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With novak after chris arrest. >> turned out he was probably fishing for information. >> reporter: it reminded friend john fife of a conversation with novak one night after they dined together. john posed a question. he said, mostly in jest, of course, just hypothetical -- >> i said, david, have you ever contemplated committing the perfect murder? and he said yes. the key element to that is making sure that someone is caught and charged for the crime. once they have somebody, theyll stop looking...

What i saw and i know who i saw. >> reporter: except there is one person who said he is most certainly sure lee carlson is mistaken. chris wright himself. >> i will answer any question you want to ask. >> reporter: chris was jailed right after his arrest. he wanted to make his case to "dateline" in the flesh but authorities wouldnt allow it so we talked on the phone. >> so you say you didnt do it? >> i absolutely did not do it. >> reporter: we discussed all the allegations at length. he offered ...

The time of his murder. when she first talked to police, she told them she had no idea her husband had a meeting the morning of his murder. no clue who he was meeting with. turns out, she was not telling the truth. >> hello? >> you have a call from an inmate. >> hello? >> hi, honey. >> reporter: its standard procedure for prisons to record inmates phone calls. this is ken talking to his wife dee before his murder. >> im actually meeting with my friend tomorrow at 7:00 a.m., go figure that out. >...

>> 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. they take everything apart. >> reporter: a ballistics report told police the murder weapon was a 9 millimeter handgun. chris was an avid collector of guns and among them police ...

Welcome back to "dateline" extra. im craig melvin. in the search for kens killer, police believed all clues pointed to one man, his business associate chris wright. chris was arrested and charged with murder and soon damning new evidence would emerge, linking him directly to the crime scene. but for his wife bianca, the pieces of this elaborate puzzle simply did not fit. was it possible chris was being framed? if so, why? here again is keith morrison. >> straight times around the lake. so shocki...

Welcome back. ken dolezal was dead. chris wright was on trial for his murder already david novak was on the move. despite evidence pointing to chris, his wife and friends from the building believe novak was the real killer. had chris been framed for the crime as he claimed? we reached out to both the defendant and novak for answers and one of them wanted to share his story with us. here with the conclusion of our story is keith morris. >> chris wrights murder trial began april 2010. it had been ...

Im really -- im a girl. >> reporter: and you werent interested. >> no. so dull. >> reporter: fall came to salt lake city. leaves yellowed and fell. the economic crisis started toward them like a low black cloud. as a businessman ken dolezsar, chris wright and novak began and continued their hustle and flow. but the storm bearing down on them was loaded not with economic ruin but something else entirely. >> i couldnt believe it. no one -- everyone, all of our friends. we sat there. we couldnt mov...

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 tension of dee mowers family. odd, all of it. the feeling to them that something was missing, that the case against chris simply didnt hold together. so as chris trial finally got under way, bianca felt her husband was as good as home. >> it was just like brilliant, you know? they go away, ...

About to leave, he showed him the photo from the store. >> he said thats chris wright, my neighbor, he lives two floors below. >> his good friend and husband of the irreplaceable bianca. >> this is definitely somebody we want to talk to. >> carriger arrived unannounced and almost before he could ask a question, he said, chris launched into a story about ken dolezar, claimed the man was so paranoid he wanted the man to buy a prepaid cell phone so he could communicate in complete privacy. to carri...

Know why the police didnt seem to follow up on that or probe more deeply into all that tension of dee mowers family. odd. all of it. the feeling, to them, that something was missing. that the case against chris simply didnt hold together. so as chris trial finally got under way, bianca felt her husband was as good as home. >> i was just, like, brilliant, you know, we now, you know, they go away, they do their thing, they come back and i get my husband back. coming up -- chris wright makes his ...