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And why didn t he use the cell phone? why didn t you call for help? and he was reaching out like this and he said, i can t, it s in his pocket and he s on fire. yeah. yeah, that stays with you. but now these stalking letters from roberto s killer almost taking prideful delight and how he killed a man, and almost murdered the boy. who could it be? who would do such a thing? and why? then, four days after the diagram showed up, one of the alpha males of the moore clan rocked in the front door. roger moore, who like his son wanted to help catch the killer. and told the detectives he had an important audio to share. answering machines that his nephew pete left on his phone. coming up, investigators discover a brand-new suspect. we may somebody have else to look at. but who are the hunters and ....
Any coffee shop or restaurant and they re solving it for me. and those things can get twisted pretty fast. they get twisted really fast. in this case, it was constantly, well, you know pete moore did it. you know pete moore did it. and my response was, well, that s not the direction i m going in. keith morrison (voiceover): not the direction at all. in fact, da pointer was about to put pete on the prosecution team as a key witness against paul, making pete work with the same people who, at one point, were hoping to put him in prison. and that uncomfortable fact was irresistible catnip for paul s defense attorney. pete s first day on the stand. she said, you re a murder, aren t you, mr. moore? lester holt: coming up, the defense says it was pete who had the motive to kill one man and implicate another, a master plan that would give him everything he wanted. linda parisi: peter is the one who has indicated, ....
Keith morrison (voiceover): a courtroom tactic not appreciated by pete. after the first day, i said, you guys need to get this lady off of me. she s on me like a dog on a piece of raw meat. and they looked me right in the eye and said, there s nothing we can do for you. this is an open investigation, and we have to let her ask anything or the jury will think we re hiding stuff. i mean, you ve gotta be kidding me. one hour of his testimony felt like eight, i can tell you that. it was excruciating because i knew what he was going through. and i was waiting for him to explode at any minute. keith morrison (voiceover): paul s attorney, linda parisi, claimed that pete somehow planted the imprint of the bomb diagram in paul s home. mr. moore, who works at that desk daily, he never notices it? if he s your culprit, he never sees an indentation of a diagram he drew? and thinks, oh my gosh, thank god i saw that. let me get rid of it. it just raises so many questions. it just beggars the imagina ....
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 ....
Day run the farmers partners. cousins but raised more like brothers. here they are in 1978. fishing barehanded, latter day huck and tom. they were a pair. roger paul was smart and handsome, a bit of a playboy. while gus s boy peter was tough and blunt. hotheaded. pete has a reputation over in 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 who he did have a deep connection with. his grandfather, the family patriarch. ....