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Who had been hired to kill roberto over a mexico deal gone wrong. >> and that it was ms-13 behind it. >> reporter: what the heck is ms 13? >> it's a violent el salvadorian criminal street gang. >> reporter: and that roberto was supposed to be a target of this group? >> the letter plied roberto had messed with a drug cartel and that ms 13 had been contracted. >> the author of the letter taunted the detectives writing the lab results would find military grade powder but no dna which was true so far. the point of the letter wrote its author was a warning. roberto's brother eduardo was next on the...

We had bomb guys saying it was a bomb, but they're bomb guys. >> reporter: right. >> we're not a hundred percent convinced it's a bomb yet. >> reporter: then, three days after the explosion -- >> we got a visit from paul moore. >> reporter: paul, pete's beloved cousin, the handsome golden boy of the pair told the detective he found something out at the scene of the accident, something that shouldn't have been there. >> he came across a piece of metal that he found. it looked like galvanized iron or metal and that piece of metal said to him that there was something more going on. >> reporter: d...

Something on for the water? i'm guessing maybe an irrigating pump? and it blew up like a bomb. >> as they waited for the fire department to arrive, brandy began tending to the boy, fabian ayala. >> gave him some water to drink. then i took the water and rinsed all the mud off and checked under his shirt to see if there was any major injuries or not. >> were you hurt? >> no. >> not at all? >> uh-uh. >> 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. >> fabian's dad roberto was a f...

>> reporter: yeah. >> we should have been the next in line. it wasn't 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 would come over and tell me horrible stuff about ed and robert, that robert was saying about me, like he said that robert was -- robert told paul that he was going to get my share of what my dad was going to leave me of the ranch. >> reporter: fair to say though that your nerves were a little bit raw about ed and robert. >> oh, no. i was mad. ...

The trouble was nobody knew the rules or the purpose or where the game might end. but 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 fingerprints. we wanted dna. >> reporter: the letters and envelopes came back clean just as the bomber said they would. what was going on? to investigators one theory seemed the least likely, that roberto was mixed up with the 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, over...