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leads until -- >> we ask, who's that? dolezsar. >> all of the evidence we and he says he's my neighbor. obtained led up to chris wright he lives two floors below. being the triggerman. >> a suspect under arrest. >> having someone you love >> reporter: in the suv, ken just -- just taken away. drove to his fatal morning sorry. meeting, for example, the killer >> case closed. or was it? used that vehicle to flee the scene. and when the cops found it and could there be something else? scoured the interior, they got a hit. or someone else they missed? chris's dna. >> we had a dna result from the >> there were so many parts of inside door handle of the suv. the puzzle that were not adding up. >> reporter: itself was a tiny >> someone had pulled the trigger. but had someone else pulled the strings? sample. not a perfect one but it seemed >> he was the type of guy that could take bad luck, and turn it to put chris in dolezsar's car, into a fortune. driver's side. which certainly helped the case but it wasn't quite airtight, not yet. the murder weapon had not been found. yes, they found an empty gun case in chris and bianca's hello and welcome to apartment. but nothing to connect the case to the murder. "dateline." they were neighbors, living and just about then. large, in their salt lake city loft building. >> a sergeant for the district attorney's office just happened a sophisticated crowd, who to call me and ask, hey, did you enjoyed mixing business with ever look in that gun case? pleasure. was there shell casing or then, a murder revealed a phony anything in that gun case? >> turns out, the gun's

in their midst. a man, they claimed, repaid manufacturer includes a their trust with lies. test-fired shell casing with each gun it sells. was he, they wondered, the so the detective went to the mastermind behind this cold-blooded killing? evidence locker, he said. retrieved the gun case. or did investigators need to be >> looked inside. and there was a casing. looking in another direction? >> big moment. >> big moment. >> reporter: big moment, because here's keith morrison with when ballistics tested that shell casing? "suspicion." >> it was a match. >> reporter: 7:00 a.m., november 15th, 2007. that shell casing was fired from dawn in salt lake city, utah. he pulled into the restaurant the same gun as the shell parking lot, turned off his casings recovered at the scene engine. where ken dolezsar was killed. sky, beginning to brighten. sun, not quite up. and then, there they were. >> reporter: chris wright's the voices. missing gun must have been the the terror. murder weapon. the nightmare beginning. now, the case looked very >> immediately, ducked down in strong, indeed. my car. though, chris's wife, bianca, after the first shot was fired. i laid there, thinking, okay, certainly didn't think so. well, this is how it's going to >> i know, for certain, end for me. >> you're going to be dead. >> yep. >> 911. what is your emergency? categorically, that christopher didn't do it. >> somebody just shot a man >> in fact, the police and that's laying dead in front of prosecutor had it all wrong, she the village inn. insisted. and it wasn't just that chris had an alibi for the morning of the murder. no, she said it was the whole case. it was all wrong.

>> it stands in stark contrast chris's dna in the car, for to much of the rest of salt lake example, of course, it was there. she said chris admitted he'd city. been in the car, but weeks this old chocolate factory. before the murder. this grand stage for our story. but, get this. it was converted to loft the steering wheel, especially, and all of the car, was covered apartments in those boom years, with dna and fingerprints that before the bust. and the style of living and did not match chris. location drew a distinct crowd. nor, did bianca buy lee carlson's story. outliers, of a sort. iconoclasts in that famous city. >> he said that the guy had an >> i love this building. eastern europe accent. it's fabulous. >> bianca, for example, born christopher is american born and into privilege in england. bred. he, also, said that he had only raised in ireland and africa. seen a glimpse of his face. she came in august 2006 to visit a friend. >> i came on holiday. >> i only saw a glimpse. >> reporter: in fact, said and i met christopher, and we just hit it off. bianca, the eyewitness account >> christopher wright, a real more properly eliminated chris estate developer, lived in the as a suspect. same loft building as bianca's friend. there was a party in the remember, ken and his killer building. bianca was invited. >> and one night, you knew. >> yeah. yeah. arrived in the same car. think about it, said bianca. >> to anyone watching, it was an would chris wear a wig to a obvious, perfect match. meeting with somebody who already knew him, had met him? friends and loft neighbors, dave particularly, someone as cautious as ken? and lisa. >> b is so lovely and she's kind >> you have a deeply paranoid of quirky. man, ken dolezsar, who is doing

and i think she brought that business with christopher and playfulness out in chris. >> he's a positive guy before. has met him. you don't think that, if christopher got into the car, he was ecstatic after. all wigged up, that he would >> so it was true, blind, think that that was slightly passionate love that drove strange? bianca to give up everything she >> and if the eyewitness was right, the killer shot with his had known. her whole life back in england. right hand. >> christopher is staggeringly and move here, to utah, to be with chris. where six months after that left handed. >> staggeringly left handed. first moment they laid eyes on each other, they were married. >> he made me feel very safe. then, there was the business of eye color. >> her protector and incurable now, long after the event, the eyewitness was saying the killer had brilliant, blue eyes. romantic. >> this is a man who cries but right after the murder. always through romantic movies. >> can't tell eye color but his like the notebook. eyes seemed to be more bulgy. >> it didn't take long for bianca to become firmly >> he just got more and more refined in each interview with entrenched in loft living. the police. >> brilliant, blue eyes. >> brilliant. >> the lofts were full of incredibly crazy people. yes, which of course, you can see brilliant, nordic, blue eyes >> academics. airline pilots. physicians. documentary filmmaker. from the side. olympic speed skater. >> reporter: what about chris's mortgage broker. suspiciously missing handgun? socialites. >> john fife, an advertising the one linked to the crime? bianca says she is certain chris copyrighter was one of the first did not use it to kill ken to buy in the building. dolezsar that morning.

none more so than perhaps the impossible, she said, because he no longer had it. building's most gregarious and outsized personality. david novak. >> that gun i -- i lost back in the summer. >> i lost? >> yeah. >> he was so nice and >> you just lost a gun? entertaining and funny and >> i have a horrible habit of losing stuff. charming. >> it's impossible not to be charmed by david. >> reporter: before chris ever i adore the man. >> we were, i would say, met ken dolezsar, she took some basically, best friends, here, in utah. visiting british friends on a >> david's huge personality fit shooting excursion to the great his apparently oversized salt lake. they finished at sunset. >> and i put down this little professional accomplishments. gun, the springfield, on the investor, restauranter, owner of ground right next to the bag. and i went to like help somebody an extremely unusual consultant with something else. >> reporter: then, she got distracted, she said. firm, whose specialty was packed up the rest of the gear, preparing clients for, of all went home. and neither she, nor chris, ever saw that gun again. things, prison. >> help put their affairs in bianca's proof the gun was order before they went to missing? prison. help educate the family what was going to happen. try to get the best sentencing this video, made just over a day possible for him. later, by her british visitors, >> that business, as dave who wanted to document their confessed to his law friends, grew out of personal experience. uniquely american experience. he, himself, was a felon. in their video, there is no sign served a year in federal prison of a springfield armory 9 for mail fraud. >> but, he was the type of guy that could take bad luck, and millimeter. >> i lost stuff constantly. turn it into a fortune. and it was a bone of contention

>> so most everyone in the between christopher and i. >> and while the prosecution building seemed to be living large, in those good, old, scoffed at bianca's lost gun story, her loft friends did not. pre-meltdown days. when, into the mix was >> go ahead. >> if you knew sweet bianca. introduced a new ingredient. she accidentally threw her gorgeous wedding ring away. a businessman with real money. it was novak, said bianca, who we had to dig it out of the garbage. i was standing there. did the introductions. >> christopher had an office, she can be an absentminded about two or three blocks from h here. dingbat. >> but remember the day police and there was a starbucks that he always went to. and he wept ovnt over there andk searched the loft? >> they took apart my toaster. >> she was focused, like a was there with ken dolozar. laser, that day, said bianca. >> a very nice guy, by all watching, intently, she said as accounts. with a big, extended family and an officer looked in the empty 9 money to invest. millimeter gun case. >> i was sitting beside her. truckloads of money. he'd already loaned novak >> no test-fired shell casing, 1.85 million to make a movie about his prison consulting business. and soon, ken and chris began she said. >> i know i can be cynical but it wasn't there. >> the sandy police must have working on a real estate deal. planted the shell casing, in >> they spoke sometimes. order to link chris's missing gun to the crime scene. they had contracts back and >> one thing that will be hard forth. but they really -- i'm a girl. for people to accept is the idea

>> you weren't interested? >> no, so dull. >> fall came to salt lake city. that this detective would do something as unethical as plant leaves yellowed and fell. the economic crisis gutted evidence. >> it was not there. i know that. >> the sandy police department toward them like a low, black cloud. categorically denied the as the businessman, wright, and david novak continued their accusation. but as those loft friends heard hustle and flow. but the storm barreling down on more of chris wright's side of the story from bianca, they them was loaded not with economic ruin but something else, entirely. became convinced he was innocent. >> i couldn't believe it. >> there were so many parts of and no one -- it was -- everyone the puzzle that were not adding up. was there, all of our friends. >> unless, they reasoned, unless and we just sat there. someone they knew very well wanted chris to take the fall. we couldn't move. it was like -- it was just unbelievable. a dark suspicion wafted through >> "dateline" returns, after the the corridors of that old break. break. chocolate factory. perhaps, the police, they said, arrested the wrong neighbor. >> he had the perfect patsy in christopher. >> the neighbors start comparing notes, and realize someone in their circle was not who he seemed. coming up. >> we were astounded. and i remember saying to him, what?

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and shot him, in the face. >> he announced we're moving. and we were astounded. >> yeah. and i remember saying to him, what? ooh. >> the shooter was making sure you -- you've put all this money into your loft. you -- you've got all this he was dead, before he left. >> cold. methodical. like a professional hit. investment here. and yet, amazingly, somebody was why are you leaving? and he said it's just time to sitting in a car, maybe six feet go. >> he'd claimed to be their away. great friend. watched the whole thing. ordinary guy, minding his own sociable, gregarious, larger than life. business. now, eyewitness to a brutal slaying. man's name was lee carlson. then, said his neighbors , once >> right hand came up. chris was arrested, he seemed reached inside of his pocket. out came a gun. nervous. and now, he was gone. and so, they wondered, was david novak running from something? and pointed at the other man, the loft friends began right in the face, and pulled the trigger. >> here, at the police station, reexamining all those stories lee told how he ducked out of sight after that first shot. david told them over the years, but not before he got a glimpse particularly those about his of the shooter. criminal past. >> as far as i can remember, he >> we started comparing notes had a longer nose. and stories. and becomes clear, wow, david told me a different version of that. >> aihad been lying, to put it can't tell eye color but his eyes seemed to be more bulgy. rather bluntly. >> certainly, not futurns out t >> but what stood out, most, was his hair. long. tied in a ponytail.

looked almost out of place, like that story. a lot more. he had used a private flying a wig. club he owned to run an >> i looked at that more than his face. insurance scam. >> before the shooting, said then, as it caught up to him, he lee, he heard the men's voice. attempted to escape by faking his own death. sounded eastern european, maybe ditched his airplane in puget sound. slavic. police believe both came in the >> he faked his death, in order victim's car, which the shooter then used to flee the scene. to avoid insurance audit. and as for the victim? well, you've heard the name, by that was not a crime of passion. now. that was a crime of calculation. ken dolezsar, the extremely wealthy, local investor. >> or so the loft friends >> my daughter called me just believed. bawling, and she told me ken's and if that was true, what might been shot and he's dead. he have done here in salt lake? wow. their suspicion only grew when >> matt considered ken dolezsar their friends found out novak left town, without mentioning it to be one of his closest was he who fingered chris in friends. the ken matt knew wasn't just a that surveillance photo. >> did he ever tell you i wealthy businessman. he was deeply concerned for the identified christopher as the boys on the team. guy who bought the cell phone? >> i watched him pull out his wallet, slip money into kids' >> no. >> and of course, that prepaid cell phone was the very clue pockets because he heard that that led police to chris. kids needed tuition money. a phone, which chris bought, couldn't buy their books. >> and now, his friend, their said bianca, after novak assured friend, was dead. >> and some of those kids just him. >> novak has said this guy broke down and bawled. routinely used these throwaway >> at the loft building in

phones. >> what's more, said bianca, downtown salt lake, the news chris could not have left that rocketed from floor to floor. after all, a couple residents, voicemail because, by the time of the murder, she says, he'd including bianca's husband, were given the phone away. >> he gave it to novak. doing business with dolezsar. >> and novak gave it to dolezsar. >> yes. >> who could possibly want a yes. man, as nice and generous as ken i mean, as far as we know. but it's novak, so we don't know anything. >> and now, a theory about dolezsar dead? >> but then, it's almost a motive drifted from loft to loft. truism of police work that where hadn't novak borrowed almost 2 money goes, trouble often follows. more money, the bigger the million from ken? the friends said they watched trouble. and, in this case, an extra him spend lavishly on high living, and never saw evidence of that movie the loan was supposed to pay for. but really, was their old friend capable of orchestrating murder dollop. the fortune came from a company and pinning it on chris? his wife founded with her former >> there's one person that husband. the divorce had been nasty. bragged about knowing russian family loyalties, bitterly mafia. >> how hard would it be to find divided. and some family members weren't somebody that looked like chris the least bit happy that ken was making investment decisions. and he introduced chris, from the very beginning, with that in detective cariger contacted mind. of setting chris up. >> i mean, i know it sounds like ken's brother and broke the news. >> dropped down to his knees and just really dumb movie. said it's that [ bleep ]

but if you had ever met novak, derrick. >> a moment of unguarded grief and rage and, thus, a possible the man has a byzantite mind. suspect. derek mower, ken's adult stepson. >> it was apparent that there turned out, he was probably was difficulties between those fishing for information. two. >> the trouble in the family >> it reminded friend, john didn't stop with derrick. >> there seemed to be a riff. >> but not between dee and ken. fife, of a conversation with novak after they had dined theirs seemed to be be a genuine love story. but now, a grieving dee told together. john posed a question, he said. mostl mo detectives she was as baffled just hypothetical. >> i said, david, you ever about the murder, as they were. >> she was not able to provide contemplating committing the perfect murder? and he said yes. us any information, as to who he the key element to that is was meeting that day. making sure that someone is or anything about his day. caught and charged with the >> reporter: and despite all crime. once they have somebody, they'll that friction, the infighting stop looking and that's how you over money and control, dee's can really get away. family produced not a single, >> and now, novak had taken off. viable suspect. not even ken's stepson. and even though their questions didn't amount to hard evidence, >> derrick had an alibi, at the time of the murder. of course, chris's defense >> but those initial interviews were not entirely in vain. attorneys wondered, as they prepared for the trial, why the a clue emerged from ken's police had so readily dismissed assistant. novak as a suspect. night before the murder, she said ken got a call on his cell. dismissed him and a few other,

>> she knew that he had set up a quite puzzling discoveries. meeting to meet with whoever he like, for example, the one about was talking to at 7:00 a.m. on ken's widow, dee. the 15th. >> the day and time, at which remember, she was in prison at the time of his murder. when she first talked to police, she told them she had no idea ken dolezsar was shot to death. her husband had a meeting the morning of his murder. was the caller also the killer? no clue who he was meeting with. if so, they now had his voice, turns out, she was not telling the truth. because earlier, that caller left this phone message. >> hello? >> hey, ken, this is robert. >> you have a call from an inmate. talking to dave. >> hello? he said we could get together pretty soon here. >> detectives trace the prepaid >> hi, honey. >> reporter: it's standard procedure for prisons to record inmates' phone calls. cell from which the call came. and went to the store where this is ken talking to his wife, someone bought it. >> this phone was purchased with dee, night before his murder. cash, with no identifying >> i'm actually meeting with information provided to the carrier. >> but the family did have a my -- my friend tomorrow at suggestion for the detectives. 7:00 a.m., go figure that out. something they actually agreed >> oh, i love it. on. he should look carefully at a man named david novak. >> yeah, exactly. so, tomorrow morning, 7:00 a.m. yes, that david novak. so tomorrow night, i should know more. >> police confronted dee in remember, novak's consulting prison. recorded the interview. in it, she claimed the stress of business for prison-bound executives? guess what? losing her husband caused her to >> dee mower was incarcerated in forget about that phone call. and then, she dropped a

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protect the real killer. by setting up chris to take the fall. a conspiracy, the prosecution the murder of ken dolezsar. his friends, still, coming to brushed off as nonsense. >> you would have to believe, terms with it. for it not to be chris wright, >> and i just think what if? that it was somebody that looked all the fun we could have had, like chris wright, sounded like if he hadn't been taken. >> reporter: until now, the chris wright, had the phone investigation seemed to be going nowhere. and then, as detective carriger bought by chris wright, used the was about to leave david novak's gun bought by chris wright. apartment in the downtown loft building, he showed novak the had chris's dna and had a surveillance photo from that connection to ken dolezsar, to cell phone store. >> he looked at it and said find that it wasn't chris wright. that's chris wright. >> but all of that, claims he's my neighbor. he lives two floors below. chris's defense, the clever novak was quite capable of >> reporter: chris wright, his good friend, and husband of the setting up. >> he could have nailed, from irrepressible, bianca. >> this is definitely somebody we want to talk to. start to finish. >> 20 moves ahead. >> carriger arrived, >> yep. >> but that didn't explain lee unannounced, at chris wright's office not far from the loft carlson, the good samaritan who building. pointed his finger at chris and almost before he could ask a question, he said chris launched wright. into a story about ken dolezsar. >> i'm very certain of what i claimed the man was so paranoid saw. he wanted chris to buy a prepaid and i may not have told it, initially, off the bat under the cell phone so they could full ves stress of what i saw.

communicate in complete privacy. to detective carriger, the story but i know what i saw, and i know who i saw. seemed a little too ready or >> reporter: except, there is one person who said he is, most rehearsed. >> almost as if he was covering, trying to account for things that we knew. >> i see. certainly, sure lee carlson is >> reporter: odd. then, as the interview went on, mistaken. chris wright, himself. he said, chris's voice began to >> i will answer any question sound familiar. you want to ask. >> reporter: chris was jailed the voicemail that police believed helped lure ken to his right after his arrest. he wanted to make his case to death. >> hey, ken. "dateline" in the flesh, but this is robert. authorities wouldn't allow it so we talked to him on the phone. >> to me, that was chris's voice >> so, you say you didn't do it? on that phone. >> i absolutely did not do it. >> reporter: the detectives >> we discussed all the pulled out a search warrant. allegations, at length. bianca was home when the police he offered detailed refutations arrived. >> it's surreal. and some allegations, of his you have -- you have -- they're like roving gangs of toddlers own. >> we're asked to believe that who are ripping everything the police were incompetent, and apart. they tear your sofas upside down definitely crooked. and like take apart the lining. they took apart my toaster. that david novak is crooked. i mean, it's -- they take and the only person who is everything apart. >> a ballistics report told police the murder weapon was a 9 innocent is you. >> it's not my fingerprints. it doesn't match my description. millimeter handgun. chris was an avid collector of i have an alibi. i have no motive. guns and among them, police and there's clearly a person who found a case for a 9 millimeter is pointing the finger at me, who got $2 million.

handgun. >> this is just too cloak and and what do you know? the gun that went with it was dagger for a jury. >> i understand how difficult it missing. chris wright was arrested and is to believe. charged with the murder of ken but the alternative is that i dolezsar. >> massive sense of disbelief. just simply got up one day, and he was being completely taken, decided to go shoot some poor out of the blue, and for no person in a disguise. reason. >> chris wanted to talk about >> the loving husband, who cried that voicemail. his way through romantic the one that helped lure ken to his death. the voicemail, detective comedies, a cold-blooded carriger, was sure was left by assassin? chris. impossible. it, quite literally, wasn't though, no voice analyst ever studied it. >> i mean, the people who are possible, says bianca, for chris going to watch your show are to have killed ken dolezsar. going to listen to my voice, and they're going to listen to that recording. and i urge them to make their >> i was there. own decision. >> he was home, in bed, with >> yeah, let's listen to it her. >> he was a foot from me. right now. all right? there is -- there's no room for >> absolutely. go right ahead. doubt. >> hey, ken. >> this, surely, had to be a colossal misunderstanding. i talked to dave and he said we bianca sought support from her neighbors, including david novak, her only friend with should get together pretty soon intimate knowledge of the legal here. >> so that isn't you, huh? system. >> that is, absolutely, not me. >> the jury got the case, april >> he comforted you? >> he was brilliant. 29th, 2010. yeah. he would ask me how everything was going. a jury that certainly heard about, but never saw, the and what was -- what was happening with -- with mysterious david novak. christopher and whether our attorneys were doing the job they were supposed to. so, would they buy the

>> she told him everything, she prosecutor's evidence? or bianca's explanation? said. and he assured her the mistake would, soon, be rectified. her alibi for chris. >> i was concerned because i had she believed him. been told, you know, sometimes >> i don't want to be married to a murderer. it can be a crap shoot was the i would not fool myself. there was a second's doubt in my phrase that was used. >> the jury deliberated for 11 hours and the verdict? mind. he did not do this. guilty. >> but some of their friends in >> i can't even begin to the loft weren't so sure. >> i started to feel sorry for her thinking, oh, my gosh, you poor, naive girl. you know, you're -- you're going to be crushed by this. explain. >> at the sandy, utah, justice it's like the bottom pulled out from your world. center, the case that police and they wouldn't -- they wouldn't let me hug him. turned over to then-assistant district attorney. >> the evidence was exceptionally strong in this case. it all kept pointing in the sorry. just give me a sec. direction of mr. wright. >> there was the surveillance >> it's all right. take your time. photo, the voice message, which >> crying is not acceptable. was placed from a spot near the >> and why is that? loft, according to cell tower >> because i'm english. tracking. and the eyewitness. he'd sbho he'd been shown a photo lineup with chris in it, and now he >> reporter: but for ken's remembered some details a little friends, at least matt bodery, differently than he had that

first, traumatic day. the verdict was vindication. like, chris's blue eyes in the >> he looks like a smug killer. photo,arred something and then, a jury of his peers in his mind. >> i was, you know, 80 to 90% listened to all the evidence. certain that this was the man is and with that weighty choice, decided that he was. that i saw. >> then, he found a picture of i'm satisfied with that. chris on the web. and tried photoshopping in a >> reporter: chris wright was sentenced to 15 years to life. vi he's filed an appeal, requesting few details, like a wig. a new trial. >> i looked at that and said, and david novak has not been charged with or accused by the yeah, that looks almost exactly like what i saw. >> reinforcing a memory. police of anything. but was the memory accurate? though, whether or not authorities want to talk to him as for the rest of the case, the is less clear. investigation wasn't over, yet. the story, just begun. >> you know where he is? >> i don't know where he is. the first puzzle pieces placed no. >> are your people trying to track him down? where they seemed to fit. >> well, part of the rules i'm but -- >> i've never had a case this constrained by is i don't speak about ongoing investigations or the existence of ongoing complicated before. >> oh, even more than investigations. complicated. as those friends in the loft began to believe, something >> reporter: but if law darker than that. enforcement was mum about david novak, ken dolezsar's widow was >> "dateline" returns, after the break. rns, after the break. not. dee mower filed a lawsuit did you know that some aluminum- free deodorants only mask odor? against novak, on grounds, secret aluminum free helps eliminate odor including wrongful death, instead of just masking it. conspiracy, breach of contract, and is made with three times more odor fighters. and fraud. her suit alleged a third theory.

with secret, odor is one less thing to worry about. that novak paid chris wright secret. $25,000 to kill ken dolezsar. novak didn't answer the suit, find your get-up-and-go. nor attend the proceeding. find pants that aren't sweats. so, in november, 2011, a judge find your friends. granted a default judgment on find your sense of wander. the breach of contract and fraud claims, and awarded mower $7 find the world is new, again. million. in august, 2012, the court at chevy we'd like to take you there. granted her a motion to dismiss now during the chevy open road sales event, the wrongful death and get up to 15% of msrp cash back on select 2020 models. conspiracy claims, so that a final judgment could be entered that's over fifty-seven hundred dollars in the case. back in the loft, some imagined cash back on this equinox. the worst about their former friend and neighbor. it's time to find new roads, again. >> what would you advise him to do, if you could talk to him? >> talk to you guys. tell the story. >> if you have nothing to hide. >> 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 his wife at starbucks, of course. he just isn't answering calls or e-mails from his former loft friends. and he didn't want to talk to "dateline." telling us, over the phone, he was not involved in ken's murder, has been cleared by the robinwithout the commission fees. so, you can start police. and anyone who says otherwise is investing today wherever you are - a liar and liable to be sued. bring it on, he said. even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. so is chris wright a liar? robinhood. i'm a verizon engineer bianca, an unwitting or, perhaps and i'm part of the team building 5g ultra wideband. willing, accomplice? it's already available in parts of select cities >> some people are surprised that you stayed. and it's rolling out in cities around the country. 25x faster than today's 4g networks. that you could go. >> i wouldn't leave a dog in christopher's situation. it's the fastest 5g in the world. i will work, until my dying day, this is 5g built right. to make sure he is -- that his name is cleared. ♪ i got it all from you ♪ i'm always pushing through you know? >> wait for him as long as you have to. >> yep. no problem.

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