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doing something, he wasn t doing it at his house. not that we could find any evidence of. he denied he had anything to do with it. yes, he did. reporter: though pete couldn t and didn t try to deny his hatred for roberto ayala. why did you hate him? he was arrogant. he flaunted stuff in my face. reporter: still, the man had as if this were some biblical epic stolen his birthright. lots of people around town knew about that, especially the ayalas. so when they heard peter moore s house was being searched. i thought it was pete all along. reporter: why? he was always the one that had something mean to say. he was always the one that hated him. that was the only person i could think of. reporter: there was a lot of town talk going on. a lot of gossip, rumor. about a week after his house was searched pete got a visit from a friend who had heard some things. i was working one day and he saw me and he backs up and he
this, did the suspicion seem plausible? yes. reporter: yeah. it did. we knew pete didn t get along with his family. we knew pete had a hot head. we knew pete had access to the property. reporter: and for paul to denounce peter, who was like his brother, sad perhaps, but made sense to the d.a. s office, which signed off on the warrant to have pete s house searched. it was just a few blocks away. went out to grab a bite to eat. when we came home, we saw them all at the house searching the house. mary ellen is peter moore s wife. couldn t believe it. reporter: did you think it had something to do with what happened to roberto? well, i didn t think that at first. i said, what are they doing at our house? i got out of the house and said what the is going on here? two cops came over and grabbed me and escorted me to the front of my house. reporter: mary ellen and peter asked investigators what was going on. they were handed the search warrant stating investigators wer
idyllic life out here, quiet, predictable, until the saturday afternoon that little boy appeared. like magic from the sunflower field. couldn t have been more than 7 years old or so. so what did he say? he said that his dad was on fire and he needed to call for help. on fire? how could that be? he was serious. he was serious. he was very serious. once he started to talk, was he making sense? yes. he was able to talk the whole time, answer whatever questions i had. there was no hesitation. brandy called 911, passed along details as relayed by the little boy. what is the little boy saying exactly, that his dad okay. he said his dad turned something on for the water. i m guessing maybe an irrigating pump? and it blew up like a bomb. as they waited for the fire department to arrive, brandy began tending to the boy, fabian ayala.
couldn t say it was a 100% match. and while the dna didn t match anyone else in the moore family including peter, the fact that paul couldn t be excluded was nothing that would hold up in court. it was beyond frustrating. to hear that we have an almost match but we can t say for sure. reporter: still, it did give them an idea. they d get one shot at it. might work. coming up that got my attention right away. exciting doesn t begin to describe. elated maybe. the most amazing thing in the world. this is the smoking gun. a killer seemingly revealed by a blank sheet of paper. got chills going back of my neck. i m like, this is not happening right now. when dateline continues. so the whole world looks different.