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He was. i'm 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? he's 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 don't know where he is, no. >> reporter: are your people trying to track him down? >> well part of the rules i'm constrained by is i don't speak with ongoing investigation ors the existence of ongoing investigations. >> reporter: but if law enforcement is mum about david nov...

>> 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 control, dee's family produced not a single viable suspect, not even ken's step-son. >> derrick had an ally buy at the time of the murder. >> reporter: but those initial interviews weren't entirely in vain. a clu...

Supportive chats she had with novak after chris' arrest. >> turned out he was probably fishing for information. >> 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 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 for the crime. once they have somebody, they'll stop looking, and that's how you can really get away. >> and now novak had taken off. and even ...

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, honey. >> it's standard procedure for prisons to record inmate's phone calls. this is ken talking to his wife dee before his murder. >> i'm actually meeting with my friend tomorrow at 7:00 a.m., go figure that out. >> oh, i love it. >> yeah, exactly. so tomorrow morning 7:00 a.m. so tomorrow...

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 -- >> detectives traced the prepaid cell of 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 detectives, something they actually agreed on. he should look carefully at a man named david novak. yes, that david novak. remember ...