of all thing, prison. he was hired to help put their affairs into order before they went to prison, help educate the family on what was going to happen, get the best sentencing for him. reporter: that business grew out of personal experience. he himself was a felon. served a year in federal prison for mail fraud. 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.
building s most degre gra grega personalities. we were best friends here in utah. a huge personality fit his apparently oversized professional accomplishments. investor, restaurateur, owner of an extremely unusual consulting firm. the sole specialty was preparing wealthy clients for, of all things, prison. he was hired to help put their affairs in order before they went to prison, help educate the family what was going to happen, try to get the best sentencing possible for him. that business as david confessed to his loft friends grew out of personal experience, he himself was a felon, served a year in federal prison for mail fraud. but he was the type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into a fortune.
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 business man with real money. it was novak who did the introductions. christopher had an office about two or three blocks from here. and there was a starbucks he always went to and he went over there and novak was there with ken dolezsar and he introduced them. ken dolezsar lived in a wealthy enclave, a nice guy by all accounts, with a big extended family and money to invest. truck loads of money. he already loaned novak $1.8 million to make a movie about his prison consulting business and soon they began work on a real estate deal. they spoke sometimes and they had contracts back and forth, but i really i m a girl. you weren t interested. no. it was so dull. fall came to salt lake city,
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 detectives, something they actually agreed on. he should look carefully at a man named david novak. yes, that david novak. remember novak s consulting business for prison-bound executives? guess what? dee mower was incarcerated in federal prison. reporter: tax fraud. ken s wealthy wife dee was david
hour s top stories. president trump says he s holding off on declaring a national emergency for getting the money for the border wall, saying he would prefer to make a deal with congress. a snowstorm is being blamed for five road deaths in the midwest. the storm is now moving into the mid-atlantic region. now paback to dateline. r. now paback to dateline. welcome back to dateline . i m craig melvin. chris wright was under arrest, charged with the murder of his business associate ken dolezsar. the investigation would reveal a damming new discovery, evidence linking chris directly to the crime scene. but for his friends and family, the pieces of this complex puzzle just didn t fit. was it possible chris had been set up to take the fall for a crime he didn t commit?