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
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,
she is quirky. she brought that playfulness out in chris. he was a positive guy before, he was ecstatic after. it was true blind passionate love that drove bianca to give up everything she had known her whole life back in england and move here to utah, to be with chris. where six months after that first moment they laid eyes on each other they were married. made me feel very safe. her protector and incurable romantic. this is a man who cries during romantic movies. the notebook . it didn t take long for her to become fully entrenched in loft living. the loft was full of incredibly creative people. academics, airline pilots, physicians, documentary filmmaker, olympic speedskater, mortgage broker, socialites. john fife, an advertisining copy writer was one of the first to buy into the building. it is a collection of interesting people. none more so than the
it was almost a month after the murder of ken dolezsar. his friends still coming to terms with it. and i just think, what if, all the fun we could have had if he hadn t been taken. reporter: until now, the investigation seemed to be going nowhere. then as detective carriger was about to leave novak s apartment in the downtown loft building, he showed novak the surveillance photo from the cell phone store. he looked at it and said, that s chris wright. he s my neighbor. he lives two floors below. reporter: chris wright, his good friend and husband of the irrepressible bianca. this is definitely somebody we want to talk to. reporter: carriger arrived unannounced at chris wright s office and almost before he could ask a question, chris launched into a story about ken dolezsar. claimed the man was so paranoid he wanted chris to buy a prepaid cell phone so they could communicate in complete privacy. to detective carriger the story