i said, have you ever contemplated committing the perfect murder? and he said, yes. the key element to that is making sure that someone is caught. once i have somebody, they will stop looking and that s how you can get away. a cold blooded killing, a victim worth millions, and all kinds of conflicting clues. i ve never had a case is complicated before. police following multiple leads until we asked, who is that? he says he s my neighbor, he lives two floors below. a suspect under arrest. having someone you love just taken away. sorry.! case closed. where was that? could there be something else or someone else they must? there were so many parts of the puzzle that we re not adding up. someone had pulled the trigger. but had someone else pulls the strings? he was the type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into a fortune. hello. and welcome to dateline. they were neighbors living large and their salt lake city aloft building. a sophist
making sure that someone is caught. once they have someone they will stop looking and that s how you can get away. a cool blooded killing, a victim worth millions. all kinds of conflicting clues. i ve never had a case is complicated before. police following multiple leads until we asked, who is that? he says he s my neighbor, he lives two floors below. a suspect under arrest. having someone you love just taken away. sorry.! case closed. where was that? could there be something else or someone else they must? there were so many parts of the puzzle that we re not adding up. someone had pulled the trigger. but had someone else pulled the strings? he was the type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into a fortune. hello. and welcome to dateline. they were neighbors living large and their salt lake city aloft building. a sophisticated crowd who enjoyed mixing business with pleasure. then a murder revealed a phony in our midst. a man they claim
wright. had chris wright s dna and had a connection to ken dolezsar to find that it wasn t chris wright. but all of that claimed chris is defense that clever novak was quite capable of setting up. he didn t nailed from start to finish. like a chess game, somehow, 20 moves ahead? yes. that didn t explain lee carlson the smart and eyewitness who sat in court and pointing his finger at chris wright. i am very certain, very clear what i saw and i may not have told it initially right off the bat under legal stress of what i saw, but i know what i saw and i know who i saw. except, there is one person who said he is most certainly sure lee carlson is mistaken. chris wright himself. i will answer any question you want to ask. chris was jailed after his arrest.
since ken dolezsar was shot dead in the village in packing a lot in sandy, utah. chris s defense did more than challenge the evidence. it made a provocative claim, that chris wright was the victim of a conspiracy. it conspiracy hatched right here in aloft by former neighbor, david novak, to protect the real killer. setting up chris to take the fall. a conspiracy the prosecution brushed off as nonsense. you would have to believe for it not to be chris right that it was somebody else that looked like chris, sounded like chris wright, had the phone bought by chris wright. used the gun bought by chris wright. had chris wright s dna and had a connection to ken dolezsar to find that it wasn t chris wright. but all of that claimed chris is defense that clever novak was quite capable of setting up. he didn t nailed from start to finish. like a chess game, somehow, 20 moves ahead? yes.
connection to ken dolezsar to find that it wasn t chris wright. reporter: but all of that claimed chris defense the clever novak was quite capable of setting up. he could have it set from start to finish. reporter: like a chess move 20 moves ahead. yep. reporter: but that didn t explain the good samaritan eyewitness that sat in court and pointed his finger at chris wright. i m very certain and clear of what i saw. i may not have told it initially off the bat under the full stress of what i saw, but i know what i saw and i know who i saw. reporter: except there is one person who said he is most certainly sure lee carlson is mistaken. chris wright himself. i will answer any question you want to ask. reporter: chris was jailed right after his arrest. he wanted to make his case to dateline in the flesh, but authorities wouldn t allow it so we talked to him on the phone. you say you didn t do it. i absolutely did not do it. reporter: we discussed all the allegations