lawsuit against novak. a suit that alleges a third theory that novak paid chris wright $25,000 to kill ken dolezsar. novak has yet to answer the suit, has not shown up for a single hearing. these attorneys claim they can t find him. they ve asked for a default judgment. back in the loft, his friends imagine the worst about their former friend and neighbor, the missing david novak. what would you advise him to do if you could talk to him? talk to you guys, tell the story. if you have nothing to hide.
could not have left that voice mail because, by the time of the murder, she says, he d given the phone away. he gave it to novak. reporter: and novak gave it to dolezsar. yes, yes. as far as we know. but novak, so we don t know anything. reporter: but 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. but 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 really dumb movie, but if you 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 police had so readily dismissed novak as a suspect. dismissed him and a few other puzzling discoveries, like the
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 cell 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
and he went over there and novak was there with ken dolezsar and he introduced them. reporter: ken dolezsar lived in a wealthy enclave just south of salt lake city. a very nice guy by all accounts with a big extended family and money to invest. truckloads of money. he d already loaned novak 1.85 million to make a movie about his prison consulting business. and soon ken and chris began working on a real estate deal. they spoke sometimes and they had contacts back and forth. i m really i m a girl. reporter: and you weren t interested. no. so dull. reporter: fall came to salt lake city. leaves yellowed and fell. the economic crisis started toward them like a low black cloud. as a businessman ken zoel czar, chris wright and novak began their hustle and flow. but the storm bearing down on them was loaded not with economic ruin but something else entirely. i couldn t believe it. no one everyone, all of our friends. we sat there. we couldn t move. it was like it was just unb