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Who 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 el salvadorian criminal street gang. >> reporter: and that roberto was supposed to be a target of this group? >> the letter plied roberto had messed with a drug cartel and that ms 13 had been contracted. >> the author of the letter taunted the detectives writing the lab results would find military grade powder but no dna which was true so far...

We had bomb guys saying it was a bomb, but theyre bomb guys. >> reporter: right. >> were not a hundred percent convinced its a bomb yet. >> reporter: then, three days after the explosion -- >> we got a visit from paul 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 m...

Something on for the water? im guessing maybe an irrigating pump? and it blew up like a bomb. >> as they waited for the fire department to arrive, brandy began tending to the boy, fabian ayala. >> gave him some water to drink. then i took the water and rinsed all the mud off and checked under his shirt to see if there was any major injuries or not. >> were you hurt? >> no. >> not at all? >> uh-uh. >> this is fabian three years later. his family by his side, he told us about the last day he spent...

>> reporter: yeah. >> we should have been the next in line. it wasnt fair. it was a slap in the face. >> reporter: and to make matters worse, roberto brought his brother eduardo in as his assistant. the cousins, their birthright withheld, fumed. >> paul would come over and tell 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: fa...

The trouble was nobody knew the rules or the purpose or where the game might end. but 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. 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 the drug gang ms-13. the ayalas are a classic boots...

Used to turn on a high voltage irrigation pump had apparently shorted out and exploded with such intensity, metal fragments blew out the windows and peppered the passenger side of robertos new ford f-250. 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...

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. >> ...

>> 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, mr. moore? i said those are your words not mine. >> she thought she could, by grilling peter, uncover the evil, the mon...

When we came home, we 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. >> reporter: mary ellen and peter asked investigators what was going...

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 made some threats toward the victim in the time leading up ...