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He had an ally buy. >> he was in the hoft loft. i was there. >> reporter: he was in bed with her. >> he was a foot from me. theres no room for that. >> reporter: this surely had to be a colossal misunderstanding. bianca sought support from her neighbors including david novak, her only friend with intimate knowledge of the legal system. he comforted you? >> he was brilliant, yeah. he would ask me how everything was going and what was happening with christopher and whether our attorneys were doing...

>> reporter: christopher wright, a real estate developer lived in the same loft building as biancas friend. there was a party in the building, bianca was invited. in one night you knew? >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: to anyone watching, it was an obvious perfect match. friends and loft neighbors dave and lisa mccammon. >> bs so lovely and kind of quirky. she brought that playfulness out in chris. >> he was a positive guy before. he was ecstatic after. >> reporter: though it was threw, blind, passio...

Of all thing, prison. >> he was hired to help put their affairs into order before they went to prison, help educate the family on what was going to happen, get the best sentencing for him. >> reporter: that business grew out of personal experience. he himself was a felon. served a year in federal prison for mail fraud. >> but he was the type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into fortune. >> reporter: so most everyone in the building seemed to be living large in those good old premeltd...

Who wanted to document their uniquely american experience. 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. >> reporte...

>> so, most everyone in the building seemed to be living large in those good old premeltdown days when into the mix was introduced a new ingredient, a business man with real money. it was novak who did the introductions. >> christopher had an office about two or three blocks from here. and there was a starbucks he always went to and he went over there and novak was there with ken dolezsar and he introduced them. >> ken dolezsar lived in a wealthy enclave, a nice guy by all accounts, with a big e...

Her accusation, the sandy police must have planted the shell casing in order to link chris missing gun to the crime scene. you think it would be hard for people to accept the idea that this detective would do something as unethical as plant 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...

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 comedies, a cold blooded assassin? impossible. it quite literally wasnt possible, said bianca, for chris to have killed ken dolezsar that morning. he had an alibi. >> he was in the loft. i was there. >> reporter: he was at home, in bed, with her. >> he was a foot from me. th...

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

At the crime scene in the same car. but think about it, said bianca. >> i just looked at him going. >> reporter: would chris wear a wig to a meeting with someone 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,...

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. >> 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. perhaps police, they said, arrested the wrong neighbor. >> he had the perfect pa...