![]() > reporter: though pete couldn't and didn't try to deny his hatred for roberto ayala. > he denied he had anything to do with it. > not that we could find any evidence of. > reporter: so if pete was doing something he wasn't doing it at his house. > we didn't find anything as far as bomb making materials, instructions on bombs, even anything in remotely close to that like gun powder. > reporter: meanwhile the whole neighborhood was watching this. > reporter: when they left? > they took our computers and our cell phones. > as these detectives were asking their questions and as they were ripping my house - going through my house. > there was a parade of cars driving around the whole neighborhood. the neighbor began sending out real time updates on facebook. > reporter: around colusa the raid on peter's house just days after roberto's death was big news. > reporter: what were you afraid of? > that they thought we did it. > reporter: were you frightened? > oh, yes. > reporter: did they seem to be accusing the two of you? > yes. > reporter: that was the first you heard of such a thing? > because we thought it was an accident. > i said how do you know it was a bomb? we don't even know it was a bomb. Warrant stating investigators were looking for anything connected to bomb making. > reporter: mary ellen and peter asked investigators what was going on. 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: did you think it had something to do with what happened to roberto? > well, i didn't think that at first. when we came home weerks saw them all at the house searching the house. ![]() > reporter: and for paul to denounce peter who was like his brother, sad, perhaps, but made sense to the da's office, which signed off on the warrant to have pete's house searched. we knew pete didn't get along with his family. > reporter: so when paul came to the authorities and said, i think pete is responsible for this, did the suspicion seem plausible? > yes. he told us his cousin pete hadĬould tick you off. ![]() > reporter: did he have any other ideas about what may have happened? > he did. it looked like galvanized iron or metal and that piece of metal said to him that there was something more going on. > he came across a piece of metal that he found. > reporter: paul, pete's beloved cousin, the handsome golden boy of the pair told the detective he found something out at the scene of the accident, something that shouldn't have been there. > reporter: then, three days after the explosion - > we got a visit from paul moore. > we're not a hundred percent convinced it's a bomb yet. we had bomb guys saying it was a bomb, but they're bomb guys. i was a little concerned that maybe, you know, we're calling these big agencies for help and really what we have is an accident. last thing he wanted was the big city feds treating him like a country cop crying wolf.
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