she didn t have a place to live. she didn t have a husband, and she didn t have any money. i was literally looking for friends, which is how i met the people that i shouldn t have met. one of gloria s new best friends was a 60-year-old woman named niva snyder. i really became very fond of niva. i probably was looking for a mother because she was that much older. what i didn t realize, because i didn t have a scrap of street sense, was that there was someone involved in the drug trade. neva snyder dealt methamphetamine. gloria succumbed to temptation. as someone who hadn t the faintest idea how to express her feels, i think self-medication was the answer. a pill here, a pill there, some powder. i don t know know, fine. that was the criminal element where that little area hung out, neva s house.
to retry gloria but cleland insisted he had not a scintilla of doubt about her conviction. gloria likes to say, she is exonerated. she is factually innocent. no. there were some mistakes, but gloria killian was involved, and i would still suggest that the blood of ed davies is on her hands. i think she could do a lot better by saying, i was trying to make a quick buck like all the other people at neva s house and i would not do that again. that would make me respect her a little bit more than i do at this point. i have a short response to that. try the case. shut up and try the case. okay? if you ve got proof, go to court. prove it. if you don t, move on to the next case. be a man. our legal system is constructed on the idea that you are innocent until proven guilty. so unless you ve been proven guilty of something, you are innocent, whether you say that she is not guilty, innocent or
gloria got involved with the wrong crowd. the regulars at neve a house included gary and joanne masse. the day after gloria was arrested, gary finally turned himself in. gary was known to use a lot of valium, and he mixed it with street drugs including heroin, and he was catatonic. gary refused to answer questions. but his wife had already confessed for him and implicated gloria. two days later with gunman stephen desantis still on the run, gary and gloria were arraigned together in a capital murder case. the electric chair flashed in front of my eyes. there is something about hearing the word death. that really does take you to another plane. gloria was held without bail for four months. and when she finally got a hearing to determine if prosecutors could proceed to trial, she was shocked to see the judge.
joanne was now suspected of committing similar robberies with her husband, so the case came down to the star witness. gary masse. gloria is almost relieved. they re not going to take the word of a career criminal over me. that would make no sense. the jurors are instructed, they don t have to believe gary masse. and they listened and they found him to be credible. masse testified that he met gloria at niva snyder s house and she recruited him to rob the davies. gary masse says, we went here, we went there, and i did it with gloria killian. and masse was hard to cross-examine. because it was a conspiracy case, they didn t to have prove anything, gloria actually did which made it very hard for the defense to discredit him. gary masse was so loaded during this crime. so he got around an awful lot of it by saying, i don t remember, i don t recall.