that gloria killian was involved but she had talked to him about wanting to meet mr. davies and does he date younger women, will he go out on his wife so he had an interest. virgil said i was asking about mr. davies. but i didn t know the davies. i didn t know they had money. i didn t know they shopped at allied coins. and under oath, virgil seemed hesitant to implicate gloria. prosecutor kit cleland also called grace davies to the stand wanting the widow to identify gloria as the suspicious woman who came to the door. grace davies was 80 years old with a bullet in her head. she had five or six times been unable to identify gloria as the woman who came to the door. and i think she finally said, well, it could be. despite these struggles, cleland did not call joanne masse to implicate gloria.
but after masse was convicted he told cleland what he wanted to hear, that gloria planned the crime. the testimony completely changes. yeah, yeah, she might have been involved in the beginning but really she had nothing to do with it. that s not unusual for witnesses to hedge but gary masse never came off the point that gloria killian told him about the davies and that she went with him to the house a week or so before. so he is trustworthy? gary masse says to the judge, i lied on the stand straight up. the conviction is invalid but that s not the way the evidentiary hearing turned out. judge hollows ruled that gary s perjuries amounted to harmless error. masse s deal, he wrote, had not been concealed since the jury could have inferred it. he denied gloria s appeal. when he said he still thought
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but the star witness was gary masse. this time, he would testify for gloria. gary masse was very upset at the prosecution because he felt he had been misled. gary masse said, they promised me no more than 12 years, he said, it would be in a federal prison and i would get drug treatment. i got none of that stuff. now, gary masse was ready to come clean about perjurying himself at gloria s trial. i read passages of his testimony at the trial and i said, was that the truth or a lie? he said, that was a lie. that s exactly what i wanted to get from him. all of the sudden, the judge decided to question gary masse himself. that s almost a challenge the way masse saw it. is everything you said on the witness stand a lie? what s your response going to be? no, not everything. masse told the judge a whole new story. gloria was involved but only as a pawn of the real masterminds. and eventually masse cut her out of the deal.
gloria killian was not the usual suspect. a year earlier, gloria was on her way to becoming a lawyer. no mean feat for a 35-year-old wife and stepmother who never attended college. what a life. she had loved the law. she studied at home for the law boards and scored incredibly high. i was married at the time. i was bored out of my skull. i absolutely totally believed in the law, and they accepted me. but gloria s personal life disrupted her law school career. she got into a dreadfully difficult love affair. she was married. he was married. gloria divorced to be with her lover, but the relationship soon turned ugly. i had to get away from him. it was screwing up my grades, it was screwing up every single thing, and i needed to just get out of there for a while. it has been said that she took a leave of absence. she didn t take a leave of absence. she dropped out.