Page 154 - Chris Wright News Today

Court that pointed his finger at chris wright. >> i am certain and clear of what iai saw. i may not have told it right off the bat under the full stress of what i saw but i know what i saw. >> except one person who says hes mostly sure, lee carlson, is mistaken, chris wright himself. >> chris was jailed after his arrest, he wanted to make his case to "dateline" but authorities would not allow it. >> so you said you didnt do it. >> we d discussed all allegatio at lengths and some at his own. >> w...

Chris defense did more than challenge the evidence he made a provacative claim that chris wright was a victim of conspiracy protecting the real killer by setting up chris to take the fall. a conspiracy thats brushed off as nonsense. >> you would have to believe thats not chris wright and somebody that looked like him and sounded like him and used the gun like chris wright and had his dna. all of that claims chris defense that novak was capable setting up. >> like a chess game. that that did not ...

>> i didnt want to be married to a murderer. i would not fool myself if there was a seconds doubt in my mind he did not do this. >> reporter: but some of their friends in the loft werent so sure. >> i started to feel sorry for her thinking, oh, my gosh, she poor, naive girl. youre going to be crushed by this. >> reporter: at the sandy, utah, justice center, the case that police turned over to the josh play erk, the then assistant district attorney, seemed clear. >> the evidence was exceptionally...

And he introduced chris from the very beginning with that in mind of setting chris up. >> i know it sounds like a really dumb movie, but if you had ever met novak, the man has a byzantine mind. >> reporter: she recalls all those supportive chats she had 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 c...

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. and when the cops found it and scoured the interior, they got a hit. chris dna. >> we had a dna result from...

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 the eyewitness. hed been shown a photo lineup with chris in it and now he remembered some details a little differently than he had that first traumatic day. like chris blue eyes in the...

That said he is most certainly sure that lee carson is mistaken. chris wright himself. >> i will answer any question that you want to ask. chris was jailed after his arrest and he wanted to make his case to deadline in the flesh but authorities would not allow it. >> you said you didnt do it. >> absolutely did not do it. >> he offered the allegations of his own. >> we are asked to believe that the police were incompetent and definitely crooked. that david novak is crooked and the only person tha...

>> 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 certain categorically that christopher didnt do it. >> in fact, the police and prosecutor had it all wrong, she insisted, an...

Im satisfied with that. >> reporter: chris wright is serving a sentence of 15 to life. he is preparing an appeal, hoping for a new trial. and david novak? hes not been charged with or accused by the police of anything. though whether or not authorities want to talk to him is less clear. you know where he is? >> i dont know where he is, no. >> reporter: are your people trying to track him down? >> well part of the rules im constrained by is i dont speak with ongoing investigations or the existenc...

>> he faked his death in order to avoid insurance audit. that was not a crime of passion. that was a crime of calculation. >> or so the loft friends believed, and if that was true, what might he have done here in salt lake? theyre suspicion only grew when the friends found out novak left town without mentioning it was he who fingered chris in that surveillance photo. >> did he ever tell you, i identified christopher as the guy who bought the cell phone? >> no. >> of course that prepaid cell phon...