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I was standing there. she can be an absent-minded dingbat. >> reporter: but remember the day police searched the loft? >> they took apart my toaster. >> reporter: she was focused like a laser that day, said bianca, watching intently, she said, as an officer looked in the empty 9 millimeter gun case. >> i was sitting beside her. >> reporter: no test fired shell casing, she said. >> i dont mean to sound cynical, but i know it wasnt there. >> reporter: only possible conclusion, said bianca, it was ...

As far as we know. but novak, so we dont know anything. >> reporter: but now a theory about motive drifted from loft to loft. hadnt novak borrowed almost 2 million from ken? the friends said they watched him spend lavishly on high living and never saw evidence of that movie the loan was supposed to pay for. but really, was their old friend capable of orchestrating murder and pinning it on chris? >> theres one person that bragged about knowing russian mafia. >> how hard would it be to find somebo...

>> 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....

>> 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 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 move. it was like -- it was just unbelievable. >> what was so unbelievable? comin...

>> 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, they do their thing and they come back and i get my husband back. coming up -- ch...

>> 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, all of our friends. we sat there. we couldnt move. it was like -- it was just unbelie...

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 the puzzle that were not adding up. >> reporter: unless, they reasoned, unless someone they knew very well wanted chris to take the fall. the dark suspicion wafted through the corridors of that old chocolate factory. perhaps police, they said, arrested the wrong neighbor. >> he had the perfect patsy in christopher. coming...

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 scene where ken dolezsar was killed. >> reporter: 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 categorically that christopher different do it. >> reporter: i...

>> 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....

Strange times around the loft building in downtown salt 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.