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And when the cops found it and scoured the interior, they got a hit. chris dna. >> we had a dna result from the inside door handle of the suv. >> reporter: it was a tiny sample, not a perfect one, but it seemed to put chris in ken dolezsars car drivers side which certainly helped the case. but it wasnt quite air tight, not yet. the murder weapon had not been found. yet they found an empty gun case in chris and biancas apartment, but nothing to connect the case to the murder. and just about then ...

>> 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 identified christopher? >> no, no. >> reporter: that prepaid cell phone was the very clue tha...

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 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 patsy in christopher. coming...

Simply got up one day and 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 carriger was sure was left by chris, though no voice analyst ever studied it. >> people who are going to watch your show are going to listen to my voice and theyre going to listen to that recording, and i urge them to make their own decision. >> reporter: yeah, lets listen to it right now, all ri...

Casing. >> reporter: big moment. >> big moment. >> reporter: big moment because when ballistics tested that shell casing -- >> it was a match. that shell casing was fired from the same gun as the shell casings recovered at the scene where ken dolezsar was killed. >> reporter: chris wrights missing gun must have been the murder weapon. now the case looked very strong indeed. though chris wife bianca certainly didnt think so. >> i know categorically that christopher different do it. >> reporter: i...

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 remember he had a longer nose. and i cant tell eye color but his eyes seemed to be more bu...

>> 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....

>> 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 viable suspect, not even kens step-son. >> derrick had an ally buy at...

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 ...

John fife of a conversation with novak one night after they dined together. john posed a question. he said, mostly in jest, of course, just hypothetical -- >> i said, david, have you ever contemplated committing the perfect murder? and he said yes. the key element to that is making sure that someone is caught and charged for the crime. once they have somebody, theyll stop looking, and thats how you can really get away. >> reporter: and now novak had taken off. and even though their questions did...