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We knew pete didnt get along with his family. we knew pete had a hot head. we knew pete had access to the property. >> reporter: and for paul to denounce peter who was like his brother? sad, perhaps, but made sense to the das office, which signed off on the warrant to have petes house searched. it was just a few blocks away. >> went out to grab a bite to eat. when we came home we saw them all at the house searching the house. >> mary ellen is peter moores wife. >> couldnt believe it? >> reporter...

Roberto a very religious man who worked his way up from field hand to farm manager, oversaw the day-to-day operations of a multimillion-dollar spread. he knew the land. he knew the machines that worked it. he was utterly committed to that work. what did working that farm mean to your dad? >> that was everything. it was our whole, even our lives and his life, our whole life revolved around it. we were always there and growing up. >> reporter: first jobs as kids, right? >> yeah. learned how to dri...

>> 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 danger. and who was that person? roberto ayalas son, jesus. the threat against the ayalas was looking very real. >> it was real. it didnt just look...

Blew out the windows and peppered 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 fabian and fabian was okay but they couldnt tell us what happened to roberto. we thought he was in the hospital. >> reporter: and you didnt know what happened? >> translator...

Irresistible catnip for pauls defense attorney. petes first day on the stand. >> he said youre a murderer, arent you, mr. moore? >> the defense points the finger at pete who they say has the motive to kill one man and implicate another. a master plan that would give him everything he wanted. coming up -- >> peter is the one who has indicated, ive been in landscaping for 20 years. ive broken down. i want to be in the farming operation. what better way to take out roberto and to take out paul? >> ...

>> reporter: why were the cops so focused on pete to begin with? well, as pete tells it, his cousin paul planned the whole thing. set out to frame him. first by lying to him telling him that roberto, or robert as pete calls him, was out to steal his birthright. >> paul would come over and tell me horrible stuff about ed and robert. like he said robert told paul that he was going to get my share of what my dad was going to leave me of the ranch. so paul would come over and say stuff to me and he ...

Employee. how important was family to roberto? >> probably the most important thing. it all revolved around this. we didnt have much but everywhere he went, we went, too. we were always together. >> whatever went wrong, he was the one to go to. he was the one to keep everybody together. >> reporter: latino culture celebrated coming of age ritual called the quincinera, when a girl turns 15. so when roberts daughter turned 15 -- >> he went all out. it was his only -- i was the only girl so he did ...

But i really wouldnt think he could. >> okay. >> and i also think he doesnt have the moxie to do something like that. >> what do you mean, the moxie? >> just the -- the meanness. >> the meanness? >> yeah. >> reporter: but peter had actually threatened roberto, wanted to fight him. and as far as anybody knew, paul had never done anything like that. nevertheless, based on this new information from david and susan moore, detectives asked paul to come in for another meeting. which he did quite willi...

In the "sacramento bee." and, sure enough. somebody responded. cops rushed to see him. perhaps arrest him. >> he was pretty surprised when he got a visit. >> false alarm. it was just an unlucky guy looking for a job. the killer though? the killer never called. so the whole ms 13 thing, the mexico deal gone wrong was just some sort of game. the real bomber was playing it. 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 enou...

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 operation. >> reporter: linda parisi, paul moores attorney, presented in court a mirror image of the states 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 on...