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That already knew him, had met him, particularly someone as cautious as ken. >> you have a deeply paranoid man ken dolezsar who is doing business with christopher and has met him. you dont think if christopher got into the car all wigged up that he would think that that was slightly strange? >> reporter: and if the eyewitness was right, the killer shot with his right hand. >> christopher is staggeringly left-handed. >> reporter: staggeringly left-handed. then there was the business of eye color....

Against david novak on grounds of conspiracy, breach of contract and fraud. a suit that alleges a third theory that novak paid chris wright $25,000 to kill ken dolezsar. novak has yet to answer the suit, nor attend the proceeding. so in november 2011, a judge granted a default judgment on the breach of contract and fraud claims and awarded mauer $7 million. in august 2012, the court granted her a motion to dismiss the wrongful death and conspiracy claims so that a final judgment could be entered...

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...

The fifth shot was done while the shooter was standing over top of him and shot him in the face. >> reporter: yeah. oh. >> the shooter was making sure he was dead before he left. >> reporter: cold, methodical, like a professional hit. yet amazingly, somebody was sitting in a car maybe six feet away, watched the whole thing. ordinary guy minding his own business. now eyewitness to a brutal slaying. the mans name was lee carlson. >> the hand came up, reached inside of his pocket, out came a gun. a...

>> reporter: that prepaid cell phone was the very clue that led police to chris. a phone which chris bought, said bianca, after novak assured him -- >> novak said that this guy routinely used these throw-away phones. >> reporter: whats more, chris could not have left that voice mail because, by the time of the murder, she says, hed given the phone away. >> he gave it to novak. >> reporter: and novak gave it to dolezsar. >> yes, yes. as far as we know. but novak, so we dont know anything. >> repo...

With the police. >> reporter: brilliant blue eyes? >> of course you can see brilliant nordic blue eyes from the side. >> reporter: what about chris suspiciously missing handgun, the one linked to the crime? bianca says she is certain chris did not use it to kill ken dolezsar that morning. impossible, she said, because he no longer had it. >> that gun i lost back in the summer. >> reporter: i lost? >> yeah. >> reporter: you just lost a gun? >> i have a horrible habit of losing stuff. >> reporter:...

Never saw the mysterious david novak. so, did they buy the prosecutors evidence or biancas explanations, her alibi for chris? >> i was concerned because id been told that sometimes it can be a crapshoot, was the phrase that was used. >> reporter: the jury deliberated for 11 hours, and the verdict -- guilty. >> i cant even begin to explain. its like the bottom falls out of your world. and he wouldnt let me hug him. you know. sorry. just give me a sec. >> reporter: thats all right. take your time....

In the loft by former neighbor david novak to protect the real killer by setting up chris to 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. >> reporter: but all of that cl...

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 course, just hypothetical -- >> i said, david, have you ever contemplated committing the perfect murder? and he said yes. the key element to that...

>> reporter: at the loft building in downtown salt lake, the news rocketed from floor to floor. after all a couple of residents including biancas husband were doing business with dolezsar. >> it felt like rubber necking in a car crash. wow, somebody you knew could be murdered. >> reporter: who could want a man as nice and generous as ken dolezsar dead? but then its almost a truism of police work where money goes trouble often follows. the more money, the bigger the trouble. and in this case, an ...