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 man s 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 can t 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 man s voice, sounded eastern european, maybe slavic.
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
alibi for the morning of the murder, she said the whole case, it was all wrong. chris dna in the car, of course it was there. chris admitted he d been in the car, but weeks before the murder. but get this, the steering wheel especially and all of the car was covered with dna and fingerprints that did not match chris. nor did bianca buy lee carlson s story. he said that the guy had an eastern european accent. christopher is american born and bred. he said that he d only seen a glimpse of his face. reporter: in fact, said bianca, the eyewitness account more properly eliminated chris as a suspect. all agreed, remember, that ken and his killer arrived together in the same car. but think about it, said bianca.
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 man s 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 can t 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 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.