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Farm, how to pretty much do everything on the farm. >> reporter: tell me about your dad. what kind of a guy was he? >> he was a hard worker. someone to look up to. we admired him. >> reporter: and it did not go unnoticed on the moore farm. over the years, owners roger and gus came to rely a great deal on roberto. they treated roberto more like a favored son than just an employee. how important was family to roberto? >> probably the most important thing. it all revolved around this. we didnt have...

Bluster, pete has never been in arrested, never been in trouble with the law, runs his own business, has been a good father, and over the years has taken in wayward teens to give them a better start. kids like nick. >> in other foster homes they do it for the money. pete didnt ask for any money in return. he fed me. clothed me. he gave me a car to drive. and now i look at pete like a dad. and anybody that has anything bad to say about pete never really took the time to get to know him because he...

On it. it was pretty light. it was way too much postage. >> reporter: because inside was just a single sheet of paper. an open letter to the cops. what did that letter say? >> reporter: basically it was claiming responsibility for the bombing. >> the letter full of misspellings and bad grammar had been written on a label maker then photo copied. its author claimed to be a military trained contract killer had been hired to kill roberto over a mexico deal gone wrong and that it was ms 13 behind it...

Explosives experts try to determine what exactly happened to roberto. >> a piece of metal. that piece of metal said to him that there was something more going on. thats why we redesigned humira. we wanted to make the experience better for you. now theres less pain immediately following injection. weve reduced the size of the needle and removed the citrate buffers. and it has the same effectiveness you know and trust. humira citrate-free is here. a little change can make a big difference. humira ...

Keith morrison (voiceover): in the months following roberto ayalas murder, investigators suspected in the months following roberto ayalas murder, investigators suspect that peter moore was the bomber and built a case against him. so when peters cousin paul was arrested, his defense asked an obvious question. what if the cops first instinct was correct? what if pete did it? peter has animosity toward roberto. peter has made threats to roberto. peter is the one that wants in to the farming opera...

It looked like galvanized iron or metal and that piece of metal said to him that there was something more going on. >> reporter: did he have any other ideas about what may have happened? >> he did. he told us his cousin pete had made some threats toward the victim and the time leading up to the incident. >> reporter: and there was more. paul showed the detective texts he received from peter sent from the very rice field where roberto was killed. >> that text was dated and timed the day before. ...

Eat. when we came home weerks saw them all at the house searching the house. >> mary ellen is peter moores house. >> couldnt believe it. >> reporter: did you think it had something to do with what happened to roberto? >> well, i didnt think that at first. i said, what are they doing at our house? >> i got out of the house and said what the -- is going on here? two cops came over and grabbed me and escorted me to the front of my house. >> reporter: mary ellen and peter asked investigators what wa...

The game might end. more than one way to find a guy brazen enough to sent that material to the cops. >> we had the letters we wanted to get analyzed. we wanted fingerprints. we wanted dna. >> reporter: the letters and envelopes came back clean just as the bomber said they would. what was going on? to investigators one theory seemed the least likely, that roberto was mixed up with a drug gang ms 13. the ayalas are a classic bootstrap story. roberto a very religious man who worked his way up from ...

Obvious sign of electrocution. an electrical box used to turn on a high voltage irrigation pump had apparently shorted out and exploded with such intensity metal fragments blew out the 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 fa...

Moore had found ways to charm the folks around them and get away with bad behavior. 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 backgr...