Introducing: Bone Valley

In 1987, 18-year-old Michelle Schofield was found dead in a phosphate pit in Florida. Two years later, her husband Leo was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. 

Fifteen years later, previously unidentified fingerprints matched Jeremy Scott--a violent teenager who lived nearby. Jeremy has since confessed to Michelle’s murder. Yet Leo Schofield remains behind bars.

In Bone Valley, a groundbreaking 9-episode podcast, host Gilbert King uncovers startling new evidence that Jeremy is responsible for a string of murders.

King is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Devil in the Grove, which led to the exonerations of four innocent men.
Bone Valley will be available every Wednesday beginning September 21 wherever you get your podcasts.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
He listen, this is the story. It is what it is.
You believers, don't believe it. It's up to you. It
will not change the fact that I'm an innocent man.
Do you my maness? In February, Leo Schofield's eighteen year
old wife, Michelle went missing. Left to my fears, I

(00:29):
had I need to talk to company about finding my life.
I'm really worried about it. Right to find out. Three
days later, Michelle was found stabbed to death off a
freeway in Lakeland, Florida. Shouldn't it be your responsibility to investigate? No,
wait a minute, we have investigated this thing upside down.

(00:49):
No physical evidence connected Leo Scofield to the crime. And
he said, I'm gonna put you in the electric chair.
And I said, that's what you're gonna have to do,
but I'm not gonna say something that's not true. At
two years old, Leo was convicted for his wife's murder
and sentenced to life in prison. Leo Schofield is a

(01:10):
cold blooded murderer, and if I have my way, you'll
never get out of prison. But after Leo's conviction, there
were still so many unanswered questions. Always always the fingerprints
was a big question in my mind. Obviously somebody was
in the car, somebody knew something. Who was it? What
do they know? So I took the fingerprint and I'm like,

(01:32):
all right, who does it come back to? And he said,
a guy named Jeremy Scott. Who the fox? Jeremy Scott,
grandma comes to you? Not what? Despite new evidence pointing
to Jeremy Scott, Leo Schofield is still in prison. He's
been locked up for the last thirty four years. You

(01:56):
or somebody like you is Leo's last shot. I would
just really like another who do I want you guys
to find the truth? You know what I mean? I
can leave this world knowing that at least it was solved.
I'm Gilbert King, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, and I've
spent the last four years investigating this case with researcher

(02:17):
Kelsey Decker. Together we set out to uncover the truth
behind the conviction of Leo Schofield. But we would soon
learn that Michelle Scofield's murder was just the tip of
the iceberg, as our investigation pulled us down into the
much darker world of Jeremy Scott. Don't joysh me to

(02:39):
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