside door handle of the suv. >> reporter: it was a tiny sample, not a perfect one, but it seemed to put chris i...

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 assistant district attorney seemed clear. >> the evidence was exceptionally str...

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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...

It was almost a month after the murder of ken dolezsar. 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 in the downtown loft building, he showed novak the surveillance photo from the cell phone store. >> he looked at it and said, thats chris wright. hes my neighbor. he lives two floors b...

Chris wright was arrested and charged with the murder of ken dolezsar. >> it was a matter of disbelief. he was being taken out of the blue and for no reason. >> reporter: the loving husband who cried his way through romantic comedies, a cold blooded assassin? impossible. it quite literally wasnt possible, said bianca, for chris to have killed ken dolezsar that morning. he had an alibi. >> he was in the loft. i was there. >> reporter: he was at home, in bed, with her. >> he was a foot from me. th...

>> 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 didnt seem to follow up on that or probe more deeply into all that t...