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He is just laying on the ground. Reporter the loving father of three, the Farms Heart and soul killed in a ball of fire. They are saying it was an accident. Our ascension was it was a Pipe Bomb. Someone claimed the dead man had reaped what he had sown. He had messed with a Drug Cartel. But maybe the truth lay with the owners. I wished there werent so much Hate And Anger in our family. One Family Member seemingly held a grudge against the victim. He always had something mean to say. Reporter anot...

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Powerful moore family, had been killed by a complicated homemade bomb. the prime suspect, pete moore, famously hotheaded, angry, because he believed his father might have given his inheritance to ayala. petes uncle, roger moore, believed an audiotape from his answering machine could help detectives, who still didnt have enough evidence to make an arrest. the voice on the tape? none other than rogers nephew pete. >> hey, this is pete. ive worked for 28 years doing what im doing so that i could ev...

Video more or less comports with the diagram. >> well, it shows a rat trap hitting a lighter. >> what it shows though is a rat trap, just an unusual kind of triggering device. it shows a screw activating the rat trap and then an incendiary component. >> reporter: so was pete investigating bomb-making ideas? not a chance, countered the state. >> there is nothing on this hard drive that indicates to me anyone was using it to research how to build explosives. >> this investigator did the initial se...

What do you think pauls motive was? why did he kill robert? >> he used to always talk about, oh, robert thinks hes so smart. and so by -- by killing him, he feels like in his own mind that he got one over on robert. i believe pauls trying to finger me for doing it, him and his dad would have the whole place by themselves. thats what i believe today. it is the only thing that makes sense to me. >> reporter: pete wishes the moores could go all the way back to the beginning when the farm meant fami...

I think he felt his dad treated robert better than pete got treated when he worked there. he said something about his dad taking him out of the will. >> reporter: one thing, though. paul, like his second cousin dave, didnt think that pete was capable of making that bomb. somebody must have helped him. >> i just dont think pete has the technical ability to do it. unless he seriously had some help. >> okay. so this type of thing was done by somebody who is pretty intelligent, maybe got some know-h...

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, im broken down, i want to be in the farming operation. what better way to take out roberto and to take out paul? >> when "family business" continues. billions of...

Stop the rumor mill. was it just small-town gossip or something else? here with more of our story is keith morrison. >> reporter: little colusa, california, was dumbstruck. paul moore arrested for the killing of roberto ayala. few even knew he was a suspect. mary, pauls cousin and petes sister, got a barrage of texts at work. >> it was bittersweet. there was a part of me that was relieved that it was over for pete or that he wasnt, you know, mixed in with it. and at the same time i was sad becau...

Secret, paul went into exile near santa cruz. however, as part of the original plea deal, pauls attempt to commit rape conviction was dropped, vacated in 2007, seven years later. in exchange paul pleaded no contest to the assault with a deadly weapon charge, which meant paul was no longer a registered sex offender. and the prodigal son was welcomed home. that part of his past a carefully guarded secret from most of the folks here in colusa county. but petes past was not a secret. everybody knew ...

Deliberation, they walked back into the courtroom and declared paul moore guilty of murder. the judge sentenced him to life in prison. >> i remember driving away from the courtroom, and my wife and i were together -- we just started crying. because we knew it was over. you know, i did a job. i went in there, i -- i did my job. i told everything i knew. and it -- and it wasnt easy, because -- i basically put away somebody who i loved. >> reporter: but pete is not so blind that he doesnt see how h...