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>> reporter: and there was more. paul showed detective psalm texts he received from peter sent from the very rice field where roberto was killed. >> and that text was dated and timed the day before. >> announcer: the focus shifts from the nuts and bolts of electrical explosions to an explosive personality. coming up. >> why did you hate him? >> he was arrogant. he flaunted stuff in my face. >> pete had a reputation for being a real hot head. without hardly any effort, pete could piss you off. >> when family business continues. ff. >> when family business continues. guy who did good. after buil...

Without hardly any effort, pete could piss you off. >> reporter: so when paul came to the authorities and said i think pete is responsible for this, did his suspicions seem plausible? >> yes. it did. because we knew pete didn't get along with his family. we knew that pete had a hot head. we knew that pete had access to the property. >> reporter: and for paul, to denounce peter, who was like his brother? sad, perhaps. but made sense to the da's office which signed off on the warrant to have pete's house searched. it was just a few blocks away. >> we went out to grab a bite to eat and when we ca...

It's got to be tide. since retired is one of colusa's most popular racanteurs. he was in office more than 30 years. knows where the skeletons are buried. and knows just about every prominent family in the county, including the moores. >> if i said they were odd, that'd be a pretty good way of summarizing it. >> reporter: odd? >> yes. >> reporter: odd how? >> you don't hear a lot about a lot of families but you'd hear about the moore family. >> reporter: because they'd complain publicly about other wings of the family. or at least complain in such a way that people -- >> complain in a way that ...

Yeah. that stays with you. >> reporter: and now these taunting letters from roberto's killer almost taking prideful delight in how he killed the man and almost murdered the boy. who could it be? who would do such a thing? and why? then four days after the diagram showed up, one of the alpha males of the moore clan walked in the front door. roger moore. paul's dad. and like his son, wanted to help catch the killer. and told the detectives he had important evidence to share. it was an audiotape, answering machine messages his nephew pete left on his phone. coming up, a brand new suspect. >> bu...

Investigators called it their smoking gun. but the evidence did not stop the rumor mill. was it just small town gossip or something else. here with more of our story is keith morrison. little colusa, california was dumb struck. paul moore arrested for the killing of roberto ayala. few even knew he was a suspect. mary, paul's cousin and pete's sister, got a barrage of texts at work. >> it was bitter sweet. there was a part of me that was relieved that it was over for pete or that he wasn't, you know, mixed in with it. and at the same time i was sad because it was my cousin that we grew up wit...