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He attempted to escape by faking his own death. ditched his airplane in puget sound. >> he faked his death in order to avoid insurance audit. that was not a crime of passion. that was a crime of calculation. >> reporter: or so the loft friends believed. and if that was true, what might he have done here in salt lake? their suspicion only grew when the friends found out novak left town without mentioning it was he who fingered chris in that surveillance photo. did he ever tell you that i identifi...

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 hold together. so as chris trial finally got under way, bianca felt her husband was as good as home. >> it was just like brilliant, you know? they go away, ...

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. >> reporter: but now a theory about motive drifted from loft to loft. hadnt novak borrowed almost 2 million from ken? the friends said they watched him spend lavishly on high living and never saw evidence of that movie the loan was supposed to pay for. but really, was their old friend capable of orchestrating murder a...

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, raised in africa. she came here in 2006 to visit a friend. >> i came on holiday and i miss christopher and we hit it off. >> reporter: christopher wright, a real estate developer lived in the same loft building as biancas friend....

>> 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 puzzle that were not adding up. >> unless, they reasoned, unless someone they knew very well wanted chris to take the fall. a dark suspicion wafted through the corridors of that old chocolate factory. perhaps the police, they said, arrested the wrong neighbor. >> he had t...

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 premeltdown days when into the mix was introduced a new ingredient. a businessman with real money. it was noefb ak, said bianca, who did the introductions. >> christopher had an office about two or three blocks from here. and there was a starbucks i had alw...

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 said the guy had an eastern european accent. christopher is american born and bred. he also said hed only seen a glimpse of his face. >> only saw a glimpse. >> in fact, said bianca, the eyewitness account more properly eliminated chris as a suspect. ken and his killer arrived in the crime scene together in the same car. think about it, said bianca. >...

>> and if the eyewitness was right, the killer shot with his right hand. >> christopher is staggeringly left handed. >> 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 -- >> cant tell eye color, but his eyes seemed to be more bulgy. >> he got more and more refined in each interview with the police. >> brilliant blue eyes. >> yes. of course, you can see brilliant ...

Possible, said bianca, for chris to have killed ken dolezar that morning. he had an ally. >> he was in the loft. i was there. >> he was home in bed with her. >> he was a foot from me. there is -- theres no room for doubt. >> this surely had to be a colossal misunderstanding. bianca sought support from her neighbors including david novak, he only friend with intimate knowledge of the legal system. >> he -- >> he comforted you. >> he was, yeah. he asked me how everything was going and what was hap...

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 the job they were supposed to. >> reporter: she told him everything, she said. and he assured her the mistake would soon be...