dolizar 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. ken, this is robert. we should get together pretty soon here. detectives traced the prepaid cell from 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. but the family did have a suggestion for the detective. 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. tax fraud. ken s wealthy wife, dee, was david novak s client. that s why ken dolizar knew david novak. something about that consultant
men s voice, eastern european, maybe slavic. as for the victim, well, you heard the name by now. ken dolazar, the extremely wealthy local investor. my daughter called me just bawling and she told me, ken s been shot and he s dead. wow. matt considered ken dolizar to be one of his closest friends. they founded and coached a college hockey team together. he wasn t just a wealthy businessman, he was deeply concerned for the boys on the deep. i watched him pull out of wallet, slip money into kids pockets because he heard kids needed tuition money. couldn t buy their books. now his friend, their friend, was dead. and some of those kids just broke down and bawled. at the loft building in downtown salt lake, the news rocketed from floor to floor. after all, a couple residents including bianca ee s husband w doing business with dolizar. sounds like rubber necking,
two. trouble in the family didn t start with derek. there seemed to be a rift. not between dee and ken. there seemed to be a genuine love story. but now a grieving dee told detectives she was as baffled about the murder as they were. she was not able to provide us any information as to who he was meeting that day or anything about his day. and despite all that friction, the infighting over money and control, dee s family produced not a single viable suspect. not even ken s stepson. derek had an alibi at the time of the murder. the initial interviews were not entirely in veain. a crew emerged from ken eegs assistant. a night before the murder, she says ken got a call on his cell. she knew he had set up a meeting to meet with whoever he was talking to at 7:00 a.m. on the 15th. the day and time in which ken
wow, someone you know has been murd murder. who could possibly want a man as nice and generous as ken dolizar dead? where money goes, trouble often follows. more money, the bigger the troub trouble. in this case, the extra dolldol. the dead man s fortune wasn t really his strictly speaking. he married into the bulk of it. the fortune came from a company his wife founded with her former husband. the divorce had been nasty. family loyalties bitterly divided. and some family members weren t the least bit happy that ken was making investment decisions. detective kerriger contact ted ken s brother and broke the news. dropped down to his knees and said it s that [ bleep ] derek. moment of unguarded grief and rage, and thus a possible suspect. derek mower, ken s adult stepson. it was apparent that there was difficulties between those