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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 tension of dee mowers family. odd, all of it. t...

Died after a stretched limo slammed into a parked suv on the way to a birthday party. over 200 families temporarily reunited at the u.s. border with mexico. that event called hugs not walls allowed relatives to see each other for just a few minutes without worrying about their immigration status. for now, back to "dateline." s for now, back to "dateline." welcome back to "dateline ." im craig melvin. chris wright was under arrest, charged with the murder of his business associate ken dol...

>> so where is he? turns out david novak was not so hard to find after all. here he is near his last known post loft address in an up scale neighborhood. does not look like a man on the run, justn a guy getting coffe withy his wife at starbucks. he just did not answer calls or e-mails from his former loft friends and he did not want to talk. he was telling us over the phone he was not involved by kens murder and cleared by police and anyone said otherwise is a liar and liable to be sued. bring i...

>> almost as if he was trying to account for things we knew. >> reporter: i see. odd. then as the interview went on, he said, chris voice began to sound familiar. the voice mail that police believed help lure ken to his death. >> hey, ken, this is robert. >> 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. you have -- theyre like roving gangs of toddlers who are ripping everythin...

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 so many parts of the puzzle that...

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 david novak continued their hustle and flow. but the roiling 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. "dateline" returns a...

And just about then -- >> the sergeant for the district attorneys office just happened to call me and ask, hey, did you ever look in that gun case? was there shell casing or anything in that gun case? >> reporter: turns out the guns manufacturer includes a test-fired shell casing with each gun it sells. so the detective went to the evidence locker, he said, retrieved the gun case. >> looked inside and there was a casing. >> reporter: big moment. >> big moment. >> reporter: big moment because whe...

Investigations. >> ken doyles widow was not. her suit alleged a third theory that novak paid chris wright $25,000 to kill ken dozier. in government of 2011, a judge granted a default judgment on the breach of contract on fraud claim and awarded him of $7 million. the court granted her a motion to dismiss the wrongful death and the claims. back in the loft, some imagined the worst about their former friend and neighbor. >> what woiuld you advise him t do if you can talk to him? >> talk to you guy...

>> why is that? >> because i am english. for kens friend, at least the verdict was vindication. >> he looks like a smugged ki k. >>il chris wright was sentenced into 15 years to life and he requested a new trial. david novak has not been charged of or accused of anything. whether authorities want to talk to him is not clear. >> do you know where he is? >> i dont know. d >> are your people trying to trackr him down? >> part of the rules that i am constraint by is i dont speak of ongoing investiga...

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 below. >> reporter: chris wright, his good friend and hus...