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This. this changes you forever. >> reporter: the next chapter wasn't a lift from the book of genesis. more like the story of job. >> one thing that's kind of unique, maybe, or especially about colusa county, is every time i've ever had a big case, i can go into almost any coffee shop or restaurant, and they're solving it for me. >> reporter: those things can get twisted very fast. >> they get twisted really fast. in this case it was constantly, you know pete moore did it. you know pete moore did it. my response was, well, that's not the direction i'm going in. >> reporter: not the direction at...

What if pete did it? >> peter has animosity towards roberto. peter has made threats to roberto. peter is the one that wants in to the farming operation. >> reporter: linda parisi, paul moore's attorney, presented in court a mirror image of the state's case acknowledging that one cousin was out to frame the other, only in her version of the story paul was the stooge and peter the mastermind. >> peter is the one who has indicated, i've been in landscaping for 20 years. i'm tired. i'm broken down. i want to be in the farming operation. what better way to take out roberto and to take out paul? >> ...

Stop the rumor mill. was it just small-town gossip or something else? here with more of our story is keith morrison. >> reporter: little colusa, california, was dumbstruck. 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 bittersweet. 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 with, you know, and it was part of my family. >> my youngest ...

>> reporter: when pete got home, would he be upset? >> yeah, 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'd 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 every day. our parents bought us walkie-talkies when we were 7 and 8 years old. i'd sit in my back bed...