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Paul. >> but david and susan couldnt really give a reason why paul would want to kill roberto other than they felt paul just had that kind of personality to do something like that, while pete didnt. >> so you dont think peter is capable of actually developing a very sophisticated device to create an explosion? >> i am doubtful of it. i dont know him that well. that well. but i really wouldnt think he could. >> okay. >> and i also think he doesnt have the moxie to do something like that. >> what ...

>> reporter: and for three days you were essentially on trial. i mean, your cousin was on trial for murder but it was like you were on trial for murder. >> i was on trial. i was. i was. basically for my life and i had no protection. >> reporter: with pete off the stand the prosecution had a case to make but with limited evidence. they couldnt mention the dna. not conclusive. nor could they tell the jury about pauls previous assault and attempt to commit rape conviction in san francisco. not rele...

At his trial here in sacramento pauls defense attorney followed what was by now a familiar script. she accused peter of murdering roberto ayala. >> peter moore has a lifetime of making threats. paul does not make threats to roberto. paul works with roberto. >> which is how parisi presented paul to the jury. of course if you know paul had a deeply troubled history with the law. violent sexual offense in his background. but the jury didnt get to hear about that. nor were they told about the dna. q...

Was going to get my share of what my dad was going to leave me of the ranch. >> reporter: fair to say though that your nerves were a little bit raw about ed and robert. >> oh, no. i was mad. im going to be honest with you. there was a lot of animosity. >> reporter: so much so that one day pete jumped into his truck and drove down to the farm and called roberto out. >> i told him, well lets go. >> reporter: your intention was to fight him. oh, yeah. it settles things. >> reporter: but roberto pol...

Landscaping for 20 years, im broken down, i want to be in the farming operation. what better way to take out roberto and to take out paul? >> when "dateline" continues.

Windows and covered the passenger side of robertos new ford f-250. a miracle little fabian wasnt killed, too. >> translator: we received a phone call that something had happened. >> reporter: robertos wife fabiola. >> translator: it was when we received the call from the police department and they said they had fabian and fabian was okay but they couldnt tell us what happened to roberto. we thought he was in the hospital. >> reporter: and you didnt know what happened? >> translator: we didnt kno...

>> reporter: so you at least had some time. maybe. >> maybe. >> he tells me that they had received a letter and the letter had mentioned me. >> reporter: robertos brother eduardo. >> they said, be careful. watch yourself. >> reporter: but it wasnt just eduardo in the cross hairs. the letter writer claimed whoever was now driving robertos now repaired pickup truck, that white f-250 the bomber wrote, is in great danger. and who was that person? roberto ayalas son, jesus. the threat against the aya...

On july 16th, 2011, that saturday, roberto needed to flood a rice field by turning on a series of high voltage irrigation pumps. fabian by his side in his pickup truck, roberto drove the quarter mile distance from one pump to the next. and then he stopped, got out, walked to the big electrical box. >> he was just going to the rice field when there was this big explosion. i go out and see what happened. he was just laying on the ground. >> so what did you do? i yelled his name out and he wasnt an...

This is his wedding video. and he waited for the day when hed reign over the land. but he was never involved in the big questions when and what to sow, what to reap. those multimillion dollar decisions were left up to roberto ayala, who had once been a lowly field hand, but anyone could see roberto was a natural farmer and gradually trust and responsibility and the owners affection came to rest with him. >> paul and i were the boys in the family. >> reporter: yeah. >> we should have been the nex...

And peter the mastermind. >> peter is the one who has indicated, ive been in landscaping for 20 years. im tired. im broken down. i want to be in the farming operation. what better way to take out roberto and to take out paul? >> to counter that argument the prosecution was forced to call pete as a witness, knowing that would make him a punching bag for parisi. >> she told me, youre a murderer arent you, mr. moore? i said those are your words not mine. >> she thought she could, by grilling peter,...