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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. and pointed at the other man right in the face and pulled the trigger. >> reporter: here at the police station lee told how he ducked out of sight after that first shot. but not before he got a glimpse of the shooter. >> as far as i can...

For chris to have killed ken that morning. 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 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 a...

>> reporter: before chris ever met ken dolezsar, she took some visiting british friends on a shooting excursion to the great salt lake. they finished at sunset. >> and i put down in little gun, this springfield on the ground right next to the bag, and i went to help somebody with something else. >> reporter: then she got distracted she said, packed up the rest of the gear, went home. and neither she nor chris ever saw that gun again. biancas proof the gun was missing? this video made just over a...

The time of his murder. when she first talked to police, she told them she had no idea her husband had a meeting the morning of his murder. no clue who he was meeting with. turns out, she was not telling the truth. >> hello? >> you have a call from an inmate. >> hello? >> hi, honey. >> reporter: its standard procedure for prisons to record inmates phone calls. this is ken talking to his wife dee before his murder. >> im actually meeting with my friend tomorrow at 7:00 a.m., go figure that out. >...

>> 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 murder as they were. >> she was not able to provide us any information as to who he was meeting that day or anything about his day. >> reporter: and despite all that friction, the infighting over money and control, dees family produced not a single viabl...

>> reporter: to me, that was chris voice on that phone. >> reporter: the detectives pulled out a search warrant. bianca was home when the police arrived. >> its surreal. theyre like roving gangs of toddlers who are ripping everything apart. they took apartment the sofa and took out the lining. they took apart my toaster. they take everything apart. >> reporter: a ballistics report told police the murder weapon was a 9 millimeter handgun. chris was an avid collector of guns and among them police ...

Verdict was vindication. >> he looks like a smug killer. and then a jury of his peers listened to all the evidence, and with that weighty choice, decided that he was. im satisfied with that. >> reporter: chris wright was sentenced to 15 years to life. hes filed an appeal requesting a new trial. and david novak has not been charged with or accused by the police of anything. though whether or not authorities want to talk to him is less clear. >> you know where he is? >> i dont know where he is, no...

Fingerprints that did not match chris. nor did bianca buy lee carlsons story. >> he said that the guy had an eastern european accent. christopher is american born and bred. he said that hed only seen a glimpse of his face. >> reporter: in fact, said bianca, the eyewitness account more properly eliminated chris as a suspect. all agreed, remember, that ken and his killer arrived together in the same car. but think about it, said bianca. >> i just looked at him going. >> reporter: would chris wear ...

Welcome back. just outside salt lake city, not far from the loft building that was home to an impressive lineup of artists and entrepreneurs, ken was gunned down in front of a building. but who would want to do that? they started following clues, one that would lead right back to the chocolate factory. once again, keith morrison. it was almost a month after the murder of ken dolezsar. his friends still coming to terms with it. >> and i just think, what if, all the fun we could have had if he h...

>> this is just too cloak and dagger for a jury. >> i understand how difficult it is to believe. but the alternative is that i just simply got up one decided to go shoot some poor person in a disguise. >> reporter: chris wanted to talk about that voice mail. the one that helped lure ken to his death. the voice mail detective carragher was left by chris though no voice analyst studied it. >> the people are going to watch your show, are going to listen to my voice, are going to listen to that reco...