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
began tending to the boy fabian ayala fabian ayala and then i rinsed all the mu keith morrison: not at all? keith morrison (voiceover): this is fabian three years off and checked under his shir to see if there were major injuries were you hurt no. no. this is fabian three years roberto was a farm manager, a demanding sunup to sundown job. later. his family by his side, he told us about the last da he spent with his dad. he would take me out when h has something to do. fabian s dad roberto was farm manager, demanding sun up to sun down job. irrigation pumps. family he would often take one of his three kids with him a proud man. always pictured with his chest out and chin up. on july 16th, 2011, that saturday, roberto needed t flood the rice field by turnin on a series of high voltag irrigation pumps fabian, by his side, in hi
the money. he did not ask for any money i return he fed me, clothes me, gave me a car to drive and now, i look at pete like a dad. and anybody that has anythin bad to say about, peters never took any time to get to know him. because he is a good, loving person with a huge heart and we need more pete in thi world. so why where the cops s focused on pete to begin with? well, his vetoes of his cousin paul, planned the whole thing. set up to frame him. first by lying to him. telling him that roberto o robert as pete called him wa out to steal his birthright. paul would come over an tell me horrible stuff about e and robert he said robert told paul tha he was gonna get my share of what my dad was gonna reliev me at the ranch. so paula come over and say something to me. and he knew he was gonna mak me want to go say something or fight with somebody. and pete? he said he was simply blind to paul s manipulation. when you are going throug
the letter had mentioned me. roberto s brother eduardo it says be careful. watch yourself but it wasn t just eduard in the crosshairs. ayalas was looking very real.hg roberto ayalas was looking very real.hg truck, that white f-250, the it was real. a lot of sleepless nights. bomber wrote, is in grea danger and who was that person? roberto ayala s son jesus. it didn t just look real, i was real a lot of sleepless nights. because this ex marine no only had a farm to run, but as he saw, a murder to solve, and now two families to protect. going through my mind was just, look out take care of my brother family primarily, take care of myuck os brother s family, take care of my family, look after myself look over your shoulder. the first thing eduardo did was hide the pick up truck now with the truck out of sight, with the killer or killers jus found a different or a bette place for a bomb place for a bomb
roberto ayala s car. it was a miracle that fabian wasn t killed too. we received information a something happened roberto s wife. it was when we received a call from the police department, and they said that we have you son, and that he was okay. but they couldn t tell us what happened to roberto. we thought he was in the hospital you didn t know wha happened to him? translator: we didn t kno what had happened. we called the hospital, and th hospital didn t know anythin about what had happened. about an hour, or an hour and half later, they arrived wit fabian my mom asked my brother where is my dad? and my brother just starte screaming that he was dead what was it like to seein fabian in that situation as someone older, i wouldn be able to handle it as well a my brother did it was pretty amazing wasn t it? to run all that way? i wouldn t have been able t run that much. i wouldn t have known what t do just to stay strong in the way