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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. >> paul would come over and tell me horrible stuff about ed and robert like he said robert told paul that he was going to get my share of what my da...

To investigators one theory seemed the least likely, that roberto was mixed up with a drug gang ms 13. the ayalas are a classic bootstrap story. roberto a very religious man who worked his way up from field hand to farm manager, oversaw the day-to-day operations of a multimillion dollar spread. he knew the land. he knew the machines that worked it. he was utterly committed to that work. what did working that farm mean to your dad? >> that was everything. it was our whole, even our lives and his life, our whole life revolved around it. we were always there and growing up. >> reporter: first job...

Dad. what kind of a guy was he? >> he was a hard worker. someone to look up to. we admired him. >> reporter: and it did not go unnoticed on the moore farm. over the years, owners roger and gus came to rely a great deal on roberto. they treated roberto more like a favored son than just an employee. how important was family to roberto? >> probably the most important thing. it all revolved around this. we didn't have much but everywhere he went, we went, too. we were always together. >> whatever went wrong, he was the one to go to. he was the one to keep everybody together. >> reporter: latino cu...

And can you help me? and 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. roberto's body must indeed 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 electrical box used to turn on a high-voltage irrigation pump had apparently shorted out and exploded. with such intensity, me...

Department and they said they had fabian and that fabian was okay. but they couldn't tell us what happened to roberto. we thought he was in the hospital. >> reporter: and you didn't know what happened to him? >> translator: we didn't know what had happened. we called the hospital. and the hospital didn't know anything about what had happened. about an hour, an hour and a half later, they arrived with fabian. >> my mom asked my brother where was my dad? and my brother just started screaming that he was dead. >> reporter: what was it like to see fabian in that situation? >> i think someone being...