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 dolezar s car, driver s side, which certainly helped the case. but it wasn t quite airtight. 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? turns out, the gun s manufacturer includes a test-fired shell casing with each gun it sells. so the detective went to the
about to leave, he showed him the photo from the store. he said that s 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. it s 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 cold-blooded assassin? impossible. it quite literally wasn t
i have a horrible habit of losing stuff. before chris ever met ken dolezar, she took some visiting british friends on a shooting excursion to the great salt lake. they finished at sunset. and i put down this little gun, the springfield, on the ground, right next to the bag. and i went to, like, help somebody with something else. then she got distracted, she said, packed up the rest of the gear, went home, and neither she nor chris ever saw that gun again. bianca s proof the gun was missing? this video made just over a day later by her british visitors who wanted to document their uniquely american experience. in their video, there was no sign of a springfield armory .9 millimeter. i lost stuff and it was a bone of contention between chris and i. while the prosecution scoffed at bianca s lost gun story, her loft friends did not.
welcome back to dateline extra. i m craig melvin. in the search for ken dolezar s 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