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>> he came across a piece of metal that he found. 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. ...

Setting up an explosive device in that panel? >> i think, like, probably 90% 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. >> ...

The trouble was, nobody knew the rules or the purpose or where 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 ...

Ironic, perhaps, but for all his 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 t...

Farm manager. a demanding sun up to sundown job. 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 ricefield 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. ...

Investigation, they could not come up with anyone who said, i heard paul moore say he wanted to hurt roberto. >> no, but they did find this document on pauls computer, titled, my life. a rambling self pitying skraed. i think my dad thinks im stupid, hes always saying how smart robert is. 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? coming up, a verdict that will divide...

Looking for a job. the killer, though, the killer never called. this whole ms-13 thing was just some sort of game the real bomber was playing. the problem was, nobody knew the rules or the purpose or where the game might end. more than one way to find a guy brazen enough to send that material to the cops. >> we had the letters we wanted to get analyzed we wanted fingerprints and dna. what was going on? to investigators, one theory seemed the least likely. that roberto was mixed up with ms-13. th...

Case, acknowledging that 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 paul. >> the prosecution was forced to call pete as a witness. knowing that would make him a punching bag for parise. >> she said, youre a murderer, arent you? >> i said thos...

Jumped into his truck and drove down to the farm and called roberto out. >> i told him, lets go. >> your intention was to fight him. >> oh, yeah. it settles things. >> but roberto politely declined. he had a farm to run. the next time peter heard anything more about roberto, it was that he was dead. what did you think? when you heard that he was dead? >> i was told it was an accident. >> which is certainly what it was, at least according to the experts from pg&e. to be sure, the detective called...

>> what did working that farm mean to your dad? >> that was everything. it was our life and his life, our whole life revolved around it, we were always there. growing up. >> first jobs as kids, right? >> yeah, learn how to drive on the farm, pretty much do everything on the farm. >> tell me about your dad. what kind of guy was he? >> he was someone to look up to, a hard worker. we admired him. it did not go unnoticed on the moore farm. over the years, roger and gus came to rely on roberto. they ...