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Prisons are divided into “zones.” Inmates have been given personal protective equipment. Visitation is canceled. Testing has ramped up. Still, the positive COVID-19 cases continue to climb within Virginia prisons. The Virginia Department of Corrections reported on Dec. 10 that there are 593 active cases among inmates and 227 among staff, which includes employees and contractors. There have been over 5,200 positive COVID-19 cases and 35 deaths reported among inmates since late March. M...

As Virginia prison systems see spikes in COVID-19 cases, advocates question the safety of inmates and why the virus has spread so quickly in prisons.

News. >> dropped down to his knees, and he said its that [ bleep ] derrick. >> reporter: a moment of unguarded grief and rage and thus a possible suspect. derek mower, kens adult step-son. >> it was apparent there were difficulties between those two. >> reporter: but trouble in the family didnt stop with derrick. >> there seemed to be a riff. >> reporter: but not between dee and ken. theirs seemed to be a genuine love story. but now a grieving dee told detectives she was as baffled about the mur...

Photo, he said, jarred something in his mind. >> i was 80 to 90% certain that this was the man that i saw. >> reporter: then he found a picture of chris on the web and tried photo shopping in a few details, like the wig. >> i looked at that and said that looks almost like what i saw. >> reporter: reinforcing a memory, but was the memory accurate? as for the rest of the case, the investigation wasnt over yet. the story just begun. the first puzzle pieces placed where they seemed to fit. but -- >>...

Quirky. she brought that playfulness out in chris. >> he was a positive guy before. he was ecstatic after. >> reporter: though it was threw, blind, passionate love that drove bianca to give up her whole life back in england to move here to utah to be with chris, where six months after that first moment they laid eyes on each other, they were married. >> he made me feel very safe. >> reporter: her protector and incurable romantic. >> this is a guy who cries always through romantic movies. >> repo...

Would soon be rectified. she believed him. >> 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 assistant district attorney seemed clear. >> the evidence...

And their video, there is no sign of a springfield armory 9 millimeter. >> i lost stuff constantly. it was a bone of contention between christopher and i. >> reporter: while the prosecution scoffed at biancas lost gun story, her loft friends did not. >> if you knew sweet bianca, she accidentally threw her gorgeous wedding ring away. we had to dig it out of the garbage. i was standing there. she can be an absent-minded dingbat. >> reporter: but remember the day police searched the loft? >> they t...

Assistant. the night before the murder she said ken got a call on his cell. >> she knew that he had set up a meeting to meet with whoever he was talking to at 7:00 a.m. on the 15th. >> reporter: the day and time at which ken dolezsar was shot to death. was the caller also the killer? if so, they now had his voice because earlier that caller left this phone message. >> hey, ken, this is robert. i talked to dave. he said when you get to -- >> reporter: detectives traced the prepaid cell from which...

Yet they found an empty gun case in chris and biancas apartment, but nothing to connect the case to the murder. 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. >> l...

The building seemed to be living large in those good old premeltdown days when into the mix was introduced a new ingredient. a businessman with real money. it was noefb ak, said bianca, who did the introductions. >> christopher had an office about two or three blocks from here. and there was a starbucks i had always went to. and he went over there and novak was there with ken dolezsar and he introduced them. >> reporter: ken dolezsar lived in a wealthy enclave just south of salt lake city. a ver...