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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 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,

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 and pinning it on chris? >> theres one person that bragged about knowing russian mafia. >> how hard would it be to find somebo...

Losing stuff. >> 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 ma...

>> you would 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, had a connection to ken dolezsar to find that it wasnt chris wright. >> reporter: but all of that claimed chris defense the clever novak was quite capable of setting up. >> he could have it set from start to finish. >> reporter: like a chess move 20 moves ahead....

>> reporter: and out in suburban sandy, utah, the case still resonates around the shiny new courthouse. where ada josh player struggled with his emotions a bit as he told us hes sure he did not send an innocent man to prison but rather achieved justice for everyone. >> i was glad for the family of the victim. >> reporter: you take this stuff to heart, dont you? >> i do. i do. >> reporter: and while they stand on opposite sides of that chasm between innocence and guilt, theres no dispute about th...

Be a crap shoot was the friz that was used. >> reporter: the jury deliberated for 11 hours, and the verdict -- guilty. >> i cant even begin to explain. its like the bottom falls out of your world. and they wouldnt let me hug him. you know. sorry. just give me a sec. >> reporter: thats all right. take your time. >> crying is not acceptable. >> reporter: and why is that? >> because im english. >> reporter: but for kens friends, at least matt beaudry, the verdict was vindication. >> he looks like a...

>> 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, they do their thing and they come back and i get my husband back. coming up -- ch...

>> 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 always went to. and he went over there and novak was there with ken dolezsa...

So now it was that morning, 7:00 a.m., november 15th, 2007. >> 911. what is the address of your emergency? >> reporter: detective dean caringer was on the freeway when his radio went off. >> i heard there was an actual shooting. >> reporter: thats my department. >> thats where i need to get busy. >> reporter: he had the address, the parking lot of the village inn restaurant, in a town called sandy, his town. >> it was a very violent scene. the victim was shot five times. the fifth shot was done ...

>> 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...