Theres aid body on the water. He was butchered and murdered. Many people proclaim their innocence. In this case there are a number of things that stink. 24 is man is remorseless. The electric chair flashed in front of my eyes. Get a conviction at all costs. December 9th, 1981. Little broke the afternoon quiet in sacramentos rosemont neighborhood. Then at this modest home on rosewood avenue there was a knock on the door ed davies was in the kitchen. His wife grace checked out the window and opened it for a repairman. He said, man, we got some kind of report about your phone and would like to look into it. She said, okay, come on in. He went to the telephone and then turned around and pointed a gun at them, she and her husband. He hog tied them and put blankets over their head so they couldnt see. Grace davies heard a second man enter her home. The perpetrators were screaming, wheres the silver . Wheres the gold . Ed davies was an amateur coin collector but never told his wife about the
must do more than cast doubt on the prosecution s case. you ve got to present an alternative explanation about how this could have occurred if gloria wasn t involved. cleland had argued that gloria pried information from coin shop operator virgil fletcher and used it to orchestrate the heist. they were able to make it seem as if gloria was the link between virgil fletcher and gary masse. and if it wasn t her, how else was this going to happen? well, gary lee smith was the missing piece. the people i dealt with, a few other folks and that sort of thing. small time sacramento criminal gary lee smith was recruited first to rob the davies. an individual approached me, had some information about the value of the things in the davies house. he told me where the gold and silver would be located. but smith wondered whether davies would resist. what happens if this guy doesn t agree to this?
because i mean he s not going to want anybody coming in and taking his stuff. well, we ll just shoot him. i certainly knew that i didn t want to be involved in anything like that. the davies are innocent people. they could have been my grandparents. it just wasn t right. before gloria s trial, smith approached prosecutor cleland and told them he had been recruited by a man named bob hoard. hoard, a convicted felon was neva s son and had connections to virgil fletcher. but cleland never arrested bob hoard. instead he pressed smith to tell him about gloria killian. i told them i didn t know her. they said, what was her involvement? i said, none that i know of. it should have caused them to re-evaluate their case but they had already made up their minds about what happened here, and
fletcher, owner of allied coin. the man that was murdered was a coin collector. gloria thought she was being brought down to give them information about virgil. but detectives suspected gloria of orchestrating the deadly home robbery. then they just started attacking me. you are 234 in trouble. we have been talking to a lot of people. your name has come up. in what regard? that s what i wanted you to tell me. we know you planned this. we know that you know everything that happened. and i just went, huh? detectives believed gloria had coaxed information from virgil about ed davies hidden treasure. they asked her questions. do you know ed davies? and she says, i don t think so. well, have you been to his house? her response is, well, if i don t know him, i don t think i ve been to his house. i have a tendency to be a little flip when i m nervous. gloria also insisted she had never met alleged perpetrators
mastermind. the prosecutor called coin dealer virgil fletcher who once told police that his tenant, gloria, plied him for information about davies. virgil didn t directly say 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 she 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