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Placed next to a one liter soda bottle full of gasoline spray painted black. a large bolt tied off with a fishing line and acting as a drop weight would fall on a rat trap causing it to strike a firing pin. kind of like a rube goldberg device. the author also said there was a second secret triggering device as backup. either way the bomb was designed to go off when roberto ayala opened the door of the electrical box. >> could have been almost anything. >> reporter: now suddenly agent parker saw how they all fit. those confusing bits and pieces he'd been poring over for the past month. >> it wa...

Likely that one would have leaned to reach over to open up the window. it was very consistent with that. >> peter of course denied he placed that blank sheet of paper in paul's home. said he hadn't been in paul's house in years. then at the trial defense attorney parisi played a wild card. she confronted pete with this. a video found on one of pete's computers seized just days after the bombing. slow-motion video of a rat trap snapping on carrots and the like but ending on a burst of flame as the trap sets off a lighter just like a bomb. >> and i submit to you this video more or less comports ...

>> reporter: on august 15th, 2011, 30 days after row ber toe ayala's death, investigators received in the mail this hand-drawn picture of a bomb. what did you think when you saw that diagram? >> shock. >> we were amazed. absolutely amazed. i had never seen anything like that before. >> reporter: the device, as shown in the diagram, was a two-inch pipe bomb. placed next to a one-liter soda bottle full of gasoline. spray painted black. a large bolt tied off with a fishing line and acting as a drop weight would fall on a rat trap, causing it to strike a firing pin. kind of like a goldberg device....

Painted black. a large bolt tied off with a fishing line and acting as a drop weight would fall on a rat trap causing it to strike a firing pin. kind of like a rube goldberg device. the author also said there was a second secret triggering device as backup. either way the bomb was designed to go off when roberto ayala opened the door of the electrical box. could have been almost anything. now suddenly agent parker saw how they all fit. those confusing bits and pieces he'd been poring over for the past month. >> it was almost like someone had sent us the cover of the puzzle box. >> reporter: so...

Said he hadn't been in paul's house in years. then at the trial defense attorney parisi played a wild card. she confronted pete with this. a video found on one of pete's computers seized just days after the bombing. slow motion video of a rat trap snapping on carrots and the like but ending on the burst of flame as the trap sets off a lighter just like a bomb. >> and i submit to you this video more or less comports with the diagram. >> well, it shows a rat trap hitting a lighter. >> what it shows though is a rat trap just an unusual kind of triggering device. it shows a screw activating the ra...