odd. yes. odd how? you don t hear a lot about a lot of families but you hear about the moore family. reporter: because they complain publicly about other wings of the family or at least complain in such a way that people complain in a way that other people found out about it. reporter: now the two cousins? pete i ve known for years almost since i ve been here. had a reputation for being a real hot head. a lot of mouth. he couldn t back it up. but he had a lot of mouth. without hardly an effort pete could tick you off. reporter: so when paul came to the authorities and said, i think pete is responsible for this, did the suspicion seem plausible? yes. reporter: yeah. it did. 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 sear
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 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
odd. yes. odd how? you don t hear a lot about a lot of families but you hear about the moore family. reporter: because they complain publicly about other wings of the family or at least complain in such a way that people complain in a way that other people found out about it. reporter: now the two cousins? pete i ve known for years almost since i ve been here. had a reputation for being a real hot head. a lot of mouth. he couldn t back it up. but he had a lot of mouth. without hardly an effort pete could tick you off. reporter: so when paul came to the authorities and said, i think pete is responsible for this, did the suspicion seem plausible? yes. reporter: yeah. it did. 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 sear
i would have probably been the one to get off to go check that. 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 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.