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And just about then -- >> the sergeant for the district attorneys office just happened to call me and ask, hey, did you ever look in that gun case? was there shell casing or anything in that gun case? >> reporter: turns out the guns manufacturer includes a test-fired shell casing with each gun it sells. so the detective went to the evidence locker, he said, retrieved the gun case. >> looked inside and there was a casing. >> reporter: big moment. >> big moment. >> reporter: big moment because whe...

>> certainly not full truths. >> reporter: the brief stint for mail fraud, turned out there was more to that story, a lot more. novak confessed to a con that played out like a cinematic thriller. he ran an insurance scam. then as it caught up with him, 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 bel...

>> reporter: but what stood out most was his hair, long, tied in a ponytail, looked out of place, like a wig. before the shooting, said lee, he heard the mans voice, sounded eastern european, maybe slavic. police believe both men came here in the victims car, which the shooter then used to flee the scene. as for the victim, you heard the name by now -- ken dolezsar, the extremely wealthy local investor. >> my daughter called me just bawling. she told me kens been shot, and hes dead. wow. >> repo...

Suspiciously missing handgun, the one linked to the crime? bianca says she is certain chris did not use it to kill ken dolezsar that morning. impossible, she said, because he no longer had it. >> that gun i lost back in the summer. >> reporter: i lost? >> yeah. >> reporter: you just lost a gun? >> i have a horrible habit of 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....

Federal prison. >> reporter: tax fraud. kens wealthy wife dee was david novaks client. thats why ken dolezsar knew david novak. so detectives drove over to the loft where they spoke with mr. novak. >> he was soft spoken. >> reporter: and a bright man. >> he came across as very intelligent, yes. >> reporter: answered all the questions but didnt seem to be of much help. then as detective carriger was preparing to leave, he tried one more question. that prepaid cell phone, the one someone used to i...

I think she brought that playfulness out in chris. >> he was a positive guy before. he was ecstatic after. >> reporter: it was true, blind, passionate love that drove bianca to give up everything she had known her whole life back in england and move here to utah to be with chris, where six months after that first moment they laid eyes on each other they were married. >> he made me feel very safe. >> reporter: her protector and incurable romantic. >> this is a guy who cries always through romanti...

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 in the downtown loft building, he showed novak the surveillance photo from the cell phone store. >> he looked at it and said, thats chris wright. hes my neighbor. he lives two floors below. >> reporter: chris wright, his good friend and hus...

>> i just looked at him going. >> reporter: would chris wear a wig to a meeting with someone that already knew him, had met him, particularly someone as cautious as ken. >> you have a deeply paranoid man ken dolezsar who is doing business with christopher and has met him. you dont think if christopher got into the car all wigged up that he would think that that was slightly strange? >> reporter: and if the eyewitness was right, the killer shot with his right hand. >> christopher is staggeringly ...

Who wanted to document their uniquely american experience. and their video, there is no sign of a springfield armory 9 millimeter. >> i lost stuff constantly. it was a bone of contention between christopher and i. >> reporter: while the prosecution scoffed at biancas lost gun story, her loft friends did not. >> if you knew sweet bianca, she accidentally threw her gorgeous wedding ring away. we had to dig it out of the garbage. i was standing there. she can be an absent-minded dingbat. >> reporte...

>> reporter: it stands in stark contrast to much of the rest of salt lake city, this old chocolate factory, this grand stage for 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. outliers of a sort, iconoclasts in this famously mormon city. >> i loved this building. >> reporter: bianca pearman-brooks, born into privilege in england, raised in ireland and africa. she came here in 2006 to visit a friend. ...