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. 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. 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. 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. one thing though. paul, like his second cousin dave, didn t think that pete was capable of making that bomb.
why did you pay? tim he was arrogant and thought the stuff in my. face if this seems like a biblical ethic lots of people knew about that, especially roberto ayala s family i thought it was pete all along. why? he was always the one that had something mean to say, that was the only person i could think. of there was a lot of town talk going on. a lot of gossip, and rumor. about a week after the house was searched, pete got a visit from a friend who had heard some things. i was working one day and the tsunami, with a friend of mine, and he backs up and says what the heck are you doing? i m working, no you re. not go to sacramento, they are coming after you, there are the number one suspect. coming up.
investigators they, too, thought paul had been setting pete up. they d talk a lot between themselves too. and i think paul has been able to manipulate peter. 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 7 and 8 years old. i d sit in my back bedroom where my bedroom was. he lived right down the block on the corner down there, and we d talk to each other until we went to sleep. but now peter s cousin paul, the princeling, the golden boy, was about to go on trial for the murder of roberto ayala. 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 it s there s no scale for this. this changes you forever.
him that roberto or robert as pete calls him was out to steal his birthright. paul would come over and tell me horrible stuff about ed and robert. like he said robert told paul that he was going to get my share of what my dad was going to leave me of the ranch. so paul would come over and say stuff to me, and he knew he was going to make me want to go say something or fight with somebody. and pete? said he was simply blind to paul s manipulation. when you re going through your everyday life, and someone has set you up for over a year and a half, you don t know who to believe. and so it kept everybody at odds. my life was so spun out of control, and i couldn t figure out what was going on. but pete s wife mary ellen said she could clearly see paul was baiting pete. i would talk to him all the time. when pete got home, would he be upset? yeah, he would be angry, upset. telling us things we didn t even know if they were true. dave and sue moore told
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 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.