in fact, here he is near his last known post loft address, an upscale neighborhood in a certain northwestern city. didn t look like a man on the run, just a guy getting a coffee with his wife at starbucks, of course. he just isn t answering calls or emails from his former loft friends, and he didn t want to talk to dateline, telling us over the phone he was not involved in ken s murder, has been cleared by the police, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar and liable to be sued. bring it on, he said. so, is chris wright a liar? bianca an unwitting, or perhaps, willing accomplice? some people are surprised that you stayed, because you could go. i wouldn t leave a dog in christopher s situation. and i will work until my dying day to make sure that his name is cleared you know.
never saw the mysterious david novak. so, did they buy the prosecutor s evidence or bianca s explanations, her alibi for chris? i was concerned because i d been told that sometimes it can be a crapshoot, was the phrase that was used. reporter: the jury deliberated for 11 hours, and the verdict guilty. i can t even begin to explain. it s like the bottom falls out of your world. and he wouldn t let me hug him. you know. sorry. just give me a sec. reporter: that s all right. take your time. crying is not acceptable. reporter: and why is that? because i m english. reporter: but for ken s
reporter: at the loft building in downtown salt lake, the news rocketed from floor to floor. after all a couple of residents including bianca s husband were doing business with dolezsar. it felt like rubber necking in a car crash. wow, somebody you knew could be murdered. reporter: who could want a man as nice and generous as ken dolezsar dead? but then it s almost a truism of police work where money goes trouble often follows. the more money, the bigger the trouble. and in this case, an extra dollop. the 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 carriger contacted ken s brother and broke 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 morning of his murder. no clue who he was meeting with. turns out, she was not telling the truth. hello? you have a call from an inmate. hello? hi, honey. reporter: it s standard procedure for prisons to record inmate s phone calls. this is ken talking to his wife dee before his murder. i m actually meeting with my friend tomorrow at 7:00 a.m., go figure that out. oh, i love it. yeah, exactly. so tomorrow morning 7:00 a.m. so tomorrow night i should know more. reporter: police confronted dee in prison. recorded the interview. in it she claimed the stress of losing her husband caused her to
looked out of place like a wig. before the shooting, said lee, he heard the man s voice, sounded eastern european, maybe slavic. police believe both men came here in the victim s car, which the shooter then used to flee the scene. as for the victim, you heard the name by now ken dolezsar, the extremely wealthy local investor. my daughter called me just bawling. she told me ken s been shot, and he s dead. wow. reporter: matt beaudry considered ken dolezsar to be one of his closest friends. they founded and coached a college hockey team together. the ken matt knew wasn t just a wealthy man. he was deeply concerned for the boys on the team. i watched him pull out his wallet and slip money into the kids s pockets because he heard they needed tuition money, couldn t buy their books. reporter: now his friend, their friend, was dead. some of those kids just broke down and bawled.