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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...

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...

>> 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. >> reporter: what the heck is ms 13? >> its a violent ...

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. (cat meows) (dark barks) ♪ guess whos early? (cat meows) good thing walgreens is right around the corner with last minute holiday supplies. get in. get out. get jolly.

Me horrible stuff about ed and robert, that robert was saying about me, like he said that robert was -- robert 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. >> ...

But only 11% of its executives are women, and the quit rate is twice as high for them. heres a hack: make sure theres bandwidth for everyone. the more you know. keith morrison (voiceover): in the months following roberto ayalas murder, investigators suspected peter moore was the bomber and built a case against him. 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 defen...

Moore. >> reporter: paul, petes beloved cousin, the handsome golden boy of the pair told the detective he found something out at the scene of the accident, something that shouldnt have been there. >> he came across a piece of metal that he found. it looked like galvanized iron or some kind of galvanized 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...

Paul remained the family golden boy. his doting grandmother made sure 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, when 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 af...

>> reporter: so you at least had some time. maybe. >> maybe. >> dave tells me that they had received a letter and the letter had mentioned me. >> reporter: robertos brother eduardo. >> he says be careful. watch yourself. >> reporter: but it wasnt just eduardo in the crosshairs. 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 ayala...

But 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 field hand to f...