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The fifth shot was done while the shooter was standing over top of him and shot him in the face. >> reporter: yeah. oh. >> the shooter was making sure he was dead before he left. >> reporter: cold, methodical, like a professional hit. yet amazingly, somebody was sitting in a car maybe six feet away, watched the whole thing. 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. a...

Building in downtown salt lake, the news rocketed from floor to floor. after all a couple of residents including biancas husband were doing business with dolezsar. >> it felt like rubber necking in a car crash. wow, somebody you knew is murdered. >> reporter: who could want a man as nice and generous as ken dolezsar dead? but then its almost a truism of police work where money goes trouble often follows. the more money, the bigger the trouble. and in this case, an extra dollop. the dead mans vas...

A phone which chris bought, said bianca, after novak assured him -- >> novak said that this guy routinely used these throw-away phones. >> reporter: what more, said bianca, chris could not have left that voice mail, because by the time of the murder, she says, he had 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. had...

>> i didnt want to be married to a murderer. i would not fool myself if there was a seconds doubt in my mind he did not do this. >> reporter: but some of their friends in the loft werent so sure. >> i started to feel sorry for her thinking, oh, my gosh, she poor, naive girl. youre going to be crushed by this. >> reporter: at the sandy, utah, justice center, the case that police turned over to the josh play erk, the then assistant district attorney, seemed clear. >> the evidence was exceptionally...

He was being taken out of the blue and for no reason. >> reporter: the loving husband who cried his way through romantic comedies, a cold blooded assassin? impossible. it quite literally wasnt possible, said bianca, for chris to have killed ken dolezsar that morning. he had an alibi. >> he was in the loft. i was there. >> reporter: he was at home, in bed, with her. >> he was a foot from me. theres no room for doubt. >> reporter: this surely had to be a colossal misunderstanding. bianca sought su...

And he introduced chris from the very beginning with that in mind of setting chris up. >> i know it sounds like a really dumb movie, but if you had ever met novak, the man has a byzantine mind. >> reporter: she recalls all those supportive chats she had with novak after chris arrest. >> turned out he was probably fishing for information. >> reporter: it reminded friend john fife of a conversation with novak one night after they dined together. john posed a question. he said, mostly in jest, of c...

Dolezsar. it was planted just weeks after chris was arrested. loft residents dave and lisa mccammon were having dinner with their best friends the novaks. >> he announced were moving. and we were astounded. i remember saying to him, what? youve put all this money into your loft, youve got all this investment here. why are you leaving? he said its just time to go. >> reporter: he claimed to be their great friend, sociable, gregarious, larger than life. then said neighbors once chris was arrested,...

Strange times around the loft building in downtown salt lake. so shocking that one of their own chris wright had been arrested and charged with killing wealthy businessman ken dolezsar. >> all the evidence that we obtained led up to chris wright being the triggerman. >> reporter: in the suv ken drove to his fatal morning meeting, for example. the killer used that vehicle to flee the scene. and when the cops found it and scoured the interior, they got a hit. chris dna. >> we had a dna result from...

Categorically, that christopher didnt do it. >> reporter: in fact the police and prosecutor had it all wrong, he insisted. it wasnt just that chris had an alibi for the morning of the murder, she said the whole case, it was all wrong. chris dna in the car, of course it was there. chris admitted hed been in the car, but weeks before the murder. but get this, the steering wheel especially and all of the car was covered with dna and fingerprints that did not match chris. nor did bianca buy lee carl...

Turned over to josh player then the district attorney seemed very clear. >> the evidence was exceptionally strong in this case. it all kept pointing in the direction of mr. wright. >> there was the surveillance photo, the voice message which was placed from a spot near the loft according to cell tower tracking and the eyewitness. hed been shown a photo lineup with chris in it and now he remembered some details a little differently than he had that first traumatic day. like chris blue eyes in the...