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>> reporter: but if law enforcement was mum about kevin novak, ken dolezsar's widow is not. out of prison since 2008, dee mower has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against novak. a suit that alleges a third theory that novak paid chris wright $25,000 to kill ken dolezsar. novak didn't answer the suit, nor attend the proceeding. so in 2011, it was breach of contract and she was granted $11,000. in march of 2012, it was a motion to dismiss the conspiracy claims so a final judgment could be entered in the case. back in the loft, some imagined the worst about their former friend and neighbor. what ...

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 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...

Unguarded grief and rage and thus a possible suspect. derrick mower, ken's adult stepson. >> it was apparent there were difficulties between those two. >> reporter: but trouble in the family didn't 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 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 even though their questions didn't amount to hard evidence, 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 ken's 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 from an inmate. >> hello? >> hi, hon...

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 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. >> 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 novak'...