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 he knew wasn t just a wealthy businessman, he was deeply concerned for the boys on the team. i watched him pull out his wallet and slip money into the kids 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. reporter: at the loft building in downtown salt lake, the news rocketed from floor to floor.
leads until we asked who s that? he says he s my neighbor, he lives two floors below. a suspect under arrest. having someone just taken away, sorry. case closed. or was it? could there be something else or someone else they 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. then, a murder revealed a phony
once again, here s keith morrison with suspicion. 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. yet they found an empty gun case in chris and bianca s apartment, but nothing to connect the case to the murder.
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. ken wasn t just a wealthy businessman. he was deeply concerned for the boys on the team. i watched him pull out his wallet and slip money into the kids 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. 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.