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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...

Roberto, who had once been a lowly field hand but anyone could see roberto was a natural farmer. and gradually, trust and responsibility and the owner's affection came to rest with him. >> paul and i were the boys in the family. we should've been the next in line. it wasn't fair. it was -- it was a slap in the face. >> reporter: and to make matters worse, roberto brought his brother eduardo in as his assistant. the cousins, their birthright withheld, fumed. >> paul would come over and tell me horrible stuff about ed and robert. that robert was saying about me. like, he said that robert was -- ...

And cross the leads with that tool. and cause a plasma-type of explosion and that could have been what happened here. the other thing he did say is we've never seen anything this big. >> reporter: this is what the electrical box would have looked like before the explosion. about the size of a high school locker. and after the explosion? that box was nowhere to be found. all that was left was a splintered post where it once stood. hard to know what to make of that. >> announcer: coming up. along with the crops, growing resentments at the farm. >> robert told paul that he was gonna get my share ...

Some texas longhorn cattle. that's diane. they were there a lot. >> diane was a great hostess. she was the life of the party. >> soon tex and diane decided to make it permanent and a wedding date was set, november 5th, 2005, at the ranch. everyone at the rehearsal could tell this wedding would be over the top. and it was. >> it looked like something out of a disney movie. >> sheriff howard sills was on the guest list. >> there were hundreds of people here, people all aspects of society here. >> they had both been married before and decided this time to keep finances separate. nearly a year lat...

Accident and, sadly, not unique. >> he said, well, we've seen stuff similar to this. what might happen is the operator will get into the panel with a tool for some reason and cross the leads with that tool and cause a plasma type of explosion and that could have been what happened. here, the other thing he did say is we've never seen anything this big. >> reporter: this is what the electrical box would have looked like before the explosion, about the size of a high school locker. and after the explosion, that box was nowhere to be found. all that was left was a splintered post where it once st...