and i think she finally said, well, it could be. >> despite these struggles, cleland did not call joane massespected of committeding similar robberies with her husband. 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 to have believe gary masse. and they listen 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. >> he said 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. it is all very hazy. it was like trying to fight your way through a bunch of cobwebs. she took the stand still insisting she didn't know the robbers or th

. >> the regulars at the house included gary and joane masse. day after gloria was arrested, gary finally turn 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 steven 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. when she finally got a hearing to determine if prosecutors could proceed to trial, she was shocked to see the judge. >> there's her former legal professor presiding over a case where she is facing the death penalty. >> judge sheldon grossfelt, my family law professor. it was just mortifying. >> but judge grossfelt soon lost patience with the prosecution. >> they couldn't proceed to trial. there w