keith morrison (voiceover): but pete just didn t see it, didn t realize he was being played. by his cousin? that just couldn t be. we grew up together. we were together every day. our parents bought us walkie-talkies when we were seven and eight years old, and i d sit in my back bedroom where my bedroom was and he lived right down on the corner down there and we d talk to each other till we went to sleep. keith morrison (voiceover): but now peter s cousin, paul, the princeling, the golden boy, was about to go on trial for the murder of roberto ayala. and as for pete, the person who was treated in this town like he bore the mark of cain i ve had several low points in my life, and there s no scale for this. this changes you forever. keith morrison (voiceover): the next chapter wasn t a lift from the book of genesis. more like the story of job. well, one thing that s kind of unique maybe, or special, about colusa county is every time i ve ever had a big case, i can go into almost
keith morrison (voiceover): but dave and susan couldn t really give a reason why paul would want to kill roberto, other than they felt paul just had the kind of personality to do something like that, while pete didn t. keith morrison (voiceover): 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
on some of the fragments that were collected at the scene. like gunpowder, nitroglycerin? correct. then there was this. discovered on the fifth day of the investigation, the panel box door found 160 feet from the site of the explosion. about two feet wide, probably weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 or 20 pounds. this where the large hole is would be the bottom of the panel. the forensic scientists at the atf continued their tests, hunting for bomb residue, dna, fingerprints. detective david salm was on peter moore s sale, waiting for him to make a mistake. did he leave? what did he do? he didn t leave. what were people saying around town? we were hearing that people were saying that i thought pete did it. everyone. didn t make a secret over, said mary ellen, or the
around colusa the raid on peter s house, just days after roberto s s death was big news. neighbors began sending out realtime updates on facebook. there was a parade of cars driving around the neighborhood. because these detectives were asking questions? and at my house. when they left? they took our computers and cellphones. we had a business. nobody could call us. meanwhile the whole neighborhood was watching this? yes. but the search, said detective david salm, didn t yield a thing. we didn t find anything as far as bomb making materials, instructions for bombs. anything remotely close to that, even, like gunpowder. so if pete was doing something he wasn t doing it close to his house? now that we could find evidence of. he denied he had anything to do with it? yes he did. pete didn t try to deny his hatred for roberto ayala. why did you hate him? he was arrogant and flaunted
began to experience that particular phenomenon quite personally. around town people still seemed to believe that pete was the murderer. ironic, perhaps, that for all his bluster, pete has never been arrested, never been in trouble with the law, runs his own business, has been a good father, and ore the years has taken in wayward teens to give them a better start, kids like nick hekker. in other foster homes they do it for the money. pete, he didn t ask for are any money in return. he fed me. clothed me. gave me a car to drive. and now i look at pete like a 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. 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