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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. 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. >...

Remember, she was in prison at 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. >> 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., ...

Now back to dateline. 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 damaging new evidence would emerge linking him directly to the crime scene. but for his wife bihonka the pieces of this elaborate puzzle simply did not fit. was it possible chris was being framed? if so, why? here again is keith morris. >> strange times around...

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 chris wright, had chris wrights dna, had a connection to ken dolezsar to find that it wasnt chris wright. >> but all of that claimed chris defense the clever novak was quite capable of setting up. >> he could have it set from star...

What i saw but i know what i saw and who i saw. >> 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. >> 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 to him on the phone. you say you didnt do it. >> i absolutely did not do it. >> we discussed all the allegations at length. he offered details and ...

>> 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 dolezsar 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 categorically that christopher didnt do it. >> in fact the ...

She never heard of him before. >> david novak. thats who i believe he was meeting. >> 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 th...

Seemed to be going nowhere. then as detective carriger was about to leave novaks apartment he showed novak the surveillance video from that cellphone store. >> he looked at it and said, thats chris wright. hes my neighbor. he lives two floors below. >> chris wright, his good friend and husband of the irrepressible bianca. >> this is definitely somebody we want to talk to. >> carriger arrived unannounced at chris wrights office. almost before he asked a question, he said, chris launched into a st...

The voice mail that police believed help lure ken to his death. >> 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. theyre like roving gangs of toddlers who are ripping everything apart. they took apart the sofa and took out the lining. they took apart my toaster. they take everything apart. >> a ballistics report told police the murder weapon was a 9 millimeter handgun....

Of course, chris defense attorneys wondered as they prepared for the trial, why the police had so readily dismissed novak as a suspect. dismissed him and a few other puzzling discoveries, like the one about kens widow dee. remember, she was in prison at 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 fr...