here we had it in writing. and it was so clearly exculpatory. i remember burying it in a pile of other things that we wanted them to copy for us. right in the middle. yeah. it was a letter from gary masse to kit cleveland. there was a verbal agreement, it read. i gave you desantis and killian. i even lied my ass off on the stand for you people. desantis lawyers took the letter to gloria. we knew nothing of this. it was all concealed. i lied my ass off in court for you. that was kind of a bombshell. they knew that they would have to give me a new trial. they would never let that stand. gloria s team presented their case to the california supreme court but they received a one-word apply. denied. the next stop would be federal
days later, a local criminal told detectives who might have done the davies job. that was gary masse and steve desantis. they were well known thieves, fair do wells, thugs. i don t think the police were at all surprised. steven was an angry young guy that just didn t know how to make a living other than robbing people. gary is unstable. he was a regular drug addict had a had more ins to the criminal element. the first thing the police did was go after gary masse and steven desantis. police launched a man. for days came up empty handed. meanwhile, grace davies recovered and told police that a suspicious woman had come to her door a week before the robbery. police now believed there was a third conspirator and it was
it was so clearly exculpatory. i remember burying it in a pile of other things that we wanted them to copy for us. right in the middle. yeah. it was a letter from gary masse to kit kleeland. there was a central agreement, it read. i gave you desantis and killian. i even lied my ass off on the stand for you people. desantis lawyers took the letter to gloria. we knew nothing of this. it was all concealed. i lied my ass off in court for you. that was kind of a bombshell. they knew they would have to give me a new trial. they would never let that stand. gloria s team presented their case to the california supreme court but they received a one word apply. denied. the next stop would be federal court and the investigator now
what? she s out on $25,000 bail and you can leave her alone. gloria was free on bail for almost two years. but waiting for her day in court proved to be an emotional roller coaster. i would go from thinking they will never convict me of something i didn t do to thinking they ll send me away for a million years. i did everything i could to avoid it. there was no way that i could even cope with the idea. shutting herself off, gloria missed some critical developments. the fbi discovered steven desantis holed up in texas. he went on trial in 1985. i acted as if it had nothing to do with me at all. i should have been studying the daily transcript of it. i would have known that stephen desantis said he never heard of me, never saw me in my life. the star witness against stephen desantis was gary masse.