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Missing. chris wright was arrested and charged with the murder of ken dolezsar. >> it was a matter of disbelief. he was being taken out of the blue and for no reason. >> reporter: the loving husband who cried his way through romantic movies an assassin? impossible. it was impossible said bianca. he had an alibi. >> he was in the loft. i was there. >> reporter: he was in bed with her. >> he was a foot from me. theres no room for doubt. >> reporter: this surely had to be a colossal misunderstandin...

>> reporter: it stands in stark contrast to much of the rest of salt lake city, this old chocolate factory, this grand stage for our story. it was converted to loft apartments in those boom years before the bust. and the style of living and location drew a distinct crowd. outliars of a sort, iconoclasts to the mormon city. >> i loved this building. >> reporter: bianca pearman-brooks, born into privilege in england, raised in ireland and africa. she came here in august 2006 to visit a friend. >> ...

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. the feeling to them that something was missing, that the case against chris simply didnt h...

Advertising copywriter was one of the first to buy in the building. >> this building was a fantastic collection of interesting people. >> reporter: none more so than perhaps the buildings most gregarious and outsized personality -- david novak. >> he was so nice and entertaining and funny and charming. >> its impossible not to be charmed by david. i adore the man. >> we were, i would say, basically best friends here in utah. >> reporter: davids huge person personality fit his apparently oversize...

Off the bat under the full stress of what i saw, but i know what i saw and i know who i saw. >> reporter: except there is one person who said he is most certainly sure lee carlson is mistaken. chris wright himself. >> i will answer any question you want to ask. >> reporter: chris was jailed right after his arrest. he wanted to make his case to "dateline" in the flesh, but authorities wouldnt allow it so we talked to him on the phone. you say you didnt do it. >> i absolutely did not do it. >> rep...

Christopher didnt do it. >> reporter: in fact the police and prosecutor had it all wrong, he insisted. it wasnt just that chris had an alibi for the morning of the murder, she said the whole case, it was all wrong. chris dna in the car, of course it was there. chris admitted hed been in the car, but weeks before the murder. but get this, the steering wheel especially and all of the car was covered with dna and fingerprints that did not match chris. nor did bianca buy lee carlsons story. >> he sa...

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 he showed novak the surveillance photo from that 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 husband of the irrepressible bianca. >> this is definitely...

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: before chris ever met ken dolezsar, she took...

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 the puzzle that were not adding up. >> reporter: unless, they reasoned, unless someone they knew very well wanted chris to take the fall. the dark suspicion wafted through the corridors of that old chocolate factory. pe...

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....