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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...

Im satisfied with that. >> reporter: chris wright is serving a sentence of 15 to life. he is preparing an appeal, hoping for a new trial. and david novak? hes not been charged with or accused by the police of anything. though whether or not authorities want to talk to him is less clear. you know where he is? >> i dont know where he is, no. >> reporter: are your people trying to track him down? >> well part of the rules im constrained by is i dont speak with ongoing investigations or the existenc...

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 mans fortune wasnt really his, strictly speaking. he married into the bulk of it. the fortune came from a company his wife founded with her former husband. the divorce had been nasty. family loyalties bitterly divided. and some family members werent the least bit happy that ken was making investment decisions. detective carriger contac...

This phone message. >> hey, ken, this is robert. i talked to dave. he said when you get to -- >> reporter: detectives traced the cell and went to the store where someone bought it. >> this phone was purchased with cash with no identifying information provided to the carrier. >> reporter: but the family did have a suggestion for the detectives, something they actually agreed on. he should look carefully at a man named david novak. yes, that david novak. remember novaks consulting business for pri...

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 alibi at the time of the murder. >> reporter: but those initial interviews...

No clue who he was meeting with. turns out, she was not telling the truth. >> hello? >> you have a call from an inmate. >> hello? >> hi, honey. >> its standard procedure for prisons to record inmates phone calls. this is ken talking to his wife, dee, night before his murder. >> im actually meeting with my friend tomorrow at 7:00 a.m., go figure that out. >> i love it. >> yeah, exactly. so tomorrow morning, 7:00 a.m., so tomorrow night i should know more. >> police confronted dee in prison. recor...

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 with the crime. once they have somebody, theyll stop looking and thats how you can really get away. >> and now, novak had taken off. and even though their questions didnt amount to hard evidence, of course, chri...

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. >> i was just, like, brilliant, you know, we now, you know, they go away, they do their thing, they come back and i get my husband back. coming up -- chris wright makes his ...

Dolizar 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. >> ken, this is robert. we should get together pretty soon here. >> detectives traced the prepaid cell from which the call came and went to the store where someone bought it. >> this phone was purchased with cash, with no identifying information provided to the carrier. >> but the family did have a suggestion for the detective. something they actually agr...

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 from an inmate. >> hello? >> hi, honey. >> its standard procedure for prisons to record inmates phone calls. this is ken talking to his wife, dee, night before his murder. >> im actually meeting with my friend tomorrow at 7:00 a.m., go figure that out. >> ...