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This news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes. To go to the polls. Halt its slide in court will meet. With conditions. Is not inability. Only female paralympic athlete. To pass and with a disability the cat. Welcome to the program. In the president ial election which is the most closely contested since the end of the apartheid era the see the African National congress the. Country since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but its fortunes. Since then Nelson Mandela won nearly sixty th...

This. this changes you forever. >> reporter: the next chapter wasnt a lift from the book of genesis. more like the story of job. >> one thing thats kind of unique, maybe, or especially about colusa county, is every time ive ever had a big case, i can go into almost any coffee shop or restaurant, and theyre solving it for me. >> reporter: those things can get twisted very fast. >> they get twisted really fast. in this case it was constantly, you know pete moore did it. you know pete moore did it....

What if pete did it? >> peter has animosity towards roberto. peter has made threats to roberto. peter is the one that wants in to the farming operation. >> reporter: linda parisi, paul moores attorney, presented in court a mirror image of the states case acknowledging that one cousin was out to frame the other, only in her version of the story paul was the stooge and peter the mastermind. >> peter is the one who has indicated, ive been in landscaping for 20 years. im tired. im broken down. i wan...

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...

>> reporter: when pete got home, would he be upset? >> yeah, he would be angry, upset. telling us things we didnt even know if they were true. >> reporter: dave and sue moore told investigators they, too, thought paul had been setting pete up. >> theyd talk a lot between themselves too. and i think paul has been able to manipulate peter. >> reporter: but pete just didnt see it. didnt realize he was being played by his cousin. that just couldnt be. >> we grew up together. we were together every d...

>> i wish there werent so much hate and anger in our family. and that we just -- everybody treated each other like a family supposed to treat each other. >> reporter: throughout the trial pauls father roger thought his son innocent and declined to talk to us. his own son convicted of murdering the man whom he treated like a son. other members of the moore family declined our request for interviews after the verdict too, even most of those who support pete. they said they didnt want to stir thing...

Since the end of the apartheid era the see the african national congress the. country since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but its fortunes. since then nelson mandela won nearly sixty three percent of the vote in that fast free election in one thousand to four support pete. and becky just. as you can see the table behind me now its steadily. the question whether. the downward trend. with one who takes stock of the last twenty five years. now since. agency election. symbolic of the party s...