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Voicemail because by the time of the murder, hed given the phone away. >> he gave it to novak. >> and novak gave it to dolezar. >> yes. yes. as far as we know. novak. so we dont know anything. >> and 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. really, was their old friend capable of orchestrating murder an...

Cleared. >> wait for him as long as you have to? >> yep. no problem. >> and out in suburban utah, the case still resonates around the shiny new courthouse where ada josh struggled with his emotions for a bit where he told us he is sure he did not send an innocent man to prison, but rather achieved justice for everyone. >> i was glad for the family of the victim. >> you take this stuff to heart, dont you? >> i do. i do. and while they stand on opposite sides between innocent and guilt, there is n...

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 hint. chris dna. >> we had a dna result from the inside door handle of the suv. >> it was a tiny sample, not a perfect one, but it seemed to put chris in ken dolezars car, drivers side, which certainly helped the case. but it wasnt quite airtight. not yet. the murder weapon had not been found. yet y yet, they found an empty gun case in chris and bianc...

About to leave, he showed him the fphoto from the store. >> he said thats chris wright, my neighbor, he lives two floors below. >> his good friend and husband of the irreplaceable bianca. >> this is definitely somebody we want to talk to. >> carriger arrived unannounced and almost before he could ask a question, he said, chris launched into a story about ken dolezar, claimed the man was so paranoid he wanted the man to buy a prepaid cell phone so he could communicate in complete privacy. to carr...

>> 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, ster certainly didnt think so. >> i know for certain categorically that christopher didnt do ...

Served a year in federal prison for mail fraud. >> but he was a type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into a fortune. >> so, most everyone in the building seemed to be living large in those good old pre-meltdown days and into the mix was introduced a new ingredient, a businessman with real money. it was novak, said bianca, who did the introductions. >> crihristopher had an officer about two, three blocks from here and there was a starbucks he always went to and he went over there and ...

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. >> i was just, like, brilliant, you know, we now, you know, the...

>> 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...

>> it you know sweet bianca, she accidentally threw her wedding ring away. she can be an absent minded dingbat. >> remember the day the police took apart her loft? >> they took apart my toaster. >> she watched intently as the officer looked in the empty .9 millimeter gun case. >> i was sitting next to her. >> no test fired gun casing, she said. >> i dont mean to sound cynical, but i know it wasnt there. >> only possible conclusion, said bianca, it was her accusation, the sandy police must have p...

Youve put all this money into your loft, youve got all this investment here, why are you leaving? he said, its just time to go. >> hed claimed to be their great friend, sociable, gregarious, larger than life. then said his neighbors, once chris was arrested, he seemed nervous. and now he was gone. and so they wondered, was david novak running from something? the loft friends began re-examining all those stories told them over the years, particularly those about his criminal past. >> started comp...