but special agent mike smith took the stand to say young didn t use his laptop for work that night. this is an internet site dedicated to sports. jason said he went out a second time to smoke a cigar. but prosecutors contended jason was a fierce anti-smoker, and can you tell me whether or not there was any substantial outerwear that the defendant had in his luggage or was wearing? no, sir. i think it was a suit jacket. okay. that was the only outerwear that i m aware of. jason chose not to testify this time, but the defense fought back, of course. they argued the gas station attendant s memory couldn t be trusted because of a childhood brain injury. i ve had memory problems since i was 6 because i ve been through a lot with myself and my kids and my ex-husband. the defense also argued the
that was on november 2nd, 2006. reporter: just hours before the murder. now prosecutors tried to prove jason lied about his reasons for leaving the hotel room. i didn t pull the door all the way reporter: in his original testimony, he told the court he left the first time to get a power cord for his laptop. why was it that you wanted to look on your laptop? i was going over the sales call that i had the next day. reporter: but special agent mike smith took the stand to say young didn t use his laptop for work that night. this is an internet site dedicated to sports. reporter: jason said he went out a second time to smoke a cigar. but prosecutors contended jason was a fierce anti-smoker and the weather that night was freezing, windy. can you tell me whether or not there was ever any substantial outerwear that the defendant either had in his luggage or was wearing? no, sir. there was a suit jacket. okay.
was there shell casing or anything in that gun case? reporter: turns out the gun s manufacturer includes a test-fired shell casing with each gun it sells. so the detective went to the evidence locker, he said, retrieved the gun case. looked inside and there was a casing. reporter: big moment. big moment. reporter: big moment because when ballistics tested that shell casing it was a match. that shell casing was fired from the same gun as the shell casings recovered at the scene where ken dolezsar was killed. reporter: chris wright s missing gun must have been the murder weapon. now the case looked very strong indeed. though chris wife bianca certainly didn t think so. i know categorically that christopher different do it. reporter: in fact the police and prosecutor had it all wrong, he insisted. it wasn t just that chris had an
and fugy conditions in texas. foggy conditions over the holiday. winter storms bring snow that rockies and freezing rains in the upper midwest. now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. chris wright was under arrest, charged with the murder. this would create a damming new discovery but for friends and family, just didn t fit. was it possible chris-been set up to take the fall for a crime he didn t commit? once again here s keith morrison
connection to ken dolezsar to find that it wasn t chris wright. reporter: but all of that claimed chris defense the clever novak was quite capable of setting up. he could have it set from start to finish. reporter: like a chess move 20 moves ahead. yep. reporter: but that didn t explain the good samaritan eyewitness that sat in court and pointed his finger at chris wright. i m very certain and clear of what i saw. i may not have told it initially off the bat under the full stress of what i saw, but i know what i saw and i know who i saw. reporter: except there is one person who said he is most certainly sure lee carlson is mistaken. chris wright himself. i will answer any question you want to ask. reporter: chris was jailed right after his arrest. he wanted to make his case to dateline in the flesh, but authorities wouldn t allow it so we talked to him on the phone. you say you didn t do it. i absolutely did not do it. reporter: we discussed all the allegations