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Christopher didn t do it. reporter: in fact the police and prosecutor had it all wrong, he insisted. it wasn t just that chris had an 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. i just looked at him going. reporter: would chris wear a wig to a meeting with someone ....
Prosecution scoffed at bianca s lost gun story, her loft friends did not. if you knew sweet bianca, she accidentally threw her gorgeous wedding ring away. we had to dig it out of the garbage. i was standing there. she can be an absent-minded dingbat. reporter: but remember the day police searched the loft? they took apart my toaster. reporter: she was focused like a laser that day, said bianca, watching intently, she said, as an officer looked in the empty 9 millimeter gun case. i was sitting beside her. reporter: no test fired shell casing, she said. i don t mean to sound cynical, but i know it wasn t there. reporter: only possible conclusion, said bianca, it was her accusation, the sandy police must have planted the shell casing in order to link chris missing gun to the crime scene. you think it would be hard for people to accept the idea that this detective would do something as unethical as plant ....
refute me. tell me why what i m saying is not correct. we used to be friends. i m more than willing to hear what you have to say, david. reporter: so where is he? turned out david novak wasn t so hard to find after all. in fact, here he is near his last known post-loft address, an upscale neighborhood in a certain northwestern city. didn t look like a man on the run. just a guy getting a coffee with ....
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. wow, somebody you knew could be murdered. reporter: who could want a man as nice and generous as ken dolezsar dead? but then it s 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 man s fortune wasn t 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 weren t the least bit happy that ken was making investment decisions. detective carriger contacted ken s brother and broke the news. dropped down to his knees, and he said it s that [ bleep ] derrick. reporter: a moment of unguarded grief and rage and thus a possible suspect. ....
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. and just about then the sergeant for the district attorney s 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? reporter: turns out the gun s ....