and we will break you. >> gloria killian was not the usual suspect. ar 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. 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

our headlines are right after this. >>> 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 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 imp

and we will break you. >> gloria killian was not the usual suspect. 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. 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

60 months. >>> we're going to have more on the missing malaysian jet shortly, but the story of gloria killianshe was locked away in a california prison for more than 16 years, convicted of being the master mind behind a robbery and murder. killian always maintained her innocence but testimony from alleged accomplice sealed her conviction. and although she had been a law school student with a clean record, she could find no way to prove her innocence and no one to even listen to her story. until the day she met joyce. >> in 1992, after six years behind bars, gloria received a visit that would change her life. >> part of my training was never asking. the best thing was just to sit and listen. they need someone to talk to usually. >> joyce is the mother of sally ride. the first american woman in space. joyce had devoted herself to women behind bars and started visiting gloria to discuss battered women. they never spoke about gloria's case. >> joyce is very reserved and gloria is very reserved. they're both norwegian so it is two trees talking to each other for a year. >> after a year of getting

and that woman's name was gloria killian. that's gloria. she was a former law student.aid she'd never even met the suspect, gary mass. didn't matter. police charged her anyway. and a jury convicted her anyway of murder, of robbery and of conspiracy. and that woman sat in jail for years until she met the woman who would change everything. joyce ride. astronaut sally ride's mom. she volunteered with inmates and she just had a feeling about killian, that killian was innocent. she decided to get on the case and hired help to prove it. and look what she found out. >> gloria killian had been languishing in prison for eight years when an investigator found evidence discrediting cleland and his strar witness gary massey. >> he found a letter asking for lenience ne the sentence. it was concrete proof that there was a deal being made before gary got to testify in gloria's trial. >> with new evidence emerging, gloria became less reluctant to accept help. >> i said is it all right if i hire a lawyer? and she said, it would be all right. the thought of getting out was dreams again.