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 fortune. Suspicion. The sky beginning to brighten, sun not quite up. And then there they were. The voices, the terror. The nightmare beginning. I immediately ducked down in my car after first shot was fired. I laid there thinking, okay, this is how its going to end for me. 911. What is your emergency . Somebody just shot a man lying dead in front of the village inn. Reporter it stands in stark contrast to much of the rest of Salt Lake City, this old chocolate factory, this grand stage for our story. It was converted to loft apartments in those boom years before the bust. And the style of living and location drew a distinct crowd. Outliars of a sort, iconoclasts to the mormon city. I loved this building. Reporter bianca pearmanbrooks, born into privilege, raised in africa. She came here in 2006 to visit a friend. I came on holiday and i miss christopher and we hit it off. Reporter christopher wright, a Real Estate Developer lived in the same loft building as biancas friend. There was a party in the building, bianca was invited. In one night you knew . Yeah. Yeah. Reporter to anyone watching, it was an obvious perfect match. Friends and loft neighbors dave and lisa mccammon. Bs so lovely and kind of quirky. She brought that playfulness out in chris. He was a positive guy before. He was ecstatic after. Reporter though it was threw, blind, passionate love that drove bianca to give up her whole life back in england to move here to utah to be with chris, where six months after that first moment they laid eyes on each other, they were married. He felt very safe. Reporter his protector and incurable romantic. This is a guy who cries always through romantic movies. He cries like a baby from the start to the finish of that movie. Anything romantic really . Are you serious . Reporter it didnt take long for bianca to become firmly entrenched in loft living. Academics, airline pilots, fgtss, documentary filmmaker, olympic speed skater, mortgage broker, socialites. Reporter john fife, an advertising copy writer was one of the first to buy in the building. This building was a fantastic collection of interesting people. Reporter none more so than perhaps the buildings most gregarious and outsized personality david novak. He was so nice and entertaining and funny and charming. This building is for the people who just really liked him. And i would count myself completely as one of them. Its impossible not to be charmed by david. I adore the man. We were, i would say, basically best friends here in utah. Reporter davids huge person tail fit his apparently oversized professional accomplishments. Investor, restaurateur, owner of an extremely unusual Consulting Firm whose sole specialty was preparing wealthy clients for, of all thing, prison. He was hired to help put their affairs into order before they went to prison, help educate the family on what was going to happen, get the best sentencing for him. Reporter that business grew out of personal experience. He himself was a felon. Served a year in federal prison for mail fraud. But he was the type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into fortune. Reporter so most everyone in the building seemed to be living large in those good old premeltdown days when into the mix was introduced a new ingredient. A businessman with real money. It was noefb ak, said bianca, who did the introductions. Christopher had an office about two or three blocks from here. And there was a starbucks i had always went to. 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. Hed 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. Im really im a girl. Reporter and you werent 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 couldnt believe it. No one everyone, all of our friends. We sat there. We couldnt move. It was like it was just unbelievable. What was so unbelievable . A crime that would rock the loft to its foundation. The hand came up, out came a gun and pointed at the other man right in the face and pulled the trigger. dad got it . boy got it. dad its slippery. boy nooooooo. grandma nooooooo. dad nooooooo. dog yessssss. vo quick, the quicker picker upper bounty picks up messes quicker and is two times more absorbent than the leading ordinary brand. boy hey look, i got it. Bounty, the quicker picker upper. Theres no place likargh e im trying. Yippiekiyay. Mom. So now it was that morning, 7 00 a. M. , november 15th, 2007. 911. What is the address of your emergency . Reporter detective dean caringer was on the freeway when his radio went off. I heard there was an actual shooting. Reporter thats my department. Thats where i need to get busy. Reporter he had the address, the parking lot of the village inn restaurant, in a town called sandy, his town. It was a very violent scene. The victim was shot five times. The fifth shot was done while the shooter was standing over top of him and shot him in the face. Reporter yeah. Oh. The shooter was making sure he was dead before he left. Reporter cold, methodical, like a professional hit. Yet amazingly, somebody was sitting in a car maybe six feet away, watched the whole thing. Ordinary guy minding his own business. Now eyewitness to a brutal slaying. The mans name was lee carlson. The hand came up, reached inside of his pocket, out came a gun. And pointed at the other man right in the face and pulled the trigger. Reporter here at the Police Station lee told how he ducked out of sight after that first shot. But not before he got a glimpse of the shooter. As far as i can remember he had a longer nose. And i cant tell eye color but his eyes seemed to be more bulgy. You just saw a glimpse. I know year asking a lot. Reporter but what stood out most ways his hair, long, tied in a ponytail. Looked out of place like a wig. Before the shooting, said lee, he heard the mans voice, sounded Eastern European, maybe slavic. Police believe both men came here in the victims 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 kens been shot, and hes dead. Wow. Reporter matt beaudry considered ken dolezsar to be one of his closest friends. They coached a hockey team together. He was deeply concerned for the boys on the team. I watched him pull out his wallet and slip money into the kidss pockets because he heard they needed tuition money, couldnt 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 biancas 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 its 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 mans fortune wasnt 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 werent the least bit happy that ken was making investment decisions. Detective carriger contacted kens brother and broke the news. Dropped down to his knees, and he said its that [ bleep ] derrick. Reporter a moment of unguarded grief and rage and thus a possible suspect. Derek mower, kens adult stepson. It was apparent there were difficulties between those two. Reporter but trouble in the family didnt 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, dees family produced not a single viable suspect, not even kens stepson. Derrick had an ally buy at the time of the murder. Reporter but those initial interviews werent entirely in vain. A clue emerged from kens 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 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 novaks consulting business for prisonpound executives . Guess what . Dee mower was incarcerated in federal prison. Reporter tax fraud. Kens wealthy wife dee was novaks client. Thats why ken dolezsar knew ken novak. And something made kens relatives suspicious. So detectives drove over to the loft where they spoke with mr. Novak. He was soft spoken. Reporter and a bright man. He came across as very intelligent, yes. Reporter answered all the questions but didnt seem to be of much help. Then as detective carriger was preparing to leave, he tried one more question. That prepaid cell phone, the one someone used to invite ken to the fatal meeting, the store had Surveillance Video of a man buying that very phone. Kens family set they didnt recognize him, but would novak . Carriger showed him the photo. We asked who is that . He says hes my neighbor. He lives two floors below. Reporter and just like that, a big piece of the puzzle plopped into place. But fair warning as youll see, puzzle pieces and some residents of this downtown loft might not be quite what they seem. Coming up while the investigation takes as many turns as one of the buildings hallways. Ive never had a case this complicated before. Maria ramirez . Hi. Maria ramirez mom maria Maria Ramirez. 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It was almost a month after the murder of ken dolezar. His friends still coming to terms with it. I think what if . All the fun we could have had if he hadnt been taken. Until now, the investigation seemed to be going nowhere and then as detective carriger was about to leave, he showed him the photo from the store. He said thats chris wright, my neighbor, he lives two floors below. His good friend and husband of the irreplaceable bianca. This is definitely somebody we want to talk to. Carriger arrived unannounced and almost before he could ask a question, he said, chris launched into a story about ken dolezar, claimed the man was so paranoid he wanted the man to buy a prepaid cell phone so he could communicate in complete privacy. To carriger the story seemed too reversed. Covering, trying to account for things we knew. I see. Odd. Then as the interview went on, he said chris voice began to sound familiar. The voicemail that police believed helped lure ken to his death. Hey, ken, this is robert. To me, that was chris voice on that phone. The detectives pulled out a search warrant. Bianca was home when the police arrived. Its surreal. You have, like roving gangs of toddlers who are ripping everything apart. They turned our sofas upsidedown and took apart the lining. They took apart my toaster. They take everything apart. A ballistics report told police the murder weapon was a. 9 millimeter handgun. Chris was an avid collector of guns and among them, police found an empty case for a springfield armory. 9 millimeter handgun and what do you know, the gun that went with it was missing. Chris wright was arrested and charged with the murder of ken dolezar. A massive sense of disbelief. He was being completely taken out of the view and for no reason. The loving husband who cried his way through romantic comedies, a coldblooded assassin . Impossible. It quite literally wasnt possible, said bianca, for chris to have killed ken dolezar that morning. He had an ally. He was in the loft. I was there. He was home in bed with her. He was a foot from me. There is theres no room for doubt. This surely had to be a colossal misunderstanding. Bianca sought support from her neighbors including david novak, he only friend with intimate knowledge of the legal system. He he comforted you. He was, yeah. He asked me how everything was going and what was happening with christopher and whether our attorneys were doing the job they were supposed to. She told him everything, she said, and he assured her the mistake would soon be rectified. She believed him. I dont want to be married to a murderer. I would not fool myself. There was a seconds doubt in my mind he did not do this. But some of their friends in the loft werent so sure. I started to feel sorry for her thinking, oh my gosh, you poor naive girl. You know, youre going to be crushed by this. At the sandy, utah, justice center, the case that police turned over to josh player then the District Attorney seemed very clear. The evidence was exceptionally strong in this case. It all kept pointing in the direction of mr. Wright. There was the surveillance photo, the voice message which was placed from a spot near the loft according to cell tower tracking and the eyewitness. Hed been shown a photo lineup with chris in it and now he remembered some details a little differently than he had that first traumatic day. Like chris blue eyes in the photo he said jarred something in his mind. I was 80 to 90 certain that this was the man i saw. Then he found a picture of chris on the web and tried photo shopping in a few details like a wig. I looked at that and said, yeah, that looks almost exactly like what i saw. Reinforcing a memory. But was the memory accurate . As for the rest of the case, the investigation wasnt over yet. The story just begun. The first puzzle pieces placed where they seemed to fit. But ive never had a case this complicated before. Oh, even more than complicated. As those friends in the loft began to believe, something darker than that. Suspicion returns after the break. pirate girl ahoy excited squeal, giggling panting gotcha man ah girl nooooooooooooo man nooooo girl nooooo. vo quick, the quicker picker upper bounty picks up messes quicker, and is two times more absorbent than the leading ordinary brand. man and pirate girl ahoy laughing vo bounty, the quicker picker upper. Welcome back to dateline extra. Im craig melvin. In the search for ken dolezars killer, they believed it pointed to chris wright, arrested and charged for murder. Soon, damning new evidence would emerge linking him directly to the crime scene. For his wife, bianca, the pieces of this elaborate puzzle simply did not fit. Was it possible chris was being framed . If so, why . Here, again, is keith morrison. 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 dolezar. All of the evidence we obtained led up to chris wright being the triggerman. 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 hint. Chris dna. We had a dna result from the inside door handle of the suv. It was a tiny sample, not a perfect one, but it seemed to put chris in ken dolezars car, drivers side, which certainly helped the case. But it wasnt quite airtight. Not yet. The murder weapon had not been found. Yet, they found an empty gun case in chris and biancas apartment, but nothing to connect the case to the murder. And just about then the sergeant for the District Attorneys office just happened to call me and ask, hey, did you ever look in that gun case, was there shell casing or anything in that gun case . Turns out, the guns manufacturer includes a testfired 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. Big moment. Big moment. 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 dolezar was killed. Chris wrights missing gun must have been the murder weapon. Now the case looked very strong, indeed. Though chris wife, bianca, certainly didnt think so. I know for certain categorically