Page 78 - Christopher Wright News Today

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 was exceptionally strong in this case. it all kept pointing in the direction of mr. wright. >> reporter: there was the surveillance photo, the voice message which was placed from a spot near the loft according to cell tower tracking and the eyewitness. hed been shown a photo lineup with chris in it and now he remembe...

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 extra dollop. the mans fortune wasnt really his, strictly speaking. he married into the bulk of it. the fortune came from a company his wife founded with her former husband. the divorce had been nasty. family loyalties bitterly divided....

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. now, long after the event, the eyewitness was saying the killer had brilliant blue eyes but right after the murder -- >> i cant tell eye color but his eyes seemed more bulgy. >> reporter: he got more and more refined in each interview with the police. >> reporter: brilliant blue eyes? >> of course you can see brill...

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: his protector and incurable romantic. >> this is a guy who cries always through romantic movies. he cries like a baby from the start to the finish of that movie. anything romantic -- really? are you serious? >> reporter: it didnt take lon...

That novak paid chris wright $25,000 to kill ken dolezar. novak didnt 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 in the case. back in the loft some imagined the worst about their former friend and neighbor. >> what would you advi...

And we were astounded. i remember saying to him, what? 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. >> reporter: he claimed to be their great friend, sociable, gregarious, larger than life. then said neighbors once chris was arrest head seemed nervous. and now he was gone. and so they wondered, was david novak running from something? the loft friends began re-examining all the stories david told them over the years...

Novak. do they i would the prosecutors evidence or biancas explanations, her alibi for chris? >> i was concerned because id been told that sometimes it can be a crap shoot was the phrase that was used. >> reporter: the jury deliberated for 11 hours. and the invested? guilty. >> i cant even begin to expl n explain -- the bottom pulled out of your world. and he wouldnt let me hug him. sorry. give me a sec. >> its all right. take your time. >> crying is not acceptable. >> why is that? >> because im...

Police believe both men came here in the victims car, which the shooter then used to flee the scene. as for the victim, you heard the name by now -- ken dolezsar, the extremely wealthy local investor. >> my daughter called me just bawling. she told me kens been shot, and hes dead. wow. >> reporter: matt beaudry considered ken dolezsar to be one of his closest friends. they founded and coached a college hockey team together. ken wasnt just a wealthy businessman. he was deeply concerned for the bo...

Friends, grew out of 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 pre-meltdown days when into the mix was introduced a new ingredient. a businessman with real money. it was novak, said bianca, who did the introductions. >> christopher had an office about two or thr here. and there was a st...

David novak to protect the real killer by setting up chris to take the fall. a conspiracy the prosecution brushed off as nonsense. >> youd 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, and had a connection to ken dolezar, to find that it wasnt chris wright. >> reporter: all of that, claimed chris defend, the clever novak ...