court and genego now knew he 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 and from coin shop operator virgil fletcher and used to it 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? he won t look upon anybody coming in and taking his stuff. well, we ll just shoot him. i certainly knew that i didn t want to get involve 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 name bob 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 said i didn t know her. they said well, what was her involvement? none. not that i know of. it should have caused them to re-evaluate their case but they had already made up their minds
the new suspect was gloria killian, a 35-year-old divorcee and law student. gloria was renting a room from virgil fletcher, the owner of allied coin when she saw the davies murder on tv. i said, oh, my god, that s horrible. that poor woman had actually lived and crawled out on to the street and all those horrible things happened to her. it was awful. a week later, gloria was helping out at her boyfriend s auto body shop when police came calling. we didn t happen to have a customer scheduled then. so we were going to close for lump and have sex. we got everything locked up. i m busy taking my shirt off and there comes a knock on the door. four sheriffs come to the door and they say we want to talk to gloria killian. i was mortified. can they come talk to us? sure. no problem. they haves were taking gloria to be questioned as the robbery s alleged mastermind. as we re walking out the
four years after ed davies was killed, gloria killian went on trial as the heist s 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 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
information about davies. virgil didn t directly say that gloria killian was involved but she talk to him about wanting to meet mr. davies and does he date younger women, will everything out on his wife, so she had an interest. virgil said i was asking about mr. davies. 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. the prosecutor kit cleland also called the widow to the stand wanting her to identify gloria as the suspicious woman who came to the door. grace daiflies 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,