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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...

>> reporter: but pete's wife mary ellen said she could clearly see paul was baiting pete. i would talk to him all the time. >> reporter: when pete got home -- >> he would be angry, upset. telling us things we didn't even know if they were true. >> reporter: dave and sue moore told investigators they, too, thought paul had been setting pete up. >> they talk a lot between themselves, too. and i think paul has been able to manipulate peter. >> reporter: but pete just didn't see it. didn't realize he was being played by his cousin. that just couldn't be. >> we grew up together. we were together ...

Suspicion once embedded is remarkably resistant to actual evidence that might disprove it. when paul moore was arrested and charged with the murder of roberto ayala his cousin peter began to experience that particular phenomenon quite personally. around town people still seemed to believe that pete was the murderer. 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 ...

Hearing? >> we were hearing that people were saying that they thought pete did it. >> they were following us everywhere. >> didn't make a secret of it either, said mary ellen. from them or the neighbors. >> how did they start to look at you? >> like we were guilty. >> after they raided my house, i spent days crying. days and days. you know, i'd be at work and just -- just crying because you don't know what's going on. you don't know -- you don't know who to trust. >> reporter: how much were you watched? >> i'd wake up in the morning to people outside my house. they watched me get up every day....

Country cop crying wolf. >> and now, i've got atf and fbi showing up. i was a little overwhelmed. i was a little concerned that maybe, you know, we're calling these big agencies for help and really what we have is an accident. we had bomb guys saying it was a bomb but they're bomb guys. you know, we're not 100% convinced it's a bomb yet. >> reporter: and 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 detective psalm he found something out of the scene of the accident. something that sho...