bring a child into it. reporter: the da john pointer found fabian s plight to be particularly heart breaking. i couldn t imagine 7 years old and seeing my dad blown up. reporter: and running all that way. people don t understand, it was like maybe a couple miles as the crow flies. but to run through what we call colusa mud which is the rice fields and it s just, i mean, he had to take his shoes off. he was literally covered with it. you could hardly walk through it. for him to run all that way, it was amazing. i remember asking if he knew what 911 was. and he told me and he was right and i asked him if he knew how to use a cell phone. he said yeah. i asked if your dad had a cell phone. he said yes he did. i said why didn t you call for help? and he was reaching out like this and he said, i can t. it s in his pocket and he s on fire.
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 came home, we saw them all at the house searching the house. mary ellen is peter moore s wife. i didn t think at first. i just thought what are they doing at our house? i got out of the car and what the is going on here? and two cops came over and escorted me to the front of my house. reporter: they asked
we knew pete didn t get along with his family. we knew pete had a hot head. we knew 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. went out to grab a bite to eat. when we came home we saw them all at the house searching the house. mary ellen is peter moore s wife. couldn t believe it? reporter: did you think it had something to do with what happened to roberto? well, i didn t think that at first. i said, what are they doing at our house? i got out of the house and said what the is going on here? two cops came over and grabbed me and escorted me to the front of my house. reporter: mary ellen and peter asked investigators what was going on. they were handed the search warrant stating investigators were looking for anything connected to bomb making. i said, how do you know it
princess. reporter: probably won t ever forget that. but of course for teenagers there is another rite of passage. butting heads with parents. which that last morning may have, pure chance, saved jesus life. for some reason we had an argument that morning so i didn t get to ride along that day. reporter: you might otherwise have been there. i would have probably been the one to get off to go check that pump. reporter: why would anybody want to hurt him? i can t find a reason why somebody would want to kill him. and this bomber, whoever it might be, came very close to also murdering fabian. if you want my button pushed bring a challenge to it. reporter: the da john pointer found fabian s plight to be particularly heart breaking. i couldn t imagine 7 years old and seeing my dad blown up. reporter: and running all that way. people don t understand, it
been there? i probably would have been the one to get off to go check that pump. reporter: why would anybody want to hurt him? i can t find a reason why somebody would want to kill him. and this bomber, whoever it might be, came very close to also murdering fabian. if you want my button pushed bring a challenge to it. reporter: the da john pointer found fabian s plight to be particularly heartbreaking. i couldn t imagine 7 years old and seeing my dad blown up. reporter: and running all that way. people don t understand, it was like maybe a couple miles as the crow flies. but to run through what we call colusa mud, which is the rice fields, and it s just i mean he had to take his shoes off. he was literally covered with it. you could hardly walk through it. for him to run all that way, it was amazing. i remember asking if he knew what 911 was. and he told me and he was right and i asked him if he knew how to use a cell phone. he said yeah. i asked if your dad had a c