so we don t know anything. and now a theory about motive drifted from loft to loft. hadn t novak borrowed almost $2 million from ken? the friends said they watched him spend lavishly on high living and never saw evidence of that movie the loan was supposed to pay for. really, was their old friend capable of orchestrating murder and pinning it on chris? there s one person that bragged about knowing russian mafia. how hard would it be to find somebody that looked like chris, and he introduced chris from the very beginning with that in mind of setting chris up. i know it sounds like a just really dumb movie, but if you had ever met novak, the man has a byzantine mind. she recalls all the supportive chats she had with novak after chris arrest. turns out he was probably fishing for information. it reminded friend, john
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 felt very safe. reporter: his protector and incurable romantic. this is a guy who cries 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
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 with the crime. once they have somebody, they ll stop looking and that s how you can really get away. 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 prepared for the trial why the politician had so readily dismissed novak as a suspect. dismissed him and a few other quite puzzling discoveries like, for example, the one about ken s widow, dee. remember, she was in prison at the time of his murder. when she first talked to police, she told them she had no idea her husband had a meeting the morning of his murder.
chris, where six months after that first moment they laid eyes on each other, they were married. he felt very safe. reporter: his protector and incurable romantic. this is a guy who cries 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, physicians, documentary filmmaker, olympic speed skater, mortgage broker, socialites. reporter: john fife, an 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.
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 prepared for the trial, why the police had so readily dismissed novak as a suspect. dismissed him and a few other puzzling discoveries, like the one about ken s widow dee. remember, she was in prison at the time of his murder. when she first talked to police, she told them she had no idea her husband had a meeting the