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He never went without. paul married a local beauty. 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 famil...

Up to sun down job so to squeeze in quality time with his family hed often take one of his three kids with him. a proud man. always pictured with his chest out, his chin up. 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 th...

Robert was -- told paul that he 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 thin...

One cousin was out to frame the other, only in her version of the story paul was the stooge 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, m...

>> peter is the one who has indicated, ive been in 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.

Come up with anyone who said, i heard paul moore say he wanted to hurt roberto. >> reporter: no. but they did find this document on pauls computer titled "my life" a rambling, self-pitying document. what did i do wrong to be treated this way? i think my dad really thinks im stupid. he is always saying how smart robert is. but ultimately the trial came down to a single sheet of blank paper. almost like a rorschach test for the jury. what would they see, paul moores guilt or a plot to frame him? c...

Up. >> reporter: first jobs as kids, right? >> yeah. learned how to drive on the 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?...

It was just a few blocks away. >> went out to grab a bite to 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. ...

Weeks. i wanted to give you guys time to help these guys and do something about it. >> 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 da...

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...