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For much of his life paul moore had found ways to charm the folks around him. get away with bad behavior. at his trial in sacramento, pauls defense attorney followed what was a familiar script. she accused peter of murdering roberto aiello. >> peter moore has a lifetime of making threats. paul doesnt make threats to roberto, paul works with roberto. >> which is how parise presented paul to the jury. as you know, paul had a deeply troubled history with the law, violent sexual offense in his backg...

Incident. >> and there was more. paul showed detective salm texts he received from peter sent from the very ricefield where roberto was killed. >> the text was dated the time and day before. coming up, the focus shifts from the nuts and bolts of electrical explosions to an explosive personality. >> he was always the one that had something mean to say. he was always the one that hated him. that was the only person i could think of. >> why did you hate him? >> he was arrogant. he flaunted stuff ...

Stand. >> a sense of betrayal deeply felt by the man who speaks his mind. >> everybody pretty much threw me to the wolves. >> 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 on trial basically for my life. and i had no protection. >> with pete off the stand, the prosecution team still had a case to make, but with limited evidence. they couldnt mention the dna found on the stan...

The whole time. answer whatever questions i had. it it was no hesitation. >> brandy called 91 1. passed along details as relayed to her by the little boy. >> brandy, what is the little boy saying exactly that his dad -- >> okay. hes saying his dad turned something on for the water, im guessing an irrigating pump. >> uh-huh. >> and it blew up like a bomb. >> as they waited for the fire department to arrive, brandy began tending to the boy. fabian. >> gave him some water to drink then i took the w...

You, mr. moore? coming up, the defense says it was pete who had the motive to kill one man and implicate another. a master plan that would give him everything he wanted. >> 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. chd when we bought a house. matt: voilà! jen: matt started turning into his dad. matt: mm. thats some good ...

Roberto whod 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. >> yeah. >> we should have been the next in line. it wasnt fair. it was -- it was a slap ifn the face. >> and to make matters worse, roberto brought his brother, eduardo, in as his assistant. the cousin, they birthright withheld, fumed. >> paul had come over and tell me horrib...

That. coming up -- along with the crops, growing resentments at the farm. >> robert told paul that he was going to get my share of what my dad was going to leave me of the ranch. >> your intention was to fight it? >> oh, yeah. it settles things. >> the investigation continues as explosives experts try to determine what exactly happened to roberto. >> he came across a piece of met metal, that piece of metal said to him there was something more going on. >> the first clue unearthed. when "dateli...

And paul served no jail time. but the wiretapping story was just a prologue to what they were really there to talk about. >> who do you think is capable or responsible for actually setting up the explosive device in that panel? >> i think like probably 90% paul. >> but dave and susan couldnt give a reason why paul would want to kill roberto, other than they felt paul just had the kind of personality to do that. while pete didnt. >> you dont think peter is capable of actually developing a very so...

Him charged with roberto aiellos murder, far from it, it was enough to get people in town whispering. >> rumors are like bat smell, they move fast. >> eduardo heard those rumors, heard that maybe paul had something to do with robertos murder. which placed roberto in the hitchcockian situation of working side by side with the man who may have murdered his mother. >> i look at limb just like im looking at you. and in the back of my mind im thinking, youre the one that did it. >> while the dna resu...

Days after robertos death, investigators received in the mail this hand-drawn picture of a bomb. what did you think when you saw that diagram? >> shock. >> we were amazed. absolutely amazed. id never seen anything like that before. >> the device, as shown in the diagr diagram, was a two-inch pipe bomb placed next to a one-liter soda bottle full of gasoline. spray painted black. a large bolt tied off with a fishing line and acting as a drop weight would fall on a rat trap causing it to strike a f...