he he was special. reporter: he taught peter about farming, about tending the orchards. he had the macular degeneration, so i was his eyes. reporter: but when his grandfather, his patron, died, pete s life changed quite suddenly. after we buried my grandpa, in short order i was pretty much told by my dad and my uncle that they didn t need my help anymore. i don t know whether it was animosity because i had gotten so close to their dad or what it was. reporter: after a particularly ugly fight with his dad, pete was exiled from the land of plenty, moved north of this eden into town and started a landscaping business. my wife and i had nothing, i mean, when i say nothing, i mean nothing to do with the moores.
murderer. ironic, perhaps, but for all his bluster, pete has never been in arrested, never been in trouble with the law, runs his own business, has been a good father, and over the years has taken in wayward teens to give them a better start. kids like nick. in other foster homes they do it for the money. pete didn t ask for any money in return. he fed me. clothed me. he gave me a car to drive. and now i look at pete like a dad. and anybody that has anything bad to say about pete never really took the time to get to know him because he is a good, loving person with a huge heart. we need more petes in this world. reporter: why were the cops so focused on pete to begin with? well, as pete tells it his cousin paul planned the whole thing. set out to frame him. first by lying to him telling him that roberto or robert as pete calls him was out to steal his birth right.
who were in line to one day run the farms as partners. cousins but raised more like brothers. here they are in 1978 in cut offs fishing bare handed, latter day huck and tom. in 1980 they were on the same high school football team. roger s son, paul, was smart and handsome and a playboy, while gus s boy peter just two rows down was tough and blunt, hot headed, really. pete has a reputation, i think, over in colusa county. his mouth basically has given him a reputation because of the things that he has said. i m a little different than the rest of them. reporter: oh, boy. so he is. calls them as he sees them even when it comes to his own family. there is too much money involved and everybody is afraid of what they might lose if they say something, even if it s right. reporter: there was one family member pete did have a deep connection with. his grandfather, the family patriarch. he he was special. reporter: he taught peter about farming, about tending the
reporter: in addition detective salm would routinely log in to check on the where ts of peter and paul s trucks. on the morning of thanksgiving day, more than four months after the bombing, salm turned on his computer to find the gps tracker on paul moore s truck. it had gone dead. we had no signal whatsoever. this is also the type of gps that you would call. you know, just like calling on a cell phone. and wake it up. they go to sleep when they re not moving. and where are you? we couldn t get a response. reporter: the device may have just died or been found so salm got into his car with his partner, drove to paul s house to see if the truck was there. we got to his house. i look in the kitchen window and he s staring at me. okay. reporter: hoping paul hadn t recognized him detective salm hit the road. as we re leaving town i look in the rear view mirror and there he is following us in his truck. he pulls in behind us. i speed up. he speeds up.
paul. but david and susan couldn t really give a reason why paul would want to kill roberto other than they felt paul just had that kind of personality to do something like that, while pete didn t. so you don t think peter is capable of actually developing a very sophisticated device to create an explosion? i am doubtful of it. i don t know him that well. that well. but i really wouldn t think he could. okay. and i also think he doesn t have the moxie to do something like that. what do you mean, the moxie? just the the meanness. the meanness? yeah. reporter: but peter had actually threatened roberto, wanted to fight him. and as far as anybody knew, paul had never done anything like that. nevertheless, based on this new information from david and susan moore, detectives asked paul to come in for another meeting.