Police following multiple leads. Until we asked who is that . And he says, hes my neighbor. He lives two floors below. A suspect under arrest. Having Somebody Just taken away. Case closed, or was it . Could there be Something Else or someone else theyd missed . There were so many parts of the puzzle that were 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 in their Salt Lake City loft building. A sophisticated crowd who enjoyed mixing business with pleasure. But then a murder revealed a phony in their midst. A man they claimed repaid their trust with lies. Was he, they wondered, the mastermind behind this coldblooded killing or did investigators need to be looking in another direction . Here is Keith Morrison with suspicion. Reporter 7 00 a. M. , november 15th, 2007. Dawn in Salt Lake City, utah. He pulled i
news. dropped down to his knees, and he said it s that [ bleep ] derrick. reporter: a moment of unguarded grief and rage and thus a possible suspect. derek mower, ken s adult step-son. it was apparent there were difficulties between those two. reporter: but trouble in the family didn t stop with derrick. there seemed to be a riff. reporter: but not between dee and ken. theirs 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. reporter: and despite all that friction, the infighting over money and control, dee s family produced not a single viable suspect, not even ken s step-son. derrick had an ally buy at the time of the murder. reporter: but those initial interviews weren t entirely in vain. a clue emerged from ken s
assistant. the night before the murder she said ken got a call on his cell. she knew that he had set up a 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 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. 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-pound executives? guess what? dee mower was incarcerated in federal prison.
that already knew him, had met him, particularly someone as cautious as ken. you have a deeply paranoid man ken dolezsar who is doing business with christopher and has met him. you don t think if christopher got into the car all wigged up that he would think that that was slightly strange? reporter: and if the eyewitness was right, the killer shot with his right hand. christopher is staggeringly left-handed. reporter: staggeringly left-handed. then there was the business of eye color. now, long after the event, the eyewitness was saying the killer had brilliant blue eyes but right after the murder i can t tell eye color but his eyes seemed more bulgy. reporter: he got more and more refined in each interview
strange times around the loft building in downtown salt lake. so shocking that one of their own chris wright had been arrested and charged with killing wealthy businessman ken dolezsar. all the evidence that we obtained led up to chris wright being the triggerman. reporter: in the suv ken drove to his fatal morning meeting, for example. the killer used that vehicle to flee the scene. and when the cops found it and scoured the interior, they got a hit. chris dna. we had a dna result from the inside door handle of the suv. reporter: it was a tiny sample, not a perfect one, but it seemed to put chris in ken dolezsar s car driver s side which certainly helped the case. but it wasn t quite air tight, not yet. the murder weapon had not been found.