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Our story. it was converted to loft apartments in those boom years before the bust. and the style of living and location drew a distinct crowd. >> i loved this building. it was fabulous. >> born into privilege in england, raised in ireland and africa, she came here in august 2006 to visit a friend. >> i came on holiday and i met christopher and we just hit it off. >> christopher wright, a real estate developer lived in the same building and there was a party and bianca was invited. in one night ...

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 three blocks from here. and there was a starbucks he always went to. and he went over there and novak was there with ken dolezsar and he introduced them. >> reporter: ken dolezsar lived in a w...

Collection of interesting people. >> reporter: none more so than perhaps the buildings most gregarious and outsized personality -- david novak. >> he was so nice and entertaining and funny and charming. >> it is impossible not to be charmed by david. i adored the man. >> we were, i would say, basically best friends here in utah. >> reporter: davids huge personality fit his apparently oversized professional accomplishments. investor, restaurateur, owner of an extremely unusual consulting firm who...

Of course, chris defense attorneys wondered as they prepared for the trial, why the police had so readily dismissed novak as a suspect. dismissed him and a few other puzzling discoveries, like the one about kens widow dee. remember, she was in prison at 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 fr...

Recorded the interview. in it she claimed the stress of losing her husband caused her to forget about that phone call. and then she dropped a bomb shell. she said she knew who the friend was ken was supposed to meet, and it wasnt chris wright. 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. t...

Said ken got a call on his cell. >> she knew that he had set up a meeting to meet with whoever he was talking to at 7:00 a.m. on the 15th. >> reporter: the day and time at which ken dolezsar was shot to death. was the caller also the killer? if so, they now had his voice because earlier that caller left this phone message. >> hey, ken, this is robert. i talked to dave. he said when you get to -- >> reporter: detectives traced the prepaid cell which the call came and went to the store where someo...

>> almost as if he was trying to account for things we knew. >> reporter: i see. odd. then as the interview went on, he said, chris voice began to sound familiar. the voice mail that police believed help lure ken to his death. >> hey, ken, this is robert. >> 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. you have -- theyre like roving gangs of toddlers who are ripping everythin...

Must have planted the shell casing in order to link chris missing gun to the crime scene. you think it would be hard for people to accept the idea that this detective would do something as unethical as plant evidence. >> it was not there. i know that. >> reporter: 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...

And he said its that [ bleep ] derrick. >> reporter: a moment of unguarded grief and rage and thus a possible suspect. derrick mower, kens adult step-son. >> it was apparent there were difficulties between those two. >> 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 a...

This was the man that i saw. >> reporter: then he found a picture of chris on the web and tried photo shopping in a few details, like the wig. >> i looked at that and said that looks almost like what i saw. >> reporter: reinforcing a memory, but was the memory accurate? as for the rest of the case, the investigation wasnt over yet. the story just begun. the first puzzle pieces placed where they seemed to fit. but -- >> i never had a case this complicated before. >> reporter: oh, even more than c...