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>> i -- 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 had the kind of personality to do something like that, while pete didnt. >> you dont think peter is capable of actually developing a very sophisticated device to create an explosion? >> i -- im doubtful of it. i dont know him that well, that well. but i really wouldnt think he could. >> okay. >> and i -- i also think he doesnt have the moxie to do some...

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 him. >> 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 metal. that piece of metal said to him that there was something more going on. >> the first clue unearthed when ""dateline"" continues. [♪]

Office, colusa, california, no street address and in the upper left-hand corner says ayala case and then there are eight stamps on it. it was pretty light. it was way too much postage. >> reporter: because inside was just a single sheet of paper. an open letter to the cops. what did that letter say? >> basically it was claiming responsibility for the bombing. >> the letter full of misspellings and bad grammar had been written on a label maker, then photocopied. its author claimed to be a militar...

Keith morrison (voiceover): in the months following roberto ayalas murder, investigators suspected 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 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 opera...

I wanted to give you guys time to help these guys and do something about it. >> 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. ...

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 rice field 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. >> he was just going to the rice field when we heard this big explosion. i go out and see w...

A master plan that would give him everything he wanted. >> peter is the one who 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? stuffy? thats because your home is filled with soft surfaces that trap odors and release them back into the room. so, try febreze fabric refresher febreze finds odors trapped in fabrics (bubbles popping) and cleans them away as it dries. use febreze every tim...

We were always there and growing up. >> reporter: first jobs as kids, right? >> yeah. learned how to drive on the farm, learned how to do pretty much 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 emplo...

>> reporter: and paul? 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 multi-million dollars 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 respons...

Murderer. 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 ...