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>> but he was the type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into fortune. >> reporter: so most everyone in the building seemed to be living large in those good old premeltdown days when into the mix was introduced a new ingredient. a businessman with real money. it was noefb ak, said bianca, who did the introductions. >> christopher had an office about two or three blocks from here. and there was a starbucks i had always went to. and he went over there and novak was there with ken dolezsar and he introduced them. >> reporter: ken dolezsar lived in a wealthy enclave just south of salt la...

>> reporter: none more so than perhaps the building's most gregarious and outsized personality -- david novak. >> he was so nice and entertaining and funny and charming. this building is for the people who just really liked him. and i would count myself completely as one of them. >> it's impossible not to be charmed by david. i adore the man. >> we were, i would say, basically best friends here in utah. >> reporter: david's huge person tail fit his apparently oversized professional accomplishments. investor, restaurateur, owner of an extremely unusual consulting firm whose sole specialty was p...

As for the victim, you heard the name by now -- ken dolezsar, the extremely wealthy local investor. >> my daughter called me just bawling. she told me ken's been shot, and he's dead. wow. >> reporter: matt beaudry considered ken dolezsar to be one of his closest friends. they coached a hockey team together. he was deeply concerned for the boys on the team. >> i watched him pull out his wallet and slip money into the kids's pockets because he heard they needed tuition money, couldn't buy their books. >> reporter: now his friend, their friend, was dead. >> some of those kids just broke down and ...

To the mormon city. >> i loved this building. >> reporter: bianca pearman-brooks, born into privilege, raised in africa. she came here in 2006 to visit a friend. >> i came on holiday and i miss christopher and we hit it off. >> reporter: christopher wright, a real estate developer lived in the same loft building as bianca's friend. there was a party in the building, bianca was invited. in one night you knew? >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: to anyone watching, it was an obvious perfect match. friends and loft neighbors dave and lisa mccammon. >> b's so lovely and kind of quirky. she brought that pl...

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