colusa was bound to find out his secret, paul went into exile near santa cruz. however, as part of the original plea deal, paul s attempt to commit rape conviction was dropped, vacated in 2007, seven years later. in exchange paul pleaded no contest to the assault with a deadly weapon charge, which meant paul was no longer a registered sex offender. and the prodigal son was welcomed home. that part of his past, a carefully guarded secret from most of the folks here in colusa county. but pete s past was not a secret. everybody knew he didn t like roberto ayala. and everybody knew he was a suspect. around town could you hear what people were whispering? pete. pete, pete, pete? pete, pete, pete. but not paul? not paul. then five months into the investigation there was news of a sort from one of the crime labs.
to open up the window. so it was very consistent with that. peter, of course, denied that he placed that blank sheet of paper in paul s home, said he hadn t been in paul s house for years. then at the trial defense attorney parisi played a wild card. she confronted pete with this. a video found on one of pete s computers seized just days after the bombing. slow-motion video of a rat trap snapping on carrots and the like but ending on a burst of flame as the trap sets off a lighter, just like a bomb. and i submit to you this video more or less comports with the diagram. well, it shows a rat trap hitting a lighter. what it shows though is a rat trap, just an unusual kind of triggering device. it shows a screw activating the rat trap and then an incendiary component. so was pete investigating bomb-making ideas?
he taught peter about farming, tending the orchard. he had masculine degeneration. so i was his eyes. but when his grandfather, his patron died. pete s life changed quite suddenly. after i buried my grandpa, in short order i was pretty much told by my dad and uncle that they didn t need my help anymore. and i don t know whether it was animosity because i had gotten so close to their dad, or what it was. but after a particularly ugly fight with his dad, pete was exiled from the land of plenty. moved north of this eaten into town and started a landscaping business. my wife and i had nothing, and i mean nothing to do with the mourners. and paul, paul remain the
day run the farmers partners. cousins but raised more like brothers. here they are in 1978. fishing barehanded, latter day how can tom. they were a roger paul was smart and handsome, a bit of a playboy. while gushes boy peter was tough and blunt. hotheaded. pete has a reputation overrun colusa county. his mouth has given him a reputation because of the things that he has said. i m a little different than the rest of them. oh boy. so he is. calls him as he sees them, even when it comes to his own family. there s too much money involved. and everyone is afraid of what they might lose if they say something. there was one family member peach did have a deep connection with. his grandfather, the family patriarch. he was special.
enough evidence to make an arrest. the voice on the tape? none other than roger s nephew, pete. hey, this is pete. i ve worked for 28 years doing what i m doing so that i could eventually one day have a chance to farm. pete wanted to talk about having been disinherited. and i ve just, you know i ve been taken out of my dad s will. the phone messages contained nothing directly incriminating, but after being diverted by those strange letters about assassins and a drug gang, the investigation was now back to where it started, that peter moore was the prime suspect. but just as all eyes were focused in one particular direction, the very next day the phone rang. six weeks into the investigation, detective soloman and agent parker had an