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>> i started to feel sorry for her thinking, oh my gosh, you poor naive girl. you know, youre going to be crushed by this. >> at the sandy, utah, justice center, the case that police turned over to josh player then the district attorney seemed very clear. >> the evidence was exceptionally strong in this case. it all kept pointing in the direction of mr. wright. >> there was the surveillance photo, the voice message which was placed from a spot near the loft according to cell tower tracking and t...

>> hey, ken, this is robert. >> to me, that was chris voice on that phone. >> the detectives pulled out a search warrant. bianca was home when the police arrived. >> its surreal. you have, like roving gangs of toddlers who are ripping everything apart. they turned our sofas upsidedown and took apart the lining. they took apart my toaster. they take everything apart. >> a ballistics report told police the murder weapon was a .9 millimeter handgun. chris was an avid collector of guns and among the...

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. >> its standard procedure for prisons to record inmates phone calls. this is ken talking to his wife, dee, night before his murder. >> im actually meeting with my friend tomorrow at 7:00 a.m., go figure that out. >> i love it. >> yeah, exactly. so tomorrow morning, 7:00 a.m., so tomorrow night i should know more. >> police confronted dee in prison. recor...

>> 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 so many parts of the puzzle that were not adding up. >> unless, they reasoned, unless someone they knew very well wanted chris to take the fall. a dark suspicion wafted through the corridors of that old chocolate factory. perhaps the police, they said, arrested the wrong neighbor. >> he had t...

>> they spoke sometimes and they had contacts back and forth. 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 zoel czar, chris wright and novak began 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,...

Welcome back to "dateline extra." im craig melvin. in the search for ken dolezars killer, they believed it pointed to chris wright, arrested and charged for murder. soon, damning new evidence would emerge linking him directly to the crime scene. 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. >> strange times around the loft building in downtown salt lake. so shocking that one of the...

Suit, has not shown up for a theyve asked for a default judgment. back in the loft, his friends imagine the worst about their former friend and neighbor, the missing david novak. what would you advise him to do if you could talk to him? >> talk to you guys, tell the story. >> if you have nothing to hide. >> refute me. tell me why what im saying is not correct. we used to be friends. im more than willing to hear what you have to say, david. >> reporter: so where is he? turned out david novak wasn...

Evidence locker, he said, retrieved the gun case. >> looked inside and there was a casing. >> big moment. >> big moment. >> 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 scene where ken dolezar was killed. >> chris wrights missing gun must have been the murder weapon. now the case looked very strong, indeed. though chris wife, bianca, certainly didnt think so. >> i know for cer...

Welcome back. friends in the salt lake city loft building mulled over the dark suspicions swirling through their hallways. chris wright was in jail awaiting trial, but many residents were now convinced police had the wrong wan. they believed investigators should be looking at another neighbor. one who was about to make a startling move. here, again, is keith morrison. >> among residents of the downtown salt lake loft, an idea took root around the story of the murder of ken dolezar. it was plante...

>> 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 chris wright, had chris wrights dna, had a connection to ken dolezsar to find that it wasnt chris wright. >> reporter: but all of that claimed chris defense the clever novak was quite capable of setting up. >> he could have it set from start to finish. >> reporter: like a chess move 20 moves ahead....