he s bright. he s clever. comic book arch villain. comic book arch villain. he s clever. evil as can be on a beautiful, sprawling farm seeds of danger. i heard this big explosion. i heard this big explosion. ground this loving father of three the farms heart and soul killed in a ball of fire they were saying it was an accident our assumption was it was a pipe bomb. pipe bomb. someone claimed the dead ma had reaped what he sowed i wish that there weren t so much hate and anger in our family. narrator: one family member seemingly held a grudge against the victim. he later implied that roberto had messed with th drug cartel. but maybe the truth lay wit the farms owners a wealthy clan known for harvesting rice and resentment i wish that there weren t s much hate and anger in our family one family seemingly held a grudge against the victim. he always had something mea to say, he hated him another whodunnit for investigators. who chases the police but who
your everyday life, an somebody set you up for over a year and a half. you don t know who to believe. and so, it kept everybody at odds my life was so sped out of control, i couldn t figure, ou what was going on. but pete s wife, mary ellen said that she could see paul s of pete. he would talk to him all th time and what pete got home woul he be upset? he got angry, upset telling us things that w didn t even know if they wer true david su more tol investigators they too thought paul was setting pete up they talked a lot t themselves to, and i think pau has been able to manipulat peter. but they just didn t see it didn t realize he was bein played by his cousin that just couldn t be. we grew up together, we wer together every day our parents bought us walkie talkies when we were seven eight years old. and i would sit in my back bedroom.
so by now your suspicions were ratcheted up quite a bit? yes were you worried about your own safety in parts the investigatio that was worry about her safety we re dealing with someone who is violent enough to plant a bomb but was that person pau moore. he had a criminal history to b sure, but was he a killer? there were certain things abou paul s past detective salm was unable to share with us fo reasons what we discovered a saga of smart expensive lawyerin dealing with misdeeds that g way beyond tapping and ex-wife s telephone. in 1997, paul was arrested after an incident in san francisco one night. ugly accusation, rape, false i prison, assault with a deadl weapon, trying to run hi alleged victim over with thi pick up truck. charges that could put paul in prison for a decade or more.
000, everybody seemed to kno just about everybody here. so what i would be anonymous tips are called the sheriff office, turned out he wasn t anonymous after all. the detective who took the cal recognize the voice and phoned him right back said, hey, you need to come in and talk to us. the caller as it turned out was this man dave moore, cousin of roger an gus. with a multi million dolla spread of his own and a passio for birds. dave stepdaughter had once bee married to paul. this is a video from their wedding day, a messy divorce followed a few years later so david and susan moor came into our office susan moore is dave s wife. what did they say when they go into the office? the first thing they said i the wiretapping incident wiretapping yes dave ensue claimed that pau kept his wife s phone to spy o
know him that well, that well, but i really wouldn t think he could. i also doesn t think he has th moxie to do something like that what do you mean moxie? the intelligence the meanness. but peter had threatene roberto ayala wanted to figh him and as far as anybody knew paul had never done anything like that. nevertheless, based on this ne information from david and susan moore, detectives aske paul to come in for anothe meeting. good morning, have a seat which he did, quite willingly, took time off on saturday afternoon and detective salm asked pau directly do you have a prior crimina record yes i was into drugs and stuff whe i was younger. committed felonies in fact. then he said he just grew up and now wanted to help in an way he could even if it meant informing o