as we re leaving town i look in the rear view mirror and there he is following us in his truck. he pulls in behind us. i speed up. he speeds up. i m up to about 85 and he is still gaining on me. he pulls in the opposing lane. i slam on the brakes and he keeps going. we pace him. i lose pace of him at 95. i called him in. and chp was actually able to get a stop on him. what was that all about? i have no idea. who chases the police? that s the first time that s ever happened to me in my career. so by now your suspicions were ratcheted up quite a bit i would think. yes, they were. were you worried about your own safety? at parts during the investigation there were concerns for our own safety. we re dealing with a person who is violent enough to plant a bomb. but was that person paul moore? paul had a criminal history to be sure, but was he a killer? there were certain things about paul s past detective salm was unable to share with us for
locations, you get an alert. reporter: in addition detective salm would routinely log in to check on the whereabouts of peter and paul s trucks. on the morning of thanksgiving day, more than four months after the bombing, salm turned on his computer to find the gps tracker on paul moore s truck. it had gone dead. we had no signal whatsoever. this is also the type of gps that you could call. you know, just like calling on a cell phone. and wake it up. because they go to sleep when they re not having. and where are you? well, we couldn t get a response from it. reporter: the device may have just died or been found, so salm got into his car with his partner, drove to paul s house to see if the truck was there. we got to his house. i look in the kitchen window and he s staring at me. okay. reporter: hoping paul hadn t recognized him, detective salm hit the road. as we re leaving town i look in the rear view mirror and there he is following us in his truck. he pulls in behind us
i think he felt his dad treated robert better than pete got treated when he worked there. he said something about his dad taking him out of the will. reporter: one thing, though. paul, like his second cousin dave, didn t think that pete was capable of making that bomb. somebody must have helped him. i just don t think pete has the technical ability to do it. unless he seriously had some help. okay. so this type of thing was done by somebody who is pretty intelligent, maybe got some know-how? well, that s kind what was you guys said, and i i think that s right. who do you think is capable of reporter: but remember, paul s exinlaws told detective salm that paul was more likely the guilty party. probably 90% paul. reporter: so now the detective turned the tables a
it was the way that almost horizontal beam of light glanced off a blank sheet of paper. i noticed that the white sheet of paper had several impressions on it. reporter: impressions? yes. reporter: you mean writing on it? yes. like when you draw something on a top sheet of paper and it goes through. reporter: to the next sheet down. yes. and that got my attention right away. i picked it up and it was one of those moments where i was like, hm. i turned it different angles. the paper bowed in half. it was one of those, i was got chills going the back of my neck, just hairs are standing up, i m like, no way, this is not happening right now. one of the officers that was helping us looked at me, he goes, what are you looking at? because it was just a blank sheet of paper. and i was like, you re not going to believe this. i said, you need to go get detective salm now. he s holding this white piece of paper in his hands and kind of has it bent a little bit. he s like, look at
but i i i really wouldn t think he could. okay. and i also think he doesn t have the moxie to do something like that. what do you mean, moxie? just the the intelligence? the meanness the meanness? yeah. reporter: but peter had actually threatened roberto, wanted to fight him. and as far as anybody knew, paul had never done anything like that. nevertheless, based on this new information from david and susan moore, detectives asked paul to come in for another meeting. come on in, have a seat. reporter: which he did quite willingly. took time off on a sunday afternoon and detective salm asked paul directly. do you have a prior criminal record? yes. as in drugs and stuff when i was younger. reporter: committed felonies, in fact. then he said he just grew up and now wanted to help in any way he could, even if it meant informing on his beloved cousin peter. i think pete is a little envious of robert.