he s bright. he s clever. comic book arch villain. comic book arch villain. he s clever. evil as can be on a beautiful, sprawling farm seeds of danger. i heard this big explosion. i heard this big explosion. ground this loving father of three the farms heart and soul killed in a ball of fire they were saying it was an accident our assumption was it was a pipe bomb. pipe bomb. someone claimed the dead ma had reaped what he sowed i wish that there weren t so much hate and anger in our family. narrator: one family member seemingly held a grudge against the victim. he later implied that roberto had messed with th drug cartel. but maybe the truth lay wit the farms owners a wealthy clan known for harvesting rice and resentment i wish that there weren t s much hate and anger in our family one family seemingly held a grudge against the victim. he always had something mea to say, he hated him another whodunnit for investigators. who chases the police but who
roberto politely declined. down to the farm and calle roberto out. i told him, let s go. your intention was to fight him? oh yeah it settles things. but roberto politel declined he had a farm to run and the next time peter hear anything more about robert ayala it was that he was dead. what did you think when yo heard that he was dead i was told it was a accident which is certainly what i was, at least according to the experts from pg&e. but just to be sure, detective salm called experts from the neighboring county just to ask them, have yo ever heard of an electoral panel like this blowing up they hadn t. and at their own insistence, they came out to look at wha we had, and formed the opinion that it was possibly a explosive device they in turn called the atf an fbi. for some that felt like jumping the gun. the last thing he wanted was
he did, i wasn t there and i couldn t control myself. i don t know how he did it farm accidents are as old a the wheel. bad things just happen sometimes. still, sheriff s investigators scoured the area taking photos and collecting every bit o debris they could find, whethe it looked like it was from a electrical box or not. one of our jobs for the jurisdiction is to investigate all industrial accidents all industrial accidents because, said sheriff s detective david salm, in thi county, the sheriff does doubl duty as the . a sheriff will eventually take over that investigation i it s determined to be that typ of thing there was an autopsy too. routine, of course it told us that the victi had been electrocuted, he ha been burnt near an explosion. pacific gas and electri sent a team over, whic confirmed that it looked lik an accident, and sadly not unique he said we have seen stuf similar to this. what might happen is that th
real or what i didn t know what to think i had never seen anything like that before, except somethin similar on tv. the one thing about tha strange letter was all too obvious. whoever wrote it had insid knowledge. knowledge. cops, new what the atf had discovered we didn t tell anyone it wa a bomb, so for someone to writ a letter, claiming responsibility for a bombing that landed some credence to the fact that the author o that letter was the real thing weird all too weird. we detective salm and th others went home for the weekend to digest what they ha read and seen. sitting on my desk. salm s phone rang. this one was slightly smaller manila envelope, or half-sized manila envelope, but configured the same way.ag label maker address, ayala case, and way too much postage again.
like the act l bo who ev thing? letters from a purported killer plus a diagram of what s certainly looked like th actual bomb that killed robert ayala. was it real, a ruse, a lucky guess? if it was real, who sent it? was it from the lead suspect peter moore or a hitman as the letter claimed or was it from somebody who is not even on detective salm s