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With suspicion. 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 the inside door handle of the suv. reporter: it was a tiny sample, not a perfect one, but it seemed to put chris in ken dolezsar s car driver s side which certainly helped the case. but it wasn t quite air tight, not yet. the murder weapon had not been found. yet they found an empty gun case in chris and bianca s apartment, but nothing to connect the case to the murder. and just about then the sergeant for the district attorney s office just happened to call me and ask, ....
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 bianca s 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. reporter: but remember the day police searched the loft? they took apart my toaster. reporter: she was focused like a laser that day, said bianca, watching intently, she said, as an officer looked in the empty 9 millimeter gun case. i was sitting beside her. reporter: no test fired shell casing, she said. i don t mean to sound cynical, but i know it wasn t there. reporter: only possible conclusion, said bianca, it was ....
Floor. after all a couple of residents including bianca s husband were doing business with dolezsar. it felt like rubber necking in a car crash. wow, somebody you knew could be murdered. reporter: who could want a man as nice and generous as ken dolezsar dead? but then it s 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 man s fortune wasn t 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 weren t the least bit happy that ken was making investment decisions. detective carriger contacted ken s brother and broke the news. dropped down to his knees, and he said it s that [ bleep ] derrick. reporter: a moment of unguarded grief and rage and thus a possible suspect. derek mower, ken s adult step-son. it was a ....
Lawsuit against novak. a suit that alleges a third theory that novak paid chris wright $25,000 to kill ken dolezsar. novak has yet to answer the suit, has not shown up for a single hearing. these attorneys claim they can t find him. they ve asked for a default judgment. back in the loft, his friends imagine the worst about their former friend and neighbor, the missing david novak. what would you advise him to do if you could talk to him? talk to you guys, tell the story. if you have nothing to hide. refute me. tell me why what i m saying is not correct. we used to be friends. i m more than willing to hear what you have to say, david. reporter: so where is he? turned out david novak wasn t so hard to find after all. in fact, here he is near his ....
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 the inside door handle of the suv. reporter: it was a tiny sample, not a perfect one, but it seemed to put chris in ken dolezsar s car driver s side which certainly helped the case. but it wasn t quite air tight, not yet. the murder weapon had not been found. ....