had ever met novak, the man has a byzantine mind. reporter: she recalls all those supportive chats she had with novak after chris arrest. turned out he was probably fishing for information. reporter: it reminded friend john fife of a conversation with novak one night after they dined together. john posed a question. he said, mostly in jest, of course, just hypothetical i said, david, have you ever contemplated committing the perfect murder? and he said yes. the key element to that is making sure that someone is caught and charged for the crime. once they have somebody, they ll stop looking, and that s how you can really get away. reporter: and now novak had taken off. and even though their questions didn t amount to hard evidence, of course, chris defense attorneys wondered as they
quirky. she brought that playfulness out in chris. he was a positive guy before. he was ecstatic after. reporter: though it was threw, blind, passionate love that drove bianca to give up her whole life back in england to move here to utah to be with chris, where six months after that first moment they laid eyes on each other, they were married. he made me feel very safe. reporter: her protector and incurable romantic. this is a guy who cries always through romantic movies. reporter: it didn t take long for bianca to become firmly entrenched in loft living. academics, airline pilots, physicians,, documentary filmmaker, olympic speed skater, mortgage broker, socialites. reporter: john fife, an
had ever met novak, the man has a byzantine mind. reporter: she recalls all those supportive chats she had with novak after chris arrest. turned out he was probably fishing for information. reporter: it reminded friend john fife of a conversation with novak one night after they dined together. john posed a question. he said, mostly in jest, of course, just hypothetical i said, david, have you ever contemplated committing the perfect murder? and he said yes. the key element to that is making sure that someone is caught and charged for the crime. once they have somebody, they ll stop looking, and that s how you can really get away. reporter: and now novak had taken off. and even though their questions didn t amount to hard evidence, of course, chris defense attorneys wondered as they prepare fofrd the trial, why the
advertising copywriter was one of the first to buy in the building. this building was a fantastic collection of interesting people. 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. 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 personality fit his apparently oversized professional accomplishments. investor, restaurateur, owner of an extremely unusual consulting firm whose sole specialty was preparing wealthy clients for, 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 gu
always through romantic movies. he cries like a baby from the start to the finish of that movie. anything romantic really? are you serious? reporter: it didn t take long for bianca to become firmly entrenched in loft living. . academics, airline pilots, fgtss, documentary filmmaker, olympic speed skater, mortgage broker, socialites. reporter: john fife, an advertising copy writer was one of the first to buy in the building. this building was a fantastic collection of interesting people. 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.