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>> 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 birthright. >> 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 dad was going to leave me of the ranch. so paul would come over and say stuff to me and he knew he was going to make me want to go say something or fight with somebody. >> reporter: and pete?...

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 culture celebrated coming of age ritual called the quincinera, when a girl turns 15. so when robert's daughter turned 15 -- >> he went all out. it was his only -- i was the only girl so he did everything he could to make that day the best. >> what kinds of things do you do? >> you have to h...

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. which he did quite willingly. took time off on a sunday afternoon and detective salm asked paul directly. do you have a pr...

In the "sacramento bee." and, sure enough. somebody responded. cops rushed to see him. perhaps arrest him. >> he was pretty surprised when he got a visit. >> false alarm. it was just an unlucky guy looking for a job. the killer though? the killer never called. so the whole ms 13 thing, the mexico deal gone wrong was just some sort of game. the real bomber was playing it. the trouble was, nobody knew the rules or the purpose or where the game might end. more than one way to find a guy brazen enough to send that material to the cops. >> we had the letters we wanted to get analyzed. we wanted fin...

Arrested, his defense asked an obvious question. what if the cops' first instinct was correct? what if pete did it? peter has animosity toward roberto. peter has made threats to roberto. peter is the one that wants in to the farming operation. >> reporter: linda parisi, paul moore's attorney, presented in court a mirror image of the state's 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, i've been in landscaping for 20 years. i'm tired. i'm broken down. i want to...