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 another came gunning for investigators. Who chases the police . Who was hiding the darkest of secrets . A Blank Sheet of paper with a diabolical clue. I fell to my knees and started screaming. There is an eden in the american west. A wide flat earthen cornucopia whose bounty daily fills the bellies of millions. Whose fathers and mothers employ Lee Legions of worker. Deeply conservative. Selfreliant. Tough enough to thrive in a dangerous business that takes cuts and brains in central california. Too often lives. Here among the churning slashing machinery, the high Voltage Power that helped grow the food of life, death can take a man unawares. Even on a sleepy summer day. We just looked up and there he was. Reporter like today, a little Boy Burst from the field of sunflowers next to brandys place. He was beet red. Sweety. He was just covered in Mud Head to toe. Carrying his shoes. He had been running barefoot. He said he had taken them off. I think he got stuck in the mud. Reporter brandy and her kids live in a rambling house next to one of those big farms in calusa county. Quiet life. Predictable. Until saturday afternoon, that little boy appeared like magic from the sunflower field. Couldnt have been more than seven years old or so. So what did he say . He said that his dad was On Fire and he needed to call for help. On fire . How could that be . He was serious . He was serious. Once he started to talk, was he making sense . Yes. He was able to talk the whole time. Answer whatever questions i had. Reporter brandy called 911 and passed along details from the little boy. What is the little boy saying . Exactly . That his dad . His dad turned something on for the water, im guessing an Irrigating Pump and it blew up Like A bomb. Reporter as they waited for the fire department, brandy began attending to the boy, fabian ayala. Gave him the water to drink and rinsed the Mud Off and checked to see if there were any major injuries. Were you hurt . No. Not at all . Uhuh. This is fabian three years later. His family by his side. He told us about the last day he spent with his dad. He would take me out when he had something to do. His dad is a farm manager. A demanding sun up to sun down job. So toques in quality time with his family, he would often take one of these three kids with him. A proud man. Always pictured with his chest out. His chin up. On july 16th, 2011, that saturday, roberto kneaded to flood the Rice Field by turning on a series of high Voltage Irrigation pumps. Fabian by his side in his Pickup Truck, roberto drove. Then stopped, got out. Walked to the big electrical box. He was going to Rice Field. We heard a big explosion. So what did you do . I yelled his name out and he wasnt answering. So i wanted to go and try to get help. So did you do . You ran . Yes. Through what . The fields. The flower fields. Big tall, you are running through them . Yeah. How far did you have to go . I dont know. Pretty far. Reporter far indeed. Running, running, nearly two miles. Running through the field of golden flowers that closed in about him. And i saw the house. And i just went toward it. Did you remember what you said to him . Something happened to my dead. He is that way. Can you help me . They said yes. They called the Police Department and they came as quick as they can. Reporter when firefighters reached the Irrigation Canal from which little fabian had run for help, it was obvious there was no life left to save. Robertos body must have been On Fire just as fabian said it was. Why became clear. When they found burn holes about an inch wide near the bottom of his feet. An obvious sign of electrocution. A locker sized electric box used to turn on a high Voltage Irrigation pump that shorted out and exploded. Metal fragments blew out the windows and covered the Passenger Side of robertos ford. Miracle little fabian wasnt killed too. Robertos wife. It is when we received a call from the Police Department and they said they had fabian and fabian was okay. But they couldnt tell us what happened to roberto. We thought he was in the hospital. You didnt know what happened to him. We didnt know what had happened. We called the hospital and the hospital didnt know anything about what had happened. But an hour, an hourandahalf later, they arrived with fabian. My brother started screaming he was dead. What was it like to see fabian in that situation . Someone older wouldnt be able to handle it as well as my brother did. It was amazing to run all that way. I wouldnt have been able to run that much. I wouldnt have known what to do. To stay strong the way he did. I wasnt there. And i couldnt control myself. I dont know how he did it. Reporter Farm Accidents are as old as the wheel. Bad things just happen sometimes. Still, investigators scoured the area taking photos and collecting every bit of debris they could find whether it looked like it was from an electrical box or not. One of our jobs is to investigate all industrial accidents. Reporter because in calusa county, the sheriff does double duty as the county coroner. Osha eventually will take over that investigation. Reporter it was an autopsy, too. Routine of course. He told us the victim had been electrocuted. Reporter Pacific Gas And Electric sent a team over which confirmed it looked Like An accident. And sadly not unique. He said well we have seen stuff similar to this. What might happen is the operator will get into the panel with a tool for some reason. And cross the leaves with that tool. And cause a Plasma Type of explosion. And that could have been what happened here. The other thing is we have never seen anything this big. Reporter this is what it would have looked like before the explosionment about the size of a High School locker. After the explosion, that box was nowhere to be found. All that was left is a splintered post where it once stood. Hard to know what to make of that. Coming up, along with the crops growing resentments at The Farm. Robert cold paul he was going to get my share. Your intention was to fight it . Oh yeah. It settles things. Reporter the investigation continues as Explosives Experts try to determine what exactly happened to roberto. 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But they didnt flaunt it in anyway and you werent told about it. You just knew that it was there. Reporter she learned that the Family Fortune was also a tool to keep the descendents in line. When i was in High School, my dad said if you get into drugs, im kicking you out of my will. Reporter though she could have never inherited the land. That birthright was passed from father to son, not daughter. The custom started with the Moore Family Patriarch who handed The Farm down to his two sons, Roger And Gus, now in their 70s. Each of them had a son born just a year apart. Paul and peter who were in line to one day run The Farms as partners. Cousins, raised more like brothers. Here they are in 1978. Latter Day Huck and tom. In 1980 they were on the same High School football team. Roger was apaul and peter. Pete has a reputation in calusa county. His mouth basically has given him a reputation because of the things he has said. Im different from the rest of them. Reporter calls them as he sees them. There is too much money involved. Everybody is afraid of what they might lose if they say something, even if its right. Reporter there was one Family Member pete did have a deep connection with. His grandfather, the family patriarch. He is special. Reporter he taught peter about farming, tending the orchards. He had Mackular Degeneration so i was his eyes. Reporter so when his graph died, petes life changed suddenly. After we buried my grandpa, in short order i was pretty much told they didnt need my help anymore. I dont 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. Moved north of this eden into town. And started a landscaping business. My wife and i had nothing to do with the moores. Reporter and paul, paul remained the family Golden Boy. His doting grandmother made sure he never went. Paul married a local beauty. This is his wedding video. And he waited for the day when he would reign 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 Roberto Alaya who had once been a lowly Field Hand. But anyone could see roberto was a natural farmer. And gradual, Trust And Responsibility and the Owners Affection came to rest with him. Paul and i were the boying in the family. We should have been the next in line. It wasnt fair. It was a slap in the face. Reporter and, to make matters worse, roberto brought his Brother Eduardo in as his assistant. The cousins, their birthright withheld, fumed. Paul told me horrible stuff about Ed And Robert. That robert was saying about me. He said that robert was, robert told paul he was going to get my share of what my dad was going to leave me. Fair to say your nerving were a little raw about Ed And Robert . Oh no. I was mad. Im going to be honest with you. It was a lot of animosity. Reporter so much so, that one Day Pete jumped into his truck and drove down to The Farm and called roberto out. I told him, lets go. Your intention was to fight him . Oh yeah. It settles things. Reporter but roberto politely declined. He had a farm to run. And the next time peter heard alaya, it was that he was dead. What did you think . I was told it was an accident. Reporter which is certainly what it was. At least according to the experts from pg e. But just to be sure, the Detective Called Explosives experts from a neighboring county. Just to ask them, have you ever heard of an Electrical Panel like this blowing up . And they hadnt. And they came out to look at what we had. And formed the opinion it was possibly an explosive device. They in turn called Atf And Fbi. Reporter to some, that felt like jumping the gun. Last thing he wanted was the Big City Feds treating him Like A Country Cop crying wolf. And now i have Atf And Fbi showing up. I was a little overwhelmed. I was a little concerned that maybe we were calling these big agencies for help. And really what we have is an accident. We had a Bomb Guy saying it was a bomb. We are not 100 convinced it is a bomb yet. Reporter then three days after the explosion. We got a visit from Paul Moore. Reporter paul, petes beloved cousin. The handsome Golden Boy of the pair Cold Detectives he found something. Something that shouldnt have been there. He came across a piece of metal he found. Looked like galvanized iron. And that piece of metal said to him there was something more Going On. Did he have any ideas . He said his Cousin Pete made threats toward the victim. And the time leading up to the incident. Reporter and there was more. Texts received from the very Rice Field where roberto was killed. Coming up, the focus shifts from the nuts and bolts of electrical explosions to an explosive personality. He is always The One that had something to say. He always hated him. 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So when paul came to the authorities and said i Think Pete is responsible for this, did the suspicion seem plausible . Yes it did. We knew pete didnt get along with his family. We knew pet had a hot Head And Access to the property. Reporter and for paul to denounce peter who was like his brother . Sad perhaps. But made sense to the Das Office who signed off on the warrant to have Petes House searched. It was just a few blocks away. Went out to grab a bite to eat. When we came home, we saw them searching the house. Reporter Mary Ellen is Peter Moores wife. We couldnt believe it. I thought what is he doing in our house . I said what the is Going On here. Two cops grabbed me. Reporter Mary Ellen and peter asked investigators what w