what was it like to see fabian in that situation? i think someone, being older, wouldn t be able to handle it as well as my brother did. reporter: pretty amazing, wasn t it? to run all that way. i wouldn t have been able to run that much. i wouldn t even know what to do. to stay strong the way he did. i just i wasn t there and i couldn t control myself. i don t know how he did it. reporter: farm accidents are as old as the wheel. bad things just happen sometimes. still, sheriff s investigators scoured the area, taking photos and collecting every bit of debris they could find, whether it looked like it was from an electrical box or not. one of our jobs for the jurisdiction is to investigate all industrial accidents. reporter: because, said the sheriff s detective, in colusa county the sheriff does double duty as the county coroner. osha eventually will take
so he cobbled together a team of investigators from various law enforcement agencies. before we served the search warrant we had a briefing. reporter: one of the cops helping him was a detective from a neighboring town, jose chewy ruiz. actually showed us a diagram of the bomb and that s pretty much what we are instructed to look for. reporter: anything related to that. yes. exactly. anything related to bomb making. reporter: they arrived en masse right after daybreak. unannounced of course. paul waited outside while each investigator took a piece of the house. and in they went. i found some manila envelopes, copier, and also a printer. reporter: the problem though was that paul s home, owned by the moore family, doubled as the farm office. there were printers and copiers, envelopes, expected to be there, too. as you went around and found those things what were you thinking? we really want that one
county is every time i ve ever had a big case i can go into almost any coffee shop or restaurant and they re solving it for me. reporter: those things can get twisted very fast. they get twisted really fast. in this case it was constantly you know pete moore did it. you know pete moore did it. my response was well that s not the direction i m going in. reporter: not the direction at all. in fact, d.a. pointer was about to put pete on the prosecution team. as a key witness against paul. making pete work with the same people who at one point were hoping to put him in prison. that uncomfortable fact was irresistible catnip for paul s defense attorney. pete s first day on the stand. he said you re a murderer, aren t you, mr. moore? reporter: coming up the defense says it was pete who had the motive.
through what? the field. the flower field. yeah. big, tall yeah. you re running through them trying to yeah. how far did you have to go? i don t know. pretty far. far indeed. more than two miles running, running, running blindly through the field of golden flowers that closed in about him. and i saw the house and i just went toward it. do you remember what you said to them? something happened to my dad. he was that way and can you help me and they said, yes. they called the police department and they came as quick as they can. when firefighters reached the irrigation canal from which little fabian had run for help, it was obvious there was no life left to save. roberto ayala s body must indeed have been on fire just as fabian said it was. why became clear when they found burn holes about an inch wide near the bottom of his feet, an
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