that came back as a partial match to paul moore was not enough to get him charged with roberto ayala s murder. far from it. but it was enough to get some people in town whispering. rumors run. rumors are like bad smell. they move fast. reporter: eduardo heard those rumors. heard that maybe paul had something to do with roberto s murder. which placed eduardo in the hitchcockian situation of working side by side with the man who may have murdered his brother. i d look at him just like i m looking at you, talked to him just like i m talking to you, and in the back of my mind i m thinking, you re the one that did it. reporter: while that dna result from the stamp wasn t strong enough to hold up in court, it was significant enough to get a warrant to search paul s home. for whatever that was worth, five long months after the bombing. he had done some kind of major cleaning of his house. so we d actually had conversation about this and reporter: like what s the
reporter: but remember, paul s ex-in-laws told detective salm that paul was more likely the guilty party. probably 90% paul. reporter: so now the detective turned the tables a little and suggested maybe it was he, paul, who was jealous of roberto. i didn t hate robert. okay. did you not like him? i didn t like the fact that he would cop an attitude with me. just over something stupid, you know, and little. reporter: detective salm pressed paul about his past. you ve got several incidents here i have a criminal record. you ve been involved in some bad stuff. okay? you cut phone wires. i tried to help you guys out through this whole thing. you re going to start to cop an attitude
then i would think the same thing about paul. by working side to side with the guy, i could see that he was smart. super smart guy. reporter: by the time the rice crop came in the first couple weeks of october the whole case had gone into a kind of stall. atf agent brian parker was particularly frustrated. while the door of the electrical panel had been recovered the box, itself, where the bomb had been placed, was still missing. the most logical place where that remains of that panel was, was in the river that was directly behind where the explosion occurred. reporter: so they called in an fbi dive team which spent days mucking through the bottom of the canal next to where the bomb had gone off. agent parker, who had been monitoring the search, had a strange incident as he was leaving one day. and all of a sudden the tire went flat. reporter: this is what flattened the tire.
point conversation? that was one of the things that was talked about. and the decision was made. i didn t want to leave it untouched. reporter: sure. but your expectations were not that high. no, they weren t. reporter: with just this one crack at paul s house, detective salm wanted to make sure they did a thorough search. so he cobbled together a team of investigators from various law enforcement agencies. before we served the search warrant we had a briefing. reporter: one of the cops helping him was a detective from a neighboring town, jose chewy ruiz. actually showed us a diagram of the bomb and that s pretty much what we are instructed to look for. reporter: anything related to that. yes. exactly. anything related to bomb making. reporter: they arrived en masse right after daybreak. unannounced of course. paul waited outside while each investigator took a piece of the house. and in they went. i found some manila envelopes, copier, and also a printer. repo
in short order, i was pretty much told by my dad and my uncle that they didn t need my help anymore. and i didn t know whether it was animosity because i had gotten so close to their dad or what it was. after a particularly ugly fight with his dad, pete was exiled from the land of plenty. moved north into town and started a landescaping business. my wife and i had nothing. i mean, and i when i say nothing, i mean nothing to do with the moores. 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 he d rein over the land. but he was never involved in the big questions. when and what to sow. when to reap. those multimillion dollar decisions were left up to