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>> 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: did he have any other ideas about what may have happened? >> he did. he told us his cousin pete had made some threats toward the victim and the time leading up to the incident. >> reporter: and there was more. paul showed the detective texts he received from peter sent from the very rice field where roberto was killed. >> that text was dated and timed the day before. coming up the focus shifts from the nuts and bolt...

Setting up an explosive device in that panel? >> i think, like, probably 90% 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 ...

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 sent 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 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 t...

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...

Farm manager. a demanding sun up to sundown job. to squeeze in quality time with his family, he'd often take one of his three kids with him. a proud man. always pictured with his chest out. his chin up. on july 16th, 2011, that saturday, roberto needed to flood a ricefield by turning on a series of high-voltage irrigation pumps. fabian by his side in his pickup truck, roberto drove the quarter mile distance from one pump to the next and then he stopped, got out. walked to the big electrical box. >> he was just going to the ricefield when we heard this big explosion. i go out and see what happe...