know, like, "your mother really did love you." >> reporter: maybe someday she'll know about that uncontainable woman who while she stayed brought joy. marie. >> reporter: that's all for this edition of dateline. dateline. thanks for watching. thanks for watching. he's clever. >> it is almost like a marvel comic book arch villain. he is bright. he is clever. evil as can be. >> on a beautiful sprawling farm, seeds of danger. >> we heard this big explosion. he just laid on the ground. >> this loving father of three. the farm's heart and soul, killed in a ball of fire. someone claimed the dead man had

reaped what he had sewn. >> he let her know roberto messed with a drug cartel. >> a wealthy clan known for harvesting rice and resentment. >> i wish there was not so much hate and anger in our family. >> one family member seemingly held a grudge. >> he always had something mean to say and the one that hated him. >> who chases the police? >> reporter: who was hiding the darkest of secrets? >> chills going in the back of my neck. >> reporter: a blank sheet of paper hiding a diabolical clue. >> i fell to my knees and just started screaming. >> there is an eden in the american west.

a wide flat cornacopia. great farms employ legions of workers and families that pass the land down, father to son, generation after generation. they live modestly here in california's central valley. multimillionaires and crop dusters in battered pickup trusts, self-reliant and tough enough to thrive in a dangerous business that takes guts and brains and too often lives. here the high voltage power that helps to grow the food of life. like the day a little boy burst from the field of sun flowers. >> he was beat red, sweaty.

just covered in mud, head to toe. tennis shoes in his hands. >> reporter: running barefoot? >> i think he got stuck in the mud. >> reporter: brandy and her kids live in a big house in one of the farms. quiet. predictable. until the saturday afternoon that little boy appeared. like magic from the sun flower field. couldn't have been more than seven years old or so. what did he say? >> that his dad office fire and he needed to call for help. >> reporter: once he started to talk was he making sense? >> yes. he was able to talk the whole time and answer whatever

questions i had. >> reporter: brandy called 9-1-1. >> what is it his dad turned something on for the water, irrigating pump and it blew up like a bomb. >> reporter: as they waited, brandy began to tend to the boy. >> gave him water to drink. i took the water, rinsed off the mud and checked under the shirt to see if there were major injuries or not. >> reporter: were you hurt? >> no. >> reporter: this is fabian three years later with his family by his side. he told us about the last day he spent with his dad. >> he would take me out when he had something to do. >> reporter: fabian's dad was a farm manager, a demanding sun up to sun down job. he would often take one of his

three kids with him. a proud man. chest out and chin up. july 16th, that saturday roberto needed to flood a rice field. roberto drove from one pump to the next. stopped, got out and walked to the big electrical box. >> we heard this big explosion. he is just laying on the ground. >> reporter: what did you do? >> i yelled his name out. he wasn't answering. want to go and try to get help. >> what did you do. you ran? >> yeah. through the flower fields.

>> reporter: how far did you have to go? >> i don't know. pretty far. >> reporter: more than two miles, running, running, running. blindly through the field of golden flowers that closed in about him. >> and i saw the house and i just went towards it. >> do you remember what you said to them? >> something happened to my dad. he was down that way, and can you help me. they said yes. they called the police department. and they came as quick as they can. >> when firefighters reached the irrigation canal from which fabian had run for help there was no body left to save. they found burn holes an inch wide near the bottom of his feet. a locker-sized electrical box

used to turn on a high voltage irrigation pump that shorted out and exploded. metal fragments blew out the windows. miracle fabian was not killed too. >> we received a phone call that something had happened. >> it was when we received a call from the police department. they said they had fabian and that he was okay. they couldn't tell us what happened to roberto. we thought he was in the hospital. >> reporter: you department know what happened? >> we didn't know what happened. about an hour, hour and a half later they arrived with fabian. my brother just started to scream he was dead. >> what was it like to see him in that situation?

>> reporter: pretty amazing, running all of that way. >> i would not be able to run that much or i wouldn't have known what to do. >> reporter: farm accidents are as old as the wheel. sheriff investigators collected every bit of debris they could find, whether it looked like it was from an electrical box or not. >> one of our jobs for the jurisdiction is to investigate all industrial accidents. >> reporter: because the sheriff there does double duty as the county coroner. >> osha will eventually take over the investigation if it is determined to be that type of a

thing. >> there was an autopsy too. routine. >> told us the victim had been burned and near an explosion. >> reporter: pacific gas and electric sent over a team confirming that it looked like an accident and sadly not unique. >> he said we have seen stuff similar to this. what might happen is the operator will get into the panel with a tool for some reason and cross the leads with that tool and cause a plasma type of plosion. >> this is what it would have looked like before the explosion. after the explosion, the box was nowhere to be found. just a splintered post from where it once stood. >> along with the crops, growing resentments at the farm.

>> robert told paul he would get my share of what my dad would leave me at the ranch. >> reporter: your intention is to fight him? >> yeah. it settles things. >> the investigation continues as explosive experts try to determine what exactly happened to roberto. >> that piece of metal said that there was something more going on. >> the first clue unearthed when dateline continues. e unearthed n dateline continues man: condos, 150k. [ traffic passing by ] sorry, bud. thanks. switch to progressive and you can save hundreds.

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lester holt (voiceover): when people hear the words "fortunes" and "california" in the same sentence, >> reporter: when people hear the words fortune and california in the same sentence, their minds generally go to an internet sensation like google or apple. just 50 miles from silicon valley is the san joaquin valley where fortunes were made the

form worth tens of millions, all going to one extended family. >> they were very, very private. >> reporter: this is mary, part of the greater moore clan. her family keep their wealth private too. >> i knew there was money there, but they did not flaunt it in any way. you were not told about it. you just knew that it was there. >> and she learned early, she said that the family fortune was also a tool to keep the descendants in line. >> my dad would say if you ever get into drugs or do anything i am kicking you out of the will. it started with the moore family patriarch who handed the farm down to his two sons, roger and gus. each of them had a son born a year apart.

paul and peter who were in line to one day run the farms as partners, cousins but raised like brothers. here they are in 1978, fishing barehanded, in 1980 on the same high school football team. roger's son paul was smart and handsome, a playboy. peter, just two row down was tough and blunt, hot-helped really. too much money involved. everybody is afraid of what they might lose if they say something. even if it is right. >> there was one family member pete had a deep connection with. his grandfather, the family

patriarch. >> he was special. >> reporter: he taught peter about farming and tending the orchard. >> i was his eyes. >> reporter: but when his grandfather died, pete's life changed quite suddenly. >> after we buried my grandpa in short order i was pretty much told by my dad and uncle they didn't need my help anymore. i didn't know if it was animosity or what it was. >> reporter: after an ugly fight with his dad pete was exiled from the land of plenty. moved north in to town and started a landscaping business.

>> reporter: paul remained the golden boy, marrying a local beauty. this is his wedding video and waited for the day he would reign over the land. but he was never involved in the big questions, when and what, those multimillion dollar decisions were left up to roberto, once a lowly field hand but anyone could see that roberto was a natural farmer and gradually trust and responsibility and the owner's affection came to him. >> it wasn't fair. it was a slap in the face. >> to make matters worse, roberto brought his brother, eduardo in as his assistant. the cousin, birth right withheld, they fumed. >> paul would come over and tell

me horrible stuff. he said robert told paul he would get my share of what he was going to leave me at the ranch. >> fair to say your raw. >> i was mad. there was a lot of animosity. i told him, let's go. >> reporter: your intention was to fight him? >> yeah. it settles things. >> roberto declined. he had a farm to run. the next thing he heard anything about roberto, it was that he was dead. what did you think? >> i was told it was an accident. >> reporter: which is certainly what it was. but just to be sure they called in explosive experts from a neighboring county.

>> just to ask from you ever heard of an electrical panel like this blowing up. they hadn't. they came out to look at what we had and formed the opinion it was possibly an explosive device, called atf and fbi. >> reporter: to some that felt like jumping the gun. the last thing he wanted is the big city feds treating him like a country cop crying wolf. >> i was a little overwhelmed and concerned that maybe, you know, we are calling the big agencies for help. we are not 100% convinced it was a bomb yet. >> we got a visit from paul moore. >> he told detectives he found something near the scene of the

accident, something that shouldn't have been there. >> came across a piece of metal that he found. galvanized iron or metal. that said to him there was something more going on. >> reporter: did he have any other ideas about what may have happened? >> he did and told us his cousin, pete made threats towards the victim in the time leading up to the incident. >> reporter: there was more, texts he received from peter sent from the very rice field where roberto was killed. >> that was dated and timed the day before. >> reporter: the focus shifts from the nuts and bolts of electrical explosions to explosive personality. >> he always had something mean to say and hated him. that was the only person i could think of. >> why did you hate him? >> he was arrogant and flaunted stuff in my face. >> pete had a reputation for being a hot head.

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keith morrison (voiceover): district attorney john pointer's one of colusa's most popular raconteurs. by the way, i changed that to 8:45 or 6. the districteo attorney is one the most popular restaurateurs in office nearly 30 years and knows where the skeletons are buried and just about every

prominent family in the county. >> if i said they were odd, that would be a good way of summarizing it. >> reporter: how? >> you would hear about the moore family. >> they would complain publicly about other wings of the family or in such a way -- >> complain in a way other people found out about it. >> reporter: the two cousins. pete i have known for years. a lot of mouth. he couldn't back it up but he had a lot of mouth. >> we knew pete did not get along with his family and had a hot head and had access to the property. >> reporter: for paul to denounce peter who was like his brother. sad but it made sense to the

d.a. signed off on the warrant to have the house searched. >> couldn't believe it. i didn't think it at first. i said what are they doing at hour house. >> two cops came over and grabbed me and escorted me to the front of my house. >> reporter: they were handed a search warrant stating investigators were looking for anything connected to bomb making. >> we don't even know it was a bomb. >> we thought it was an accident. >> reporter: do they seem to be accusing the two of you? >> yes. >> what were you afraid of? >> they thought we did it.

the raid on peter's house was big news. a neighbor began sending out real time updates on facebook. >> they took our computers and our cell phones. we had a business. nobody could call us. >> the whole neighborhood was watching this? >> yes. >> the search did not yield a thing. >> we didn't find anything as far as bomb making materials. anything like gunpowder or anything like that. >> if he was doing something it wasn't at his house. >> not that we could find evidence of. >> why did not hate him? >> he was arrogant and flaunted

stuff in my face. a lot of people knew about that. when they heard that peter moore's house was searched. >> he was the one that always had something to mean to say and hated him. >> there was a lot of town talk going on and gossip and rumor. pete got a visit from a friend who had heard some things. >> he saw me and backs up in the highway patrol car. i said i am working. he said you are not. get in your car. go to sacramento. get an attorney. they are coming after you. you are their number one

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>> the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms is somewhat of a legend at solving puzzles, these pits of pieces, fragments of this and that were all that was left of roberto's body the day of the explosion. >> what does it tell you overall? >> it tells us that there was an incredible amount of force in the explosion. >> reporter: most of the pieces were once part of the electrical box. >> washers. hardware, screws, nuts, wire. >> reporter: a few fragments, just a handful. looked like they were pieces from a different puzzle. odd. >> galvanized steel that was ripped apart. >> reporter: parker sent the pieces off to the fbi's crime

lab for analysis. >> to determine if there was explosive residue on some of the fragments collected at the scene. >> reporter: then there was this. discovered on the fifth day of the investigation. the panel box door found 160 feet from the site of the explosion. >> four feet tall and six feet wide and weighs 15 to 20 pounds. hunting for bomb residues. >> he didn't leave. >> what were people saying around town? >> we were hearing people were saying that they thought that pete did it. >> did not make a secret of it either, said mary ellen from

them or the neighbors. how did they start to look at you? >> like we were guilty. >> after they raided my house, i spent days crying. days and days, you know. i would be at work just crying. you don't know what is going on. you don't know who to trust. >> how much were you watched? >> i would wake up in the morning and they watched me get up every day, put on a shirt and being in the public's eye when everybody thinks you are a murderer. >> i am amazed how much talking goes on there without any evidence. you know, a lot of gossip and people in your business. >> reporter: mary placed a call to the investigators, telling them they were going after the wrong guy. >> he was extremely rude. he said you and your family need to accept it. your brother did it. i broke down in tears. i thought they just didn't like

him as a person. i think they just, to me my opinion is that they wanted it to be him. they had no physical evidence that a murder even occurred but continued to watch and wait. and then a month after the explosion there was news from the atf crime lab. they had found something. >> there was the presence of explosive residue on the upon metal fragments that we submitted. >> reporter: so it was a bomb. a murder. and then the very next day. >> i am sitting in my office talking about what we are doing next. the civil deputy walks in with an envelope and said i think it is for you guys. in the upper left-hand corner it

says ayala case. there are eight stamps on it. it was pretty light. way too much postage. an open letter to the cops. >> basically claiming responsibility for the bombing. >> the letter full of misspellings and bad grammar. a contract killer hired to kill roberto over a deal gone wrong. >> ms 13 behind it. it is a violent criminal street gang. >> reporter: and roberto was supposed to be a target of the group. >> the letter let it be known that roberto messed with a drug

cartel and ms 13 was contacted. the point of the letter wrote it was a warning. roberto's brother was next on the hitlist. the writer said he turned down the job but a second assassin would soon be on the way. >> i didn't know what to think. i never saw anything like that before in my career except on tv. >> reporter: one thing strange about the letter. whoever wrote it had inside knowledge. nobody, besides the cops knew what the atf had discovered. >> we didn't tell anybody it was a bomb. for somebody to write a letter claiming responsibility for a bombing. you know, that lended credence to the fact that the author of

the letter was the real thing. >> reporter: weird. all too weird. detectives went home for the weekend to dejest what they had read and seen. then his phone rang. >> hey, we got another one of the letters. i came to work and there is a second letter on my desk. slightly smaller. half sized. but configured the same way. you know, way too much postage again. invitation from a killer. >> the letter said if you have questions place an ad in the sacramento bee and make sure it is the last ad. keeping the stuff confidential

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keith morrison (voiceover): on august 15, 2011, 30 days after roberto ayala's death, investigators >> on august 15th, 2011. 30 days after roberto ayal o's death, investigators received this hand drawn picture of a bomb. what did you think when you saw the diagram? >> shock. >> we were amazed, absolutely

amazed. i never had seen anything like that before. >> reporter: the device shown in the diagram was a two inch pipe bomb placed next to a soda bottle of gasoline, spray painted black. a large bolt tied off with a fishing line would fall on a rat trap causing it to strike a firing pin. the author said that there was a second secret triggering device as backup. the bomb was designed to go off when roberto opened up the door of the electrical box. >> could have been anything. >> suddenly agent parker saw how they all fit. >> it is like someone sent us the cover of the box. >> the thing that made it exceptionally clear is that the

bolt still had fishing string attached. it would have been hanging as a create. that was in fact part of our device described in the letters. >> reporter: black paint still clinging to it just like the diagram. >> there is a spring that was similar to a rat trap spring. there was gasoline on the victim's clothing. and then we recovered pieces of a 9-volt battery that had no business in that panel. >> reporter: if you found the writer of the letter you had found the killer. >> that is our opinion, yes. >> along with that a second letter in which the bombing repeated the earlier claim that he was a reluctant assassin and after a career of killing i want to save a life before i take my

life. the bomber repeated the warning. roberto's bother eduardo was next and the whole family was in mortal danger. >> he said i want to make sure that you get the letter and have time to help these guys. >> that was basically the gist of the letter. >> there are things in the investigation we couldn't release. keeping that stuff confidential was important. >> reporter: the man's life might be in jeopardy. >> we gave him as strong of a warning as we could without going into specific detail. >> reporter: the killer had been given a deadline. >> the letter said i was given eight weeks to do this job.

it will be reassigned in five weeks. i wanted to give you guys time to help these guys and do something about it. they said they had received the letter and it mentioned me. >> roberto'sing brother. >> he said be careful. watch yourself. >> it wasn't just eduardo in the crosshairs. whoever was now driving roberto's now repaired truck is in great danger. who that was person? roberto's son, jesus. a lot of sleepless nights.

going through my mind, look out. take care of my brother's family and my family and look over yourself. >> reporter: the first thing eduardo did was hide the pickup truck. now with the truck out of sight would the killer or killers just find a better place for a bomb. >> i could just think and think and run things through my mind. >> somebody sneaky and violent enough to plan something to kill people. in this second letter the bomber left open one possible line of communication. >> it said if you have any questions place an ad in the

sacramento bee. help wanted. make sure it is the last ad. >> reporter: they placed this classified ad and waited for a killer to call. coming up, a son's all too close call with death. >> i didn't get to tag along that day. i would have probably been the one to get off. >> reporter: another member of the moore dynasty comes forward. would an answering machine message solve the question about a motive for murder when dateline continues. murder when dateline continues

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keith morrison (voiceover): who ever heard of such a thing? letters from a purported killer, plus a diagram

>> whoever heard of such a thing, letters from a purported killer and a diagram of what certainly looked like the actual bomb that killed roberto ayalo. if it was for real, who sent it? was it from the lead suspect peter moore or a hitman or was it from somebody that wasn't even on the detective's radar? whoever it was, five weeks into the case it was about the only lead that investigators had. they played along, placed an ad as requested in the sacramento bee. someone responded and cops rushed to see him. >> he was pretty surprised. it was just an unlucky guy looking for a job. the killer though, the killer never called. this deal gone wrong was just some sort of game the real

bomber was playing. trouble was, nobody knew the rules or the purpose or where the game might end. >> we had the letters, we wanted fingerprints and dna. >> clean. just as the bomber said they would will. what was going on? one thing was least likely that roberto was messed up with the drug gang ms 13. over saw the day-to-day operations of a multimillion dollar spread. he knew the land and the machines that worked it and was utterly committed to his work. >> that was everything.

our whole life evolved around it. >> first jobs as kids, right. >> yeah. learn how to drive on the farm and do everything on the farm. >> tell me about your dad. >> he is a hard worker. someone to look up to. we admired him. >> and it did not go unnoticed on the moore farm. over the years the owners came to rely a great deal on roberto. treated him more like a favorite son more than an employee. how important was family to roberto? >> the most important thing. everywhere he went, we went too. >> whatever went wrong, he was the one to go to and keep

everybody together. >> reporter: the coming of age ritual when a girl turns 15. when roberto's daughter turned 15. >> i was the only girl and he did everything he could to make the day the best. you have to have your father-daughter dance and you feel like you are the only person that exists at that moment. you just feel important. you feel do feel like the princess. butting heads with parents. it may have saved jesus' life. >> we had an argument that morning. i didn't get to ride along that

day. i would have probably been the one to get off to check that pump. >> why would anyone want to hurt him? >> i can't find a reason why someone would want to do this o also to murdering fabian. >> if you want my button pushed, bring a child into it. >> i could not imagine seven years old and seeing my dad blowup. >> to run through what we call colusa mud, the rice fields. he had to take his shoes off. you could hardly walk through it. for him to run all of that way, it was amazing. i remember asking him if he knew what 9-1-1 was. he said yeah.

i asked it has dad had a cell phone. i said why didn't you use it or call for help. reaching out like this said i can't. he is on fire. yeah. that stays with you. >> now the taunting letters frol delight in how he killed the man and almost murdered the boy. who would do such a thing and why. four days after the diagram showed up one of the alpha males of the moore clan walked in the front door wanting to catch the killer telling tickets he had important evidence to share. audiotape. coming up, investigators discover a brand-new suspect. >> we may have somebody else to

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[theme music] keith morrison (voiceover): roberto ayala, manager of a multimillion-dollar california farm owned by the powerful moore family, had been killed roberto, manager of a multi-million dollar family farm had been killed by a complicated homemade bomb. the prime suspect, pete moore, famously hotheaded, angry, because he believed his father might have given his inheritance to ayala. pete's uncle, roger moore, believed an audiotape from his answering machine could help detectives, who still didn't have 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. >> reporter: pete wanted to talk about having been disinherited. >> and -- i've just, you know -- i've been taken out of my dad's will. >> reporter: 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, detectives soloman and agent parker had an audiotapes, texts, letters, a diagram, fragments of leads pointing in wildly different directions.

to pete moore, or a drug cartel, or a crazed assassin. and now they had another lead to work on. >> somebody made an anonymous call to the sheriff's department, said -- the caller basically stated, you need to be looking at paul moore. >> paul, not peter? >> paul, not peter. >> reporter: for all the produce that comes rolling out of colusa county, california, its population of humans is small. just 22,000. everybody seems to know just about everybody here. so when a would-be anonymous tipster called the sheriff's office, it turned out he wasn't anonymous at all. the detective who took the call recognized the voice and phoned him right back. >> says, hey, you need to come in and talk to us. >> reporter: the caller as it turned out was this man, dave moore, caussin of roger and gus, with a multimillion-dollar spread of his own and a passion for warbirds.

dave's stepdaughter had once been married to paul. this is a video from their wedding day. a messy divorce followed a few years later. >> so david and susan moore came into our office. >> reporter: susan moore is dave's wife. what did they say when they got into the office? >> the first thing they told us was a wiretapping incident. >> reporter: wiretapping? >> yes. >> reporter: dave and sue claimed paul tapped his wife's phone to spy on her during divorce negotiations and, sure enough, here are the court documents. in 1997 paul was arrested on four counts related to tapping both his wife's and in-laws' phones. he pleaded guilty to one count of electronic eavesdropping, a felony. the other charges were dropped, and paul served no jail time. but the wiretapping story was just a prologue to what they were really there to talk about. >> who do you think is capable

or responsible for actually setting up an explosive device in that panel? >> i think, like, probably 90% paul. >> reporter: but dave and susan couldn't really give a reason why paul would want to kill roberto, other than they felt paul just had the kind of personality to do something like that, while pete didn't. >> so you don't think peter is capable of actually developing a very sophisticated device to create an explosion? >> i -- i'm -- i'm doubtful of it. i don't know him that well. that well. but i -- i -- i really wouldn't think he could. >> okay. >> and i also think he doesn't have the moxie to do something like that. >> what do you mean, moxie? >> just the -- >> the intelligence? >> the meanness >> the meanness? >> yeah. >> reporter: but peter had actually threatened roberto,

wanted to fight him. and as far as anybody knew, paul had never done anything like that. nevertheless, based on this new information from david and susan moore, detec>>keome on in, have. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: 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. taking him out of the will. >> reporter: one thing, though. paul, like his second cousin dave, didn't think that pete was capable of making that bomb. somebody must have helped him.

>> i just don't think pete has the technical ability to do it. unless he seriously had some help. >> okay. so this type of thing was done by somebody who is pretty intelligent, maybe got some know-how? >> well, that's kind what was you guys said, and i -- i think that's right. >> who do you think is capable of -- >> reporter: but remember, paul's ex-inlaws told detective salm that paul was more likely the guilty party. >> probably 90% paul. >> reporter: so now the detective turned the tables a little, suggested maybe it was he, paul, who was jealous of roberto. >> i didn't hate robert. >> okay. did you not like him? >> i didn't like the fact that he would cop an attitude with me. just over something stupid, you know, and little. >> reporter: detective salm pressed paul about his past. >> you've got several incidents

here -- >> i have a criminal record. >> you've been involved in some bad stuff. okay? you cut phone wires. >> i tried to help you guys out through this whole thing. you're going to start to cop an attitude -- >> i'm not trying to cop an attitude with you, but i'm having trouble with some of the stuff you're saying. >> i know my word doesn't [ bleep ], i'm a felon, a drug addict. everybody knows about it. i put up with a lot of [ bleep ] here -- >> so this must have put a whole different complexion on paul. >> it did. >> reporter: having thought for some time that maybe peter was your guy. what was that like? >> it's possible we may have somebody else to look at. >> reporter: and indeed they did. attached gps trackers to both peter and paul's vehicles, which produced precisely nothing. more weeks slipped by. eduardo ayala, aware he and his family could be the killer's next targets, lay awake at night thinking. >> i would imagine peter trying to build this bomb.

had to do it on a work bench obviously, but he's got the shakes. so i think about that. did he, or did he have somebody else do it for him? boy. then i would think the same thing about paul. by working side to side with the guy, i could see that he was smart. super smart guy. >> reporter: by the time the rice crop came in the first couple weeks of october, the whole case had gone into a kind of stall. atf agent brian parker was particularly frustrated. while the door of the electrical panel had been recovered. the box itself where the bomb had been placed was still missing. >> the most logical place where that remains of that panel was, was in the river that was directly behind where the explosion occurred. >> reporter: so they called in an fbi dive team which spent days mucking through the bottom of the canal next to where the

bomb had gone off. agent parker, who had been monitoring the search, had a strange incident as he was leaving one day. >> and all of a sudden the tire went flat. >> reporter: this is what flattened the tire. a homemade spike. >> the spike was constructed of a harvester sickle welded to a two-inch washer. further inspection of the area, we found another one of these spikes. >> almost like a challenge to us. here i am. i'm doing this to you. now come find me. basically, they're coming after the cops. >> investigators may be able to fight back with new ammunition. as they finally turn up scientific evidence on one of it letters the killers sent. >> there was a dna profile on the back of one of the stamps that was affixed to the envelope. >> when date liep continues. af envelope >> when date liep continues.

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keith morrison (voiceover): three months after the bombing, the fbi dive team found the electrical box in which the bomb had been placed. >> reporter: three months after the bombing, the fbi dive team found the electrical box in which the bomb had been placed. but after months of sitting in water and mud there was no trace of dna or fingerprints. the only story this peeled metal told was -- >> this case is going nowhere. >> reporter: now with little hope of finding the key piece of evidence that would put the case away, the detectives tried that good old-fashioned tool of policing, shoe leather and tire tread. round-the-clock surveillance of peter and paul moore. aided by tracking devices with a particularly helpful app. >> they're called geo fences. i put a geo fence around where i live, i put a geo fence around the sheriff's department. >> reporter: protection he felt he needed after someone targeted law enforcement with those spikes on the road. >> if the vehicle or the gps monitor travels into those locations, you get an alert.

>> reporter: in addition detective salm would routinely log in to check on the whereabouts of peter and paul's trucks. on the morning of thanksgiving day, more than four months after the bombing, salm turned on his computer to find the gps tracker on paul moore's truck. >> it had gone dead. we had no signal whatsoever. this is also the type of gps that you could call. you know, just like calling on a cell phone. and wake it up. because they go to sleep when they're not having. and where are you? well, we couldn't get a response from it. >> reporter: the device may have just died or been found, so salm got into his car with his partner, drove to paul's house to see if the truck was there. >> we got to his house. i look in the kitchen window and

he's staring at me. okay. >> reporter: hoping paul hadn't recognized him, detective salm hit the road. >> as we're leaving town i look in the rear view mirror and there he is following us in his truck. he pulls in behind us. i speed up. he speeds up. i'm up to about 85 and he is still gaining on me. he pulls in the opposing lane. i slam on the brakes and he keeps going. we pace him. i lose pace of him at 95. i called him in. and chp was actually able to get a stop on him. >> reporter: what was that all about? >> i have no idea. who chases the police? that's the first time that's ever happened to me in my career. >> reporter: so by now your suspicions were ratcheted up quite a bit i would think. >> yes, they were. >> reporter: were you worried about your own safety? >> at parts during the investigation there were concerns for our own safety. we're dealing with a person who is violent enough to plant a bomb. >> reporter: but was that person paul moore? paul had a criminal history to be sure, but was he a killer? there were certain things about paul's past detective salm was unable to share with us for reasons we'll explain later that we discovered in old court

records, a saga of smart, expensive lawyering dealing with misdeeds that go way beyond tapping an ex-wife's telephone. in 1997, paul was arrested after an incident in san francisco one night. ugly accusation. rape, false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, trying to run his alleged victim over with his pickup truck. charges that could put paul in prison for a decade or more. instead, paul spent nearly three years driving back and forth between his place here in colusa and san francisco engaged in a series of court maneuvers. the result? paul simply got probation after pleading no contest to assault with intent to commit rape but denying blame for the offense. the other charges were dropped. but the conviction put paul on california's sex offenders list, searchable by county. out of fear that someone in colusa was found 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. >> reporter: pete, pete, pete? >> pete, pete, pete. >> reporter: but not paul? >> not paul. >> reporter: then five months

into the investigation there was news of a sort from one of the crime labs. a male leg hair was found under a label of one of the envelopes, and the dna came back matching nobody. no one in the moore family or any one of the codis database, anyway. odd. had it been planted there to throw off investigators? then one of these envelopes finally gave up what appeared to be a real clue. >> there was a dna profile from fingerprint ridge detail on the back of one of the stamps that was affixed to the envelopes that one of the letters was sent in. >> so what came back from these dna tests? >> a contributor of the dna from the fingerprint material was similar to paul moore. >> reporter: case closed. right? not this time. this time there was a "but." >> similar to paul moore, but it wasn't a match. >> reporter: the dna sample was so minute that forensic scientists were unable to build

a full genetic sequence. meaning the dna may have come from paul moore, but the scientists 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. >> most amazing thing in the world. this is the smoking gun. >> a killer seemingly revealed by a blank sheet of paper. >> got chill going back of my

neck. i'm like this is not happening right now. >> when "dateline" continues. right now. >> when "dateline" continues ugh, there's that cute guy from 12c. -go talk to him. -yeah, no. plus it's not even like he'd be into me or whatever. ♪♪

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i'm dara brown. here's what's happening. during a speech to the conservative political action conference former president trump repeated false claims that he won the 2020 election andg and voter i.d. laws. tiger woods tweeted it is touching to see so many pro golfers wear red to support him in the final round sunday. remains hospitalized following last week's devastating car crash. now back to dateline. >> reporter: the dna evidence that came back as a partial match to paul moore was not enough to get him charged with roberto ayala's murder. far from it. but it was enough to get some people in town whispering. >> rumors run. rumors are like bad smell. they move fast. >> reporter: eduardo heard those rumors.

heard that maybe paul had something to do with roberto's murder. which placed eduardo in the hitchcockian situation of working side by side with the man who may have murdered his brother. >> i'd look at him just like i'm looking at you, i talked to him just like i'm talking to you, and in the back of my mind i'm thinking, you're the one that did it. >> reporter: and while that dna result from the stamp wasn't strong enough to hold up in court, it was significant enough to get a warrant to search paul's home. for whatever that was worth, five long months after the bombing. he had done some kind of major cleaning of his house. so we'd actually had conversation about this and -- >> reporter: like a what's the point conversation? >> that was one of the things that was talked about. and the decision was made. i didn't want to leave it untouched. >> reporter: sure. but your expectations were not that high. >> no, they weren't. >> reporter: with just this one

crack at paul's house, detective salm wanted to make sure they did a thorough search. so he cobbled together a team of investigators from various law enforcement agencies. >> before we served the search warrant, we had a briefing. >> reporter: one of the cops helping him was a detective from a neighboring town, jose "chewy" ruiz. >> actually showed us a diagram of the bomb, and that's pretty much what we are instructed to look for. >> reporter: anything related to that. >> yes. exactly. anything related to bomb making. >> reporter: they arrived en masse right after daybreak. unannounced, of course. paul waited outside while each investigator took a piece of the house. and in they went. >> i found some manila envelopes, a copier, and also a printer. >> reporter: the problem though was that paul's home, owned by the moore family, doubled as the farm office. there were printers and copiers, envelopes, expected to be there, too. as you went around and found those things, what were you

thinking? >> we really want that one really, really good piece of physical evidence. >> reporter: what you found so far wasn't it. >> no. >> reporter: okay. so specifically what did you find of probative value? anything? >> i didn't find anything. we took his cell phones. there were two cell phones in the car. >> reporter: but basically nothing. >> no. >> reporter: detective ruiz was assigned to the dining room, which clearly doubled as an office. what did you see? >> i saw a lot of paperwork. there was lots of paperwork. files everywhere on the table. >> reporter: room was full of paper. >> yes. >> reporter: the sun was just breaking over the horizon. long rays of morning light angled through the blinds. detective ruiz was poking through all those papers and office supplies -- when a curious thing caught his eye. it was the way that almost horizontal beam of light glanced off a blank sheet of paper. >> i noticed that the white sheet of paper had several impressions on it. >> reporter: impressions? >> yes.

>> reporter: you mean writing on it? >> yes. like when you draw something on a top sheet of paper and it goes through. >> reporter: to the next sheet down. >> yes. and that got my attention right away. i picked it up and it was one of those moments where i was like, hm. i turned it different angles. the paper bowed in half. it was one of those, i was -- got chills going the back of my neck, just hairs are standing up, i'm like, no way, this is not happening right now. one of the officers that was helping us looked at me, he goes, what are you looking at? because it was just a blank sheet of paper. and i was like, you're not going to believe this. i said, you need to go get detective salm now. >> he's holding this white piece of paper in his hands and kind of has it bent a little bit. he's like, look at this. immediately i looked at this and i'm like, oh my god. what he's holding in his hand is an indented writing copy of the diagram that we received in the

mail. >> reporter: this is the sheet of paper detective ruiz found. you can see the indentations of the bolt threads in the middle of the page about a third of the way down. and here's that same sheet of paper enhanced by the atf crime lab. and here is the original bomb diagram mailed to investigators back in august. >> the most amazing thing in the world. this is the smoking gun. >> unbelievable. couldn't believe it. exciting doesn't begin to describe. elated maybe. >> reporter: then what happens? >> i went out and arrested paul moore. coming up, peter moore seems to be in the clear, but he's got yet another shock in store. >> there's no scale for this. this changes you forever. >> when "dateline" continues. ats

keith morrison (voiceover): little colusa california was dumbstruck. paul moore? arrested for the killing of roberto ayala? >> reporter: little colusa, california, was dumbstruck. paul moore arrested for the killing of roberto ayala. few even knew he was a suspect.

mary, paul's cousin and pete's sister, got a barrage of texts at work. >> it was bittersweet. there was a part of me that was relieved that it was over for pete or that he wasn't, you know, mixed in with it. and at the same time i was sad because it was my cousin that we grew up with, you know, and it was part of my family. >> my youngest sister mary called me on the phone and she said, they just arrested paul for the murder of robert ayala. and i was in the middle of the parking lot, and i fell to my knees and just started screaming. >> reporter: but human nature is a funny thing. suspicion once embedded is remarkably resistant to actual evidence that might disprove it. when paul moore was arrested and charged with the murder of roberto ayala, his cousin peter began to experience that particular phenomenon quite personally. around town people still seemed to believe that pete was the

murderer. ironic, perhaps, that for all his bluster, pete has never been in arrested, never been in trouble with the law, runs his own business, has been a good father, and over the years has taken in wayward teens to give them a better start. kids like nick. >> in other foster homes they do it for the money. pete, he didn't ask for are any money in return. he fed me. clothed me. gave me a car to drive. and now i look at pete like a dad. and anybody that has anything bad to say about pete never really took the time to get to know him because he is a good, loving person with a huge heart. we need more petes in this world. >> reporter: why were the cops so focused on pete to begin with? well, as pete tells it, his cousin paul planned the whole thing. set out to frame him. first by lying to him, telling 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: but pete's wife mary ellen said she could clearly see paul was baiting pete. >> i would talk to him all the time. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: dave and sue moore told 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: the next chapter wasn't a lift from the book of genesis. more like the story of job. >> one thing that's kind of

unique, maybe, or especially about colusa county, is every time i've ever had a big case, i can go into almost any coffee shop or restaurant, and they're solving it for me. >> reporter: those things can get twisted very fast. >> they get twisted really fast. in this case it was constantly, you know pete moore did it. you know pete moore did it. my response was, well, that's not the direction i'm going in. >> reporter: not the direction at all. in fact, d.a. 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. that uncomfortable fact was irresistible catnip for paul's defense attorney. pete's first day on the stand. >> he said, you're a murderer, aren't you, mr. moore? coming up -- the defense says it was pete who had the motive to kill one man and implicate another, a master plan

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keith morrison (voiceover): in the months following roberto ayala's murder, investigators suspected in the months following roberto ayala's murder, investigators suspected peter moore was the bomber and built a case against him. so when peter's cousin paul was arrested, his defense asked an obvious question. what if the cops' first instinct was correct? what if pete did it? >> peter has animosity towards roberto. peter has made threats to roberto. peter is the one that wants in to the farming operation. >> reporter: linda parisi, paul moore's attorney, presented in court a mirror image of the state's case acknowledging that one cousin was out to frame the other, only in her version of

the story paul was the stooge and peter the mastermind. >> peter is the one who has indicated, i've been in landscaping for 20 years. i'm tired. i'm broken down. i want to be in the farming operation. what better way to take out roberto and to take out paul? >> to counter that argument the prosecution was forced to call pete as a witness, knowing that would make him a punching bag for parisi. >> she told me, you're a murderer aren't you, mr. moore? i said, those are your words, not mine. >> she thought she could, by grilling peter, uncover the evil, the monster. >> reporter: assistant attorney general david drewliner was pete's wrangler during the trial. >> i was completely satisfied there was no monster to uncover. so i, for the most part, let her go at him.

>> reporter: 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. they looked me right in the eye and said, there is 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. you've got to 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 any minute. >> reporter: 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 is 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 imagination to think that peter would know enough about when the police are going to arrive and know that some junior officer is going to happen to notice this very faint little image of a diagram on a white piece of paper which he never would have seen if the light hadn't been just right on that table. >> if i'm peter moore and i engage in this, and they don't find it, all right. my plan didn't work. but if they do find it, it's a home run for me. and there's very little risk to me, peter, to engage in it. it's not like i have to break into the police department and tamper with some evidence. >> reporter: but paul's fingerprints were all over that piece of paper. peter's were not. >> i would agree that that shows that this had been in the house and that he may have touched it and in fact leaned on it in the

way the prints were situated likely that one would have leaned to reach over to open up the window. it was very consistent with that. >> reporter: peter of course denied he placed that blank sheet of paper in the home, said he hadn't been in paul's house in 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. >> reporter: so was pete investigating bomb-making ideas? not a chance, countered the state. >> there is nothing on this hard drive that indicates to me anyone was using it to research how to build explosives. >> this investigator did the initial search of peter moore's computer. >> sometimes what is not there is more important than what is there. what was not there was anything indicating someone was looking for directions on how to build a bomb. what i saw was somebody who's just surfing the internet aimlessly. there was nothing about that video that was tied into making a bomb. >> reporter: and pete told the court the laptop on which the video was found belonged to his son, who was then forced to testify, which did not sit well with pete. >> i tried to keep my kids away from this. and they, once again, tied my hands behind my back and i had no choice.

and so my son had to go on the stand. >> reporter: a sense of betrayal deeply felt by the man who speaks his mind. >> everybody pretty much threw me to the wolves. >> reporter: for three days you were essentially on trial. i mean, your cousin was on trial for murder, but it was like you were on trial for murder. >> i was on trial. i was. i was on trial for -- basically for my life. and i had no protection. >> reporter: with pete now off the stand, the prosecution team still had a case to make, but with limited evidence. they couldn't mention the dna found on the stand, not conclusive. nor could they tell the jury about paul's previous assault and intend to commit rape convictions in san francisco, not relevant. in addition, linda parisi claimed there was no motive, no reason for paul moore to kill roberto ayala. >> for all of law enforcement's investigation, they could not come up with anyone who said, i

heard paul moore say he wanted to hurt roberto. >> reporter: no. but they did find this document on paul's computer titled "my life" a rambling, self-pitying screed. what did i do wrong to be treated this way? i think my dad really thinks i'm stupid, he's always saying how smart robert is. but ultimately the trial came down to a single sheet of blank paper. almost like a rorschach test for the jury. what would they see? paul moore's guilt or a plot to frame him? coming up, a verdict that will divide this tight-knit town and rip apart this family all over again. >> we started crying. >> when "dateline" continues.

keith morrison (voiceover): for much of his life, paul moore had found ways to charm the folks around him

>> reporter: for much of his life, paul moore had found ways to charm the folks around him, get away with bad behavior. at his trial here in sacramento paul's defense attorney followed what was by now a familiar script. she accused peter of murdering roberto ayala. >> peter moore has a lifetime of making threats. paul does not make threats to roberto. paul works with roberto. >> which is how parisi presented paul to the jury. of course, as you know, paul had a deeply troubled history with the law. violent sexual offense in his background. but the jury didn't get to hear about that. nor were they told about the dna, quite possibly paul's, that was found on the envelope containing the bomb diagram. excluded. so would the jury see the same

paul moore that prosecutors saw? >> he's almost like a marvel comic book archvillain. he's bright, he's clever, he's evil as can be, and he's got a flaw to him. his flaw is his arrogance. >> reporter: the jury retired to think about it. and they were not fooled. after just five hours of deliberation, they walked back into the courtroom and declared paul moore guilty of murder. the judge sentenced him to life in prison. >> i remember driving away from the courtroom, and my wife and i were together -- we just started crying. because we knew it was over. you know, i did a job. i went in there, i -- i did my job. i told everything i knew. and it -- and it wasn't easy, because -- i basically put away somebody who i loved. >> reporter: but pete is not so blind that he doesn't see how he was used by his boyhood

playmate, the kid with whom he once spent those long, lazy days on the river. the man he treated and trusted like a brother. what do you think paul's motive was? why did he kill robert? >> he used to always talk about, oh, robert thinks he's so smart. and so by -- by killing him, he feels like in his own mind that he got one over on robert. i believe paul's trying to finger me for doing it, him and his dad would have the whole place by themselves. that's what i believe today. it is the only thing that makes sense to me. >> reporter: pete wishes the moores could go all the way back to the beginning when the farm meant family. >> if i had it my way right now i'd be running the ranch. grandkids would be over here and enjoying themselves. it would be like a family-run business. >> reporter: but that's just a

fantasy, really. the family is divided now more than ever. >> it's almost like we're all our own worst enemies. i've asked people in the family, where does all the anger come from? because it's like the whole family's mad. >> i wish there weren't so much hate and anger in our family. and that we just -- everybody treated each other like a family supposed to treat each other. >> reporter: throughout the trial paul's father roger thought his son innocent and declined to talk to us. his own son convicted of murdering the man whom he treated like a son. other members of the moore family declined our request for interviews after the verdict too, even most of those who support pete. they said they didn't want to stir things up. >> i know some of the people you talked to, and i know they backed out and they called me and told me. i respect them for calling me and telling me. but it's all about what might possibly come somebody's way,

you know. >> reporter: would it be fair to say that some members of the family are afraid to talk to us because they are afraid they may be disinherited? >> that's 100% true. nobody wants to do what's right for fear of losing their chance at some money. >> reporter: would you want to have this farm? >> no. >> reporter: why? >> it's too much anger here. >> reporter: rumors, whispers, lies can come disguised as truth just about anywhere, including a small town in the california valley. whispers are still working their way around town. people still talk. what do you hear them say? >> i guess the most recent one was, well, pete must have at least been involved. so they've moved some. >> reporter: one of the reasons d.a. pointer agreed to talk to us was to make perfectly clear to his friends and neighbors

that peter moore was in no way involved in roberto ayala's murder. >> and i get the feeling that some people are mad it wasn't me. when you're looked at as a murderer, it's not like you can go out there and voice your opinion to somebody because you're a murderer, you know? no one will take me serious anymore. and where i go from here? i don't know. i want peace in my life. i want to be left alone. >> reporter: what's the moral behind all of this, if there is one? >> wow, it's a big question. it's just there is so much involved here. i'd say the moral of the story is -- be happy with what you have. respect the family that you do have. >> reporter: and the ayalas? >> i was relieved i didn't have to look over my shoulder anymore. i knew at that point that

everybody was safe. >> reporter: after their father's murder, jesus went off to college, as did paula. and fabian? the boy who ran for miles through the fields of sunflowers trying to save his dad's life has grown into a a disciplined athlete. plays football, baseball, soccer. and wanted to talk to us about his dad. what did he want for you? >> a good career. >> reporter: did you talk about that with him? >> yes. he told me to study hard. >> reporter: what do you want the world to know about your father? >> that he was a good person. like he would always want to do things. he would take me out when he had something to do. >> reporter: you were the apple of his eye, i bet you. >> yes. >> reporter: you loved to be

with him? >> yeah. >> reporter: two families in the great fertile valley of california. one of them worth millions. and the other far more. this sunday, the fight against covid. >> take what you get when you get it. >> johnson & johnson's vaccine coming online. >> to have them come in and be in the mix with the other two is nothing but good news. >> we are on track to deliver the 100 million doses. >> we will be on track to deliver those 300 million doses before the end of july. >> we will deliver the 300 million soon after. >> cases and death rates down sharply from january, but warning signs remain. >> things are tenuous. now is not the time to relax restrictions. >> my guests this morning, dr. anthony fauci.